Well, there's a thought! Quite possibly the whole thing is to lead Dean in that way, so as to avoid the greater damage Sam could do with his powers and his wrong-sided advisers (though still, any one with that kind of powers is dangerous, whatever side they bat for, methinks), and in this way build the future the way it's supposed to be.
Although it just occurred to me, wasn't Dean the one to bring Mary to YED's attention by, inadvertently, dragging her and her dad to the girl's house? That counts as meddling, and makes me wonder, was this supposed to have happened (Mary's deal) regardless of his intervention, or did it happen because of his intervention? I'm inclined to think it goes to tell that certain things in history cannot be changed and would have happened one way or the other, if for no other reason than because if Dean ever feels guilty over Mary there'll be no coming back for him, he'll sink so deep into self-loathing.
Hey, what do you think Castiel's part in all this is? Do you think there's some kind of ulterior motive? As I see it, there is, just not as potentially shady as Ruby's, I'm thinking its actually pretty innocent in origin, maybe he just wants to know, maybe he was just sent to this realm because he had to save Dean and help him along the road to... wherever, but that's all he knows, maybe he doesn't know why, maybe he doesn't understand, and maybe this wouldn't have bothered him at all when he was all angelic and nothing but a soldier, but now he has a human body and is surrounded by humans and maybe some of our natural curiosity is contagious and Castiel just wants to know. If you think about it (as maybe I've been doing too much, lately) this could fall into place with the whole free will vs destiny thing, he's choosing to learn things, instead of just sticking to his job and let things happen... or something.
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Well, there's a thought! Quite possibly the whole thing is to lead Dean in that way, so as to avoid the greater damage Sam could do with his powers and his wrong-sided advisers (though still, any one with that kind of powers is dangerous, whatever side they bat for, methinks), and in this way build the future the way it's supposed to be.
Although it just occurred to me, wasn't Dean the one to bring Mary to YED's attention by, inadvertently, dragging her and her dad to the girl's house? That counts as meddling, and makes me wonder, was this supposed to have happened (Mary's deal) regardless of his intervention, or did it happen because of his intervention? I'm inclined to think it goes to tell that certain things in history cannot be changed and would have happened one way or the other, if for no other reason than because if Dean ever feels guilty over Mary there'll be no coming back for him, he'll sink so deep into self-loathing.
Hey, what do you think Castiel's part in all this is? Do you think there's some kind of ulterior motive? As I see it, there is, just not as potentially shady as Ruby's, I'm thinking its actually pretty innocent in origin, maybe he just wants to know, maybe he was just sent to this realm because he had to save Dean and help him along the road to... wherever, but that's all he knows, maybe he doesn't know why, maybe he doesn't understand, and maybe this wouldn't have bothered him at all when he was all angelic and nothing but a soldier, but now he has a human body and is surrounded by humans and maybe some of our natural curiosity is contagious and Castiel just wants to know. If you think about it (as maybe I've been doing too much, lately) this could fall into place with the whole free will vs destiny thing, he's choosing to learn things, instead of just sticking to his job and let things happen... or something.
Maybe I need to develop this theory further...