He Looks Like Jack...

He looks like Jack...

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Ghosts and Hauntings in Golden Time 15x06

Hey everyone, just catching up British time as ever. Looking forward to all your Saileen gifs!

This episode was full of symbolism, as Sam is haunted by Eileen in the form of a ghost and Dean and Cas are haunted by their separation from one another. 

Like the golden rams’ skulls in Rowena’s apartment (one on the left on the table here);

The Golden Ram (from whom the Golden Fleece came) was, in Greek myth, the child of Poseidon the Sea-God and Theophane, a human princess, whom the God abducted and raped.

Eventually the Golden Ram was sacrificed as an offering to his father, Poseidon.

That sounds a lot like Jack, born of angelic Lucifer and human Kelly Kline, sacrificed by God on the altar of Chuck’s “story”. 

So, in addition to Eileen, and Dean and Cas’ longing for one another, Jack was one of the additional ghosts haunting the episode (as reflected in the story of Cas’s joy/ sadness in his successful investigative efforts to find someone else’s lost son, before he was taken by the Djinn).

Likewise these golden griffins guarding some books in Rowena’s apartment, also, perhaps, symbolise Jack. Griffins, like the Golden Ram, come from the ancient world - Levant, Syria, Greece, Persia. Griffins were guardians of gold (sometimes laid their eggs in nests of gold) in Greek and Roman texts (according to Wikipedia) and became conflated with the phoenix in some lore. In medieval Europe they came to symbolise Jesus, as a mixture of the human and the divine. Sounds a lot like Jack and his golden eyes, and, no doubt, his imminent resurrection (like Jesus/ a phoenix) into the story:

Mary also makes an appearance, on Sam’s laptop screen at the start of the episode, which reads “Saint Mary Appears on Three Cheese Pizza”: So, that’s another ghost (Mary Winchester) haunting the narrative:

Bille also makes a ghostly appearance, in the form of the Death tarot card, which Sam finds in Rowena’s apartment:

Jenny Lake in Wyoming is named after a real person. She was Shoshone and the wife of a British fur trapper, Richard Leigh, at least according to this info:

https://www.nps.gov/grte/learn/historyculture/trap.htm

Jenny and their six children died of smallpox, leaving a grieving Richard behind. Again, that resonates with the ghost of Jack, as Cas is likewise a grieving father who has lost a child:

The “ghosts” of Chuck and Amara also haunt the story, in the form of the two witch sisters, Jessie and Emily, one fair and one dark, one of whom horribly mistreated her sibling:

Look at the golden clock in the cabinet between them in this shot. When we think about this in relation to the “Golden Time” of the episode title, we might think about time as the space between Form and Void, between beginnings and endings. Time is the time of the SPN story, between Chuck the creator and Amara the destroyer (except, importantly, their roles have reversed).

And then there’s the Djinn, a monster of illusions, a creator of ghosts if you will, whose venom creates “false realities” for its victims so it can feed on their blood whilst they are passively lost in the story. The Djinn becomes a mirror for Chuck:

Then there’s the “ghost” of Cas’ angelic powers, because whilst he still has some power, it’s still fading. We see the toll his healing of Caleb takes on him, His “miraculous” golden healing touch, exhausts him.

Oh man, and then Eileen and Sam’s earlier ghostly attempt at touching:

becomes (in that beautifully acted penultimate scene) flesh:

 One “haunting” is undone, and thanks to Rowena’s spell-work, one ghost, Eileen, is re-corporlalised into the world:

and so, re-enters the story.

This fore-shadows, no doubt, the re-entry of the other ghosts haunting the episode, Jack and Mary, into the story as well.

Of course, we know which couple Sam and Eileen mirror, so in subtext, there’s that foreshadowing too - Dean and Cas will find their way back to one another, from this place where they are haunted by their longing for one another, and haunted by their fear that the other one does not love them back.  

The queer love between Dean and Cas is also a ghost haunting the narrative. 

You have a wonderful and blessed rest of your life and make sure to continue on spreading the love and I hope down the line you get everything you ever wished for and more. much love.

Thank you so much. This means a lot. I hope the same for you ❤️

- Your friend

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