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giandujakiss that there was just something very ugly about this episode. The show set up all these parallels between Sam and a devil-dealing, thrillseeking jerk, then recoiled from that, but not in the good way: by having Sam declare him a loser virgin.
I've agreed for a while, even as a Dean-girl, that Sam's been pushed back way too far. That showed up here as worse than absence: when the writers bring Sam to the foreground, they have no idea who Sam is (thus explaining the failure of whatever they were trying to do with the parallelism). The one really non-awful, emotionally powerful moment was not (as it could maybe have been) Dean eating with the kid, but Sam eating breakfast and snagging the toast off his mom's plate as if that's just how you eat. That moment showed the collapse of Sam's escape attempt, his resignation to his life, ten times more clearly than the exposition at the beginning and the end--he really doesn't know what he's missing. That's terrible, unless Sam gets something out of it other than turning into a caricature of Dean. But the show won't commit to that answer, or any answer, for Sam and so it veers around helplessly instead of dealing with Sam as a person.
Plotwise: Wow, I sure hope that demon doesn't report back to Lucifer about this unexpected new loophole in the rules that allows Lucifer to possess Sam by a simple card-shuffle maneuver.
giandujakiss that there was just something very ugly about this episode. The show set up all these parallels between Sam and a devil-dealing, thrillseeking jerk, then recoiled from that, but not in the good way: by having Sam declare him a loser virgin. I've agreed for a while, even as a Dean-girl, that Sam's been pushed back way too far. That showed up here as worse than absence: when the writers bring Sam to the foreground, they have no idea who Sam is (thus explaining the failure of whatever they were trying to do with the parallelism). The one really non-awful, emotionally powerful moment was not (as it could maybe have been) Dean eating with the kid, but Sam eating breakfast and snagging the toast off his mom's plate as if that's just how you eat. That moment showed the collapse of Sam's escape attempt, his resignation to his life, ten times more clearly than the exposition at the beginning and the end--he really doesn't know what he's missing. That's terrible, unless Sam gets something out of it other than turning into a caricature of Dean. But the show won't commit to that answer, or any answer, for Sam and so it veers around helplessly instead of dealing with Sam as a person.
Plotwise: Wow, I sure hope that demon doesn't report back to Lucifer about this unexpected new loophole in the rules that allows Lucifer to possess Sam by a simple card-shuffle maneuver.
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But he knows what he's missing and that's the sad part. He turned into a caricature Dean by denying that he wants any of it, eventhough he's a (bad) liar.
I am kind of worried because I am starting to feel for Sam even though I am a Dean girl. Does that mean Sam has turned into another Dean and we now have two Dean's on the show?
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Last week we got to hear about how Dean has never had a long term relationship, it was made clear that he has Daddy issues, and more than anything, the idea that he was going crazy freaked him the hell out, and so on. However, all we got of Sam was that he's ANGRY and that he thinks that's a problem. And that anger led to him being strapped to a bed so we could have the climax of the episode. Again this week, I thought that we got to see more of Dean's inner life (his reactions to not-Sam) and all we got of Sam was his frustration at being stuck and imprecations to the kiddies not to be stupid. But, still nothing about how/what Sam thinks about Lucifer, his life, etc.
I really hope we get some insight into Sam before the end of the show in May(?). The last time I really felt as thought I got a look into Sam was when he very briefly tried to leave hunting behind at the beginning of this season. I don't know if this makes sense, but I thought I'd share.