Saturday, January 22, 2011
Michael Allen
Creator: Eric Kripke.
The story so far is that Dean is looking for a way to restore Sam’s soul, and for most of early sixth season, he’s been trying to make deals with more than just the devil to get it. In the mid-season cliffhanger, "Appointment in Samarra," he gets a lot more than he bargained for when dealing with Death (Julian Richings).
It’s not easy for Dean to realize what happens behind the scenes. Death is literally knocking on Heaven’s door, playing to either God or his own whim to a greater destiny in the "Supernatural" universe. After all, he’s the one who decides who dies. The deceased soul doesn’t get the chance to ask: “should I stay or should I go?”
When considering all those "near death" situations the Winchester brothers tend to emerge unscathed from, he’s been there at the very beginning. Audiences just don’t get a chance to see him until later seasons.
Here, Dean learns that pre-destiny is real and there’s a natural order of events that can’t be changed. Mess with it and the consequences can be disastrous. Dean also learns from Death that they’re part of a greater cosmic scheme that can cause the threads of fate to spin either way.
Throughout season six, the encounters they find range from a bittersweet reunion with their grandfather, Samuel Campbell (Mitch Pileggi) to becoming involved in a new mystery which sees a wide variety of supernatural creatures, especially the "alpha males" being kidnapped. If that doesn’t seem bad enough, Grandpa is seemingly working for Crowley (Mark Sheppard). But now that the new king is apparently dead, just who is going to be crawling to the top to rule over Hell?
There’s no one just yet, and next week will see the results of what the angels and demons have warned — how do you deal with a soul that has lived under the torture of two caged forces in an eternal battle for over a year? Audiences have seen what a soulless Sam is like and to see a gentler Sam will be interesting.
Instead, since Death has promised to wall off the memories, and Sam mustn’t scratch at it -just how long it’ll persist in the remaining dozen or so episodes will be interesting. But in greater context, the philosophies the writers have developed in this season is proving interesting, especially in regards to what defines a soul and to this thing about pre-destiny. Both are difficult questions to ask. Not even theologians are brave enough to provide anything definitive. If the soul is more than an essence of what an individual is, then why is it such a valuable commodity amongst the angels and demons?
Since Death tells Sam not to scratch at the walls he’s erecting to keep him sane, then does it have something to do with free will and conscience? As the remainder of the sixth season kicks off Jan 28th, hopefully there will be some answers to this one and many more.
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