If this is you incoherent, I'm terrified to see what you're like when you're being analytical. This is an amazing thinky post. Season 4, and SPN right along, has raised questions about destiny and free will. It's like season 4 is the breaking storm of what s1-3 rumbled towards.
The question I have is if in the SPN 'verse destiny truly is immutable. The Winchesters have a habit of defying what must be and yet seem to wind up doing the inevitable. My own personal beliefs clash with the idea that destiny is immutable--if there are multiple roads, but you are going to wind up where you were supposed to be in the end no matter what--I have trouble accepting that. It seems like the show has created a (deliberate) tension between what its characters believe and how its universe works. Chuck saw something terrible. We have seen evidence that everything Chuck sees comes true. Just as Sam's visions came true, despite Sam and Dean's efforts to avert them--they avert a more terrible end result, but whatever Sam saw, *happens*.
Sam's view seems to be well, if you're stuck with a destiny, you should make the best of it--which is in itself making a choice, but making a choice while accepting the route you're stuck on. Ironic given that Sam is the independent thinker, the one who left home, the one who doesn't want to be defined by the family business. Dean's view is screw that destiny crap, we make our own destiny, yet he's more accepting of the road that someone pointed him down, here's your path, Dean, follow it (but it's his choice to follow it).
My love of the soda machine scene just grows the more I think about it, especially because it was such a brilliant Dean+Castiel moment but simultaneously it was about Dean's fear for and desperate, desperate need to protect Sam--and Castiel knows that.
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The question I have is if in the SPN 'verse destiny truly is immutable. The Winchesters have a habit of defying what must be and yet seem to wind up doing the inevitable. My own personal beliefs clash with the idea that destiny is immutable--if there are multiple roads, but you are going to wind up where you were supposed to be in the end no matter what--I have trouble accepting that. It seems like the show has created a (deliberate) tension between what its characters believe and how its universe works. Chuck saw something terrible. We have seen evidence that everything Chuck sees comes true. Just as Sam's visions came true, despite Sam and Dean's efforts to avert them--they avert a more terrible end result, but whatever Sam saw, *happens*.
Sam's view seems to be well, if you're stuck with a destiny, you should make the best of it--which is in itself making a choice, but making a choice while accepting the route you're stuck on. Ironic given that Sam is the independent thinker, the one who left home, the one who doesn't want to be defined by the family business. Dean's view is screw that destiny crap, we make our own destiny, yet he's more accepting of the road that someone pointed him down, here's your path, Dean, follow it (but it's his choice to follow it).
My love of the soda machine scene just grows the more I think about it, especially because it was such a brilliant Dean+Castiel moment but simultaneously it was about Dean's fear for and desperate, desperate need to protect Sam--and Castiel knows that.