#relections

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Paysage urbain ©FrançoiseLarouge2024

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After Rain #4

Zooming in

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On n'est guère malheureux que par réflexion.

- Joseph Joubert, Pensées

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Day 1690 - Reflections in the Montgomery Canal near Welshpool, Powys

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After the storm comes the calm!!!

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Day 1703, 20 February 2023

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One thing I loved about Supernatural that transferred over to The Winchesters perfectly is the importance of music. So Supernatural was a show about two brothers taking a road trip while ‘saving people and hunting things’ in order to find Dad and ‘the thing that killed mom’. That was the whole set up. Sam, Dean, and the Impala on the road. So naturally as with any road trip, music is a vital part of that.

From the very beginning we knew music was important. One of the first iconic exchanges was ‘Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cake hole.’ And through the series we not only use music to hit on important moments and to tell stories, but music is important to the characters lives too. Lucifer reaches out to Sam after the Darkness cracks his cage in the form of John, and one of the ways that he convinced Sam he was legit was a song that Mary loved. One of the ways Dean was able to connect to Mary was their same taste in music and even telling her that she used to sing ‘Hey Jude’ to him to get him to go to sleep. And of course, Led Zepplin.

Led Zepplin is Dean’s favorite band. Through the course of the series we learn that Mary and John had bonded over the fact that ‘he knew the words to every Led Zepplin song’. And I’m not even going to elaborate on Dean’s Led Zepplin mixtape to Cas. And of course ‘Carry On My Wayward Son’ is pretty much Supernatural’s anthem.

So I guess that is why The Winchester’s using the music box to bridge the gap between life and death and allowing John and Henry speak meant so much. Like the music box played Henry and Millie’s song. Henry sang ‘As Time Goes By’ to John, and Dean tells us that John used to hum or sing it too. Despite John’s anger at Henry, despite ‘hating the guy’, John kept the music box and continued to sing the song all through his life. The song had a lot of strong emotions to John and it was the music box that became a focal point that allowed John and Henry to connect over plains of existence.