I think God is taking a hand here. I think He rescued Castiel because C. was the only angel to show that he’s still loyal. He made a conscious choice to follow God and not his own bosses.
This would be first time that's ever happened in fiction that I've consumed. That's not to say it can't happen, but in all the angels vs demons battles, God is never around. Angels are acting according to their design, or, occasionally, their own wishes, always claiming God is on their side by dint of being his divine soldiers. But God never actually involves himself. The one exception I can think of is Dogma. God there, though, was the literal Deus ex machina to stop the bad angels when no one else was left. I just feel like it's too soon to bring him in just to save Castiel, but like I've said, I can't prove it.
Lucifer has been unable to return to EARTH all this time. That doesn’t mean he’s been inactive. If he wasn’t here, presumably he was there, in Hell. Ruling. So no, I think he’s been very much in charge, and orchestrating everything down the line. But yes, he’s a fallen angel (as opposed to most demons), which makes him different from them. And I’d like to see that played up, too.not doing those things. Like, Lilith was not turning over souls to him, she just dragged them to Hell.
I guess it was all the talk about "freeing Lucifer" that made me think he wasn't a player in all this as much as the demons were. That he was sort of like Cthulhu, you know? Waiting to be woken.
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Date: 2009-09-17 03:18 pm (UTC)This would be first time that's ever happened in fiction that I've consumed. That's not to say it can't happen, but in all the angels vs demons battles, God is never around. Angels are acting according to their design, or, occasionally, their own wishes, always claiming God is on their side by dint of being his divine soldiers. But God never actually involves himself. The one exception I can think of is Dogma. God there, though, was the literal Deus ex machina to stop the bad angels when no one else was left. I just feel like it's too soon to bring him in just to save Castiel, but like I've said, I can't prove it.
Lucifer has been unable to return to EARTH all this time. That doesn’t mean he’s been inactive. If he wasn’t here, presumably he was there, in Hell. Ruling. So no, I think he’s been very much in charge, and orchestrating everything down the line. But yes, he’s a fallen angel (as opposed to most demons), which makes him different from them. And I’d like to see that played up, too.not doing those things. Like, Lilith was not turning over souls to him, she just dragged them to Hell.
I guess it was all the talk about "freeing Lucifer" that made me think he wasn't a player in all this as much as the demons were. That he was sort of like Cthulhu, you know? Waiting to be woken.