SPN - 5.02

[feliciakw]

I made a prediction last year, and tonight, it came to pass. It makes me sad. Hold that thought.

First, the twig. Well, my meta from last week has now been refuted. Which doesn't surprise me at all, but I'll get into that later, maybe.

But this ep? 97% awesome!

Dean's X-Ray: Awesome!

Dean's amulet: Cool! In a contrived sort of way.

Return of Ellen, Jo, and Rufus: Awesome in ways I cannot voice.

Ellen's greeting to Dean is love.

Dean's bonding with the war vet: Very cool.

Sam's inner battle: Nothing new. I've discussed it before. He really needs to talk to Daniel Jackson about the absolute power thing. Fantastic to hear him recognizing it. Complete with Sammy!confession at the road-side picnic table. Yay Sammy!

The use of the prophecy in Revelation was very cool in this ep as well.

I predicted last season, after "Sex and Violence," that Sam and Dean would be splitting up and going their separate ways. It took longer than I anticipated, but sadly, it has come to pass. Dean even offered Sam the Impala. (Yes, Dean, rip my heart out, why don't you.) I just . . . it's very sad, and I want them to fix the situation post haste. (My personal guess is that it will take a trip to the future to show Dean what a bad idea letting Sam go was. But that's just a guess.) But we shall have to wait at least a week.

Hector is going to be in next week's ep!

Is it Thursday yet?

Comments

[leelust.livejournal.com]

ITA to the whole post but one thing bothers me.
My personal guess is that it will take a trip to the future to show Dean what a bad idea letting Sam go
Can i ask why? Do you implying that Dean never has to let Sam go? How about Dean's own life then? Is he destined to wipe Sam's ass for the whole life? Or that sam is so weak he can't go alone in this life without starting something terrible?

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

Of course that's not what I mean. Both of the boys need to get their heads on straight separately so that when they get back together, they can relate to each other as independent adults.

What I mean by it being a bad idea for Dean to let Sam go is that Bad Things happen when they split up: Meg, the djinn, Ruby. Sam and Dean are also an excellent example of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. They work better together than separately. Naturally they each need their own space to sort things out. Dean needs to regain the confidence he started to develop in DaLDoM and build on that confidence. Sam needs to do some soul searching now that he's recognized his lust for power, for lack of a better way of putting it.

This is actually, I think, the first time the boys have mutually agreed to split up. Sam expected Dean to protest. I think he was a little hurt when Dean didn't try to stop him, but Dean recognized the need for space as much as Sam did.

Knowing nothing more than where they left it last night, what we're left with is Sam stepping back from the hunt. This means he won't be working jobs, which means what, exactly? He's going to get a regular day job? Live a normal life? Because the demons certainly know who he is, and he's got no one to watch his back.

Same with Dean. He's alone now, which implies that he's going to working jobs alone because he's got no one to watch his back. As much as they need to split up for a while (which I predicted they'd do last season), they need each other or one of them is going to get in to serious trouble, possibly killed. It's almost happened before, under better circumstances than we have now. (Of course that's not going to happen on the show; I'm just offering up the worst case scenario.)

So if things go as it feels like they're going to go, when the boys get back together, they're going to have to get to know each other all over again, to some extent, because they will each be independent personalities, returning to the partnership different than when they left.

In the meantime, oh, boys!