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.

BTW, this fairies = aliens thing that both SPN and TB have used - is this something that's been in the air for a while that I just missed the boat on? Or did these two shows just happen to come up with this now - independently from each other or other sources?

TB?

I think Marion was speaking more generally, and in that sort of reverent "oh, how wonderful to service the fae!" way.

Sam was the one who put the tonal twist on it, but Edlund clearly meant the audience the do the same.