Ezekiel unexpectedly taking control of Sam’s body, if only to save his life, clearly unsettles Dean, and he is tangibly uncomfortable in the angel’s presence. I mean, he is tense and barely able to look Ezekiel in the eyes.
Indeed. I actually enjoyed that about the scene because for the first time Dean is being physically confronted with the negative consequences of his agreement with Ezekiel i.e. how easily Ezekiel can take over Sam's body. It gives me more hope than I had last week that they intend to properly deal with the repercussions of the possession. I also imagine there was a extra chill to that moment for Dean considering the fact it happened but moments after Abbadon threatened to use his body to do the most atrocious of things and here's evidence if he wanted to Ezekiel already has the power to do that to Sam.
Anyway, I think it is interesting that Ezekiel does everything in his power to assure Dean of his good intentions and convince him that he did the right thing by allowing the possession.
I actually found this scene rather interesting too because if Ezekiel is not being genuine well then he certainly knows how to play on Dean. But if he is being genuine then I think it goes to show just how different to pretty much every other angel we've ever met he really is. After all until now every angel Castiel included (especially in his earlier seasons) have been depicted as big-picture thinkers the type who would put the 'one' before the 'many' every time. And yet here Ezekiel is praising Dean for putting the 'one' in this case Sam before the 'many'. I don't know whether to be intrigued or even more suspicious by this anomaly behaviour.
Now, I have little doubt that Dean defending Sam is supposed to illustrate how his current doubts about his own recent choices motivate him to rethink his earlier unfair stance on Sam’s choices.
That was my thoughts on the difference between Dean's attitude in Sacrifice and his attitude in this weeks episode. I think since the central theme of the episode was related to Dean facing both the direct consequences of his actions (pretty much everything in this episode could have been avoided had they closed the gates) and the potential consequences of his actions (Ezekiel going side-ways). That we were supposed to see this change in attitude coming from Dean being able to for the first time truly empathize with Sam since until now he has never made a 'mistake' as wide scale as Sam opening the cage.
I really have to wonder how and when Sam and Dean became close friends with all those hunters we met over the course of the show in the first place, given that it was established in S1/2 that John kept his boys away from the hunters’ community – Sam and Dean did not even really know that there was such a thing as a community of hunters (Bloodlust) – and that they had hardly any time or opportunity to make friends these past ten years, hunters or otherwise.
My impression from the episode was that the brothers knew of him through Bobby and it was due to that mutual friendship that they were rather friendly towards one another. I don't think we were meant to believe that Irv and the Winchesters were super close to one another as evidenced by the fact they didn't even bother trying to collect his body opting to just ditch it when they left at the end of the episode.
To what end, exactly? I mean, I doubt that they plan on killing countless innocent vessels only to destroy the demons inside them, and since the gates of hell are still open, performing exorcisms would only have limited effects, as the demons would just claw their way out of hell at the next opportunity.
I think sadly in later seasons the boys have become more and more desensitised to the value of human life as shown by things such as their willingness to torture or murder a demon instead of exorcising it just so Crowley would not know of their whereabouts. So I think if it came down to it they would be willing to kill those innocents if it was for 'the greater good'.
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Date: 2013-10-22 09:43 pm (UTC)Indeed. I actually enjoyed that about the scene because for the first time Dean is being physically confronted with the negative consequences of his agreement with Ezekiel i.e. how easily Ezekiel can take over Sam's body. It gives me more hope than I had last week that they intend to properly deal with the repercussions of the possession. I also imagine there was a extra chill to that moment for Dean considering the fact it happened but moments after Abbadon threatened to use his body to do the most atrocious of things and here's evidence if he wanted to Ezekiel already has the power to do that to Sam.
Anyway, I think it is interesting that Ezekiel does everything in his power to assure Dean of his good intentions and convince him that he did the right thing by allowing the possession.
I actually found this scene rather interesting too because if Ezekiel is not being genuine well then he certainly knows how to play on Dean. But if he is being genuine then I think it goes to show just how different to pretty much every other angel we've ever met he really is. After all until now every angel Castiel included (especially in his earlier seasons) have been depicted as big-picture thinkers the type who would put the 'one' before the 'many' every time. And yet here Ezekiel is praising Dean for putting the 'one' in this case Sam before the 'many'. I don't know whether to be intrigued or even more suspicious by this anomaly behaviour.
Now, I have little doubt that Dean defending Sam is supposed to illustrate how his current doubts about his own recent choices motivate him to rethink his earlier unfair stance on Sam’s choices.
That was my thoughts on the difference between Dean's attitude in Sacrifice and his attitude in this weeks episode. I think since the central theme of the episode was related to Dean facing both the direct consequences of his actions (pretty much everything in this episode could have been avoided had they closed the gates) and the potential consequences of his actions (Ezekiel going side-ways). That we were supposed to see this change in attitude coming from Dean being able to for the first time truly empathize with Sam since until now he has never made a 'mistake' as wide scale as Sam opening the cage.
I really have to wonder how and when Sam and Dean became close friends with all those hunters we met over the course of the show in the first place, given that it was established in S1/2 that John kept his boys away from the hunters’ community – Sam and Dean did not even really know that there was such a thing as a community of hunters (Bloodlust) – and that they had hardly any time or opportunity to make friends these past ten years, hunters or otherwise.
My impression from the episode was that the brothers knew of him through Bobby and it was due to that mutual friendship that they were rather friendly towards one another. I don't think we were meant to believe that Irv and the Winchesters were super close to one another as evidenced by the fact they didn't even bother trying to collect his body opting to just ditch it when they left at the end of the episode.
To what end, exactly? I mean, I doubt that they plan on killing countless innocent vessels only to destroy the demons inside them, and since the gates of hell are still open, performing exorcisms would only have limited effects, as the demons would just claw their way out of hell at the next opportunity.
I think sadly in later seasons the boys have become more and more desensitised to the value of human life as shown by things such as their willingness to torture or murder a demon instead of exorcising it just so Crowley would not know of their whereabouts. So I think if it came down to it they would be willing to kill those innocents if it was for 'the greater good'.