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Something about how the Alpha Shapeshifter transformed into Samuel C's body to do the BIG SCARY FIGHTING, into Sam W. to break down a door, but into Dean to cradle the baby and do some rescue-caretaking.
Perhaps even to soothe who the baby had already bonded with?
And he didn't kill Dean. He could've like he snapped Mark.
Which has always been interesting to me.
EDIT: Why DID it spare Dean? Even Sam? Anyone got ideas?
Do you have anything about Mary taking Lucifer into Apocalypse world mirroring Sam taking Lucifer and Micheal into the cage?
(also i love love love your metas)
No, I don't, but now that you mention in, that's an excellent parallel. I think I've gotten stuck comparing it more to Mary's Purgatory where she gains (a bit like Cas) some mental clarity about her choices.
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But very nice, 5x22 Swan Song; it rhymes a bit with 12x23 All Along the Watchtower. Sam drives Lucifer and then pulls Adam, and Michael in. And Mary drives Lucifer too, but Lucifer pulls Mary in.
Sam drives Lucifer into Hell and prepares the takes the dive
Michael desperately tries to stop him (in the script explicitly stated as such also that he didn't want Lucifer to die, after all)
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Compared to 12x23: Mary drives Lucifer into the rift, and Lucifer pulls her in.
So she's also a bit of a Michael-Adam figure here! Getting pulled into something during the big face-off!
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re: Purgatory. I'm sure I've prattled on about Apocalypse World as 24-7/360-degree Unthinking War. It's both good and bad for Mary, because although she heals (she sees that the world is a terrible place, and her deal/choices sit alongside exploitation and violence that is not unique to her)... she also is tragically comfortable in a world where "the enemy is obvious," her skills are valuable, and she doesn't have to do a lot of gray thinking about the regular world.
(((Or living for herself, or striving for her own happiness, or putting her own family in danger etc etc etc. It's a "happy place" only somuch as she can't make the wrong call so easily out here. Monsters are monsters, and they're generally obvious, transformed and rendered with horns and teeth and shadows... or in enemy fatigues. That's why, like Purgatory, the colors of Apocalypse World are washed out. It's a more black-and-white world. A simpler world.)))
She winds up wanting to stay because she is a hero OFC and cares about the people desperately, but it's also... easier than wanting to go home. 24-7 survival and good-vs-evil is something of a relief to her because she's screwed up so much. It's "pure," in the Poughkeepsie sense.
Lucifer ALSO feels at home here, actually. We saw that he felt useful in the Amara fight, and we see that having a bigger and badder enemy heals him here, too.
War machines feel better when they're rendered more explicit underdogs, perhaps?
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As for other meta!
I do have this one about the twinning of Mary and Dean being assaulted! And the twinning of Lucifer and Sam with the back stabbings:
(CW: Vague allusions to sexual assault)
Mary is thrust into a new word without protection with only a rogue archangel at her side. Jack emer
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And how Apocalypse World Mary cage is explicitly mirrored to Dean's entrapment in Hell, when he sacrificed himself for his family's behalf (like Mary did):
At the beginning of the ep, after the events of Tombstone + Jody's police sketch and worrying evidence that Jack killed someone again...
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Apocalypse World is a bit weird, because Mary comes back calmer. Jack, at least, has terrible nightmares and lasting damage.
Likewise, when Sam returns from Hell, it's soulless and hurt. Dean out of Hell OFC is in an agony that leaves him vulnerable to angelic propaganda and sexual trauma that has him wanting to retreat into safe family bonds of old (that crucially, no longer exist). And ofc, Purgatory is exceptionally rough on Dean and Cas, damaging them both. Dean in an overcorrecting, rigid code "at least he's more loyal to the cause than ever" kind of way, and Cas, beaten down and feeling like he can't even control his own suicide without Heaven dragging him back for work.
Something about how the Alpha Shapeshifter transformed into Samuel C's body to do the BIG SCARY FIGHTING, into Sam W. to break down a door, but into Dean to cradle the baby and do some rescue-caretaking.
Perhaps even to soothe who the baby had already bonded with?
And he didn't kill Dean. He could've like he snapped Mark.
Which has always been interesting to me.
EDIT: Why DID it spare Dean? Even Sam? Anyone got ideas?
I joke about Dean showing up to embarrass Jack with the meta equivalent of rollers in his hair, but he did exactly that in the 6x01 script to poor Ben Braeden:
Also Lisa: bring me my papers and my cigars and my breakfast (but coffee I can handle)
also also lisa: i like bikes and motorcycles and guys on motorcycyles
...man i really want to go get on a bike on the road and be freeee... like a man on a motorcycle that's actually who i wanna be
this youth mini dirt bike will have to do for now
COME ON BEN BIKES ARE COOL BE IN THIS RACE
(note that EYE actually want to be in this race i'm so unlucky; please live out my freedoms vicariously and embody how cool they are and all my fave bands and all the men i chased this is in NO way dysfunctional)
Saying Jimmy is gay based on anything that happens while Cas has possession of him is...weird to me. That's like saying Azazel possession proves anything about John or Samuel. It's not true or fair.
