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aisalynn ([personal profile] aisalynn) wrote2010-02-12 02:09 am

Supernatural My Bloody Valentine

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!

[identity profile] ashdoode.livejournal.com 2010-02-12 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
LOL! OMG, I loved that scene. Dean's little "be my valentine?" smile -- so ADORABLE! :)

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.

I couldn't have said it better! I'm so excited to see where this all leads -- the boys will keep breaking my heart, no doubt. But this story is so epic, i cannot WAIT!

How are we going to survive 6 weeks?!

[identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com 2010-02-12 12:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Image

I loved his little smile. :D He's just too adorable for words, even when joking around with an actual human heart.

[identity profile] militarybrat86.livejournal.com 2010-02-12 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
All I really know right now is my heart is breaking for Sam, Dean, and even Castiel in some ways... but mostly I feel for Sam and Dean they have come so far since Season 1, and I have a feeling that if something useful doesn't happen in the hope of stopping Lucifer and the remaining Horsemen then Sam and Dean might give up and if they give up what going to happen, and that not even really dealing with the vessel stuff or who will break first because it doesn't matter when one of them finally breaks completely I think the other will follow right away and they might not say yes on just principle, but then again who knows. We're just gonna have to wait and see what happens, I Just hope that there something of Sam and Dean left at the end.

[identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com 2010-02-12 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
when one of them finally breaks completely I think the other will follow right away

I think that it could definitely go down that way. As for there being something of Sam and Dean left at the end, Michael did say that he wouldn't leave Dean catatonic like the other angel and his vessel, but then, Sam would be dead, and I think after that, Dean would rather be too.

[identity profile] short-hemline.livejournal.com 2010-02-12 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
I'm really starting to think it'll be the other way around.

Me too. After all, Sam probably said yes in The End because he had nothing left in that future. The same could be said of Dean now. Of course he has to take care of Sam and save the world, etc., but at this point it almost seems like he's worrying about that out of habit, and I'm sure that if someone could somehow convince him that he could save Sam and everyone else by saying yes he would do it.

And god, 6 weeks? Is it because of the Olympics?

[identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com 2010-02-12 12:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I think so. And something about May sweeps? *shrugs* I don't know. I just think it's crap because we just got done with a hiatus.

[identity profile] heartsonwings.livejournal.com 2010-02-12 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Urghh, hiatus is gonna kill me more than the ep!!

[identity profile] aisalynn.livejournal.com 2010-02-12 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Ugh. I know. I barely made it through the last one. I guess this just means that I have six weeks to catch my sister up through the fourth season and what's aired of the fifth so that she can start watching it with me. That's my plan to survive.