#dead men don't wear plaid: part four

[ddelline]

fic OST | circulus vitiosus (salva mea)

blurb | bc it’s me ofc there’s a fic OST to be had! posting this in the wake of publishing part 1, despite having 2 more parts to both write & post. well. anyway: hereby the music which serves as the inspirational foundation for circulus vitiosus (salva mea), or as it’s colloquially called: time loop!fic. may contain vague, conceptual spoilers for what’s to come in parts 2 and 3 (though not that much bc everything herein is pretty consistently dark & foreboding, lol) what | 30 tracks which may or may not be arranged according to in-fic events & which fail to stick any sort of genre-bound landing, feat everything from broken beat avant garde electronica → triphop → psychedelic rock → classic r&b, plus some delicious instrumental electric guitar bits playlist → spotify tracklist | under cut

01 | VTSS — why we don’t deserve nice things

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02 | tzusing — 戴綠帽 (wear green hat)

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03 | aphex twin — formula

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04 | the dead weather — will there be enough water?

will there be enough water when my ship comes in? water when my ship comes in? will there be water when my ship comes in?

05 | gustavo santaolalla — the hunters

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06 | wax tailor — ungodly fruit

perhaps those who may be among us for the first time may be wondering what is going to happen now

07 | djuma soundsystem — les djinns (trentemøller remix)

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08 | DJ shadow — what does your soul look like, pt. 2

in a few moments you will have an experience which will seem completely real it will be the result of your subconscious fears transformed to your conscious awareness you have five seconds to terminate this tape five, four, three, two, one

09 | nicolas jaar — john the revelator 

now who art worthy, crucified and holy bound up for some, son of our god daughter of zion, judea’s lion

10 | ethel cain — two-headed mother

I’ve loved before, I’ll kill again you’re just the worst of all my men I’m not gonna pull you out the den

11 | regis — broken on the wheel

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12 | restive plaggona — lonely people after midnight

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13 | shudan — jiangshi

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14 | teeth of the sea — field punishment

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15 | parrish smith — fader

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16 | thom yorke — harrowdown hill

did I fall or was I pushed? did I fall or was I pushed? and where’s the blood? and where’s the blood?

17 | TENDER — machine

you cut me open, and pull me apart a hollow chest instead of a heart control, control me you do what you want with me, baby till I am spent, I’m so content

18 | BANKS — 27 hours

it’s been twenty seven hours since we even saw the sun

19 | deaf bones — only lovers left alive

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20 | parrish smith — sex, suicide & speed metal

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21 | low — poor sucker

some poor sucker at the bottom of the lake took the wrong way up when the ground began to break it’s a long way back that’s the price you gotta pay

22 | sade — long hard road

there’s a long hard road ahead but a voice inside me said said there’s something that you need to know it’s gonna to be alright

23 | massive attack, tricky & 3D — take it there

we’ll take it there, but take your time we’ll take it there, you’ll lose your mind

24 | plaid & björk — lilith

the moon it guides me on baby there’s absolutely no doubt

25 | sneaker pimps — lightning field

hope’s the child of what luck brings points to faith in higher things ask me now fire at everything at once strike me down

26 | mew — one flew over, one was destroyed

do you remember what made you fall? and does it matter to you at all?

27 | amor satyr — que dançar?

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28 | manni dee & akiko haruna — frowzy

a couple hours means nothing in the dark in the end the choice was never ours

29 | faithless, rollo armstrong & sister bliss — salva mea

I wanna take a look at the world behind these eyes every nook, every cranny reorganize realize my face don't fit the way I feel what's real?

