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Things I Love About SPN Season 1: Faith #2
Continuing my series examining the themes, tropes and meta of Supernatural season one, here is a link to the next section of my rewatch review of "Faith" at my journal, in case anyone here is interested in sharing my celebration of the early episodes with me. And also to a masterpost I've created for the collection. I welcome comments and discussion.
The next scene opens with a panning shot over Sam’s research: chakra maps, medical journals, diagrams and photos of hearts and cardiac anatomy. Again, I’m reminded of John’s motel wall. Now, more than ever, we see John’s obsessive search for answers after Mary’s death reflected in his son’s behaviour now that Dean’s life is on the line.
It's significant that Dean has suffered a heart attack. As we’ve seen before, the attacks and injuries the brothers receive tend to reflect the body/heart vs mind/soul dichotomy they respectively represent. In “Home”, for example, the poltergeist attacked Sam’s throat, cutting off his breath (a traditional symbol for the soul), and in “Asylum” the spirit attacked his brain. Dean typically takes the brunt of physical attacks to his body and now he has sustained major damage to his heart, and does again in “Devil’s Trap”.
Read more at Live Journal:
The next scene opens with a panning shot over Sam’s research: chakra maps, medical journals, diagrams and photos of hearts and cardiac anatomy. Again, I’m reminded of John’s motel wall. Now, more than ever, we see John’s obsessive search for answers after Mary’s death reflected in his son’s behaviour now that Dean’s life is on the line.
It's significant that Dean has suffered a heart attack. As we’ve seen before, the attacks and injuries the brothers receive tend to reflect the body/heart vs mind/soul dichotomy they respectively represent. In “Home”, for example, the poltergeist attacked Sam’s throat, cutting off his breath (a traditional symbol for the soul), and in “Asylum” the spirit attacked his brain. Dean typically takes the brunt of physical attacks to his body and now he has sustained major damage to his heart, and does again in “Devil’s Trap”.
Read more at Live Journal: