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12th-Oct-2007 03:32 am - "The Magnificent Seven" Icons
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Watch it again.

Because you know you missed something. Something that further exalts the nit-picky detail the Supernatural crew put into each episode.

The Seven Sins are color-coordinated for your identification convenience.

In “The Magnificent Seven,” the show’s season three premiere, the recently-freed Seven Sins possessed some fortunate bodies and proceeded to clothe themselves in their favorite color.

Around in Medieval times there came to be an associated color for each sin. For Pride, it was purple. For Lust, (contrary to layman’s first guess) there is blue. For Wrath, it was red. Avarice (or Greed) is yellow, and Gluttony is orange. For Sloth there is a light blue and of course for Envy, green. These color associations are pretty variable depending on which source you cite from, but I chose these associations because they were the colors chosen for the Seven Sins’ wardrobe.

Pride: Purple tie and dress shirt

Lust: Blue tank top (underneath her white vest)

Wrath: Red muscle shirt (underneath a black vest)

Avarice/Greed: Pale yellow shirt

Gluttony:

This is interesting. The demon Gluttony wears a plaid shirt that includes, but is not exclusive to, orange. However, Isaac, doomed to die by the touch of this demon and his subsequent drinking of the Drain-O, wears an solid orange collared shirt. I will return later to the wardrobe of the characters other than the demons.


Sloth: a light blue, worn-to-hell T-Shirt (XXXXL)


Envy: A sage green/ faded green T-shirt (underneath a grey collared light jacket)


So it is very convenient to put in these little wardrobe clues about the demons, but what about the other cast members? Well, as I stated before, Isaac's orange jacket probably attracted the attention of Gluttony, as it is his favorite color. Tamara seems to be the only one not following along in this thematic vein (She has a green/grey jacket and a blue T-shirt...nothing Wrath Red about it).

Dean? That boy is marked. Notice the color of the jacket they choose for him to wear:

Blue. The color of his sin. He certainly willfully indulges in it in "The Magnificent Seven," and then he's paired off with Lust as his make-out fighting partner.

Sam? Good 'ol green jacket, faithful companion that it is:

Sam has worn this before. Many a time. The boys only have a few pieces of clothing.

But envy, though?

What about that he's brother's so carefree, that his "big job" is done, that Dean has no guilt. Or how about this: Sam has felt destined and doomed since the "Pilot." Finally Dean with his "year to live" demon-pact would feel the same. But no, he doesn't. Dean gets an awful destiny, and then unlike Sam, doesn't fret or brood about it (and certainly doesn't make the pissy little face Sam is making in this screencap). Sam is envious that Dean can take a Bad Destiny and spin it into a positive. Sam certainly can't.

Now finally to Bobby, our curmudgeonly 'ol hunter. Bobby doesn't seem to have a sin.

Yet he does seem a little too touchy with regards to "settling down" Tamara. Bobby screams in her face that they are going to sit still and think about what they're next move is. We discover that Tamara seems intimately tied to Wrath: she feels no mercy when the host died while exorcising Envy, and Envy taunted her with Wrath as her sin. Perhaps Bobby, who knew Tamara and Isaac and presumably their past, felt the whole revenge situation (Wrathful in essence) hit a little too close to home. Yes, this is a long shot. But it takes a lot for Bobby to raise his voice. Hell, Dean had to sell his soul before Bobby ripped into him.

Then perhaps Wrath for Bobby? Beware for some nit-picky wardrobe spotting and extreme extrapolation:

Okay, I'll allow a few seconds to let Hatless Bobby sink in. I know I needed a few seconds to recover.

Notice his tie: striped red and light grey-purple. Supernatural's wardrobe department has used the dress-shirt and tie combo before with Pride to identify the Sin. This is the only time (so far) Bobby wears something other than plaid and a camper's vest. And he becomes extra emotional at one point in this episode, which was a bit out-of-control and smacked of Freudian slippage. Thus, that nice crisp suit reveals something more about Bobby's character than that he can pull off "The G-man."

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