30 | hozier — first light

the sky set to burst the gold and the rust the colour erupts you filling my cup the sun coming up

[latenightartist-author]

I made a list of all the supernatural episodes in case anyone want to check them off as they watch them! 😊

Season One

- [ ] Pilot

- [ ] Weddigo

- [ ] Dead in the water

- [ ] Phantom Traveler

- [ ] Bloody Mary

- [ ] Skin

- [ ] Hook Man

- [ ] Bugs

- [ ] Home

- [ ] Asylum

- [ ] Scarecrow

- [ ] Faith

- [ ] Route 666

- [ ] Nightmare

- [ ] The Benders

- [ ] Shadow

- [ ] Hell House

- [ ] Something Wicked

- [ ] Provenance

- [ ] Dead Man’s Blood

- [ ] Salvation

- [ ] Devil’s Trap

Season Two

- [ ] In my time of Dying

- [ ] Everybody loves a clown

- [ ] Bloodlust

- [ ] Children shouldn’t play with dead things

- [ ] Simon said

- [ ] No exit

- [ ] The usual suspects

- [ ] Crossroads blues

- [ ] Croatoan

- [ ] Hunted

- [ ] Playthings

- [ ] Nightshifter

- [ ] Houses of the holy

- [ ] Born under a bad sign

- [ ] Tall tales

- [ ] Roadkill

- [ ] Heart

- [ ] Hollywood Babylon

- [ ] Folsom Prison Blues

- [ ] What is and what should never be

- [ ] All hell broke loose part 1

- [ ] All hell broke loose part 2

Season three

- [ ] The magnificent seven

- [ ] The kids are alright

- [ ] Bad day on black rock

- [ ] Sin city

- [ ] Bedtime stories

- [ ] Red sky at morning

- [ ] Fresh blood

- [ ] A very supernatural Christmas

- [ ] Malleus maleficarum

- [ ] Dream a little dream

- [ ] Mystery spot

- [ ] Jus in bello

- [ ] Ghostfacers

- [ ] Long distance call

- [ ] Time is on my side

- [ ] No rest for the wicked

Season four

- [ ] Lazarus rising

- [ ] Are you there? God it's me, Dean Winchester.

