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.
it makes no sense to me that some little trinket Dean got as a kid is somehow specifically designed to track down God - who may not even be incarnate as Castiel suspects. As preachy as it might be, I'd prefer for any reveal of YHVH to be speaking through multiple normal people, lecturing the angels that He's always been right there in everybody, and it's they who've lost their way to the point that they can no longer hear Him.
Matt, I agree. Making the amulet into a magickal god-finding GPS seems a cheap device, and from a personal standpoint I think it means much more if it continues to be a visible, tangible sign of the love between the brothers. Sam gave it to Dean in the moment he made the decision to give all the loyalties that would have instinctually first gone to a father to his brother instead, and Dean values that amulet. Because Sam gave it to him, not because of its supposed protective properties or god-finding GPS abilities.
Making the amulet into a magickal god-finding GPS seems a cheap device,
I really hope we find out that Cas got that bit of information as a way of someone (God? Michael?) sending him on a holy snipe hunt. Either that, or the GPS factor is a side effect of some other quality the amulet has (container for Michael's grace?)
JA and his hottie fiance announced their engagement this weekend [link]
I thought she was just a beard to cover up the raging affair he was having with JP. Or have I been exposed to the wrong sources?
In fact, ew. I can't believe I was exposed to that tinfoilhattery.
Damn nice ring, either way.
I have absolutely no ability to judge rings. They kinda all look the same to me.
That is one gorgeous looking couple. I'm sure one day they'll have darling freckled babies.
They really will have GORGEOUS kids, won't they? She's very pretty, and it's a nice ring. I gather, from them as reads her Twitterstream, that she's surpassingly nice - I do wish them both very happy, and think they seem like a sweet couple - inasmuch as one can have much of an opinion about random people one has never met, nor ever anticipates meeting.
(And, yeah, the tinhats are out in force right about now. Do not want.)
