Well, personally, I kind of want to slay the dragon.

Angel ,'Not Fade Away'


Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?  

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Amy - Jan 28, 2010 8:23:29 pm PST #4873 of 30002
Because books.

Oh, they'd want the vessel, certainly. I'm just not sure someone else in it giving consent would work.

I kept expecting Sam to have an asthma attack when he was struggling in the chair.


§ ita § - Jan 28, 2010 8:29:22 pm PST #4874 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It sure sounded like they were asking for the same sort of acquiescence they'd been angling for from Sam. She seemed stoked at the bonus.


Cass - Jan 28, 2010 8:53:17 pm PST #4875 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.

They played it like anything in Sam's meat could say yes and it'd count. Veracity of that aside, it read like Garry could give Lucifer the meatsuit invitation.

What gets me is how far they've come from "what don't I know about that kid?"

Seriously.


sumi - Jan 28, 2010 8:58:08 pm PST #4876 of 30002
Art Crawl!!!

What I don't get is why Sam didn't exorcise the demon BEFORE it killed the blond kid. (Given that we know that he memorized the ritual before Dean did. . .I guess this means that they dumbed Sam down too.)

On the other hand, Sam as Gary was hilarious.


Laga - Jan 28, 2010 9:08:48 pm PST #4877 of 30002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Dean taking so long to catch on was ridiculously frustrating to me. I yelled at the teevee a couple times.


Polter-Cow - Jan 28, 2010 9:14:56 pm PST #4878 of 30002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Yeah, he should have caught on a LOT sooner.


sumi - Jan 28, 2010 9:16:25 pm PST #4879 of 30002
Art Crawl!!!

He let Sam drive. . . and then "Sam" hurt Metallicar!


Morgana - Jan 28, 2010 10:52:08 pm PST #4880 of 30002
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber

See, I don't think so. Isn't the soul, the person what needs to give consent?
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Oh, they'd want the vessel, certainly. I'm just not sure someone else in it giving consent would work.

I get hung up on this issue when it comes to Sam's apparent inevitable damnation. Mary made a deal with Azazel and sold him Sam in return for John's life. But I thought conventional wisdom was that you couldn't sell someone else's soul, you could only make deals for your own. Because technically you don't own anyone else's. (Dean traded his own; that's different from him going to the crossroads and offering up, say, Bobby's soul.) In which case Sam wouldn't be predestined to have evil shadow him just from those few drops of blood. Because Sam himself never offered his soul.

Possibly I think too much.


Beverly - Jan 28, 2010 11:02:28 pm PST #4881 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

My measure of estrangement between the brothers? When Kam (Kid in Sam) was menaced by the ghost, Dean yelled, "Sam!" not Sammy. And yes, the individual tied up in Wyattfloppy-haired blond kid's basement was Skid (Sam in kid). I remember my Fuffy and Baith lessons well.


Marcia - Jan 29, 2010 2:04:06 am PST #4882 of 30002
Kneel before Glod. ~Stephen Colbert

But I thought conventional wisdom was that you couldn't sell someone else's soul, you could only make deals for your own.

All Mary knew about her bargain was that Azazel would be coming back for something in 10 years. For all she knew at the time, she probably thought Azazel would be coming for her.

Regardless, she didn't trade Sam's soul. Even after all this time, Sam's soul is still intact. Azazel just altered his physical make-up with Mary's deal. The damnation part is and always has been Sam's choice.