One of the things that really bugged me about the episode was the whole shooting thing. I mean, she shoots Jimmy but walks away for a henchman to kill Claire? With a gun, she could have shot Claire from where she stood!
I believe Castiel retains his compassion for human emotion; I would submit that compassion was what led him to accept Jimmy’s plea to take him instead of Claire, and his final look back at Amelia and Claire reflected his eventual understanding and appreciation of their pain and loss, and Jimmy’s.
I agree with this. There was a discussion on another board about how unsympathetic Castiel, or all angels, seemed for possessing people. But speaking only for Castiel, just this point alone, makes Castiel's posession of Jimmy unlike demons. And that Castiel did not come back as a complete heartless son of a bitch. He needed a vessel and he could have easily let Jimmy die and go on with Claire but he didn't.
I, for one, was glad to find out about Jimmy and his story. For so long we've watched the boys battle demons and then remember that there's some innocent in there. Then we meet the angels. We love Castiel, we hate Uriel, we don't know about Zacharia. We forgot that they're possessing some poor bastard. Now, at least me, we doubly love Castiel for who he is and the man he is possessing.
And Jimmy's story so sadly tells of how after a lifetime of blind faith has turned to regret and even refusal of God and heaven. Maybe a foreshadowing for the host angel? It broke my heart when Jimmy spoke on how he realized he was delusional and wrong in his beliefs to his wife, he wasn't really lying.
BTW, Jimmy not only seemed to have remembered being shot, stabbed and dragged all over, but also aboutthe use of salt!
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One of the things that really bugged me about the episode was the whole shooting thing. I mean, she shoots Jimmy but walks away for a henchman to kill Claire? With a gun, she could have shot Claire from where she stood!
I believe Castiel retains his compassion for human emotion; I would submit that compassion was what led him to accept Jimmy’s plea to take him instead of Claire, and his final look back at Amelia and Claire reflected his eventual understanding and appreciation of their pain and loss, and Jimmy’s.
I agree with this. There was a discussion on another board about how unsympathetic Castiel, or all angels, seemed for possessing people. But speaking only for Castiel, just this point alone, makes Castiel's posession of Jimmy unlike demons. And that Castiel did not come back as a complete heartless son of a bitch. He needed a vessel and he could have easily let Jimmy die and go on with Claire but he didn't.
I, for one, was glad to find out about Jimmy and his story. For so long we've watched the boys battle demons and then remember that there's some innocent in there. Then we meet the angels. We love Castiel, we hate Uriel, we don't know about Zacharia. We forgot that they're possessing some poor bastard. Now, at least me, we doubly love Castiel for who he is and the man he is possessing.
And Jimmy's story so sadly tells of how after a lifetime of blind faith has turned to regret and even refusal of God and heaven. Maybe a foreshadowing for the host angel? It broke my heart when Jimmy spoke on how he realized he was delusional and wrong in his beliefs to his wife, he wasn't really lying.
BTW, Jimmy not only seemed to have remembered being shot, stabbed and dragged all over, but also aboutthe use of salt!
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