The idea that Sam is going to turn out to be God’s Chosen really upsets me. Amara is not Sam’s battle to fight, she is Dean’s. Dean is the one that carried her with the MOC. Dean is the one she has a connection to. If Dean’s not going to fight her than what’s the point? That aside, Dean is the one that’s been called a representation of God’s Creation and a martyr. Dean is the one that’s had a legion of halos and light sources around him. Dean is the one with the Christ imagery. (1/3)

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(2/3) All signs point to Dean being God’s Chosen, but Sam is the one that’s going to be the Christ figure? Why? It just doesn’t make any sense. I don’t understand how Sam can be a seen as a Christ figure at the drop of a hat, but Dean being viewed through the same mythological lends is some Sisyphean effort. Dean has literally had the myth arc of, ‘Sacrificed himself only to be resurrected by Heaven so he can fight Satan’ and he’s the one true vessel of a Christ stand-in (Michael). (2/3)

(3/3) Sam is not Supernatural’s only hero. Dean is too and he deserves to have the narrative that has always been about him- because Dean is the one who sought out Cain and got the MOC in the first place- be about him and be concluded by him. (3/3)

I agree, with everything you say, but wonder have you heard new spoilers? Or read someone’s spec that says they definitely think Sam will be the Chosen One? Right now, I keep seeing posts saying that it’s gonna be Cas. As you can imagine I don’t want it to be either unless Dean is also chosen, and it’s all three somehow. 

I’ve been reading @dustydreamsanddirtyscars and @lost-shoe a lot with their spec, and they both point to Dean, and I still hold out a little bit of hope that they’re both going to be right. There’s a LOT of pessimism amongst my other friends which I can understand, immediate assumptions that anything interesting will be handed over to Sam especially. The fact that Andrew Dabb is writing the finale has made it worse. 

The thing is though, there has been so much foreshadowing in the MOTW eps recently…especially Safe House, that Dean may end up somewhere like the Empty, that Dean is going to be in someone else’s control..again Safe House, and also Into The Mystic, and then there’s the obvious parallels with s5 with Dean in a similar position that Sam was in back then. 

Plus, out you pointed out, Amara is connected to Dean in a way no one else is…and to have him just stand aside while the others defeat her would not make any sense narratively, even by Supernatural’s standards it would be ridiculous. 

My thought, and this is because even when being more positive, I’m still cynical with it, is that Dean will end up in another realm again because if nothing else I think the writers are going to re-do the whole Dean is lost, presumed gone forever, scenario and this time Sam will bring him back. The current writers seem very preoccupied with trying to make Sam likeable, more so this season than ever, turning him into some kind of hunter yoda type at the start of the season (although that only makes him look a hypocrite tbh), the Imaginary Friend ep (which to me anyway was awful because it made him look ungrateful as a child of what Dean did for him…it’s funny how no matter hard they try they still manage to make Sam look bad) to the Super “Marty Stu” Sam writing of Red Meat. They also seem to be going through the familiar checklist of what fandom has complained about for years – giving him extra POV and bonding time with guest characters. The other thing on the checklist, something that creates a lot of bitterness and arguments, is that Sam never bothered to look for Dean in Purgatory, and failed to rescue to him from Hell. So if the writers are hoping to make up for it, then redoing s5 where Dean this time makes the jump with the big bad is the most likely opportunity. Which sadly means that this could all be just for Sam’s benefit rather than actually be about Dean. But then that’s the way it is because as Jensen’s made it clear, Jared is the first person on the call sheet! This is Sam’s show, there’s no way around that. Carver especially has made that clear since he took over. The least we can hope for not a repeat of s8 where Dean was literally buying the drinks for the rest of TFW and offering moral support and not much else. 

This was mostly in response to some speculations I had come across where the authors were just making these positive assertions that Sam was going be God’s Chosen and concocting all of these situations that were totally going to happen to Sam based on literally no evidence whatsoever. Essentially the argument was, “Sam is going to be God’s Chosen One because he’s God’s Chosen One and who else could it possibly be other than Sam?”