- [ ] In the beginning

- [ ] Metamorphosis

- [ ] Monster movie

- [ ] Yellow fever

- [ ] It's the great pumpkin Sam Winchester

- [ ] Wishful thinking

- [ ] I know what you did last summer

- [ ] Heaven and Hell

- [ ] Family remains

- [ ] Cross angel is a douche bag

- [ ] Afterschool special

- [ ] Sex and violence

- [ ] Death takes a holiday

- [ ] On the head of a pin

- [ ] It's a terrible life

- [ ] The monster at the end of this book

- [ ] Jump the shark

- [ ] The rapture

- [ ] When the levee breaks

- [ ] Lucifer rising

Season five

- [ ] Sympathy for the devil

- [ ] Good God, y'all

- [ ] Free to be you and me

- [ ] The end

- [ ] Fallen idols

- [ ] I believe the children are our future

- [ ] The curious case of Dean Winchester

- [ ] Changing channels

- [ ] The real Ghostbusters

- [ ] Abandon all

- [ ] Sam interrupted

- [ ] Swap meet

- [ ] The remains the same

- [ ] My bloody valentine

- [ ] Dead men don't wear plaid

- [ ] Dark side of the moon

- [ ] 99 problems

- [ ] Point of no return

- [ ] Hammer of the gods

- [ ] The devil you know

- [ ] Two minutes to midnight

- [ ] Swan song

Season six

- [ ] Exile on Main Street

- [ ] Two and a Half Men

- [ ] The third man

- [ ] Weed, Bobby

- [ ] Live free or twi-hard

- [ ] Family matters

- [ ] All dogs go to heaven

- [ ] Clap your hands, if you believe

- [ ] Caged heat

- [ ] Appointment with Samarra

- [ ] Like a virgin

- [ ] Unforgiven

- [ ] Mannequin three the reckoning

- [ ] The mistake

- [ ] And then there was none

- [ ] My heart will go on

- [ ] Frontierland

- [ ] Mommy, dearest

- [ ] The man who would be king

- [ ] Let it bleed

- [ ] The man who knew too much

Season seven

- [ ] Meet the new boss

- [ ] Hello, cruel world

- [ ] The girl next-door

- [ ] Defending your life

- [ ] Shut up Dr Phil

- [ ] Slash fiction

- [ ] The mentalists

- [ ] Season seven time for a wedding

- [ ] How to win friends, and influence monsters

- [ ] Death’s door

- [ ] Adventures in babysitting

- [ ] Time after time

- [ ] The slice girls

- [ ] Plucky, Penny whistles, magic, menagerie

- [ ] Repo man

- [ ] Out with the old

- [ ] The born again identity

- [ ] Party on Garth

- [ ] Of grave importance

- [ ] The girl with the dungeons and dragons tattoo

- [ ] Reading is fundamental

- [ ] There will be blood

- [ ] Survival of the fittest

Season eight

- [ ] We don't talk about Kevin

- [ ] What's up Tiger mommy

- [ ] Heart ache

- [ ] Bitten

- [ ] Blood brother

- [ ] Southern comfort

- [ ] A slice of Kevin

- [ ] Hunteri heronici

- [ ] Citizen, fang

- [ ] Torn and frayed

- [ ] LARP and the real girl

- [ ] As time goes by

- [ ] Everybody hates Hitler

- [ ] Trial and error

- [ ] Man's best friend with benefits

- [ ] Remember, the Titans

- [ ] Goodbye, stranger

- [ ] Freaks and geeks

- [ ] Taxi driver

- [ ] Pac-Man fever

- [ ] The great escapist

- [ ] Clip show

- [ ] Sacrifice

Season nine

- [ ] I think I'm gonna like it here

- [ ] Devil may care

- [ ] I'm no angel

- [ ] Slumber party

- [ ] Dog Dean afternoon

- [ ] Heaven can't wait

- [ ] Bad boys

- [ ] Rock and a hard place

- [ ] Holy terror

- [ ] Road trip

- [ ] First born

- [ ] Sharp teeth

- [ ] The purge

- [ ] Captives

- [ ] #ThinMan

- [ ] Blade runners

- [ ] Mother's little helper

- [ ] Meta-fiction

- [ ] Alex, Annie, Alexis, ann

- [ ] Bloodlines

- [ ] King of the Damned

- [ ] Stairway to Heaven

- [ ] Do you believe in miracles?

Season ten

- [ ] Black

- [ ] Reichenbach

- [ ] Soul Survivor

- [ ] Paper moon

- [ ] Fanfiction

- [ ] Ask Jeeves

- [ ] Girls girls girls

- [ ] Hibbing, 911

- [ ] The things we left behind

- [ ] The hunter games

- [ ] There's no place like home

- [ ] About a boy

- [ ] Halt and catch fire

- [ ] The executioner song

- [ ] The things they carried

- [ ] Paint it black

- [ ] Inside man

- [ ] Book of the Damned

- [ ] The werther project

- [ ] Dark dynasty

- [ ] The prisoner

- [ ] Brothers keeper

Season eleven

- [ ] Out of the darkness into the fire

- [ ] Form and void

- [ ] The bad seed

- [ ] Baby

- [ ] Thin Lizzie

- [ ] Our little world

- [ ] Plush

- [ ] Just my imagination

- [ ] Oh, brother, where art thou?

- [ ] The devil in the details

- [ ] Into the Mystic

- [ ] Don't forget about me

- [ ] Love hurts

- [ ] The vessel

- [ ] Beyond the mat

- [ ] Safe house

- [ ] Red meat

- [ ] Hells angel

- [ ] The chitters

- [ ] Don't call me Shurley

- [ ] All in the family

- [ ] We happy few

- [ ] Alpha and Omega

Season twelve

- [ ] Keep calm and carry on

- [ ] Mamma Mia

- [ ] The foundry

- [ ] American nightmare

- [ ] The one you've been waiting for

- [ ] Celebrating the life of Asa fox

- [ ] Rock never dies

- [ ] Lotus

- [ ] First blood

- [ ] Lily Sunder has some regrets

- [ ] Regarding Dean

- [ ] Stuck in the middle ( with you )

