Narratively, Bobby needs to bite it.
See. Now it's Plei's fault when he dies.
Never goes smooth. How come it never goes smooth?
Mal ,'Safe'
Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?
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Lee - May 04, 2009 2:01:14 pm PDT #2055 of 30002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Anne W. - May 04, 2009 2:11:56 pm PDT #2056 of 30002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Plei, just out of morbid (heh) curiosity, what do you see as the main narrative need for Bobby's death? Is it that Dean needs to lose everything before taking on the apocalypse, or that (assuming the hypothetical death is at Sam's hands) Dean needs something to show him that Sam is (hypothetically) past redemption?
Disclaimer: All of the above is merely speculation. BOBBY WILL NOT DIE. I am merely engaging in hypotheticals. Or planning for an AU fic. Something like that. Jilli's spoilers are 100% correct. They are theyaretheyare....
Lee - May 04, 2009 2:22:24 pm PDT #2057 of 30002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I won't even mention how I can see how it might work out to where it is Dean who kills Bobby either to stop Bobby from killing Sam or because Bobby is already mortally wounded.
eta: sense-making words
P.M. Marc - May 04, 2009 2:29:14 pm PDT #2058 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Plei, just out of morbid (heh) curiosity, what do you see as the main narrative need for Bobby's death?
If you buy into the notion that Supernatural is structured like a tragedy, which I do, and if we're entering the last act, which is the hypothetical plan, Bobby is more valuable dead than alive.
Beverly - May 04, 2009 2:29:42 pm PDT #2059 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Ow. Shades of Bill Harvelle and John,
there, Perkins.
Amy - May 04, 2009 2:34:01 pm PDT #2060 of 30002
Because books.
Oh god, Perkins is evil, too.
"I KNEW it!" t /Chandler
Anne W. - May 04, 2009 2:34:15 pm PDT #2061 of 30002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
if we're entering the last act, which is the hypothetical plan, Bobby is more valuable dead than alive.
So, he's the Mercutio of the piece, then? (Except instead of "a plague on both your houses," we get a heartfelt "idjits," I suppose.)
In other news, Perkins is evil. EVIL.
Lee - May 04, 2009 2:36:20 pm PDT #2062 of 30002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
What? I didn't make you read the whitefont.
P.M. Marc - May 04, 2009 2:42:28 pm PDT #2063 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
So, he's the Mercutio of the piece, then? (Except instead of "a plague on both your houses," we get a heartfelt "idjits," I suppose.)
One of their Mercutio Chorus! Which, at this point, they kind of have enough for. The Winchesters burn through allies like whoa.
Anne W. - May 04, 2009 2:48:14 pm PDT #2064 of 30002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
One of their Mercutio Chorus! Which, at this point, they kind of have enough for.
True. Pamela fits the role a little too well.
(Trying to think if there's a better Shakespearean counterpart for Bobby...)
On a different topic, I'm still mulling over Castiel's new attitude towards Dean. Given how paranoid he was about being overheard while in the relative privacy of Dean's dream*, were we really seeing the genuine result of some heavenly re-programming, or was that a case of Castiel trying to keep Dean at a safe distance?
* I found it heartbreaking that Dean was dreaming of peacefully doing not much of anything.