Admittedly, this is part of a certain breed of Sam headcanon that I am really not a fan of. The kind that likes to paint Sam as this Spotless Lamb of God who saved the world as part of his personal redemption and, on occasion, asserts that Sam is not only a Christ figure, but that Sam is literally Jesus Christ simply because he deserves to be and/or because he held his arms outstretched that one time. It just bothers the ever living shit out of me.

That sort of blind devotion to the deification of a character is extremely problematic because it verges on cultism. Most of the time, they’re just parroting what others have said and don’t actually have a solid argument for it or really know what they’re talking about. They also tend to grossly misrepresent the theology connected to that idea. A Christ figure’s actions must to be outwardly motivated. If they’re doing it for themselves, that negates the whole idea of them being a Christ figure. Saints aren’t saints because they ‘deserve’ it, they’re saints because they earned it.

Objectively, I don’t care that those parallels are being drawn to Sam, I just don’t like the mentality that comes along with it: “Sam is one hundred percent this archetype and no other character could possibly be this archetype

too and to think otherwise is nothing short of blasphemy. This archetype

belongs to Sam and only him because he’s perfect and awesome.” It just isn’t intellectually honest. It’s revisionist and strikes me as overcompensating for Sam’s short comings as a character by applying narrative and symbolic erasure to other characters.

I can say this because, while I might be convinced that Dean is a Christ figure and that it’s an archetype that I think fits Dean the best, I will admit that Sam and Castiel have been one as well at various points. I will also admit that, even though I read Dean that way, I don’t think Dean is perfect by any stretch of the imagination. Dean is a flawed human being who regularly falls short of the grace of God, but it’s okay that Dean does. In the immortal words of Metatron from Dogma, “Noah was a drunk. Look at what he accomplished.”

All that said, the fact that they’re asserting that Sam is going to be the Chosen One is that sort of mentality in action.“Sam is totally The Special because God forbid Dean be The Special even though logically he should be.” 

It’s a bias that has also been playing out for years in spn’s narrative and it’s just exhaustively frustrating.

“Dean is stated to be the Righteous Man, the one who must stop The Apocalypse and the archangel he’s the one true vessel of is the only being that can fight the Devil? How about we invent this Deus Ex Machina so Sam can save the day and while we’re at it, lets put that archangel in another meat suit so Dean has barely any role in the narrative he started.”

“Dean has willfully volunteered to do the Trails and has made it clear that he’s going to finish them, even if that means sacrificing himself? How about we have a random act of happenstance occur to prevent Dean from doing them so Sam can do them and be the hero instead. Dean can make him soup and worry about him because being Sam’s parent is what Dean does.”

“Dean was in Hell for forty years and has expressly stated that what happened to him will be with him forever? It was the catalyst for two seasons worth of plot? Let’s make it a thing for half a season and never bring up it up again or utilize it in the plot ever again, even when that narrative is being paralleled. Oh! But lets rehash Sam being in The Cage for a third time. It’s not like we spent two full seasons on it or anything.”

The narrative of the Mark of Cain and The Darkness simply doesn’t belong to Sam. He doesn’t parallel Cain, he never bore the Mark and he has no connection to Amara. He said ‘no’ to Lucifer and Lucifer turned out to not be a dud for combating The Darkness. Never mind the fact that Lucifer flat out said that God was never with Sam to begin with. There is literally no reason why it should be Sam. None. If they decide at the last moment to make it about Sam, it would be very bad storytelling.

I’m not saying that this narrative needs to only be about Dean. If the show wants to do a Team Free Will thing with Dean leading the charge, that’s totally cool in my book and it works perfectly with the parallels to season five going on. But this is an arc that has always been Dean’s. He should and he needs to be proactive within it and it needs to be about him in a substantial and meaningful way.