- [ ] Family feud

- [ ] The raid

- [ ] Somewhere between heaven and hell

- [ ] Ladies drink free

- [ ] The British invasion

- [ ] The memory remains

- [ ] The future

- [ ] Twigs and twine, and Tasha Baines

- [ ] There's something about Mary

- [ ] Who we are

- [ ] All along the watchtower

Season thirteen

- [ ] Lost and found

- [ ] The rising Sun

- [ ] Patience

- [ ] The big empty box

- [ ] Advanced thanatology

- [ ] Tombstone

- [ ] War of the worlds

- [ ] The scorpion and the frog

- [ ] The bad place

- [ ] Wayward sisters

- [ ] Breakdown

- [ ] Various and sundry villains

- [ ] Devil bargain

- [ ] Good intentions

- [ ] A holy man

- [ ] Scoobynatural

- [ ] The thing

- [ ] Bring ‘em back alive

- [ ] Funeralia

- [ ] Unfinished business

- [ ] Beat the devil

- [ ] Exodus

- [ ] Let the good Times roll

Season fourteen

- [ ] Stranger in a strange land

- [ ] Gods and monsters

- [ ] The scar

- [ ] Mint condition

- [ ] Nightmare, logic

- [ ] Optimism

- [ ] Unhuman nature

- [ ] Byzantium

- [ ] The spear

- [ ] Nihilism

- [ ] Damaged goods

- [ ] Profit and loss

- [ ] Lebanon

- [ ] Ouroboros

- [ ] Peace of mind

- [ ] Don't go in the woods

- [ ] Game night

- [ ] Absence

- [ ] Jack-in-the-Box

- [ ] Moriah

Season fifteen

- [ ] Back and to the future

- [ ] Raising hell

- [ ] The rapture

- [ ] Atomic monsters

- [ ] Proverbs 17:3

- [ ] Golden time

- [ ] Last call

- [ ] Our father, who aren't in heaven

- [ ] The trap

- [ ] The heroes journey

- [ ] The gambler

- [ ] Galaxy brain

- [ ] Destiny's Child

- [ ] Last holiday

- [ ] Gimme shelter

- [ ] Drag me away(from you)

- [ ] Unity

- [ ] Despair

- [ ] Inherit the Earth

- [ ] Carry-on

[postmodernmulticoloredcloak]

I would love for you to talk more indepth about the montage. To me it feels so off and weird. Almost like a parody? So many scenes in it are "funny" moments that just don't make sense in the context of an emotional overview of the road so far... (Like all the scenes where Dean is eating, Donna with donut dust on her face, Sam getting hit during the game show.) I don't know. Isn't the montage supposed to make me nostalgic, teary-eyed? This one definitely doesn't do it for me!

Here I am! Yes, I absolutely agree. The montage is Weird(TM). It’s kind of a tone rollercoaster. It’s very full of funny/silly moments, with some serious moments smacked in. And it definitely looks like... there’s something about it.

For an easier consultation I will reference the gifs I have made of the montage sequence here.

[Gif 1] It starts pretty much like I’d expect a Supernatural goodbye montage to start. The two brothers meeting for the first time in the pilot, a reminder of their childhood with John, their banter still from the pilot, a couple moments of them driving in the car in the first seasons, Dean saving Lucas in 1x03 which is the first Dean-heavy episode and also an extremely symbolic moment for Dean’s entire journey - just think at how Lucas as a mirror was still relevent during the “drowning” Michael possession arc. Everything feels normal so far. We’re starting from the beginning! Now--

[Gif 2] Interesting and weird choices start here. Them pretending to be high school teachers from After School Special 4x13 - actually a very iconic moment for the fandom, remember that post of Dean in shorts from that episode that you had to reblog when it came on your dash? (Actually I’m not sure if I ever reblogged it lol.) Dean celebrating getting young again from The Curious Case of Dean Winchester 5x07 (and Jensen showing off his agility). The two of them showing their FBI badges to Jesse Turner’s biological mother in 5x06. Dean mowing the lawn of Mary’s house in the Djinn dream and immediately after Jess and Sam kissing also in the Djinn dream, from What Is And What Should Never Be 2x20. Then Dean after killing the witch when he was under the memory loss spell, in Regarding Dean 12x11. Sam happy when they celebrate Christmas in A Very Supernatural Christmas 3x08. Them being “lucky” under the effect of the rabbit’s foot in Bad Day At Black Rock 3x03. Sam also happy in Baby 11x04.

