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....
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.
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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.
Ow.
Shades of Bill Harvelle and John,
there, Perkins.
Oh god, Perkins is evil, too.
"I KNEW it!"
t /Chandler
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.
What? I didn't make you read the whitefont.
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.
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.
