Also can we just talk about The Implications from when Jack says âI wanted mankind to make their own fate. No interference from anywhere, no exceptionsâ?
Without interference, Samâs world couldâve been destroyed too. Even if Sam and the other living hunters wouldâve copped onto the danger eventually, because the Akrida needed to be killed by something not from earth, then their chances wouldâve been slim (of course, they couldâve gone to Purgatory or Hell or used the HunterCorp versions or Apocalypse versions of the people that may have still been down there âunless Jack put them back â in order to find a suitable weapon, so itâs possible they had a better chance of not getting destroyed compared to other worlds). We know this, bc Dean says it next as his reasoning for meddling.
That fact is why Dean and Baby were vital, even when the core four did most of the work throughout the season to make their own fate after Dean set the ball rolling in The Winchesters. Dean needed to interfere in order to save all the worlds.
And in doing so, isnât Dean making his own fate?
Or do you only get to make your own fate if youâre alive? (In which case, Heaven isnât quite as free as it claims to be).
Are you only considered part of mankind if youâre alive? (Ouch. The person who throughout the show, at least to Cas, has been humanityâs representative (âHeâs in love⌠with humanity,â âI loved everyone because of youâ) and one of its saviors is no longer considered to be part of that?)
Thinking outside of âChuck wonâ/âJack is corrupted by Chuck/god powerâ theories, itâs possible that since Jack is still pretty much a kid (he still canât tie his shoes đ) he just doesnât understand the nuances or full implications of the rules heâs trying to implement. He doesnât understand that without Deanâs interference those worldsâ even a world with people he cares about on itâ may have been lost. He doesnât understand that not doing anything to save those worlds is a bad thing (abstaining from action is not a neutral choice, it aligns one with the oppressor (in this case, the Akrida, and thus Chuck) in situations where one otherwise has the power to help). Heâs trying so hard to maintain peace and order, to not repeat the mistakes of his grandfather and father, that heâs tragically still missing the point. Itâs a lot of responsibility and power, and the only existing guidebook on how to wield it is basically trash so heâs having to make stuff up as he goes too. Which is terrifying and stressful and things would work so much better if people just stayed in the lines heâs drawing.
A large part of early SPN was focused on how God (and by nature, all gods, fathers, & makers) seemingly left. No prayers answered, no signs, just radio silence. His absence was the impetus for a lot of major eventsâ the angels gunning to get the apocalypse started and over with bc they wanted some peace too; the angel civil war after they averted the apocalypse and Cas subsequently swallowing Purgatory for power, going mad, and unleashing the leviathan; Cas inadvertently causing the angels to fall in the struggle for power after Naomi and Metatronâs manipulations, Metatron making himself God, the factions that arose from fallen angels; Amara being released and yelling to be heard. God being absent, and being seemingly hands-off, didnât work.
[For now Iâm not even going to dissect how Chuck claims he left because âhelicopter parentingâ didnât work, and that him leaving was okay because humanity made itâ because it had Sam and Dean. But then we see him later (and in actuality throughout the show) just trying to repeat the same narrative patterns he already wroteâ Isaac and Abraham, Cain and Abel, etc for the sake of the story when itâs revealed he does interfere]
The late seasons posit that in actuality the issue was that God interfered too much, both by writing the overall narrative and with all the times he interfered (writing himself in as Chuck, resurrecting TFW countless times, anything he did to make a good storyâ and specifically, with his actions toward the endâ killing Jack, raising Hell, snapping everyone away and trying to make his ending happen).
Jack only knows or has only experienced the latterâ with the exception of Cas not being there after he was born and his short-lived experience of being separated from a father figure in that way, he hasnât had to experience what Cas, Sam, Dean, humanity and the angels experienced for centuries. [This to me wouldâve made leaving the deleted scene from 15x19 where Jack prays to Cas but gets no answer more poignant if they left it inâ Jack knows what praying to no one feels like, what that pain and confusion is like]. Especially since Jack was just able to wake Cas up from the Empty anyway, and evidently pull him back out unseen in the finale, compared to everyone else he hasnât had to experience the early seasons absent god/father struggles. He doesnât understand that interference from on high isnât always a bad thing in terms of where it gets humanity; the issue was that Chuck did it as entertainment, toyed with them and forced them through all this for a story. The solution then, is to just try to get Jack to understand the nuance and help with the rules and reign (which we see here a little bit, when both Dean and Bobby explain why Dean interfered and Bobby vouches for him, so Jack allows it, giving him the Colt. He still wants to put Dean back in the Heaven box but again, heâs just trying to hold things to gather and it would be a lot easier if everyone would stay where they were put).
But it shouldnât be solely up to Jack to bear that weight.
Over and over the show has shown us that any single person trying to dictate how Heaven should be run or trying to fill that space â be it Chuck himself, or a well-meaning Cas, or Raphael, or Naomi, or Metatron, or Luciferâ doesnât work. Over and over the show has shown us that what does work is when people work as a teamâ team free will, both versions; any time they rally all their allies to unite against a force bigger than they are; every version of found family on the show. Every time a hunter helps another. (Something The Winchesters emphasizes too.) Any time they win â whether it be finally killing Azazel, stopping the apocalypse, stopping the leviathan, or Amara, etcâ although itâs usually one of the boys that does the final act, they never get there on their own. It always takes the help and teamwork from friends and foes alike to get there.
Although Amara wasnât always great (blame her early attitude on Chuck), she brought up a good point about how ruling should have been about balanceâ not a single point of view or dictatorial narrative, but at the least two of them, working in tandem. Although Chuck absorbed Amara and Jack took in Amara when he took Chuckâs power, this balance still isnât something we necessarily got to see onscreen in either show. It would be nice to see Amara out and let her help, along with getting visual confirmation that Cas is there and helping too, and itâs not just Jack.
If you do look at the situation from a âChuck won/corruptionâ theory, however, then the implications are far more sinisterâ Jack doesnât want Dean or anyone interfering, meaning those worlds including Samâs wouldâve been destroyed. Interfere, and risk getting cast out of Heavenâ and away from where you got the chance to meddle in the first place. Heâs choosing to not interfere because on the surface it makes him look like a better, changed God, but I reiterate: abstaining from action is not a neutral choice, and in a situation where he literally has the power to do otherwise, it aligns him with the villainâ the Akrida, and thus Chuck. So nothing has really changed, underneath. Mankind makes their own fate but only within limited parameters set up by Chuck, making it a rigged game. Itâs a no-win scenario. Dean has to go back to the box of Heaven, where despite his family being down the road from him he still feels driven to seek out a universe where his family had a shot at a happy ending. Dean is made to go back to where Carry On was playing, where he no longer gets to pick the music. (In. What. World. Would Dean pick that cover of Wayward Son. đ)
Either way, whether Jack is actively corrupted by Chuck, or if he just doesnât really fully understand what heâs doing, Jack needs a little help in running Heaven and the multiverse. Dean should be allowed to be part of that help. We should get to see Cas be part of that help. We should get to see Jack change a little more, to have more nuanced understanding and flexibility.
And we should get to see that more in Season 2 if the show is renewed.
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