ETA: The tl;dr of this is thanks to @mittensmorgul reminding us of the phrase “Fortune favors the bold”.

I wonder also if there’s any credence to: "No good e'er comes of leisure purposeless; And heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.” (and not conflate heaven with God)

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I didn’t want to pop onto any posts and write this. but basically, i’ve been seeing some not-so-happy reactions to Fortuna and the resolution of that episode plot yesterday.

I personally viewed this as a way for them to not have the rug pulled out from under them again by God. Not that it’s luck but that it’s kind of like some extra support to go after him and kick him in the dick or whatever. Other Gods hate him. We’re beginning to see all these players that can be used to move against God also with Jack coming back as well.

I wound up not subscribing to the theory that they lost luck. In the end, I feel like it was more that God put a veil over their ability to function and heightened the consequences. It felt like bad luck, it was manufactured bad luck, but that meant it wasn’t meant to be there. It felt like it was all absurd circumstances meant to humiliate them. I felt like this was them getting now this shield so it won’t happen again. There’s only so much they can do on their own. They always had the skills though, and this was just some help breaking the chains that were holding the effectiveness back.

And also, the realization that they do have the skills and they are selfless and want to truly help people and save people. They care about Humanity. All the people were let go in the end as well. There wasn’t a “luck balance” where one has to take from another in order to have luck (which reminded me of “Faith”). They were all let go in the end, and Sam and Dean got this sort of a shield from an unlikely ally, especially considering Sam and Dean don’t really get along with other Gods too much. It felt like a Hammer of the Gods redux. Not using them as bait, but giving them tools to help them win, and if that tool is just making sure God couldn’t fuck with them anymore, then so be it.

Idk. I only watched the episode once so far so I may be missing some bits.

I’d be interested in more thoughts here, even if they diverge from mine! If there is still a negative connotation with what happened, I do expect it to be subverted if it’s meant to be subverted.