Just – scarily [and necessarily] bleak as always. What a fantastic description of Lucifer’s city, it actually made me think of Coketown, or some other city circa the industrial revolution: grime, filth, smoke, corruption and depravity, such a nightmarish vision. And the holocaust imagery – really disturbing, because we have a point of reference for seeing bodies bulldozed into incinerators. It makes the scenes you depict so easy to see in our heads, and the way Lucifer shows all of that to Dean reads to me almost like almost like a horribly twisted version of the temptation of Christ, with Lucifer taking Dean to a high place, from where all the kingdoms of the world can be seen. And what does he really crave from Dean? Seems to me like he wants more than just to wear him. Maybe he really does see Dean as the embodiment of Michael, and he loves his brother.
I’m trying to figure out who Sin/Mary is… Lilith? I’m probably off by a country mile, but anyway, don’t spoil me!
Oh, Dean. Oh, Cass. Your Cass is so devoted, and loyal, and stoic, and heroic, as he struggles on. I love him. I really want this to end with him and Dean in a hot bath with lots of bubbles and a bottle of Jack to share, but somehow I doubt that will happen.
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Date: 2011-01-28 03:24 am (UTC)Just – scarily [and necessarily] bleak as always. What a fantastic description of Lucifer’s city, it actually made me think of Coketown, or some other city circa the industrial revolution: grime, filth, smoke, corruption and depravity, such a nightmarish vision. And the holocaust imagery – really disturbing, because we have a point of reference for seeing bodies bulldozed into incinerators. It makes the scenes you depict so easy to see in our heads, and the way Lucifer shows all of that to Dean reads to me almost like almost like a horribly twisted version of the temptation of Christ, with Lucifer taking Dean to a high place, from where all the kingdoms of the world can be seen. And what does he really crave from Dean? Seems to me like he wants more than just to wear him. Maybe he really does see Dean as the embodiment of Michael, and he loves his brother.
I’m trying to figure out who Sin/Mary is… Lilith? I’m probably off by a country mile, but anyway, don’t spoil me!
Oh, Dean. Oh, Cass. Your Cass is so devoted, and loyal, and stoic, and heroic, as he struggles on. I love him. I really want this to end with him and Dean in a hot bath with lots of bubbles and a bottle of Jack to share, but somehow I doubt that will happen.