Belated TV notes

[rivkat]

Memo to Dean (and his backup singers): I’m your girl, but I don’t care if you can’t do this. I care if you can’t do this alone. Like many people whose reactions I’ve seen, I would have swooned over this episode if Dean had explicitly gotten up to go find Sam, or, you know, mentioned him to the archangel. I am also, however, totally willing to buy this as explicit angelic strategy, separating Dean from Sam so that Dean will be ready to kill Sam in order to keep the last seal from breaking, just as Ruby has separated Sam from Dean so that Sam will be deprived of a steadying influence. (I expect and require Dean to say no to the “kill Sam” thing, but I’m willing to let him get pretty close.) So I find the episode really engaging, it just didn't do enough to satisfy the Sam&Deanness that I need fed by the end of the season.

Young John Connor = young Sam Winchester in the AU where only Mary and Sam survived, no?

Comments

[deadlychameleon.livejournal.com]

separating Dean from Sam so that Dean will be ready to kill Sam in order to keep the last seal from breaking,

It occurs to me that this has happened before. Dean was almost ready to kill a man to stop the contaigon in Croatoan from spreading, but then he didn't, because Sam stopped him. And then he couldn't kill Sam, even though Sam might have been about to go Evil and try to kill everyone. Hmmmmmmmmmm.

Repeating thematic elements, or this storyline has happened before, and this storyline will happen again?

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Well, Sam uber alles has always been Dean's defining feature, so I think this season's assault on that fundamental part of Dean's existence is really interesting and I want it to get pretty far. But he'd better snap back at the end, no matter what all the angels tell him.