++ I love that, despite it all, Gabriel got the last word and the last laugh. That DVD insert was just awesome, and I love Sam and Dean's expressions. Casa Erotica will never be the same for them. Well, I think Dean might return to the DVD because, well, he's Dean.... ;)
If I may say... One thing that Gabriel's death did serve was to seperate his duel identities that he had going. The Archangel Gabriel died, slaine by his brother. But The Trickster lives on, immortalized by his final trick on the Prince of Lies. And whether Gabriel is deemed worthy of ressurection by God the same way Castiel was, because he chose the right team, or whether he stays dead... his legacy will still go on, because he provided the key to hoist his arrogant brother on his own petard. To me he'll aways be The Trickster, because of his legacy and the identity he chose for himself. And in true Trickster fashion, death doesn't end the game.
I'll miss that glorious bastard. He could have been a great ally for the boys, but on the other hand he could have been too convenient a deux ex machina for solutions to future cases were he to survive. I dunno. But again, no character is going to get a better legacy... at the end of the day mankind will owe it's chance to survive the angels' machinations because of the opposing machinations of a fallen god, so to speak.
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If I may say... One thing that Gabriel's death did serve was to seperate his duel identities that he had going. The Archangel Gabriel died, slaine by his brother. But The Trickster lives on, immortalized by his final trick on the Prince of Lies. And whether Gabriel is deemed worthy of ressurection by God the same way Castiel was, because he chose the right team, or whether he stays dead... his legacy will still go on, because he provided the key to hoist his arrogant brother on his own petard. To me he'll aways be The Trickster, because of his legacy and the identity he chose for himself. And in true Trickster fashion, death doesn't end the game.
I'll miss that glorious bastard. He could have been a great ally for the boys, but on the other hand he could have been too convenient a deux ex machina for solutions to future cases were he to survive. I dunno. But again, no character is going to get a better legacy... at the end of the day mankind will owe it's chance to survive the angels' machinations because of the opposing machinations of a fallen god, so to speak.