In any event , it doesn't make sense to me as a MacGuffin. If neither Raphael nor Lucifer are able to work magic to track down God on their own while manifesting on earth, just who exactly is supposed to have made the thing in the first place?
Gunn: The final score can't be rigged. I don't care how many players you grease, that last shot always comes up a question mark. But here's the thing. You never know when you're taking it. It could be when you're duking it out with the Legion of Doom, or just crossing the street deciding where to have brunch. So you just treat it like it was up to you—the world in balance—'cause you never know when it is.
'Underneath'
Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?
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Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 07, 2009 7:28:33 am PST #4131 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Amy - Nov 07, 2009 7:42:22 am PST #4132 of 30002
Because books.
Oh, I agree, Matt. It felt like an easy answer to, "Hey, the fans keep wanting to see what Dean's amulet is good for. I know!"
Sometimes the show does feel a bit like a choose-your-own-adventure thing.
Atropa - Nov 07, 2009 9:36:34 am PST #4133 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Thank you for telling me how I'm allowed to watch.
That wasn't my intent at all, and I'm sorry you took it that way. But it just struck me as funny that there are a LOT of things the characters do that would be iiieeeee dangerous to do in the real world, but the putting out a magic oil fire with water was commented on.
P.M. Marc - Nov 07, 2009 9:46:51 am PST #4134 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
The only thing I've seen on fantasy/horror TV that struck me as seriously irresponsible (and apparently, ASH agreed, so HA!) was showing Giles horseback riding sans helmet in that one episode of Buffy.
Which, you know. Don't go riding without a helmet, people.
Typo Boy - Nov 07, 2009 9:51:15 am PST #4135 of 30002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
But it just struck me as funny that there are a LOT of things the characters do that would be iiieeeee dangerous to do in the real world, but the putting out a magic oil fire with water was commented on.
I think the difference is that if you go shoving stakes into people in the real world, you are a dangerous lunatic anyway, whereas putting out an oil fire with water seems plausible if you don't know better. So reinforcing it really does make it slightly more likely. Showing people putting butter on burns would make me cringe for the same reason.
aurelia - Nov 07, 2009 9:53:29 am PST #4136 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
horseback riding sans helmet
Huh. Wouldn't have thought about that. Of course I haven't been on a horse since I was 12 and we didn't wear bike helmets then, either.
P.M. Marc - Nov 07, 2009 10:10:28 am PST #4137 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
Huh. Wouldn't have thought about that. Of course I haven't been on a horse since I was 12 and we didn't wear bike helmets then, either.
It's pretty unsafe to ride with your head bare. I mean, a helmet won't save you from everything -- see Christopher Reeve -- but it helps.
I took lessons for the whole of my teens, which sort of drilled the "HELMET! HELMET!" into me.
Atropa - Nov 07, 2009 10:42:43 am PST #4138 of 30002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
whereas putting out an oil fire with water seems plausible if you don't know better. So reinforcing it really does make it slightly more likely.
No, I get that. I was approaching it in the same way that people deal with me when I get worked up about sloppy occult research in the writing of the show. Someone teases me about what I'm fixating on, and I laugh. (And still mutter under my breath and wave my hands about that's not what fucking Enochian looks like, a Hand of Glory is supposed to be made from the left hand, and and and ...)
Cass - Nov 07, 2009 11:38:19 am PST #4139 of 30002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Someone teases me about what I'm fixating on, and I laugh.
We tease with love. And with teasing. Because Show gets a lot of things wrong and, I think, you pick your battles with it.
For me, when the bad outweighs the good, it's time to break up with the show, whatever show that is.
Marcia - Nov 07, 2009 3:29:14 pm PST #4140 of 30002
Kneel before Glod. ~Stephen Colbert
I'd have to rewatch, but I think he said it was supposed to be some kind of powerful protection amulet.
I rewatched a few weeks ago. While wee!Sam was wrapping the amulet for John, wee!Dean asked him where he got the money. Did he steal it? Sam said, "No. Uncle Bobby gave it to me to give to him. Said it was real special." (Which is why I've been looking more closely at Bobby, thinking there's more there than meets the eye.)
I don't recall if they ever elaborated more on the amulet in other episodes.