filleretive reblogged your post and added:

Ooh, relevant to my last post about Adaptation…

Perhaps, or perhaps not.  I think you got to the meat of the matter in your meta without it, that you need to look deeper and that there are multiple layers hidden here beneath the flower imagery.  And I like what you say about errors the authors make as informed by their flawed and limited interpretation of the narrative and that many things, including subtext, may also be true.  I’m afraid I’m not familiar enough with Adaptation and The Orchid Thief to comment with anything specific about what you’ve said beyond that. 🙂 

I’ve seen Supernatural do that before, use both flowers in general but a certain flower type in specific to evoke certain themes.  Once was back in Season 4 with the Siren in Sex and Violence.  The flower they used then was hyacinths, which were strategically placed to 1) throw you off the scent and on the surface imply that the doctor was the Siren but 2) below that to both imply that something was secret and yet to be revealed and 3) evoke the myth of Hyacinth.

Hyacinth was a youth who was loved and killed out of jealousy by the greek gods. Which fits with the Siren’s goal to force people to kill that which they love the most.  I think he was jealous of their love and attention in the sense that he wanted it ALL for his own, for it to be proven to him.

What I also thought was interesting was that the writers’ entwined that theme with all the Disney character names as the aliases assumed by the Siren.  Jasmine, Belle, Aurora, Ariel – all children’s fantasies of the grown up world.  The Siren promised relationships in which only the lovers’ needs mattered, in which they liked the same music, cars, way time is spent together, etc. The Siren promised the first blush of love that Dr. Cara referred to, that is a fantasy of the relationship, rather than a mature and fully adult relationship.  

It highlighted for me just how much that kind of emotional mirroring had been lacking in Dean and Sam’s early life, and how it left a hole that adult relationships with their differences of opinions and needs can’t really fill.  That theme and its ripple effects, I think, is still operating even today in season 10.