A thought on SPN 4x6

[starrylizard]

This was a very interesting, as well as amusing episode. Just a random thought though. I know everyone is talking about Sam's yellow eyes or the fact that Dean isn't a dick, but it was actually something else that struck me first time around watching this.

When it all got bad, when the hallucinations were going to kill him... Dean clutched a copy of the Bible.

So, does he now believe? Since Castiel dragged him from the pit, has he come around to his way of thinking? Or, has he always believed deep down and this show-cased it? Or was the book just handy and it seemed like he may as well give it a shot?

Just, for a character who has always denied the possibility of God, it seemed like a odd thing to do. He seemed to definitely draw comfort from the Bible. I'd almost go so far as to say he was praying.

Thoughts?

Comments

[meg-tdj.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly. That moment actually made me cry a little. He was so desperate to not be sent back to hell that he was actually praying. :(

I'm actually making an animation (and possibly icons) of that moment right now, heehee! It was so subtle and easy to miss, but it was one of my favourite moments of the episode. :)

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it seemed like something the writers must have actually thought about and something that this season is making more prominent. I mean Sam has always believed, always prayed. Dean, not so, or at least he said he didn't.

Then Sam starts to realise he has these dark powers and such and Dean is rescued by an angel. It's all... it's all leading somewhere and I find it all fairly subtle at times, but very intriguing. Somehow I think that scene was actually a big step in this progression for Dean. Poor boy! *pets him*

I'll be interested in what you make from the scene. *hugs*

[erinrua.livejournal.com]

I think Dean *wants* to believe, and in that moment of terrible extremity, he hoped that the same God who ordered him yanked out of Hell the first time would call up another miracle, now. It makes a certain sense, because why waste a miracle, right? And picking up the Bible might have been sort of like picking up the phone, in Dean's panicked mind, and hoping like crazy someone was on the other end.

Something like that, anyhow. It made my heart just ache, that's for sure.

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Yes, I had similar thoughts. It definitely was related to the stress of the moment, but I wondered if it showed a certain amount of belief had seeped in. I guess, who can really ignore a miracle? I like yuor analogy with the bible and the phone book. It was so ouchie as a scene. *hugs him*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I think having an angel drag him out of hell was convincing. Besides, Castiel's a bad-ass and Dean's gotta like that.

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Could be! Dean is such a stubborn guy that he's certainly not ready to admit it even if he does believe. The scene certainly had me wondering how the writers wanted us to take it though.

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

I just thought that it was a desperate measure - plus he wasn't himself at that point as the illness made you inexplicably scared of everything you wouldn't have been scared of before - so rather than him believing, it was just a desperate thing a really scared person might do - that's how I saw it.

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Yes, for sure, but I think maybe having an angel pull him out of hell has had an impact too. It was an interesting scene to me. I just can't decide how the writer's intended us to take it. :)