I went over to WFB last month (to read the Jensen praise that Alice Jester wrote), and I've kind of stuck around, just to see what the vibe is. And there have been some interesting comments regarding that final scene. The place does strongly favor Sam, but the comments I've read were kind of insightful, considering that my default is to watch the show from Dean's POV.
This ep brought up some interesting character questions for me, which I might or might not expound upon later. Things like, now that Crowley has a craving for human blood, is that like Sam and his demon blood addiction? Does this addiction mean he does have that spark of humanity from Sam's attempted curing of him? Is Dean perhaps not working with a "demon" now, but working with something that is sort of a demon/human hybrid (99% demon, but 1% human conscience)?
Then Dean, who has always needed family around him emotionally, if not in a practical sense, is the one to walk away--for Sam's own good.
There does need to be some fallout. I always hope for satisfying resolution that includes working through the fallout, though we rarely seem to get it (except in fanfic).
I didn't expect Sam to try to talk Dean into staying. If Dean hadn't walked away, it would have been a major step of maturity for Sam *not* to walk away.
I've been saying since S4 or S5 that Dean is out on a ledge and that Sam better get his act together before Dean takes that final step. Part of me hopes that this is it--that with Dean going out on his own, in his current state of mind, that Sam will get his act together and see the urgency of pulling Dean back from the ledge.
I've got so much thinky where Dean is concerned, where this situation is concerned, the brothers' history (do you realize that Sam was the one who started the whole "by any supernatural means necessary" to save his brother? Back in "Faith." Where Dean's life was saved at the cost of others'. Dean was ready to die, but Sam wasn't willing to let him go).
I'm looking forward to next week, and hoping for some satisfying resolution with the boys' separation, so they can come together again with a healthier respect and appreciation for each other.
What is frustrating to me is that the show rarely acknowledges Dean's mental state and when it does it gets thrown aside the next episode when Sam has some new crisis. I want it addressed but I have very little hope that it will be.
I was saying on tumblr how Dean's main goal (echoing Trial and Error) is to get Sam his perfect ending. Get him his perfect ending via closing the gates of hell and pretty much everything he's done has been to keep Sam alive long enough to do that.
Afterwards, he's good to die.
I am really really looking forward to the brothers resolving this and I hope you get a better resolution than the one we got in Season 7 with the whole Amy fiasco.
Interesting observations on Sam being the first to employ whatever means necessary to save Dean.
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Date: 2014-01-15 06:12 pm (UTC)This ep brought up some interesting character questions for me, which I might or might not expound upon later. Things like, now that Crowley has a craving for human blood, is that like Sam and his demon blood addiction? Does this addiction mean he does have that spark of humanity from Sam's attempted curing of him? Is Dean perhaps not working with a "demon" now, but working with something that is sort of a demon/human hybrid (99% demon, but 1% human conscience)?
Then Dean, who has always needed family around him emotionally, if not in a practical sense, is the one to walk away--for Sam's own good.
There does need to be some fallout. I always hope for satisfying resolution that includes working through the fallout, though we rarely seem to get it (except in fanfic).
I didn't expect Sam to try to talk Dean into staying. If Dean hadn't walked away, it would have been a major step of maturity for Sam *not* to walk away.
I've been saying since S4 or S5 that Dean is out on a ledge and that Sam better get his act together before Dean takes that final step. Part of me hopes that this is it--that with Dean going out on his own, in his current state of mind, that Sam will get his act together and see the urgency of pulling Dean back from the ledge.
I've got so much thinky where Dean is concerned, where this situation is concerned, the brothers' history (do you realize that Sam was the one who started the whole "by any supernatural means necessary" to save his brother? Back in "Faith." Where Dean's life was saved at the cost of others'. Dean was ready to die, but Sam wasn't willing to let him go).
I'm looking forward to next week, and hoping for some satisfying resolution with the boys' separation, so they can come together again with a healthier respect and appreciation for each other.
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Date: 2014-01-15 09:45 pm (UTC)I was saying on tumblr how Dean's main goal (echoing Trial and Error) is to get Sam his perfect ending. Get him his perfect ending via closing the gates of hell and pretty much everything he's done has been to keep Sam alive long enough to do that.
Afterwards, he's good to die.
I am really really looking forward to the brothers resolving this and I hope you get a better resolution than the one we got in Season 7 with the whole Amy fiasco.
Interesting observations on Sam being the first to employ whatever means necessary to save Dean.