"And he knew Benny's personality when it came to protecting those to whom he's I don't think Dean was surprised "
Loyal. The missing word between those two sentences is "loyal."
Sam didn't say Benny died. He said that Benny used himself as bait. There's a difference. We (or at least I) couldn't see Benny under the pile-on of vamps as Sam looked back from the portal, but I don't think Sam said definitively that Benny was dead. He just knows that "Benny didn't make it," in much the same way that "Cas didn't make it" at the beginning of the season. All in all, I thought it was a very sad, very fitting ending for Benny, but even Sam said he was okay with Dean leaving that door open. (And heck, now they know a way in and a way out. So . . . )
My biggest gripe, I think, about the show now is that it's not as tightly written, overall and on an ep-by-ep basis, as it was in its early years. For all my suspicions of Kripke (and I was never one to fawn over him the way some of the fandom did), I will say that his early years (particularly those where Kim Manners was part of the equation) were really good.
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Loyal. The missing word between those two sentences is "loyal."
Sam didn't say Benny died. He said that Benny used himself as bait. There's a difference. We (or at least I) couldn't see Benny under the pile-on of vamps as Sam looked back from the portal, but I don't think Sam said definitively that Benny was dead. He just knows that "Benny didn't make it," in much the same way that "Cas didn't make it" at the beginning of the season. All in all, I thought it was a very sad, very fitting ending for Benny, but even Sam said he was okay with Dean leaving that door open. (And heck, now they know a way in and a way out. So . . . )
My biggest gripe, I think, about the show now is that it's not as tightly written, overall and on an ep-by-ep basis, as it was in its early years. For all my suspicions of Kripke (and I was never one to fawn over him the way some of the fandom did), I will say that his early years (particularly those where Kim Manners was part of the equation) were really good.
Okay, back to work.