OH MY GOD. I just tried to reply to you and wrote you this tl;dr screed and the internet kicked out at that moment. Will recreate, but try to keep it not quite so long.
I'm not so hot at guessing games, or advancing theories that I expect will actually lead anywhere. I guess my favorite thing is to come up with endless what-if garden-of-forking-paths scenarios, and if one comes to pass, it's cool, and if nothing ever does, then that's cool too. It's how I rolled with HP as well, with anything I love as hard as I do this: just crazily invested, but not invested in a single pet outcome, you know? I like to be along for the ride, and to be surprised when I'm supposed to be.
Still, though, coming away from 410, I'm playing in particular with three ideas.
There's now an angel -- a rebel angel whose influence and position are entirely uncertain, but an angel nonetheless -- who has a great deal of empathy for Dean's humanity, and some idea of Sam and Ruby as at least not completely dark; I'm hoping this will be a thing to work in Dean's favor in the coming months.
Ruby's backstory is so deliberately obscure, and Sam so frustratingly incurious about it (at least as far as we know), that I feel sure it's going to mean something big in upcoming episodes. Also that it will lead to a major confrontation. I have no idea whether Ruby is actually evil or if she's truly working for the greater good (I'm pulling more for the former, though I feel the show is currently steering me toward the latter), but I do feel pretty strongly that Ruby's role as catalyst isn't done. That we haven't even seen the important bits yet.
Sam and Dean, for all that they're coming apart as individuals and as partners, are more determined (IMO) than they ever have been before to keep it together. They're willing to sidestep issues and tamp down confrontations that I think they'd never have bypassed before; on one hand, it enables them to stick together, but on the other, it's driving visible wedges between them. The show's been careful, I think, to keep the balance here, not overplay one against the other; it's a more subtle kind of dynamic than I'm used to seeing on the show, and I'm wondering if maybe the thing I've been kind of expecting since 401 (Sam and Dean's growing rift leading to their separation before a reconciliation, which I have to admit would BREAK MY HEART INTO A MILLION PIECES) isn't going to happen at all -- that instead, we might get something that I've been dreaming about happening: that Sam and Dean will never disintegrate, that they'll keep knitting the unraveling threads together until they have something different but stronger, and that they'll never stop having each other's backs.
Er, see what I mean? Once I get started, it's hard for me to stop, and that's not even counting the less likely scenarios and dynamics I've come up with -- the ones that fall under the category of Things I Better Write (Or Read) Because I'm Not Gonna See Them Otherwise -- and the questions I have at the end of each episode. (Ex: WHAT did Ruby mean when she told Sam he knew what he needed to do to ramp his powers back up? WHY did Dean remove his amulet before the Back Scene? (I have a little sort of aesthetic idea about this, but I'm wondering if there's something more important at stake as well.))
Yeah. Shutting up now. What about you? Any pet theories or ideas? Anything you want to see, on the show or in fanfiction?
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Date: 2008-12-04 09:59 pm (UTC)I'm not so hot at guessing games, or advancing theories that I expect will actually lead anywhere. I guess my favorite thing is to come up with endless what-if garden-of-forking-paths scenarios, and if one comes to pass, it's cool, and if nothing ever does, then that's cool too. It's how I rolled with HP as well, with anything I love as hard as I do this: just crazily invested, but not invested in a single pet outcome, you know? I like to be along for the ride, and to be surprised when I'm supposed to be.
Still, though, coming away from 410, I'm playing in particular with three ideas.
Er, see what I mean? Once I get started, it's hard for me to stop, and that's not even counting the less likely scenarios and dynamics I've come up with -- the ones that fall under the category of Things I Better Write (Or Read) Because I'm Not Gonna See Them Otherwise -- and the questions I have at the end of each episode. (Ex: WHAT did Ruby mean when she told Sam he knew what he needed to do to ramp his powers back up? WHY did Dean remove his amulet before the Back Scene? (I have a little sort of aesthetic idea about this, but I'm wondering if there's something more important at stake as well.))
Yeah. Shutting up now. What about you? Any pet theories or ideas? Anything you want to see, on the show or in fanfiction?