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First thought for tonight: This episode was really, really gross.
Oh, Dean. Oh, Sam. You both are so, so broken.
So, last season was all about Sam being weak and drinking demon blood and going over to the dark side blah blah blah, while Dean tried to be strong and get through things the way they always did--on their own, without the help of angels or demons. This season seems to be the opposite. Or at least in this episode it was.
Sam, though he was tempted by all the demon blood and even had some of it coursing through his system, making him dependent on it again, resisted Famine. Even though he was infected, and Famine was offering up what he was starving for on a silver platter, Sam kept his head and resisted. Not even Castiel managed that. Sam's still fighting.
And then there's Dean. Dean who didn't hunger for anything because he doesn't care about anything, because he's dead inside. Going through the motions. This worries me. At the end when he went outside and looked up at the sky, I really thought he was going to say yes. He even started to nod a little, and it scared me. When I realized he was just praying for help, it wasn't much of a relief.
If Dean is asking for help that mean's he's close to giving up, he's close to just letting someone else handle everything. Someone like say, Michael, for instance. Right now it seems like it's just his sense of duty and obligation--towards Sam, towards the world--keeping him from just throwing in the towel and letting someone else handle everything, but the way things are looking, it doesn't seem like he's going to care even about that much longer.
The episode where Dean goes into the future gave us the sense that if things do go down the way Heaven wants them to, that Sam will say yes first. But I'm really starting to think it'll be the other way around. A switch from last season--Dean as the one who gives in to find an easier solution, Sam who tries fighting it out on his own. So far this show has been all about symmetry--Dean breaks first seal, Sam breaks last, Dean as Michael's vessel, Sam as Lucifer's--so it would really makes sense if that's the way the show ends up going.
I say again: Oh, Dean.
On a lighter note, I thought the scene where Dean pushed the heart across the table and asked Sam to be his valentine was adorable (makes me want to read a humor Wincest fic where Dean tries to woo Sam with really gross and/or ridiculous ways), and the scene where the brothers forced Cas to be the one to comfort Cupid amused me.
Oh, and six weeks hiatus? What the hell is up with that? We just got back from a hiatus!
Oh, Dean. Oh, Sam. You both are so, so broken.
So, last season was all about Sam being weak and drinking demon blood and going over to the dark side blah blah blah, while Dean tried to be strong and get through things the way they always did--on their own, without the help of angels or demons. This season seems to be the opposite. Or at least in this episode it was.
Sam, though he was tempted by all the demon blood and even had some of it coursing through his system, making him dependent on it again, resisted Famine. Even though he was infected, and Famine was offering up what he was starving for on a silver platter, Sam kept his head and resisted. Not even Castiel managed that. Sam's still fighting.
And then there's Dean. Dean who didn't hunger for anything because he doesn't care about anything, because he's dead inside. Going through the motions. This worries me. At the end when he went outside and looked up at the sky, I really thought he was going to say yes. He even started to nod a little, and it scared me. When I realized he was just praying for help, it wasn't much of a relief.
If Dean is asking for help that mean's he's close to giving up, he's close to just letting someone else handle everything. Someone like say, Michael, for instance. Right now it seems like it's just his sense of duty and obligation--towards Sam, towards the world--keeping him from just throwing in the towel and letting someone else handle everything, but the way things are looking, it doesn't seem like he's going to care even about that much longer.
The episode where Dean goes into the future gave us the sense that if things do go down the way Heaven wants them to, that Sam will say yes first. But I'm really starting to think it'll be the other way around. A switch from last season--Dean as the one who gives in to find an easier solution, Sam who tries fighting it out on his own. So far this show has been all about symmetry--Dean breaks first seal, Sam breaks last, Dean as Michael's vessel, Sam as Lucifer's--so it would really makes sense if that's the way the show ends up going.
I say again: Oh, Dean.
On a lighter note, I thought the scene where Dean pushed the heart across the table and asked Sam to be his valentine was adorable (makes me want to read a humor Wincest fic where Dean tries to woo Sam with really gross and/or ridiculous ways), and the scene where the brothers forced Cas to be the one to comfort Cupid amused me.
Oh, and six weeks hiatus? What the hell is up with that? We just got back from a hiatus!
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