I mean (and I feel like you must have pointed this out somewhere or just expected everyone to get it) last night Mary was in Dean's place and John was in Sam's which goes even further down the incest road.
I'm not going to talk about Wuthering Heights. I always talk about Wuthering Heights as it relates to the boys though I have yet to choose who's Cathy and who's Heathcliffe.
Anyway, this meta is completely awesome and your points are all so well thought-out. I mean, Dean has been constantly aligned with their mother and Sam with their father, in temperament and this episode just took that further as you pointed out by lining them up with another couple. And a love that goes beyond even death is generally reserved for couples. It's a Western, I guess it kind of had to end up with romantic undertones, siblings or not.
And there are moments where they have Dean consciously rejecting a long-term relationship with a woman (with kids) in favor of Sam and his life on the road. And while I think both the women and the children were meant to be representative of a certain lifestyle, I also think they simply are what they are to some degree. I think the only hitch in it, really, is Dean's dependence on Sam to validate his existence, because that is co-dependence right there and that's unhealthy. I think they're slowly trying to unravel that part of it, though, so who knows. It was all kind of a joke until the Trickster made it serious, so it could be the emotional gun on the mantle, you're right.
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Date: 2008-10-04 05:00 am (UTC)I'm not going to talk about Wuthering Heights. I always talk about Wuthering Heights as it relates to the boys though I have yet to choose who's Cathy and who's Heathcliffe.
Anyway, this meta is completely awesome and your points are all so well thought-out. I mean, Dean has been constantly aligned with their mother and Sam with their father, in temperament and this episode just took that further as you pointed out by lining them up with another couple. And a love that goes beyond even death is generally reserved for couples. It's a Western, I guess it kind of had to end up with romantic undertones, siblings or not.
And there are moments where they have Dean consciously rejecting a long-term relationship with a woman (with kids) in favor of Sam and his life on the road. And while I think both the women and the children were meant to be representative of a certain lifestyle, I also think they simply are what they are to some degree. I think the only hitch in it, really, is Dean's dependence on Sam to validate his existence, because that is co-dependence right there and that's unhealthy. I think they're slowly trying to unravel that part of it, though, so who knows. It was all kind of a joke until the Trickster made it serious, so it could be the emotional gun on the mantle, you're right.