I wanted to write about this separately to my review which is getting very long because this is bugging me and I wanna open up the discussion.
Does anyone else find that what Michael so confidentially said about Sister Jo just make absolutely no sense whatsoever?
This whole exchange was so weird to me. In an episode where it seems every word was chosen carefully and every line specifically crafted to portray a deeper meaning, Michael’s conversation with Sister Jo really threw me – or well, it didn’t, but I couldn’t possibly believe that Dabb would really do what I think he was doing here, and instead had to make jokes about it with @tinkdw. Because surely Michael got his angel’s mixed up right?
“I know about you Jo, because he knew about you. You’re the rebel, the angel who doesn’t like playing by heaven’s rules, or whatever”
Does this sound like Jo to you guys? And as a matter of fact, how can Michael possibly know about Jo because of what DEAN knows about Jo? Dean met Jo once, and for all of 10 minutes before she betrayed him to Lucifer. He knew she was a fallen angel making the best of her situation on earth by playing a faith healer. He knew she was a business woman, and he knew that she was working with Lucifer. That’s about it.
How does that fit with that description above?
You know who DOES fit that description? CASTIEL. Because Castiel is THE rebel angel who Dean KNOWS for certain doesn’t like playing by heaven’s rules.
My only possible explanation for this is that Michael got Jo and Cas confused when he skim read through Dean’s memories. Probably because of what he says next:
JO: “And if you’re so smart, what do I really want?”
MICHAEL:“Love. To belong, to have a place, a home, a family, it’s very, very human of you.”
Again, HOW is this what he got from assessing JO? Let’s just have a quick refresher of everything she has said about her desires in the past two episodes she was in shall we?
JO: “I had ideas, I saw how heaven was running, and I knew how to fix it, but no one would listen to me. Not Michael not Raphael not Naomi, they would just send me back to push my button.”
LUCIFER: “So up there you’re nobody. Down here you’re somebody.”
JO: “After the fall, when we lost our wings. I wasn’t devastated. I was liberated. I was finally free.”
In 13x13 Jo devises a way to protect herself from Lucifer, but also uses him for her own gains – to gain power in heaven. She didn’t like her position in heaven, and felt that being on Earth liberated her from that – hence her starting her business and calling herself an “excellent businesswoman”, but as soon as she had the chance, she went back to heaven with Lucifer. If she truly wanted the things Michael says she wanted, then why on earth wouldn’t she have taken the Winchester’s offer back in this episode? Because she WANTED to be Lucifer’s “Queen” in heaven.
“we came here to change things, make heaven better, help the angels”
“why don’t you make heaven right? Make good on your promise, make angels, give the existing ones their wings back”
13x18 reinforces these goals. Her intentions were always to help heaven. To make it better. Her frustrations with Lucifer were nothing to do with him not giving her luuurve, and a family. No. She wanted to have power and control in heaven. That was ALWAYS her goal.
So either Dabb just completely changed the character, or Michael got majorly confused. Nothing that Michael said to Jo makes any sense. But you know who it DOES make sense for? CASTIEL. It was such a blatant description of Cas and his reputation and his desires that it was really jarring to hear it being said to anyone other than Cas. My only explanation of this is that Michael skim read Dean’s mind, saw that he was in love with an angel who was a rebel who desired love and family in return and is so bloody heteronormative he applies that concept to the first female angel he comes across who had actually met Dean.
Dean must be sitting in the back of his own head with popcorn saying “oh boy Michael you are coming across so dumb right now, but sure. Go ahead and misinterpret my memories. Better that than actually finding Cas.”
So yeah, Tink and I made this into a joke, because otherwise it makes no sense. Don’t get me wrong I loved the episode, but there were quite a few moments on the surface level that just make me scratch my head and say WTF.
What is everyone else thinking about this?
@tinkdw, @mittensmorgul @margarittet @elizabethrobertajones @postmodernmulticoloredcloak
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