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straight-forward way. They can’t exactly show ‘nothing’. I’m wondering how they’ll play this out. From the little that we’ve heard about the Empty, it always sounded to me like the absolute end. As in, when you end up there you’re done for good, you don’t exist anymore, there’s no coming back. Whereas your soul can go to heaven, hell or purgatory and, for all intents and purposes, continue to exist there, the Empty is just an empty void (hence the name) where nothing exists. But if somethingdoesn’t exist (i.e. Cas and whoever the other mystery person they hinted at is), how can it come back to life? On that note though, angels don’t even have souls, do they? So what part of Cas is in the Empty? His physical body was burned, and if he doesn’t have a soul that would leave his grace? So is angel grace not just their angel power, but also sort of a soul or consciousness equivalent? - Sorry, got a bit carried away there lol And a second question: How do you feel about Sam’s behavior this episode? Dean pretty much called him out in the end, but to me the show (not for the first time) had a huge clash between show and tell. We’re told (by Sam) that Sam cares about Jack and thinks he deserves to be saved and all that, but what I SAW was Sam pushing and pushing almost relentlessly because he needs Jack to bring back Mary. He didn’t act very caring at all, so his whole speech that he gave Jack felt really hollow to me.     

Hey dear!

Sorry it took a while for me to reply. So not to lose more time, right on to your questions. :)

Yes, I think the show has alluded rather heavily throughout hiatus that Cas would end up in the Empty. I do think that simple blackness is indeed the easiest way to portray the Empty - and small headcanon btw, I also think that a) this was where Amara may have been locked up or b) where Death had intended to put Dean in 10x23 “Brother’s Keeper” - unless he meant another reality, like the one Mary and Lucifer are trapped in. When talking about the Empty I weirdly always had to think of “The Nothing” in “The Never-Ending Story” and I can very well imagine that SPN may draw some inspiration from it (especially when taking Jack’s powers ito account and how fantasy is what saved Fanatasia in Michael Ende’s book).

That said, to me the Empty as described on SPN isn’t such much non-existence - that would be nothingness to me - but hollowness. To me the Empty lacks everything that makes life commonly a place worth living, the memories and dreams that built your world and the people in it. I have alway headcanoned that the Empty in that regard for the people trapped there may be a realm that shows life, but for the one trapped there unable to touch and connect with it - Empty, so to speak. If you have watched “Being Human US”, I basically imagine it a bit like limbo/purgatory was portrayed there.It is indeed a very complex realm and we don’t know a whole lot about it. I have rambled and speculated a bit already about how Cas may be able to return in this post, so I will not type it all up again, but point towards the link and will just say that partially my headcanon is that Cas can come back from there because aside from his angelic grace he has grown a soul (in S12 with Lily Sunders we learnt that she could channel angelic abilities by scarificing parts of her soul, with Cas I’d see it kind of as the opposite). :)

Overall however I had the impression that Billie’s description of the Empty (she is btw also the character I think Cas will meet there - since she was the one who introduced the realm in the first place) could definitely imply the end of existence, but somehow I always only thought of it as a realm unable to return from. Meaning souls, etc. would still exist, but would be impossible to return. I guess we’ll find out soon what it’s going to be.

As for Sam in this episode. We always have had a major show vs. tell within the show and regarding the brothers. I do think that Sam cares about Jack in some proximity, because he sees himself in him, but he also didn’t fight Dean on his description of why Sam cares about Jack. So in that regard I’d say there is truth to that. And without wanting to give anyone room to start a fight here. Even if Dean’s treatment of Jack is of course very harsh and unfair, at least he is honest with him. If we take Sam’s reaction at face value then it must be even harder for Jack to hear that Sam told him he cared about him, because he can relate (which I believe 100 %) to his story, but that ultimately much more than that he cares about what Jack can do for them. It’s the dishonesty that must be tough for Jack.

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