As you know, for me this was a second episode in a row that was deeply disappointing, as I felt that 5.05 also reduced the characters to exaggerated cariacatures of themselves in order to force its point. I'm glad you've been able to write through your disappointment where I could not.
I love your analysis of the Sam-Castiel dynamic - you already know how much I agree and would love to see this developed, closing the triangle.
Dean’s reaction here echoes his tentative attempt to become more accepting of Sam’s powers around mid-S4. Oh, even before then - since as far back as S2 we have seen Dean trying to come to terms with Sam's powers as potentially benign rather than inevitably evil - ditto the other psychic kids, particularly Andy. He always found Sam's powers worrying, because they were so inexplicable, but right from the start tried to accept them rather than immediately assuming that they were evil. It was Sam who tended to assume and emphasise the worst case scenario from the start. Dean may have struggled at times to draw a separation between the powers and his ingrained hatred of the supernatural, but he has been trying to do it - and succeeding more often than Sam, in fact - for a very long time now.
Still keeping my fingers crossed for a stronger and more consistent episode next time out.
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Date: 2009-10-22 09:51 am (UTC)As you know, for me this was a second episode in a row that was deeply disappointing, as I felt that 5.05 also reduced the characters to exaggerated cariacatures of themselves in order to force its point. I'm glad you've been able to write through your disappointment where I could not.
I love your analysis of the Sam-Castiel dynamic - you already know how much I agree and would love to see this developed, closing the triangle.
Dean’s reaction here echoes his tentative attempt to become more accepting of Sam’s powers around mid-S4.
Oh, even before then - since as far back as S2 we have seen Dean trying to come to terms with Sam's powers as potentially benign rather than inevitably evil - ditto the other psychic kids, particularly Andy. He always found Sam's powers worrying, because they were so inexplicable, but right from the start tried to accept them rather than immediately assuming that they were evil. It was Sam who tended to assume and emphasise the worst case scenario from the start. Dean may have struggled at times to draw a separation between the powers and his ingrained hatred of the supernatural, but he has been trying to do it - and succeeding more often than Sam, in fact - for a very long time now.
Still keeping my fingers crossed for a stronger and more consistent episode next time out.