Wild speculation post!

[tebtosca]

Since I stopped recapping this year (thank God lol), I've done most of my show speculating/analysis over in poor ash48's journal (I'm so sorry, Ash!) But I've been thinking the past few days about what I think is going to happen as we come to the final chapter of Season Nein.

Behind the cut are my wild predictions of what I think is going to happen by the end of the finale, not what will carry over into season 10. These are not spoilers, just based solely on speculation based on what has happened so far.

Join me in the comment section with your own speculation. Feel free to debate any of my points and add your own -- we'll check back in after the finale and see if any of us were right!

• Gadreel turns on Metatron


• Metatron dead/gone and Heaven open


• Cas gets his grace back


• Abaddon dead by Dean's hand


• Crowley/Cain double-cross exposed


• Dean goes full darkside


• The audience realizes in a shocking twist that Sam really does love his brother!


• INCEST (shhh, go with it)

Note: I'm running under my continued theory that Carver is re-doing Kripke's S4/5 arc, with huge nods also to S3. That colors my views of a lot of stuff.

Mark of Elvis Gif for your time:

Comments

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

IDK, but what I hope is that they will use their reworking of the Cain story to bring together the holy-fuck-this-is-the-real-shit darkness of the first half of the season with the more gizmoish Mark story. The Mark seems to mostly resonate with killer!Dean/killer!Cain, and Dean's self-identification as a killing instrument IS an important aspect of his personal darkness, but the way in which Cain as brother is both a foil to Dean (Dean chose better at the apocalyptic crisis, did not preempt Sam's free will, and so Sam was ultimately able to save Sam) and a mirror to him (because I do see a relationship between Cain's fratricidal perversion of saving/love and Dean's violation of Sam and overriding of his autonomy in the Gadreel thing) not only makes the story a lot more interesting and confronts stuff Dean needs to change, it also works as structural glue to keep the relationship repair and the mytharc connected and to keep the two halves of the season together as more than Mostly Angel Stuff vs Mostly Demon Stuff.