All Along the Watchtower – 12×23 (and 12×22) and Circular Narrative Structure

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drsilverfish:

drsilverfish:

An entity with yellow eyes enters a nursery:

1×01(Azaezel Prince of Hell over Sam’s crib)

and 12×23 (Jack the Nephilim, son of Lucifer and Kelly)

A woman dies in a nursery:

1×01 (Mary Winchester burns on the ceiling)

and 12×23 (Kelly Kline dies in a blaze of light giving birth to Jack)

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Reblogging myself to add in two further circularities pointed out by other posts

A Winchester brother screaming “No” as their sibliing pulls them away and their beloved dies (Sam and Jess in 1×01 and Dean and Cas in 12×23)

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/160883280149/justrandomspnstuff-justrandomspnstuff

And a Winchester kneeling heartbroken over the body of their dead beloved (Mary and John in 4×03 In the Beginning and Dean and Cas in 12×23).

http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/160964472084/clusterjam-freckles-and-wings-bye-world-oh

I agree with 99% of this. But to me, it was important that the AU hunter was _not_ John. Because the divergence point was not Dean’s birth. It was earlier. In that universe, Mary did not make a deal with Azazel for John’s life.

Which means that Dean has forgiven her for making the deal in 12×22, and then he gets to see what happened if she didn’t make it. (And it was so important it happened in that order.)