Fantastic recap, hon! ♥ Man, reading through this I teared up again. Such an intense episode! I really love it and am happy that is gives us everything that we so sorely missed from the episode before.
The use of the door as a barrier between the brothers is also nicely symbolic. Uh-huh, especially since the episode ends on a closed door between them again. Nicely done. :)
By placing himself in the same situation that Dean was in when Alistair tortured him in hell, just as he once sought to switch places with his brother, Sam is both punishing himself Oh, I love that thought. Fits nicely with the whole sacrificing-themselves-for-their-brother theme Sam and Dean have going.
It's also interesting that he terms leaving for college as escaping from John but 'quitting on Dean' Uhm, actually young Sam says ‘you quit hunting’ not ‘you quit on Dean’. *g* But I like the thought that he said what you suggested.
that maybe it was Dean who brought danger to Sam's doorstep in the first place Hm, I don’t read it that way actually. I read it as Sam blaming himself entirely for going with Dean and hence not being able to save Jessica. I don’t think that he blames any portion of that decision on his brother. This is about beating himself up rather than blaming someone else.
Sam must be saved, first and foremost, and they will just have to find another way to prevent the Apocalypse. Of course, Dean has been told by the angels that he himself is the one to prevent the apocalypse, after all, that’s why they got him out of hell, so he thinks he has good reason to believe that sacrificing Sam is absolutely unnecessary. But yeah, even if he didn’t have that as an argument to back his position, he would still never consider to sacrifice Sam.
Damn, but angels wearing human vessels really are becoming as ten-a-penny as demons, these days Uh-huh. And since we know from Anna, that it is technically possible for them to just conjure human bodies up, why even bother with possessing them??
This is the oh Dean oh Sam episode to end all episodes! Truer words were never spoken!
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Date: 2009-08-23 07:09 pm (UTC)The use of the door as a barrier between the brothers is also nicely symbolic.
Uh-huh, especially since the episode ends on a closed door between them again. Nicely done. :)
By placing himself in the same situation that Dean was in when Alistair tortured him in hell, just as he once sought to switch places with his brother, Sam is both punishing himself
Oh, I love that thought. Fits nicely with the whole sacrificing-themselves-for-their-brother theme Sam and Dean have going.
It's also interesting that he terms leaving for college as escaping from John but 'quitting on Dean'
Uhm, actually young Sam says ‘you quit hunting’ not ‘you quit on Dean’. *g* But I like the thought that he said what you suggested.
that maybe it was Dean who brought danger to Sam's doorstep in the first place
Hm, I don’t read it that way actually. I read it as Sam blaming himself entirely for going with Dean and hence not being able to save Jessica. I don’t think that he blames any portion of that decision on his brother. This is about beating himself up rather than blaming someone else.
Sam must be saved, first and foremost, and they will just have to find another way to prevent the Apocalypse.
Of course, Dean has been told by the angels that he himself is the one to prevent the apocalypse, after all, that’s why they got him out of hell, so he thinks he has good reason to believe that sacrificing Sam is absolutely unnecessary. But yeah, even if he didn’t have that as an argument to back his position, he would still never consider to sacrifice Sam.
Damn, but angels wearing human vessels really are becoming as ten-a-penny as demons, these days
Uh-huh. And since we know from Anna, that it is technically possible for them to just conjure human bodies up, why even bother with possessing them??
This is the oh Dean oh Sam episode to end all episodes!
Truer words were never spoken!