I'm kinda tempted to go with "Wow!", too, but since msdori got there first... ;)
The Lucifer/Dean meld is perfect and creepy (perfectly creepy?) I found it difficult to trust that the Original Recipe was the same Dean as the one that existed before Lucifer manifested. Though Cas' buy in is rather convincing. (OTOH, Castiel, it seems, is never quite sure what the right thing to do really is and, not coincidentally, always looking for someone to unquestioningly follow.)
I'm also thinking Sam should be a little more freaked about the whole "leading an army" thing when it's exactly what the YED was on about. Plus, hasn't he just had a painful lesson on why it's problematic to have truck with demons? But. He's motivated to believe: forgiveness; his fuck-up actually turned out for the best; Dean is better, stronger, and happier than he was before. (And Sam's guilt and horror and self-loathing at the beginning was so very ouchy.) It's a twisted fairytale chance to make everything right again.
I love that you sum this up as a deal. Sam's finally getting the chance to sell his soul for what he wants and, like everybody else that does the same, he's not going to think too hard about the consequences.
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Date: 2009-05-23 02:53 pm (UTC)The Lucifer/Dean meld is perfect and creepy (perfectly creepy?) I found it difficult to trust that the Original Recipe was the same Dean as the one that existed before Lucifer manifested. Though Cas' buy in is rather convincing. (OTOH, Castiel, it seems, is never quite sure what the right thing to do really is and, not coincidentally, always looking for someone to unquestioningly follow.)
I'm also thinking Sam should be a little more freaked about the whole "leading an army" thing when it's exactly what the YED was on about. Plus, hasn't he just had a painful lesson on why it's problematic to have truck with demons? But. He's motivated to believe: forgiveness; his fuck-up actually turned out for the best; Dean is better, stronger, and happier than he was before. (And Sam's guilt and horror and self-loathing at the beginning was so very ouchy.) It's a twisted fairytale chance to make everything right again.
I love that you sum this up as a deal. Sam's finally getting the chance to sell his soul for what he wants and, like everybody else that does the same, he's not going to think too hard about the consequences.