How Sammy got his groove, I mean, his soul back

I guess that the Supernatural powers that be thought having Sam resouled just before hiatus was a suitable cliffhanger. But really, the resouling was not a shock or surprise. Of course he would get it back.

The question is, how will his experience in the Cage start to leak out? Will he be a bit of a conduit for Lucifer? And what did Michael and Lucifer think when Death simply entered their cage and took Sam out? Or was Sam stashed elsewhere?

And what does Death want? Is he God's brother? Is he looking for God?

The Real Long Con

Dean Winchester's soul is priceless. His soul is the Hope diamond of souls, the largest pearl, the clearest ruby, it is more precious than gold. Dean Winchester's soul is the soul that broke the first seal that locked Lucifer in his cage for millenia. It is the soul that has shared space with the body of the one true vessel of Michael. Dean, the servant of Heaven, the righteous man who opened the gates of Hell.

Dean Winchester's soul would be the most desired soul, the most powerful soul in the universe.

It would be coveted by both Heaven and Hell.

Dean would risk his soul to search high and low for the lost soul of his brother. He would separate from his body to search the spirit world for Sam's soul. In that state, he could be captured.

I can't predict what angels or demons want with souls, but whatever it is, you can bet Dean's is the primo soul to steal. Even the monsters want him to join their growing families.

So what of Sam? His soul is worth a lot too and whomever really holds it (I have a hard time believing it is a demon) must be gettting something from this. All these monsters recognize Sam is soulless, but Cas can not? Why? Are the angels in on a plan to use the Winchesters? Cas did say he was doing "regrettable things".

I do believe the body that looks like Sam is really a golem. I think that when Sam fell into the cage his body died and his soul was spit out either to purgatory or Heaven. I think only angels can put a soul into a body. I think they have Sam's soul hostage to be leverage to Dean.

Dean has always had his strength in this soul, and Sam in his body, but this Sam, who is ruthless, is not using magic mojo, that's fishy. Thus, the golem theory.

Dean will be likely visiting the spirit would soon. Hope he isn't kidnapped.

Heaven and Hell Never Looked So Good

This is an official promo from the CW for the best show on TV! Supernatural!!!

In which I wonder as I wander

Sam Winchester has been my favorite since I heard he had a dark destiny he didn't want to deal with....In 6.05 "Live Free or TwiHard" Sam did something so evil and selfish I actually hated him. He let Dean get turned into a vampire.

In 6.06 "You Can't Handle the Truth" we learn that Sam is missing a part of himself, he's not human, and that made me feel compassion for him. Sam sacrificed his body and soul to get Lucifer back into his cage. Sam is a hero and he deserves either a reward of eternal peace in Heaven or at least complete oblivion. It's now painful to see that he behaves on selfish instinct rather than human compassion. Now we viewers know the seasonal arc for the show.

Jensen does evil so well!

This Friday Dean gets turned into a vampire! Oh noes! Will it be like "Lost Boys" where if you kill the Alpha vamp the half turned go back to normal?

If that face doesn't fit the criteria for this blog, well then I just don't know!!!!!

The Intrigue

Sam Winchester does not pay for sex.....so who is this mysterious man?

The look in his eyes is at once lustful and vacant. And thus I will speculate heavily, twist myself into circles and come out of this with no answers....none at all.

Sam has always been the driving force and the mystery of the show Supernatural, but this season, it's even worse!!!!!

Who the Hell is Sam and what happened to him???????

Multiple Theories:

1. He's Lucifer, no...he's Michael

2. He has no soul

3. Parts of him are in the Cage

4. Parts of his soul are elsewhere

5. He has a marker on his soul

6. He's an Alpha monster

7. He came back wrong

8. He didn't suffer in Hell

9. He never went to Hell

10. The Campbells found him feral

11. His humanity was burned out

12. Sam is the King of Hell

13. Sam is out on loan

14. Sam has a mission to complete and then he will return to Hell, his true home. He has nothing to loose so he does not care.

15. We finally learn that Azazel fed Sam Lucifer's Grace via the blood

16. Sam secretly sups demon blood

What seems true thus far, is that God did not raise Sam. Angels can barter for souls like cross roads demons, and souls are worth a lot.

Who are you????

