Huh.

Well, I have to say that I watched it Saturday night (Chicago was deprived!) with a friend and we both heard Fairy Expert Lady say that Dean was taken to "serve as Oberon" while everyone else in the world heard "service Oberon". I was guessing a year of living high on the hog and then a ritual sacrifice at the end of it. (And so was my friend. . . clearly we think alike and that's why we're friends.)

we both heard Fairy Expert Lady say that Dean was taken to "serve as Oberon" while everyone else in the world heard "service Oberon".

I heard the former and then realized it was the latter based on the reaction. Also because it didn't seem to make sense the first way.

I guess we were going for the dark, the dark that Sam and Dean hadn't quite imagined.

How is serving as Oberon darker than servicing Oberon?

The human sacrifice part.

I guess - depending on what you eat in Faerie - serving Oberon might be less bad. Kings have plenty of servants.

Of course, Sam and Dean are very likely an exception to the rule that if you are killed you stay killed - whereas if you are a slave you have the possibility of escape. (I think, though, that had Dean not made a fuss - he would have been thinking of ways to escape the entire year anyway.)

Well, the implication in intonation seemed to be sexual servicing, so I was wondering where you were going that was darker than rape.

That's where Sam and Dean went with it - I didn't think that's where fairy tale lady was going.

Dean was the one that serviced Oberon, though, wasn't he? Didn't that convo come up after he came back and he changed the topic hurriedly?

I need to rewatch, obviously.

Well, possibly - that's just not the impression I got. But I could totally rewatch.