Tonight's Supernatural Thoughts

[metonomia]

Brought to you by Grace, the ultimate fertilizer!  Need a pretty tree?  Want to inspire a hot, tormented man to have sex with you? Grace! It's where it's at. (also, wear classy white underwear. only demon bitches don't wear underwear)

+ If grace is what makes an angel an angel, then...do humans not have grace?  Anna became human when she rebelled and lost her grace - Cas rebelled, but it wasn't until he blasted himself away and got brought back without his grace that he actually became human-Cas.  It would seem to follow logically that humans don't have grace.

But this is a rather disturbing thought for lil' ol' me, who believes in the tradition which says God's grace is what kind of keeps us going, that it is through grace that we are created, forgiven, loved.  And yet the concept of forgiveness, of love, of pain and thus emotional healing...those are all emotions that Anna wants to stay human for - emotions lost when she regains her grace (to some extent. this humble Dean/Anna shipper would like to believe that Anna feels real pain when she pops back to kill Mary and John, despite all appearances of angel heartlessness).  So it would seem that, according to the show's canon, grace is NOT what is running the world, but is something that God kept back from humans, kept for the angels. So...where does that leave humans?  Do vessels have more grace, perhaps?  A spark of it passed down through certain people, making them more compatible with angels?  Do humans also actually have grace, but it's just not as tangible and powerful a thing as that of an angel?  Supernatural, making me theologize over something that is, in fact, fictional . . . this might be a problem.

+ Confirmation was tonight - while we in the congregation were renewing our baptismal vows and getting sprinkled with holy water, I got a fat drop in my eye, and all I could think about was a) maybe now I can see the real ugly faces of demons and b) at least we know that no one here is a demon (auxiliary bishop was a beast with that water. no one was escaping that blessing, seriously). Also c) it's really difficult to sing when you have holy water in your eye.

+ Let's talk about Mary and John Winchester, and how they were brought together on purpose.  This isn't the free will vs destiny talk; I think I'm saving that for after the season finale.  This is the omg show, stop naming people so appropriately talk (back when I thought Anna was just a prophet, not an angel, I was fangirling out over how she was named for the prophetess Anna - and it's still applicable).  So let's look at the names of the people around Dean Winchester.  Firstly, his parents.  John - okay, this is a bit of a stretch, I understand that - is fairly similar to Joseph, and then even better, John the Baptist, who baptized Jesus, bringing God's public recognition of his Son down and starting Jesus' ministry - John the Dad, baptizing his son Dean through a life of fighting and learning to be loyal to family above all else.  Then we have Mary, who obviously must be named for the Blessed Virgin - in that last scene of The Song Remains the Same, she's even wearing a blue maternity dress, and she's got an angel on the mantle as though pointing the way to the birth of her son.  Then we have the prophetess angel Anna, like the prophetess in the Temple blessing Jesus, blessing Dean through, um, hot angelic sex.  Also, not gonna lie, I find significance in the name of that anti-Christ kid, Jesse - Jesus, the strong root of Jesse's tree.  It doesn't quite connect to Dean as much, but I still find it interesting.  But really, the important ones are the parents, and what it all leads up to is the fact that Dean was born through angelic intervention, almost, one could argue, through the power of the Spirit; God is on earth, and personally I think that what that means is that God is in Dean, that Dean could very well be the Second Coming, the one who will herald in the end of the world as we know it and the start of a new age of peace for all the nations - NOT the Apocalypse as any of the angels, Lucifer's camp or Michael's, understand it.  And I think that's why God is saying that he's gone and that he wants Cas to give up the search - because God knows what God's doing, and what God's doing is bringing himself back to earth via Dean Winchester, and he knows that the majority of his superior, human-hating angels will not like that, so he's keeping it under wraps.  (Plus also, God is mysterious.)  And we don't realize, nobody realizes that Dean is God on Earth, because that's sort of how it goes - Christ was fully human and fully divine, and I think what's going on here is the same thing only waaay more so.  Dean doesn't have to be so clearly divine, because he's not here to make the ultimate sacrifice; he's here to bring about the Apocalypse the right way, and to do that it's better for him to not be tooooo conspicuously holy, so God's chillin' in there not letting anybody know he is there.  But I think he is.  Weeee shall seeee.
 

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[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

So, I've not seen a episode of SPN and everything I know comes from reading a series synopsis on wiki, watching a couple of youtube clips and hearing you, LARM, and Be discuss it. So, it's this post about Dean being the vessel that intrigues me, given the episodes where one of the 4 Horsemen (Famine?) finds him "empty" and when Dean visits the Yoga instructor and sees this lovely, normal life open to him and walks away from it (LARM loved the tragic, unfulfilled quality to it) -- have a beer, come inside. So, putting two and two together, I am reminded of some of the interpretations of Jesus in Nikos Kazantzakis' Last Temptation of Chris and then Scorcese's interpretation of that book in the film of the same name. In the film, Satan appears in the guise of a little girl -- I don't remember if the image is the same in the book. The last, and most compelling temptation the Devil offers Jesus, even at the moment that he is on the cross, is the opportunity for normalcy. In "flash forward" we see Jesus with a wife (two even), children, a good job, a nice home. It's not the riches and other temptations of the 40 days in the desert that are most compelling -- it's the opportunity to live as a normal man -- which in the Catholic theology of fully human/fully divine, makes lotsa sense.

Anyhow, just putting that observation out there.

[metonomia.livejournal.com]

Ahhh! Love it! Because the last thing Dean goes to do before he tries to say yes to Michael is to go visit Lisa one more time!

And about Famine finding him empty...I think we were supposed to take that as empty because he's been to Hell and back and everything he does is failing and the world sucks, but I rather like the implications. He's empty, waiting to be filled, and my vote is not by Michael but by God.