After Two Episodes

Show feels really different in tone! And this is upsetting and rocks our world, but I say it's a good thing to mix it up.

Still pondering if Sam is a bit like the angels, still curious if he spent time in Heaven. It seems someone wants to gather "Alpha" monsters. What if Sam is one of the monsters, a project, an experiment. He is an Alpha, the first human/angel/demon hybrid....I'd just love it if I were right!

I can't wait for FRIDAY!

Over a month ago I said that Sam was going to be more like an angel. So far, this clip shows one very emotionless man. He still looks like he is vesseling. I don't think that Sam is, but Jimmy said, vesseling an angel is like being chained to a comet. Sam is damaged emotionally. I can't wait to see how this affects his relationships and his hunting.

Also wondering how this scene plays out. Dean rises from that couch, why was he sitting? Had he been unconscious and then awoke and got up to see Sam? He doesn't seem entirely surprised, more shocked and suspiscious of Sam.

What exactly will be Sam's motivation?

Sam Winchester has always tended to be driven. As a teen, he channeled this energy and ability to focus into healthy paths such as a full ride to college. Once the "normal" world crumbled, Sam resorted to a more negative drive: namely, revenge. Over the seasons I've noted his motivations:

Season One: Revenge, finding Dad represented a "normal", Sam reasoned that to find Dad = finding what killed Jessica, and thus getting his revenge for his ruined life.

Season Two: Early on, Sam was grieving the loss of his father and worrying about Dean's mental health. As the season progressed, Sam's focus turned to saving as many would be monsters as possible, thereby saving himself from his demonic destiny.

Season Three was all about saving Dean from his deal, and at any cost

Season Four brought a return to revenge.. This time the drive to kill Lillith was really an excuse to drown in the power his blood gave him. There was still the occasional desire to save the monster as an analogy to saving himself, but by the end of the season, Sam's motivation may have been declared as "stop the apocalypse", but really it was show who is boss.

Season Five Sam has hit bottom and is out searching for redemption. He is still motivated to stop the apocalypse, but this time by using approved methods. In the end Sam's ability to vessel Lucifer allows him to release his ego and complete the ultimate sacrifice.

Yes, in the end, it was still, all about Sam!

Season Six! So what's left? Sam no longer has to prove he is not evil, he has demon blood and he has made a fair amount of peace with this. He has shown time and time again that he saves people and puts others' safety first. He has shown drive and dedication to hunting. He has shown he can beat his addiction. He has sacrificed selflessly by vesseling Lucifer.

I think this is where Sam will be like Season one Dean. Dean's mission: kill as many evil sons-a-bitches as possible. I think that will be Sam's purpose now, and I especially see this happening with his joining of the Campbell family.

Will Sam be radically different? No, maybe an exaggeration of his colder traits, but he's always tended towards pragmatism.

He Doesn't Know

I keep hearing this in my head in regards to Sam. I speculate that he does not know where he has been or how he returned. I also speculate that Sam eventually got to Heaven before being sent back to Earth because his work on Earth was not yet complete. Will it be like Buffy season 6? Will he be confused?

According to spoilers, Sam is more pragmatic and cold this season. To me, that means he is more angelic. Perhaps being trapped with two angels influenced him.

Will he have powers? Hmmmm! I say he has them in him, but will he use them, I don't know. If he's up against monsters that are not demonic, his powers seem to not work. And from a witing point of view he can't over use them or that will hurt the story.

Since the two who wanted Sam and Dean as meatsuits are locked in a box somewhere, that means Sam and Dean are free again and no longer angelic pawns! That also means they are more vulnerable and it is possible for them to be killed and stay that way. I will be glad to see them have some autonomy and not be used.

What do I foresee:

Conflicted Dean with his love of Ben and Lisa
Early S6 Sam cold and emotionless
Same with Castiel
The monster world threatening the safety of Earth
The Campbell family history, how some were in deep cover and not found by Azazel
More teamwork fighting
More brotherly autonomy
Later reveals that Sam came back not quite the same
Dean's realization that once in the Family, you die in the Family
Heaven and Hell's power structure is disrupted, who will fix it?
Gabriel returns (he has too, Richard Speight is too awesome as the wild angel)
Raphael out to get Castiel and more (there is another angel, that we know as facts...he's rogue)

I foresee 7 total seasons. They could end it with Dean in Heaven and Sam in Hell to keep the balance! Just joking on that. No, I think they will just keep on fighting until the end.

