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March 16th

The One You've Been Waiting For (12.05)

This is why hellers don't HEAR what Dean is saying because they are too busy decoding everything.

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—Did you know people tell stories about us? —Yeah. Apparently we’re a little bit legendary.

12x06 - Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox

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I’m watching 12.07 on the TNT loop (and yeah, watched 12.04-12.06 this morning before this, and whoa does all of Dabb Era look different through the lens of 14.20. Even all the meta-screeching glee of early s12 where we reveled in all the callbacks to the past, all the reframing of the original narrative through mirrors and subversions and references... in retrospect it was all of us collectively being taught what the entire Original Narrative was. I’ve written a lot in s14 (and even in s13) about how the narrative itself had begun to deliberately educate the audience on How To Watch The Show, on how to understand narrative mirrors, narrative negative space, the tropes of horror and fantasy and how they function in this particular story, all building off what Chuck himself began showing us as he lifted the curtain in 11.20.

This has been a very long game, and I salute Dabb for pulling it off.

Yeah, I know there’s one more season to go, and anything could still happen, but whoa it’s almost like Dabb knows this entire story so well, and had set out a deliberate plan the moment he was handed the reins, and then has stuck to it at all costs, with the full intent of finally being the one to close the story, and the eternal narrative loop.

He understood the story, the spiral narrative, and hired writers who could write in circles, while also educating the audience and preparing the characters for this particular endgame situation.

And I’m thinking that as Dabb’s second in command in this era, Bobo was in on the twist from the start. Because of this conversation in 12.07:

Crowley: This whole Vince Vincente comeback thing… It's a joke, right Russell: No. Deadly serious, my friend. We've raided, repackaged, and resold everything else from our past. Why not give hair metal another shot? Yeah, okay. I doubted it, too, but Vince came to me with a killer pitch. The original Ladyheart lineup reunited. Back in the day, those cats sold, like, 10 mil. Crowley: So did Hootie & the Blowfish. Russell: And I'll bring them back, too. I know Ladyheart might be a punch line, but the band's got off-the-chart name recognition. And just talking to Vince, he seemed different, you know? Energized. Reborn. Lit. Crowley: Like a whole new man. Russell: Exactly.

Substitute “Vince” and “Ladyheart” with “Lucifer,” and put Dabb in Crowley’s role, you have the key to Dabb era on one meta level. And from that angle:

Vince Vincente: Did not take you for the martyr type, Crowley. Crowley: I'm really not. I just hate you that much.

and

Dean: Why are you doing this? Vince Vincente: [Chuckles] Why? Sam: You and God made up. You forgave him. What would he think? Vince Vincente: I'm not especially interested in his opinion. Dear old dad, he finally apologized for abandoning me. And what's the very next thing he does? [Voice breaks] He ditches me. [Laughs] And you, too, by the way. And rides off into the sunset with Auntie Amara. He needed my help, and he'd say anything to get it. His words, your words, they mean nothing. Don't you get it? This is all meaningless. Heaven, Hell, this world. If it ever meant anything, that moment is past. Nothing down here but a bunch of hopeless distraction addicts, so filled with emptiness, so desperate to fill up the void… they don't mind being served another stale rerun of a rerun of a rerun. You know what my plan is? I don't have one. I'm just gonna keep on smashing Daddy's already broken toys and make you watch.

and it wasn’t really a win, it was just losing slow. Because the story was always gonna be the story, right up to the point where the characters looked up and noticed the author was fucking with them from behind the curtain instead of being dead...