Okay, glad to hear I'm not too off-based! I get worried when I feel like I've fallen into biased territory too. ;)
the only difference is that I have seen that emotional exploration for Dean that you are talking about here - With this, do you mean, you think we're still working up to it? Or that it's already happened? I can see groundwork in the first half of this season. I'm just not sure we'll get the payoff they might have planned on at the beginning of the season, if we have a S7....
Blue is the color of free will, rigt? Well, I posited last year that Free Will was red, because it was aligned with Hell [per the first act of free will being Lucifer's rebellion, but also Castiel's rebellion against Heaven with that blood-drawn sigil] and its extreme was marked by chaos and anarchy, while Fate was aligned with blue because it was aligned with Heaven and at its extreme was marked by loyality and tradition. So Dean was blue and Sam was red. But the colors have flipped this season in relation to heaven and hell, and Sam and Dean had flipped the first half. But whether or not they get flipped back when Sam's soul comes back and the cosmos doesn't, who knows! The shift has made things all so confusing! I have to keep looking back at the spectrum to make sense of things:
Generally, I think they used blue for unsouled!Sam to communicate his coldness and lack of empathy before they actually told us what was going on. Or at least signal his lack of life. And red was associated with Dean due to his new connections to life (via Ben and Lisa). [A smuch as I disliked the whole turning Dean into a vamp storyline, the idea that he got his own literal blood addiction tickles me silly!] But it all goes screwy from 6.06 and I lost track after that.
But what's really confusing? I'm not sure if free will denoted by red is the same thing as freedom, which is sometimes denoted by blue? [Not sure if SPN has, but it's been used elsewhere.] Some of it just depends on what you want to highlight. But responsibility falls in the blue box, along with trust, loyalty, confidence, and protection. Generally I think of free will with responsibility as the combo of blue and red. Aka the combo that saved the world! In my head at least. ;)
Which, DAMN rereading this quote, it really applies to First-Half-S6!Dean vs. unsouled!Sam, doesn't it?: ANGELUS: Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping...waiting...and though unwanted...unbidden...it will stir...open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us...guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love...the clarity of hatred...and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd truly be dead.
Which is nuts because it was very much the exact opposite last year.
Hey, didn't Castiel cut off Pestilence's ring? Aka Green? Sam cut off War's (Red). Dean got Death's (Blue). Ha and searching for Famine's color, superwiki reminded me about the bright light of a soul in the suitcase that the demons brought for Famine to eat! I totally forgot about that, that's kinda nice pre-S6 planning, show!
[sorry this got so long. AGAIN. I haven't thought about colors in a while, it gets me rambly!]
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the only difference is that I have seen that emotional exploration for Dean that you are talking about here -
With this, do you mean, you think we're still working up to it? Or that it's already happened? I can see groundwork in the first half of this season. I'm just not sure we'll get the payoff they might have planned on at the beginning of the season, if we have a S7....
Blue is the color of free will, rigt?
Well, I posited last year that Free Will was red, because it was aligned with Hell [per the first act of free will being Lucifer's rebellion, but also Castiel's rebellion against Heaven with that blood-drawn sigil] and its extreme was marked by chaos and anarchy, while Fate was aligned with blue because it was aligned with Heaven and at its extreme was marked by loyality and tradition. So Dean was blue and Sam was red. But the colors have flipped this season in relation to heaven and hell, and Sam and Dean had flipped the first half. But whether or not they get flipped back when Sam's soul comes back and the cosmos doesn't, who knows! The shift has made things all so confusing! I have to keep looking back at the spectrum to make sense of things:
Generally, I think they used blue for unsouled!Sam to communicate his coldness and lack of empathy before they actually told us what was going on. Or at least signal his lack of life. And red was associated with Dean due to his new connections to life (via Ben and Lisa). [A smuch as I disliked the whole turning Dean into a vamp storyline, the idea that he got his own literal blood addiction tickles me silly!] But it all goes screwy from 6.06 and I lost track after that.
But what's really confusing? I'm not sure if free will denoted by red is the same thing as freedom, which is sometimes denoted by blue? [Not sure if SPN has, but it's been used elsewhere.] Some of it just depends on what you want to highlight. But responsibility falls in the blue box, along with trust, loyalty, confidence, and protection. Generally I think of free will with responsibility as the combo of blue and red. Aka the combo that saved the world! In my head at least. ;)
Which, DAMN rereading this quote, it really applies to First-Half-S6!Dean vs. unsouled!Sam, doesn't it?:
ANGELUS: Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping...waiting...and though unwanted...unbidden...it will stir...open its jaws, and howl. It speaks to us...guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love...the clarity of hatred...and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd truly be dead.
Which is nuts because it was very much the exact opposite last year.
Hey, didn't Castiel cut off Pestilence's ring? Aka Green? Sam cut off War's (Red). Dean got Death's (Blue). Ha and searching for Famine's color, superwiki reminded me about the bright light of a soul in the suitcase that the demons brought for Famine to eat! I totally forgot about that, that's kinda nice pre-S6 planning, show!
[sorry this got so long. AGAIN. I haven't thought about colors in a while, it gets me rambly!]