#mediocre meta

So a particular piece of set dressing caught my eye.  (I like shiny things).

These are arrow heads; from left to right a crescent (debated use; either bird hunting or cutting ropes), a barbed head (or small broadhead), a broadhead (used for larger game; penetrates deep), a waisted broadhead, and a swallowtail broadhead (again, cuts deep and flies true).  They’re incredibly ornate, and very sharp from the look of it.  But if you’ll look closely, two of them have hearts, and two have flowers.

Now the flowers could be almost anything; five petaled flowers are hardly uncommon.  But, there are two that fit the outline of the middle arrowhead rather closely; forget-me-nots and old-fashioned wild roses.

I’m absolutely convinced that these are cupid arrows.

For my @mediocremeta friends. 

What should I drink tonight?

Wine

Whiskey

Beer

People are having a problem with the way that Mary is being portrayed.  I think I know why. 

Essentially we all most of the fandom hold Mary Winchester up the same way Dean does did.  So the way that she is being written is really messing with us the same way that it is messing with Dean. I think that this is intentional. 

She isn’t supposed to be there. She is supposed to be dead. Which was mirrored with tonight’s episode with Gavin being somewhere he wasn’t supposed to be. Gavin made the decision to go back where he was supposed to be. Dean watched as he became a spirit and finally he and his love passed on to where they belong.  Dean is also watching as his mother makes decisions that even Dean “makes all the bad decisions in the name of saving Sammy the greater good” Winchester even recognizes as terrible.  This is going to play into the season some how I’m sure. Dean wants his mother around, but he also just discovered that she is betraying them. She is working with the people that tried to kill Dean, the people that tortured Sammy. Now knowing Dean, the trying to kill him part can be overlooked, but those people tortured Sammy. That is unforgivable on every level possible in Dean’s eyes. 

In my opinion Dean, from this point on, will not feel like he can ever trust his mother. She is supposed to love and protect them, protect Sammy, and she has betrayed that trust. 

Mary, you may be able to buy Dean’s forgiveness with beer and burgers when he thinks you are just away hunting or healing, but Dean protecting his Sammy is a completely different ball park, one where he won’t even forgive the very person that birthed the both of them. In 12x06 “Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox” when he made that deal with Billie and was shoved through the door, the first words out of his mouth were asking about the welfare of Sam, an experienced hunter who at this point has more time hunting than you, who has fought monsters alongside Dean his whole life, who Dean damn well knows can handle his own, but still, asked after Sam. Not his mother.  So the fact that you are working with the BMoL after what they did to Sam, is a betrayal that is going to take a long time to get past, if he ever does. 

This will eventually lead to a Winchester Death™ I’m sure. I am assuming that it will be a brother, probably Sam. Then to redeem herself to Dean, Mary will bargain to take Sam’s place. She will reason that she wasn’t supposed to be there anyway, that not only will this get Sam back to Dean where he belongs, but she will go back to where she belongs. 

RIght. "Entertained." That's one way of putting it.

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ooh, i like the idea that being an angel vessel could drive certain people insane. it certainly does a fair amount of physical damage if the person isn't a strong enough vessel. seems like a person's mental facilities would be affected just as much. i'll have to think on that... as for discussing 1x01 & 02 tomorrow evening, works for me! 9pm cst? also for reference, i'm bryn.z on skype

See the way I see it, since The Brother Winchesters™ were specifically bred to be able to contain arch angel vessels by making sure that the Winchester and Cambell blood lines merged, the way to make sure that they had the right blood lines they had angels (maybe even Michael?) test the various members of the family until they became stronger and stronger. But when Raphael’s vessel no longer held him, he was basically a vegetable.  His mind took a bad turn and couldn’t handle it. So other than the physical ramifications, the mental strain on carrying an angel inside you must be pretty high. Just a thought.

We totally need to do a mediocre meta rewatch!