User blog:Heimdalsgate/Fare Thee Well - Inside Llewyn Davis

Chuck sings us Fare Thee Well a song from Inside Llewyn Davis, a Cohen Brothers movie. On a stage in a bar alone with a guitar, much like Oscar Isaac does in the movie. The question is, why? Of all the songs in the world, for such an important moment, and it worked and moved me for sure, but I saw the movie in theaters and own the soundtrack. And though I didn't know for sure something in my brain went "wait, is this from Inside Llewyn Davis?" This song is not yet (or was not yet) a part of our collective unconcious as television viewers living in the Western world today. Music has always been an important part of this show.

I wonder if it wasn't somewhat to do with the writers continuing belief in the epicness of this story. I remember when Metatron showed up and had that Meta Fiction episode, and how Metatron became such a complete dick. And then for the 100th Episode how they LITERALLY had Sam and Dean MURDER EPIC STORY TELLING. Like they knew that they were guilty, in their forgetting of bits and peices of the tale, and filler episodes that they HAD murdered epic story telling and kind of hated themselves for it. Despite the five or so total-crap episodes a season (Beyond that Mat?  Love Hurts? I was beginning to think all the amazing amazingness of the first half of this season was an empty promise) at this point, the writters still like to give us amazing story telling when they are inspired and can be arsed. And they can create amazing episodes like Baby and Swansong and Weekend at Bobby's and Just My Imagination and Meta Fiction and Don't Call me Shurley. The point is, the Coehn Brothers know how to tell a story, and an homage to them would be meaningful to the shows writers.

For a second as he started playing I thought it was going to be good ol' Hallelujah.