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ysobelSo. On an in-universe level, I completely and totally get where Bobby is at; the depression, the anger, the "just fix it, will you" attitude towards Cas, all of it. For anyone, but especially for a hunter who relies on being active, it's not an easy adjustment, regardless of whether it's a slow transition or a fast one. He's not just going to jump to "oh, okay, this is how it is la la la how about if I sit in the corner and learn to knit" or something.
But.
On a meta level, I really kind of hope they don't fix it.
I know they probably will. I mean, Cas can't, and Zach isn't going to, despite having caused it -- okay, yes, self-inflicted stab wound, but it was not near spinal cord stuff, and I really don't think Bobby had a bad prognosis until Zach said he did as part of trying to coerce Dean; Cas made him fix the boys, but didn't explicitly include Bobby -- but Cas's situation can change, and there's whatever saved Cas and Sam and Dean -- more on that later -- that probably has healing powers, and there are other options. Like, I dunno, maybe angel-inflicted injuries die when the angel does.
But I don't want that. I don't want magical fix-its. There's a part of me that almost doesn't even want Bobby to manage to walk (back at normal performance) out of sheer stubborn-headedness, despite doctors and angels and all.
It's not that I want Bobby to be less awesome.
I just want awesome in a wheelchair.
I want him to kick demon ass -- because you know he would even if he were dying of ebola at the time -- without being physically perfect.
I mean, come on, is that too much to ask?
(...from these guys, probably, yeah. heh.)
(I really should get back to that novel idea that was kind of Torchwood-meets-SPN where the main character is in a wheelchair. And, you know, is generally awesome.)
Oh, and the thing about whatever dumped Sam and Dean on the planewhich then crashlanded on a tropical island with polar bears and shit and saved Cas, being God? I don't buy it, not completely. I don't think Cas does either -- he hopes, which perhaps is new for him, but when he was facing off with Zach, he was rather vague; it wasn't "God saved me and oh by the way he says you suck for manipulating the apocalypse sooner", it was "...yes, some mysterious unknown force saved us, and you're probably scared because I'm implying that God's back and kicking ass and taking names".
I could be wrong. Probably will be. But I like the idea of it being Lucifer, for whatever agenda, or something else.
(When I was younger, I read Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, and I vaguely recall one scene in the Death one where he comes to collect one guy's soul -- in that universe, when people die, their souls mostly go to the appropriate place, but the ones in the middle get dealt with personally by [the incarnation of] Death -- but because the guy is an atheist, and does not believe in afterlife at all, his soul crumbles to dust and vanishes when he dies. There is a part of me that kind of wants a similar thing to be the case, more or less, with Cas: that mostly, when angels died, they died died because they knew that dead angels did not exist and those were the Rules, but Cas had already broken ranks and so didn't necessarily believe all of that.)
But.
On a meta level, I really kind of hope they don't fix it.
I know they probably will. I mean, Cas can't, and Zach isn't going to, despite having caused it -- okay, yes, self-inflicted stab wound, but it was not near spinal cord stuff, and I really don't think Bobby had a bad prognosis until Zach said he did as part of trying to coerce Dean; Cas made him fix the boys, but didn't explicitly include Bobby -- but Cas's situation can change, and there's whatever saved Cas and Sam and Dean -- more on that later -- that probably has healing powers, and there are other options. Like, I dunno, maybe angel-inflicted injuries die when the angel does.
But I don't want that. I don't want magical fix-its. There's a part of me that almost doesn't even want Bobby to manage to walk (back at normal performance) out of sheer stubborn-headedness, despite doctors and angels and all.
It's not that I want Bobby to be less awesome.
I just want awesome in a wheelchair.
I want him to kick demon ass -- because you know he would even if he were dying of ebola at the time -- without being physically perfect.
I mean, come on, is that too much to ask?
(...from these guys, probably, yeah. heh.)
(I really should get back to that novel idea that was kind of Torchwood-meets-SPN where the main character is in a wheelchair. And, you know, is generally awesome.)
Oh, and the thing about whatever dumped Sam and Dean on the plane
I could be wrong. Probably will be. But I like the idea of it being Lucifer, for whatever agenda, or something else.
(When I was younger, I read Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, and I vaguely recall one scene in the Death one where he comes to collect one guy's soul -- in that universe, when people die, their souls mostly go to the appropriate place, but the ones in the middle get dealt with personally by [the incarnation of] Death -- but because the guy is an atheist, and does not believe in afterlife at all, his soul crumbles to dust and vanishes when he dies. There is a part of me that kind of wants a similar thing to be the case, more or less, with Cas: that mostly, when angels died, they died died because they knew that dead angels did not exist and those were the Rules, but Cas had already broken ranks and so didn't necessarily believe all of that.)