What really disturbs me (and I told Dodger this in response to her response to my first comment - although I still see this, especially the ending and Dean's comments as another Kick-Sam's-Nuts episode) is the whole shift of empathy in the episode.
The family, with wooden acting and cliches aplenty, do not connect with me and they do not seem to connect to the Winchesters either.
Dean keeps turning to Sam and saying in anger/frustration, "Humans!" as if he is different than the human family he is trying to save. He's disassociating himself from them in some way that I find very troubling. He also manages to sound like Uriel and we know Uriel has no sympathy, no empathy for us pathetic mud monkeys.
The reveal that he feels for the monsters at the end is also troubling - are both Winchesters heading for the darkness, scorning humanity?
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Date: 2009-01-17 06:30 pm (UTC)The family, with wooden acting and cliches aplenty, do not connect with me and they do not seem to connect to the Winchesters either.
Dean keeps turning to Sam and saying in anger/frustration, "Humans!" as if he is different than the human family he is trying to save. He's disassociating himself from them in some way that I find very troubling. He also manages to sound like Uriel and we know Uriel has no sympathy, no empathy for us pathetic mud monkeys.
The reveal that he feels for the monsters at the end is also troubling - are both Winchesters heading for the darkness, scorning humanity?