her-roses-never-fall:

deanmaniac:

deanisdarkness:

Dean: Is the righteous Man, the Micheal’s sword, the champion of heaven, the one true vessel of the Archangel Micheal. 

Sam: Gets to use the Micheal’s lance/spear to kill a prince of hell aka YED.

Me: Does any writer remembers Dean’s history in this show anymore? 

Dean Who?

A lot of people are claiming that this was Sam exacting revenge on the YED, but there’s a few things wrong with that logic.

Ramiel wasn’t The YED™, aka the demon that fed Sam his blood, killed Mary and then twenty-two years later killed Jessica, Sam’s girlfriend, aka Azazel. In fact, the episode made it clear that Ramiel wanted nothing do with Azazel’s Special Children plan so not only is Ramiel not The YED™, he wasn’t even complicit in The YED™

’s plans. The only thing that Ramiel was guilty of is association. 

The YED™ had already been killed. He was killed a decade ago and completely satisfactorily to the narrative. The fact that he was killed by Dean and not Sam doesn’t matter because the Winchester’s exacting revenge on The YED had always been framed as a group effort. Killing The YED wasn’t just about Sam being fed demon or killing Sam’s girlfriend, it was about him killing Mary and destroying the Winchester’s lives collectively. When Dean killed Azazel, he wasn’t taking that kill away from Sam, in that moment Dean was Sam. He was also John, Mary, and Samuel and Deanna Campbell. There was no revenge for Sam to exact in killing Ramiel.

Dean is The Michael Sword™. The Lance of Michael is inherently connected to him. Symbolically, Dean should have been the one to wield it. The fact that Dean didn’t even so much as touch the thing until it was useless is dissociating Dean with his own mytharc. But really, that’s par for the course with the show and dealing with Dean being the Michael Sword™. In season five, Michael was a total nonentity, Dean met Michael all of once and by the end of the season, Michael vessels were popping up like daisies. Why is that? Because seasonfive!Michael was framed as a Christ expy so Dean, by association, was framed as a messiah figure and we simply can’t have that.

Sam using the Lance of Michael even though Dean is The Michael Sword™

happened for the exact same reason Sam jumping into The Cage happened. Sam is “supposed” to be The Savior™. Therefor anything that puts Dean directly into that framing – such as being The Michael Sword

™ – has to be avoided as much as possible.