ROFL no review is worth dying over! ;) Glad you liked it, though.
I've seen several people trying to justify Dean's actions by trying to argue that Sam was 'suicidal' and thus not of a sound enough mind to make decisions. I think it is pretty difficult to argue that Sam was not of a sound mind. He comes off as pretty collected to me, calmly weighing his options and carefully making a choice. There is nothing of the frantic desperation he displayed during the brothers' conversation in the church. Back then he obviously wasn't thinking straight - he was physically exhausted from the trials and under emotional stress - but at present he seems perfectly lucid to me. We have seen Sam suicidal before, in I Know What You Did Last Summer, for example, and nothing in Sam's current behaviour reminds me of that.
It's a real shame that Carver & Co seem incapable of nuanced writing It really is. It would be so easy to make Sam's position tangible and his choices sympathetic to the audience - well, to that part of the audience that refuses to give Sam's perspective any consideration at least.
If you look at the character with the perspective he is someone trying to manipulate Dean into seeing him as an ally Yeah, I am not denying that Ezekiel could be lying in order to manipulate Dean. However, Samandriel made a similar claim last year, and I thought it was a stretch back then as well. I guess I just suspect that the writers want us to take Ezekiel's claim, as well as Castiel's confirmation that he is one of the good soldiers, at face value.
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Date: 2013-10-15 09:02 pm (UTC)I've seen several people trying to justify Dean's actions by trying to argue that Sam was 'suicidal' and thus not of a sound enough mind to make decisions.
I think it is pretty difficult to argue that Sam was not of a sound mind. He comes off as pretty collected to me, calmly weighing his options and carefully making a choice. There is nothing of the frantic desperation he displayed during the brothers' conversation in the church. Back then he obviously wasn't thinking straight - he was physically exhausted from the trials and under emotional stress - but at present he seems perfectly lucid to me. We have seen Sam suicidal before, in I Know What You Did Last Summer, for example, and nothing in Sam's current behaviour reminds me of that.
It's a real shame that Carver & Co seem incapable of nuanced writing
It really is. It would be so easy to make Sam's position tangible and his choices sympathetic to the audience - well, to that part of the audience that refuses to give Sam's perspective any consideration at least.
If you look at the character with the perspective he is someone trying to manipulate Dean into seeing him as an ally
Yeah, I am not denying that Ezekiel could be lying in order to manipulate Dean. However, Samandriel made a similar claim last year, and I thought it was a stretch back then as well. I guess I just suspect that the writers want us to take Ezekiel's claim, as well as Castiel's confirmation that he is one of the good soldiers, at face value.