This is a great post, and although I was really put off by Taxi Driver for many reasons, I did start to think about ways in which rogue reapers in particular make a certain amount of sense. I think rogue reapers, angels going into business for themselves, demons going into business for themselves, demons vying for control of Hell, Death making Dean a temporary reaper by giving him the ring, supernatural beings in general acting out of character and outside the boundaries of laws that previously guided them—it's all part of a supernatural landscape where chaos reigns because of God going AWOL, Lucifer and Michael being locked in the cage, and Sam and Dean taking the escape clause on the Apocalypse.
In reference to your comment about Death being real in 9.01, I agree that we have no proof either way, but I tend to think he was really there. My reasoning: the doctor said Sam was in a coma and near death. If that was true, Sam should have had a reaper. The fact that he didn't means to me that either Death was real, or Sam's reaper took the likeness of Death, which would be... I don't know, disrespectful in the extreme? I kind of think if it were a real reaper who was doing his or her job, Death would not approve those kind of shenanigans.
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Date: 2013-10-23 04:46 pm (UTC)In reference to your comment about Death being real in 9.01, I agree that we have no proof either way, but I tend to think he was really there. My reasoning: the doctor said Sam was in a coma and near death. If that was true, Sam should have had a reaper. The fact that he didn't means to me that either Death was real, or Sam's reaper took the likeness of Death, which would be... I don't know, disrespectful in the extreme? I kind of think if it were a real reaper who was doing his or her job, Death would not approve those kind of shenanigans.