Again the present, then the montage starts again with the water-related ghost from Red Sky At Morning 3x06, a Bela episode, and then Bela herself from her first episode, 3x03 again.

What do these moments have in common? Not all of them, but for many of them I’d say reality being manipulated. The Djinn dream, the rabbit foot, Dean’s aging, the Antichrist... and it’s not over yet. Also, them pretending to be teachers, agents etc - not “real”.

[Gif 3] The tone suddenly gets more serious and relevant to current events: Chuck in The Monster at the End of This Book 4x18 (eh). Death in Two Minutes to Midnight 5x21 (the first appearance of Death, while now we’ve had Billie’s last and a very short-lived new one), and then two major moments from Lazarus Rising - Dean emerging from the grave and finding the handprint on his shoulder. Crowley’s first episode, Abandon All Hope 5x10. Zachariah’s death in Point Of No Return 5x18. Anna from The Song Remains The Same 5x13, where she is the antagonist having been brainwashed successfully by heaven. Michael burning and Sam jumping in the cage with Michael in 5x22, then another moment from 4x01 (the brothers hugging after reuniting). A moment from The French Mistake 6x15 (reality fuckery again!). Sam in Frontierland 6x18.

[Gif 4] Reality fuckery continues with Becky marrying Sam in 7x08. Funnily enough, this is the peak of Becky’s obsessive behavior which she went to therapy for and grew away of - it definitely emphasizes how far Becky has come. Donna’s first appeance in 9x13. That iconic shot of Dean in Bloodlust 2x03 because he’s pretty. Charlie’s first appearance in 7x20 while she dances to Walking On Sunshine (relevant?), Kevin’s first appearance in 7x21 when he becomes a prophet (lots of firsts). Abaddon’s first appearance in As Time Goes By 8x12. Then there’s the first appearance of the bunker, in the next episode, a couple shots in fact. Then more 4x01, Ruby pretending to mistake Dean for the pizza man (eh). Then more present...

This section seems to be mostly “first appearances” - including Ruby’s s4 meatsuit, i.e. Genevieve’s first appearance.

[Gif 5] We suddenly jump to more recent events with Kelly and Jack in heaven in Byzanthium 4x08. Jack’s iconic hello from 4x16 Don’t Go In The Woods. Dean teaching Jack how to drive in 14x07 Unhuman Nature. But then we suddenly go from Jack things to something completely different on the surface: two consecutive moments from Changing Channels 5x08, including the iconic Nutcracker scene, and Sully from Just My Imagination. We are actually back to the previous theme: reality fuckery. Gabriel’s episode was about placing them in “television shows”, Sully, while real, is literally a child’s “imaginary friend”. And then... a moment from the cartoon part of Scoobynatural! It doesn’t get more reality fuckery than that. Oh, wait! Charlie and Dorothy going to Oz in 9x04. That’s a pretty strong contender. Dean being hit in the face by a fairy in 6x09 - also about a realm Dean briefly went to. And, in case we felt like we hadn’t gotten enough 4x01 yet, Pamela’s first appearance (her last, albeit a hallucination, was about the whole “How come you only want what you can't have?” thing).

[Gif 6] We continue again with a mixture of firsts and weird things. Ellen’s first appearance in 2x02, Dean and Cas in 4x18 (we saw Chuck from that episode earlier), Jody’s first appearance in 5x15 Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. Rufus in 6x04 Weekend At Bobby’s (not his first but a good episode...), Garth in 9x12 Sharp Teeth (not his first but the first in which he is a werewolf and is married... relevant to recent lamp events??), Missouri in 1x09 (her first appearance).

Then Gabriel from 13x21 Beat The Devil (an episode where he plays a trick on Lucifer) and Rowena from the same scene (in fact a scene where they’re flirting).  Then Eileen coming back to life in 15x06 and smiling at Sam. Jo flirting with Dean in 2x02 - her first appearance, again. Funnily enough, she had been introduced as a love interest, but ended up being repurposed as a sisterly figure. Tempted to say it’s relevant in an ironic way. Mary in 14x11 Damaged Goods, when Dean has a goodbye mother-son moment with her. Amara in 11x09 Oh Brother Where Art Thou when she was looking for her brother. Then Lucifer in two different vessels (12x07 Rock Never Dies and 12x21, when Lucifer regains control over the vessel).

