I think I have a new respect for him.

Wil Wheaton gets it.

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P.S. When did he get old enough to have a kid going into college?

Dead in the Water

Sam = singlemindedly laser-focused on his goal.
Dean = the big picture guy.

Sam: Dad's trail is getting cold. We're wasting time.
Dean: We'll find Dad. But in the meantime, we're gonna kill every evil thing between here and there.

Sam has really changed in his demeanor over the course of the show. The first scene in the diner is particularly interesting. He's very . . . all business with the waitress. Very focused on finding Dad, forget the other hunts. But given the choice between a MotW hunt and having Dean get sidetracked with a girl, he'll take the hunt.

Sam is very . . . well . . . I don't know how to explain it. Very . . . detached? . . . from the case. He has a professional gentleness about him, but seems almost like a business for him. He's not getting emotionally involved with the victims. But you can see him learning things for the first time about Dean, and trying to process these things about his brother. The only person around he seems willing to understand more deeply is Dean, and you can see the wheels turning with the new information.

And where did he get the pointy fingered pondering pose? And when did it go away?

I also find it interesting that this early in the series, which is ostensibly supposed to be "about" Sam, Dean's getting all the active character development. It's in this episode that we learn how he dealt with Mary's death, how he relates to children, how he can relate to people on an empathy level that Sam seems to be lacking this early in the game. And I think it has a lot to do with what Dean says: he's been hunting with John for two years while Sam as been at college.

Also? Sam's line in regards to Dean's concern for Lucas and not believing the case is over: "Who are you, and what have you done with my brother?" Now, either Sam's memories of Dean have changed over the past two years, or Dean has learned over the past two years the value of children as people, or to be concerned about a case and victims enough to be sure that the case is really over. I'm not sure what to make of either conclusion. Perhaps we can read it as a bit of both. *shrug*

Also also? I love the bits of character business that goes on during their conversations.

Also x 3? This ep has some truly creepy stuff. Especially the ghost in the lake.

Sera Gamble and Raelle Tucker wrote it, and this was Kim Manner's first outing as a SPN director. Those were the days, huh.

A sad day for television in our home . . .

Well, it looks like it's finally happened. Ever since the end of S1, I've gone into each new season dreading the inevitable cancellation of The Unit.

And it's finally happened. :-(

Thankfully, it did not end on a cliffhanger. It sounds like the producers knew this was coming and left a couple story threads that could be picked up if by some miracle they got renewed, but they didn't leave it in an unbearable place.

This article lists some very good reasons why the show shouldn't have been cancelled. And I agree with all of them. The biggest reason I think it should not have been cancelled--and probably the primary reason that it was cancelled--is that it was intelligent drama that wasn't afraid to be both patriotic and controversially ambiguous. And seriously. Who wouldn't want Jonas Blaine on their side?

*salutes The Unit* It's been an honor and a pleasure.