I love this card

The card below was made by miki_moo at LiveJornal. It's part of the SPN Tarot series or the Winchester Arcana, however you want to call it. The creativity of all of the artists is amazing to me, makes me wish I had photoshop. Here's a link:

http://community.livejournal.com/spn_tarot/?skip=40

I think what I love most about this card is that it represents temptation. I like that the artist chose to show that both Lucifer and Michael went about recruiting Sam and Dean to be vessels. I like that it shows the equality and parallel in both sets of brothers.

One of the things the show did that I approve of was to cast all angels into the same set of morals. They were obedient soldiers with Daddy issues, every single one of them!

Oh Sammy, you really were a good boy in the end!!!!

Sam before Detroit. He's so scared for what he's about to do, and the consequences if he fails.

Lucifer glows and begins the transfer to his perfect vessel.

Something takes hold of Lucifer, and all the memories of brotherly love flood his mind.

Sam has regained control of his mind and body. Love beats anger! Free will trumps destiny!

Sam surrenders to his sacrifice with perfect humility.

Speculative Thoughts May 11, 2010

Just before the finale here is what I thought:


Sam would go into the pit with Lucifer, but Michael would get locked in there too. While they were in the pit Michael would be cut off from Heaven, Lucifer from Hell and Sam from humanity. At first, no one spoke, and that lasted a really long time (like decades). Sam found a way to communicate with Jesse, but it was unreliable and Jesse only understood a tiny bit. Then finally the angels started to talk to each other. After 400 years the angels reconciled and Sam Lucifer and Mike all headed back to Heaven.

Sam hung around heaven for awhile (100 years) but when he was given the chance to return to earth and human form he took it.

He arrived on Earth somewhat angel like and confused. His behavior was scary after years with only L and M for company. He had many of their mannerisms and also strangely, some of their grace and power.

Jesse warned Dean that Sam would return to ease Dean into the idea. It’s been 5 Earth years. Dean is stable now, with Lisa and Ben and also caring for Jesse. Dean wants to protect his family as much as he wants to see Sam. It’s a shaky reunion, but slowly, Sam regains his sense of humanity and human behaviors.

Eventually the boys are called to action and go off on a mission together.

2 Minutes to Midnight Speculation

What if by saying yes, Lucifer gets his grace back from Sam and becomes whole again? What if this is true for Michael?

Is Crowley a double agent? Will he lead the boys to Detroit? Is he getting Sam riled up to vessel Lucifer? Or is Crowley working for Michael?

I think both Lucifer and Michael should share the same fate. Michael has done nothing for humanity. He wants the apocalypse ust as much as his brother, he just let's Lucifer do al lthe dirty work.

Themes acroos the season

Every episode this season has had something to offer in terms of overall theme. I’ve come to realize I needed to reconcile with the show, shut up, sit back and enjoy the ride. Even with all its flaws, it’s still one of the most thematically solid TV shows ever, and it stands up to much of the written fiction out there too.

Season Five has seemed disjointed when taken piece by piece, but I’m a big picture thinker. So now that we’re 2/3 of the way through, I thought I’d comment on the themes each episode presented and how they relate to the overall myth arc.

5.01 Sympathy for the Devil

Dean will not say yes to Michael even if Sam is in peril. If Michael wants his vessel, he’ll have to be creative.

5.02 “Good God Y’all

The Horsemen of the apocalypse can be stopped.

5.03 “Free to Be, You and Me”

Lucifer is an angel. He must play by their rules and ask Sam’s permission to use him as a vessel. There are angels like Raphael that are convinced God is dead and they’re on their own. Seemingly emotionless, they actually ache to be returned to a state of peace that they once had with their Father in Heaven.

Episode 5.04 “The End”

The future is always in motion. Destiny can be changed by changing the expected outcome. When Dean Winchester is involved, things don’t go as planned.

Episode 5.05 “Fallen Idols”

Following old patterns and adhering to ways of thinking that have not worked in the past will continue to fail in the present. There is more to changing destiny than just being stubborn. Sometimes you have to come up with a new way of doing things, break the mold, and move forward.

