Of course now I'm trying to think of a way for them to have actually done an episode in which Dean's called to account for the horrible crap he's pulled. And I'm not quite sure what I'd do, but for a start I'd call him on the things he's actually accountable for rather than the things he feels irrationally guilty about; there isn't much emotional satisfaction to be had from calling Dean on his crimes when Jo made her own goddamn choice and Sam appears to be pretty much over his anger at Dean.
Yeah, it was kind of a cop-out. I was hoping that the show would deal with things that Dean actually IS guilty of and that SHOULD be weighing down his heart. Like starting the Apocalypse by breaking the first seal. And memory-wiping Lisa and Ben without their consent. (That was not only wrong, it was STUPID, because while they now don't know anything about him or the supernatural world, the supernatural world still knows about them. AND it knows that they're still important to Dean. So...how does giving them amnesia solve the safety issue again?) Or--shades of the YED--killing Ami (I keep thinking of the kitsune's name as having the Japanese spelling) in front of her son? And this despite the fact that a) kitsunes are tricksters and often deadly, but they are traditionally enemies of evil; b) white-furred kitsunes are often messengers of a god...and Ami had white-blonde hair; c) kitsunes are, according to legend, every bit as capable of choosing good or evil as a human; d) being a kitsune isn't like being an SPN demon--it's a different species rather than a human that was corrupted; and e) Sam and Dean have done FAR worse for each other than occasionally kill a bad guy in order to survive.
And as I recall, the Egyptian gods did NOT like hypocrisy. It weighed against you a lot when they were weighing a heart.
So my question is, was that really Osiris? Or was it one of the Leviathans mindfucking the Winchesters?
Either way, I bet I know who the third witness was going to be--Castiel.
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Yeah, it was kind of a cop-out. I was hoping that the show would deal with things that Dean actually IS guilty of and that SHOULD be weighing down his heart. Like starting the Apocalypse by breaking the first seal. And memory-wiping Lisa and Ben without their consent. (That was not only wrong, it was STUPID, because while they now don't know anything about him or the supernatural world, the supernatural world still knows about them. AND it knows that they're still important to Dean. So...how does giving them amnesia solve the safety issue again?) Or--shades of the YED--killing Ami (I keep thinking of the kitsune's name as having the Japanese spelling) in front of her son? And this despite the fact that a) kitsunes are tricksters and often deadly, but they are traditionally enemies of evil; b) white-furred kitsunes are often messengers of a god...and Ami had white-blonde hair; c) kitsunes are, according to legend, every bit as capable of choosing good or evil as a human; d) being a kitsune isn't like being an SPN demon--it's a different species rather than a human that was corrupted; and e) Sam and Dean have done FAR worse for each other than occasionally kill a bad guy in order to survive.
And as I recall, the Egyptian gods did NOT like hypocrisy. It weighed against you a lot when they were weighing a heart.
So my question is, was that really Osiris? Or was it one of the Leviathans mindfucking the Winchesters?
Either way, I bet I know who the third witness was going to be--Castiel.