I was just thinking that it's pretty ironic that the angel who supposedly (or at least I saw it this way) impaled the evil guy/delivered justice in the end was the same Michael trying to get into Dean right now. Well, I don't believe that. I think it was a simple coincidence. Castiel stated that angels didn't interfere on earth for 2000 years, and I'll hold to that statement. I really don't see why an archangel would bother with bringing this one perpetrator to justice. I love that this episode explores the brothers' faith, but bases it all on a misguided spirit. To state that there are angels watching over them all the time here, just takes away some of the poignancy of that episode for me. *shrugs*
It's worse to have had and lost than to have never had at all. Yes, I think that too. That's why Dean suffers so much more from Mary's death and John's change in personality. Sam never knew different and in a way that's an advantage.
I think that Sam recognizing specifically Catholic ideology isn't necessarily an indication of his personal religion Yeah, not necessarily, that's true. But angel lore in particular isn't really anything that would have come up in research for hunting. It implicated to me that Sam was interested in it for more personal reasons, especially since he defended the existence of angels so fiercely to Dean, before they even had any tangible 'proof' of angel involvment in the case.
I'm guessing it was after this episode aired that Kripke made that infamous statement about angels never appearing on the show? Indeed he did! There was much speculation about angels after this episode and Kripke explicitly stated that they are not an option in the show. He repeated that statement on many occasions later as well though. :)
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Date: 2010-01-26 10:44 am (UTC)Well, I don't believe that. I think it was a simple coincidence. Castiel stated that angels didn't interfere on earth for 2000 years, and I'll hold to that statement. I really don't see why an archangel would bother with bringing this one perpetrator to justice. I love that this episode explores the brothers' faith, but bases it all on a misguided spirit. To state that there are angels watching over them all the time here, just takes away some of the poignancy of that episode for me. *shrugs*
It's worse to have had and lost than to have never had at all.
Yes, I think that too. That's why Dean suffers so much more from Mary's death and John's change in personality. Sam never knew different and in a way that's an advantage.
I think that Sam recognizing specifically Catholic ideology isn't necessarily an indication of his personal religion
Yeah, not necessarily, that's true. But angel lore in particular isn't really anything that would have come up in research for hunting. It implicated to me that Sam was interested in it for more personal reasons, especially since he defended the existence of angels so fiercely to Dean, before they even had any tangible 'proof' of angel involvment in the case.
I'm guessing it was after this episode aired that Kripke made that infamous statement about angels never appearing on the show?
Indeed he did! There was much speculation about angels after this episode and Kripke explicitly stated that they are not an option in the show. He repeated that statement on many occasions later as well though. :)