5.06 “I Believe the Children are our Future”

Belief is everything. The truth shall set you free.

5.07 “The Curious Case of Dean Winchester”

Sam will “gamble everything for love” and take enormous risks if he can save Dean. The ever present number four emerges. Sam holds 4 fours in his hand. A 1 in 4,165 chance in Texas Hold Em (and if you add up those digits it’s 16: 4 squared). Number Four? Why the four brothers of course: Dean and Sam and Michael and Lucifer.

Episode 5.08 “ Changing Channels”

“Play your roles” screams Gabriel. The archangel draws the parallels of the four brothers for Dean and Sam.

Episode 5.09 “The Real Ghostbusters”

Things aren’t always to be taken at face value and sometimes it takes an outsider to show you this is true.

Episode 5.10 “Abandon all Hope”

You can’t fight angels the usual way. Dean learns painfully that the Colt doesn’t work on Lucifer. Lucifer attempts to woo Sam by drawing parallels between them. “He said I was a freak.” Wonder, did God also say: “If you walk out that door, don’t you ever come back”?

Episode 5.11 “Sam, Interrupted”

Be careful your enemy doesn’t use your greatest weakness against you. Sam’s greatest weakness in his opinion is his anger, but remember the words of the Trickster in “Mystery Spot”. Dean’s your weakness, and the bad guys know it too.”

Episode 5.12 “ Swap Meat”

The vessel and the soul are two parts to a whole. Couple this with Sam and Dean’s disembodied adventure during “Death Takes a Holiday” and just maybe there is the potential that Sam and Dean are more than the sum of their parts.

Episode 5.13 “The Song Remains the Same”

Perfect title. You can’t change the past, events that have already been put in motion will remain. Most importantly, Michael loves his brother, and loves to draw parallels between himself and Dean. [Sound at all familiar to the technique of someone he knows?]

Episode 5.14 “My Bloody Valentine”

There is a Divine Plan and the brothers Winchester are stuck right at ground zero. Powered up Sam is scarier than Lucifer, and it’s 2-0: Winchesters versus the Horsemen.

After Dark Side of the Moon I Still Hold Fast to my Theories

"Bridge over troubled waters....."

Thoughts about where Show is headed:

Point One

If God wanted Lucifer dead, he’d be dead.

According to Jeremy Carver, he is one of the four posts that holds up the throne of God. Each post held up by an archangel. Problem is, not one of those archangels are at their posts (literally). I speculate that they aren’t going to kill Lucifer. And I think God wants him alive. I think it’s a big God test, and I think God is testing out the concept of free will.

As “Dark Side of the Moon” showed, God is walking the Earth. God does not want to be involved. Someone so eloquently stated that perhaps it’s more about brothers, more about angel brothers and human brothers learning to realize they share one dad in common and even though that experience is not the same, it is still valid for that brother. One has to understand that a different point of view does not mean wrong, nor selfish, it just is. Sounds an awful lot like the message we were suppose to take from “Dark Side”.

Lucifer told Dean that it always would end in that garden. The garden was also shown to be the center of Heaven. If God can forgive Sam and let him enter paradise, then why not Lucifer?

I think the ending might not be as we suspected.

Point Two

Sam and Dean are soul mates. Now that doesn’t mean they are destine to be lovers, it means much more on a spiritual level. I have stated they are two halves of a whole since I began watching this show. I may be proven more than metaphorically correct by show’s end.

"The supreme state of human love
is the unity of one soul within two bodies"

~ Sri Aurobindo

The above quote was written by a spiritual leader a century ago. But it spoke to me because it seems that is the definition of what Sam and Dean are. I’m not sure how this happened, but they complete each other. This must be why they are the one true vessel. This is why the apocalypse had to happen now, the planets were aligned...LOL, no. What was aligned was the combination of souls born to one family. The cosmos had waited for this moment. Only their two souls were not only capable of vesseling the archangels, but the only two capable of healing their broken bonds. The only way there is any hope in reuniting Heaven lies in the perfect cosmic combination of the Winchesters.

I like my theory! I hope I get to squee a lot in May at the finale.

"Got to get us back, to the Garden..."

