In light of the video that was released yesterday, this seems like I’m too late coming in with it, but I noted in December watching 11×09 – last season Rowena’s wardrobe got progressively darker, darker, darker, along a nice witchy spectrum from red to purple to blue to black, and now she’s showing up in a dress that could be plausibly interpreted as white. (Looking at the picture she tweeted yesterday with Misha, I think it’s white with a substantial silver overlay and it looked beige/gold due to lighting. But that’s me.)
If she’s suddenly wearing white – I’m thinking “wedding dress”, and I’m also thinking “She brought Sam to her intended as a wedding present…”
Good catch.
The cage looks like a Gothic church. She’s brought to the altar by a male family member. And she has brought the dowry.
There are even the “candles” you find at the sides of churches.
And the ring is a square ring, but still a ring, in boxing/wrestling terms.
…but we can’t actually have the wedding until the groom is properly dressed. Sam is both the dowry and the tux, I suppose.
Does Lucifer really want to wear Sam, though? I mean, is his final objective wearing Sam? Or is Sam just the means to get to someone else, either as bait (Lucifer knows Dean and/or Cas would come for Sam – let’s not forget that Cas did it once already) or as temporary ride to get out of hell and then dump for someone else?
I think he does. Sam is still his true vessel – why would he trade a shiny new Mercedes in on a junker Pinto that might only get 10,000 more miles out of the engine before it blows up? Also, he’s got a score to settle with Sam, who cheated him out of his Apocalypse and then had the gall to get rescued when the eternity of torment he had coming for that was just getting started. And Lucifer isn’t one to let go of a grudge. (Cas and Crowley had also better duck and cover.) The best punishment for Sam now… take him, hold on to him, and make him watch as Lucifer remakes Creation to his own liking.
And he can start in on Sam before he even says yes, because of the threat of the Darkness – who, as far as Sam knows, has free rein to start sucking all the souls she wants. Lucifer can defeat the Darkness, he’d like Sam to believe… and I think he can, he’s Lucifer, the Lightbringer. But the cost… well, on top of Sam essentially needing to sacrifice himself, Lucifer would be out of the Cage and Michael would still be in it. What does Sam “We Need To Start Thinking About The Collateral Damage Again” Winchester do when faced with that choice?
Lucifer’s modus operandi has always been to find your greatest virtue and use it to make you do evil… I think even if Sam wasn’t his true vessel, he’d take Sam and hang onto him just for giggles.
Hearseeno 