Lol, FINALLY, the mystery is solved! :p I admit, I didn't even think about the parallel to Swan Song, but then again I was too busy cringing at the majority of the episode to think clearly--though as soon as I saw the quote you excerpted I figured it out.
Nearly everything in this episode felt pretty contrived to me, tbh, from that confrontation to Meg's ~love story with Cas, etc (also I couldn't help but roll my eyes at Sam's bloody noses being this HUGE BAD SIGN given I get bloody noses all the time when the air is simply too dry--I sure hope Dean never looks into MY garbage can! It's not really a big deal). I have never been a fan of Meg (except when she was possessing Sam), and I found her as irritating and insufferable as ever in this episode (lol @ her ~outrage that Sam didn't try to find her). Maybe that colored my lack of appreciation of this episode too (it just goes to show how much I liked everything else in TBAI that I still loved that episode despite her presence, lol!).
I agree about the lack of development and forced nature of D/C, and that S/C interaction makes more sense. I can't help but feel that the emphasis on D/C is because of fan service, like you said.
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Date: 2013-03-27 03:48 pm (UTC)Nearly everything in this episode felt pretty contrived to me, tbh, from that confrontation to Meg's ~love story with Cas, etc (also I couldn't help but roll my eyes at Sam's bloody noses being this HUGE BAD SIGN given I get bloody noses all the time when the air is simply too dry--I sure hope Dean never looks into MY garbage can! It's not really a big deal). I have never been a fan of Meg (except when she was possessing Sam), and I found her as irritating and insufferable as ever in this episode (lol @ her ~outrage that Sam didn't try to find her). Maybe that colored my lack of appreciation of this episode too (it just goes to show how much I liked everything else in TBAI that I still loved that episode despite her presence, lol!).
I agree about the lack of development and forced nature of D/C, and that S/C interaction makes more sense. I can't help but feel that the emphasis on D/C is because of fan service, like you said.