Throughout season 9 and 10, we’ve had maps, stars to guide our journey, and means of travel. Just recently we got the hint of the destination. The journey ends at the source.
At the same time, we’ve had stories of young women embarking on journeys of self-determination and self-discovery. Charlie, Alexis Anne, Kate, and Claire, they’re turning their backs on their pasts, taking control, and making themselves anew.
it was their pasts that formed them. People they loved. Traumas they endured. These were the source. Out of their experiences came both the good and the bad. Both the Good!Charlie and the Bad!Charlie with an “anti-authority disorder.”
Charlie’s journey took her back to the source of her duality. In search of the source, Bad!Charlie invaded and destroyed homes.
Until the journey lead her the person who caused the trauma, who broke her home.
He had his own duality. He was both a creator and breaker of homes. He built and he destroyed.
Charlie found a way to integrate that duality. She confronted the source of the duality, accepted it for what it was, and forgave herself. She made peace with what it made her.
All this foreshadowing, and we even have Crowley directly confronting his own less than stellar parent. "I don’t eat and you don’t cook.“ His experiences set him off on the journey of his own duality: The Kind of Hell and the feeling addicted demon who was abandoned to a work house and only wants to be loved.
And if the foreshadowing of Dean’s need to go back to the source of his own duality, both the good and the bad, wasn’t enough, we’ve been given a visual hint. Here we have a incongruous, nicely lit and centrally located orange flower both at Rowena’s introduction and during Dean’s story about who John was as a father.
I’ve written before about the use of flowers to hint of secrets, things yet to be revealed. It’s rare to see orange flowers on Supernatural. Someday I’ll actually finish my meta on the use of the color orange. Here I’ll only say that we’ve most often seen it during themes of temptation, the effects of staring into the abyss for too long when fighting monsters make us monstrous.
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