Roadkill by Rob Thurman

Roadkill, yet another trip with that crazy half-Auphe Cal, his overprotective brother Niko, a horny Puck named Robin, Rafferty the healer werewolf, Catcher his doomed werewolf cousin, and a caravan of gypsies....oh and did I mention the dead Egyptian cat and the hot werewolf chick on the motorcycle?

Ahhh, one more adventure with the Leandros brothers. Five books in and I have not tired of them at all, in fact, I was sad I was so into the book that I was reading it at a rapid pace. I knew I'd be done in two days and would have to wait another year for the next installment.

I gave the book 4 stars because it is not profound. 5 Stars from me say a lot about my experience with the book and whether I find its themes universal. So 4 stars is a high rating for me. There are uiniversal themes in Roadkill with family and honor being two strong ones. Thurman also sets up an impossible to miss parallel story of Catcher, the werewolf trapped in wolf form. Catcher was once a brilliant college educated human, but now he is reduced to his simplest state and losing more and more of his humanity as time passes. Yet his cousin Rafferty will not give up.

This is just as it is for Cal, who is half human and slowly being taken over by his evil Auphe side. Yet his ever devoted brother Niko would never give up on him. As always, Roadkill is an action adventure story. There's lots of humor and crude language, there's tender brother moments, there's Cal being Auphe, there's potential danger and gory scenes! All of this occurs as the strange group, which also includes a Puck and his dead Egyptian cat, and a hot werewolf chick on a motorcycle, makes its way across country on the tail of a vehicle containing a great evil. This great evil is an antihealer known as the Plague of the World, and if unleashed his pestilance could destroy everyone on Earth. How do they fight something that strong? Read Roadkill and find out.

Dean at the desparate end of his rope

Check out these Molly Hatchet lyrics:

I'm travelin' down the road and I'm flirtin' with disaster

I've got the pedal to the floor and my life is running faster

I'm outta money outta hope it looks like self destruction

Well how much more can we take with all of this corruption

We're flirtin' with disaster, ya'll know what I mean

And the way we run our lives it makes no sense to me

I don't know about yourself or what you wanna to be, yeah

When we gamble with our time we choose our destiny

I'm travelin' down that lonesome road.
Feel like I'm draggin a heavy load.
I've tried to turn my head away,

Feel about the same most every day

You know what I'm talkin about man

Dean: choose your own ending! Life is not black and white, it's not all about free will, but, Michael is wrong too, it's not an illusion, there is wiggle room. Still, I am pretty sure we will see Dean vessel up Michael. I'd love to see Dean disembodied also b/c I'd like him to be able to talk to his angelic self (same goes for Sam).

Dean, you know if you'd accept Sam, there would be less of this angsting!!!!

I just completed "Roadkill" the 5th novel in the Cal Leandros series. In the book, there are two brothers and one is not all human and quite capable of evil. His older brother loves and won't forsake him, but he forbids him to use his evil power because little by little it is corrupting him. sound familar? I think that's why Dean gets so upset with Sam's power use. It's slowly making him something he is not.

And they keep each other human. Or at least they try.

More inhuman than human?

Powers!Sam is BACK!!! WooHooo!!!!! \0/ Sam encounters Famine (the Horseman) and gets up a craving for blood. After drinking two vessels dry he heads over to a Biggerson's (An All You can Eat Sign prominent on the wall) and finds Dean and Cas in peril from 5 demons and Famine. Sam ipecac's the dmeons all at once and then tries a little mojo on Famine. But Famine isn't affected. However, Sam seemingly rips the demons inside Famine out through Famine's skin and tears the Horseman apart! It's a grusome, yet beautiful thing.

Later, Sam must detox, but his pain, his sacrifice of that bit of his humanity, ended the run of another Horsemen. So far, he and Dean are 2-0 against them.

LJ speculation is beginning to grow on a few fronts. One is that Sam is carrying Lucifer's Grace in him. Another is that Lucifer might get redeemed. Personally I hope for both of them.

I'd also love it if Sam and Dean became disembodied and then just their physical selves vesseled the angels. That would mean that the earthly brothers could communicate with the Heavenly brothers!!!

The show is on Hiatus until March 25th, and then returns and runs full out until the season finale. No word on Season 6 yet!