Then Metatron doing the find a wife make babies speech to Cas in 8x23! Relevant??? Dun dun dun. Then Ketch for some reason (the first episode where we see his face, 12x08 LOTUS).

[Gif 7] Then Jo/Anael in 13x13, another first appearance. (I cropped these horribly I should have cut them when the present happens lol.)

Sandwiched between two shots from the present, Dean Sam Mary and John having dinner together in 14x13 Lebanon.

Then we start again with Dean riding Larry in 12x11, Dean and Cas dressed as cowboys in 13x06 (mini pattern here...), Asmodeus with the archangel blade in 13x13 (insert meta about Asmodeus in Christian lore here), and the really intriguing “Intermission” shot from the play in 10x05.

[Gif 8] To continue a certain pattern we might be tempted to see, Dean eating piecake from 14x06 Optimism (an episode about a distorted version of romantic love), then Dean eating noodles from 10x13 Halt & Catch Fire (the ghost is a husband that passes on thanks to his wife). Dean after his dentistry session with Garth in 15x10. Meg from 6x10 Caged Heat (the episode with the pizza man porn). Dean and Sam investigating in 4x12 Criss Angel Is a Douchebag (an episode about growing old poorly). Crowley in 10x16 Paint It Black (that episode). Dean playing that game in 14x17 Game Night (the episode Cas calls for God, and when Mary dies - the one playing the game was God...). Sam and Dean getting out of the car in 13x05 when they visit the traumatized kid (peak mourning Dean episode...). Then we go into reality fuckery territory again with 14x15 Peace of Mind, Sam under the psychic’s control and Cas disgruntled about it.

[Gif 9] Mick Davies from 12x16 Ladies Drink Free, when he learnt a lesson about monsters. Dean geeking out about the Hatchet Man - so heavy with mirror significances - in 14x04 Mint Condition. Belphegor - Jack’s dark mirror - in 15x03 The Rupture, the break-up episode. Donna’s first episode again, this time Dean and she eating donuts. Dean, Sam and Mary hugging in 12x22 after the confrontation in Mary’s head. Kaia in 13x09 The Bad Place, when Jack uses her to find the way to where Mary is (Mary pattern?). Claire&co rescuing Jody and Donna in 13x10 Wayward Sisters. Dean in 1944 dresses as a sailor in 11x14 The Vessel. Baby nyooming in 15x11 The Gamblers...

Aaand more Changing Channels, the genital herpes ad. It’s almost like reality fuckery is a theme. Followed by Sam drinking the anti-cold concoction at Garth’s in 15x10 and the two of them outside the monster fighting pit in the same episode. Then Cas, Dean, Sam and Jack on a video call with Ketch in 14x09 The Spear when they talk about the egg to trap Michael.

[Gif 10] We stay in the same episode with the four of them heading to Michael. Then the four of them celebrating Jack’s return to life (after Cas’ deal with the Empty). More present, and then the iconic “we’ve got work to do” [trunk closes] moment from the pilot.

So: some of these moments seem like genuine moments you’ll want to put in a montage, but there’s a weird predominance of characters smiling and looking happy or goofy. It’s kind of... not exactly representative of the show as a whole, you know? There are moments that fit as, you know, iconic steps in the story, but surprisingly few, and many moments you’d expect to be in a “final” montage are blatantly not there. Several moments with, let’s put it like this, suspicious meta connotations. Moments that, well, we don’t know what happens in the finale yet, but smell like they might be relevant to future developments. (Metatron’s speech to newly human Cas anyone?)

What really strikes me is the amount of moments connected to reality being manipulated or distorted in some way. Lots of Changing Channels, fantasy elements of various kinds (the Djinn dream, Scoobynatural, Oz, the imaginary friend Becky’s wedding to Sam, the fairy, ...), them acquiring luck (s3) or losing it (s15), and so on. It’s almost like the sequence is telling us something...

Thoughts?