Time for some rampant non-spoilery speculation about the end of Supernatural S2.

[samvara]

I hereby predict angst and lots of it.

I propose that S2 will end in flames and tears with Sam dead (for a Supernatural value of ‘dead’) and Dean in the hands of the FBI while hatching terrible plans to invade hell and retrieve his entire family. No more Single Perfect Tears; there will be anguish, rage and a singleness of purpose only Dean can muster. I want a finale with Dean enacting awful unholy rituals of vengeance. A finale where Sam is tested in the flames of hell.

Why?

One: Supernatural = Angst.

Two: Dean has spent his entire life being a good son, a good soldier and a good older brother. He has never done anything for Dean because there’s always been someone around for him to support or obey. It’s time for Dean to cut loose and how better to provoke him than taking the last of his family.

He has consistently tried to shore Sammy up and protect him, I think it’s time for him to fail. He wasn’t able to shoot Sam in Born Under a Bad Sign and I don’t think he’ll be able to protect him from whatever is coming when it comes.

Dean has been continually exposed to this ethically grey area where the bad guys aren’t always bad and the good guys aren’t always good and the only constant is just how much he loves Sam and what he’s willing to do for him. I don’t think Dean is going to go ‘all dark side’, but I do think he’s got a lot of potential for utterly failing to hold back that we haven’t had a chance to see.

Three: Sam has been living in fear of his own dark impulses and gradually coming to trust himself. Go read missyjack’s meta on the subject because she said it far better than I can. There is a slowly developing thread of hope, faith and redemption in this season, both in the monsters of the week and his relationship with Dean. I think it’s time for Sam to be tested and for things to go horribly, shockingly wrong.

What better test than to be confronted with everything he's afraid of? I think Sam will fail to save himself or anyone else and that it will challenge him harder than anything we've seen so far.

Thoughts?

Comments

[theladyscribe]

No more Single Perfect Tears; there will be anguish, rage and a singleness of purpose only Dean can muster.

Yes. I want this too.

But I am not sure I want Sam to fail to save himself completely. It is one thing to break Dean, but it is another thing entirely to smash him to bits, which is what Sam's failing would do to him.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

I don't want them broken either!

I'm remembering the end of S1 and how gut wrenching it was. I'm expecting something similar and should probably start assuming a protective position about nowish.

It might not be that he knows Sam has failed, he may simply believe that Sam is in hell with John/dead/in the power of the YED. I don't think it will break Dean, I think it will put him a horrible altered state where he stops being all laid back and joke cracking. He will make awe inspiring decisions involving either dark pacts signed in his own blood or really impressive violence - thinking of his threats to possessed_meg here.

[missyjack.livejournal.com]

Again - I am unspoiled adn I am terrible at guessing these things. Angst is assured tho, even I can guess that ;) I think Dean may have to make a choice between Sam and John somehow. I think the words 'whats' dead should stay dead" will come back to haunt him. Sam will do something to try and prevent Dean having to make a terrible choice.

There will be no hugging, but possibly face touching.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

I just tried to think of the worst things that could happen!

Choosing between Sam and John. Oooh that's a good one.

I think Dean's the kind of guy who could make that kind of choice - and would then hate himself for the rest of his life. Sam's wired differently, he's the sort of person who'll either sink into despair or suddenly pull a new choice out of nowhere.

[missyjack.livejournal.com]

Trying to be thinky about this - always my downfall - i try to remember that whatever happens at the end of this season must help set up S3. It needs to give the boys a reason to continue hunting together but it needs to be something not urgent enough that they can't have stand alone eps, in between the mytharc. And what could this be...beats me ;)

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

I hear there's a war coming!

This implies to me a lot of battles. Any number of awful things can happen which give them dribbles of information. Space this with lots of monsters of the week which are partially there because supernatural activity is on the increase and you have a lot of episodes.

Add in recovering from bouts of hideous trauma, some revenge drama and lots of soul searching.

Hmm, if S1 was Sam dealing with Jess, John and his own rage and S2 is Sam dealing with identity issues (who am I, what am I capable of, who do I want to be, what do I believe in) then what will S3 be about?

[lorelei633.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't know that Dean would go completely darkside, either, but I definitely think he'll be an absolute wreck and a lethal danger to anyone in his path. He'll have nothing left to lose, nothing left to live for. I think the thought of revenge will probably be the only thing that keeps him from taking his own life. Definitely no perfect single tears...I think he'll be absolutely out of control. At least that's what I'm imagining.