TRUST a Supernatural Quest

TRUST a Supernatural Quest

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
J.M. Barrie / Peter Pan

By reading some of the commends I personally noticed that the main theme of Supernatural “Family Business” has over the years somehow been lost out of sight.
Especially Nate Winchesters remark (Review S903 Nate Winchester Journal "I'm No Angel http://www.thewinchesterfamilybusiness.com) struck me unexpected like a lightning on plain field.

“While I know we need drama to keep the show from being boring, the same old drama also gets boring. Really the "keeping secrets" part of the main's relationship is starting to get a bit ludicrous.” Nate Winchester

Ludicrous?

“Family Business”, the main issue of SPN is and still will be the main factor. Not a Forrest Gump ex-angel, a lesbian hacker or a surrogate father, sorry to say but they are only the lovely arranged garment on the cake. They can be changed, every season a new decoration, but the brothers are the constant in this human drama.

Eight years long the brothers fought against the demons of legends and fictional imaginations. Cursed knifes, blades, guns and spells are the munition the warriors of horror can count on. Warding tattoos keep the evil out, safe and sound.

But what precisely can save a human against his own produced nightmares, his own angst and despite the contradiction his own free will?

Trust and faith.

The oxford dictionary defines Trust as “firm belief in the reliability, truth, or ability of someone or something:relations have to be built on trust / they have been able to win the trust of the others ... “

Therefore trust is something we humans belief in, there is no formula, no guideline only our experiences give us the opportunity to choose whom we trust. Trust is something we give by our heart and seldom by reason.

S8 ends with the fundamental construct of “blind trust”.

Castiel trusted Metatron and Sam trusted Dean. We the viewers know how it ended. Castiels blind faith in Metaron has been betrayed, heaven has been crushed to earth, what has been is no more. Cause and Consequences.

And Dean? Dean gave in a sacred place his ultimate promise to trust his brother what ever comes and that Sam can rely and follow his brother faithfully.

Causes and Consequences.

Love, trust and faith are the main factors of human beings, without these attributes we humans would be soulless machines, yes we would function no doubt, but what would be the consequences?

The screenwriters of SPN gave us a glimpse in S6 how it would look like. Or in S5 to ignore the basic fact of trust to the ones that are our nearest for example the family. S8 showed us how easily trust can be fooled by personal and altered perception. S1 the writers gave us the opportunity to participate the fledge of childhood in growing up, to make own decision, to accept and challenge the consequences.

Since the human began to walk upright he not only discovered the warmth and security fire shares, but also the insecurity of trust. The primordial human had to trust his tribe leader blindly, because... well he knew best. Over generations love, trust and faith were the main propelling issues of mankind.

For example in Mainz a city in Germany they found a 2000 year old roman Isis temple, after excavating and preserving the artifacts, the archeologist counted around thousand votive figurines and the main theme of them all was love, trust and faith. The modern roman citizen prayed to the goddess Isis too find their everlasting love, asking if they can trust a person and all bounded with the faith that the goddess Isis would listen to their silently offered wishes and hoping deep in there heart that one day they would come true.

Humanity hasn't changed.

Hundreds of generation have past since then , time went on, religions and wars changed the nations until today, but in the end nothing has changed because we sophisticated humans are still seeking for the ultimate love and trust without losing our faith.

Plato wrote “Love is the pursuit of the whole” and the roman philosopher Vergil wrote “omnia vincent amor!” Love will conquer all! Even the bestseller “The sorrows of Young Werther” by the renown German writer Johann von Goethe describes the tragic of unanswered love. Were these philosophers naïve and ludicrous?

I personally don't think so.

Without love there is no trust. Without trust there is no hope. And without hope there is only constant doubt.

“ Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” Shakespeare, as usual points out the inevitable, to except what we fear the most.

Season 9 starts with Sam accepting his own faith and chose death, his hope lies now in the trust that death will keep his promise, no doubts anymore only plain and pure faith that all will end for good.

And Dean?

Like the angels he is also cased out, also not understanding why. Didn't Dean give his little brother a promise, the ultimate trust only “me and you and nothing in between”.

And now his little brother is leaving him, leaving him behind, leaving him alone...

Where has trust and brotherly love gone...

”there ain't no me without you”

Traumatized, Dean accepts the offer of an unknown angel. His acceptance builds on his hope that this heavenly entity can break the bound his little brother made with death, by only saying yes.

A three syllable word not more, bears halve of the hole weight of our unique free will.

The divine angel should know not to challenge the ultimate gift from God by knowing that not even the Creator would interfere with the free will.

Therefore “keeping secrets” is a mildly pronounced phrase for the fundamental break of the ultimate divine manifest.

Yea, the brothers always had secrets hidden carefully from each other, nothing new some would say. But were these so called secrets truly by the meaning fundamental secrets, or were they just only inconvenient consequences, produced by highly cultivated human principles and expectations?

In comparison with other series SPN dares to reveal the differences of love, trust and faith, but sadly to say are culture has forgot what the true significance of love, trust and faith really contains.

These once precious sacred intimate attributes are now excessively being used, our cross-border consumption culture is devouring and spitting these nouns out as if there were disposable or on constant sale. Just take a look at the commercials and you will understand what I mean.

Some viewers are even that much confused with the brotherly love, that they only accept the sexual definition for love. And can't imagine that love is also defined as a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.

Oneness...”there ain't no me without you”

In conclusion, Supernatural is a modern day show but its content is based on old but everlasting human values. Lost values in our modern day society, but not forgotten. Bounded by an artificial hibernation, waiting for a care given heart to unfold its beauty, like the first blossom arises after a cold and darkened winter. Supernatural is such a blossom. Love, trust and faith visually painted in words: “rise and shine” the authentic human quest.

“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.”
Paolo Coelho