SDCC 2012 | S8 Spoilers | New Theory
Jul. 19th, 2012 05:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
galatheaI just learned something that made me rethink the theory I formulated in my last post. It actually makes me a litte bit excited for S8. :)
So, I just learned that the monster that helps Dean to escape from purgatory is a vampire. Why does that excite me? Remember, in There Will Be Blood Sam and Dean reaquainted themselves with the alpha vampire. He is kind of indebted to them, for saving the vampire race from extinction through the leviathans. Alphas are supposed to know where purgatory is and how to access it - that was why Castiel and Crowley captured and tortured them, after all. My theory now is that, as soon as he figured out that Dean is in purgatory, Sam tracked the alpha vampire down and made a pact with him - Sam's retirement from the hunt in exchange for the alpha's help to get Dean out of purgatory. The alpha could have sent one of his own to purgatory with instructions of how to escape with his human charge. I love this theory for two reasons. Firstly, it would mean that, indirectly, Sam does save Dean from purgatory, and secondly, I love the symmetry of Sam making a deal with a vampire topside, thus forcing Dean to make a deal with a vampire in purgatory. Of course, idiots that they are, they would initially refuse to share that information with their respective brother out of guilt and shame - until their mutual confessions mid-season. :) And hey, the alpha did see them off with a 'See you next season'. We know that the writers were setting up S8 in the last 3 episodes of S7, so I doubt this is all a coincidence.
So, I just learned that the monster that helps Dean to escape from purgatory is a vampire. Why does that excite me? Remember, in There Will Be Blood Sam and Dean reaquainted themselves with the alpha vampire. He is kind of indebted to them, for saving the vampire race from extinction through the leviathans. Alphas are supposed to know where purgatory is and how to access it - that was why Castiel and Crowley captured and tortured them, after all. My theory now is that, as soon as he figured out that Dean is in purgatory, Sam tracked the alpha vampire down and made a pact with him - Sam's retirement from the hunt in exchange for the alpha's help to get Dean out of purgatory. The alpha could have sent one of his own to purgatory with instructions of how to escape with his human charge. I love this theory for two reasons. Firstly, it would mean that, indirectly, Sam does save Dean from purgatory, and secondly, I love the symmetry of Sam making a deal with a vampire topside, thus forcing Dean to make a deal with a vampire in purgatory. Of course, idiots that they are, they would initially refuse to share that information with their respective brother out of guilt and shame - until their mutual confessions mid-season. :) And hey, the alpha did see them off with a 'See you next season'. We know that the writers were setting up S8 in the last 3 episodes of S7, so I doubt this is all a coincidence.
