I also thought "YES, FINALLY!" after watching this episode. It does feel like it's been a long time coming. Like the episode title suggests, I feel like we've finally passed that critical tipping point we've been circling around and then teetering on for most of the season and now we've finally got some momentum. Now Show is now pointed directly at the finish line and, no doubt, we're headed there quickly. \o/
Kudos to all your thoughts regarding Sam and Dean's matured relationship and mental state reversal. I was SO HAPPY we finally got to see Sam step up to the plate and have an on-screen moment of redemption. It was perfect, not too overstated and melodramatic, no big yelling scene or tears ... just quiet faith and brotherly love and strength. That's how I like my boys (although the angst/drama addict in me does enjoy the occasional manpain tear)!!!
I love your point about how many times Sam didn't leave Dean when he could've. So true! I suppose Sam's big betrayals were so big that it's hard to see past them for Dean and myself (who forgot about this ... doh) and, it seems, the Sam-slam portion of fandom.
Dean’s almost shocked expression at seeing Sam in his motel room suggests to me that he either didn’t expect his brother to care enough to go through the trouble of finding him or that he had tried to cover his tracks and thought Sam wouldn’t be able to follow him to his current location.
I think it was the latter. Seeing your younger sibling (or I hazard to say "child" as Dean really did "raise" Sam) as a grown up and suppressing the urge to revert to 14 years of being solely responsible for them (i.e. seeing/treating him as a little person who must be tended/herded/looked after/is incapable of being without supervision and therefore underestimating their abilities) is a hard to do.
a considerable part of fandom has a problem with the simple existence of Adam’s character
Too bad. I adore Adam. While part of me is protective of the Sam and Dean brotherly bond, part of me would love to see how Show would deal with 3 Winchester brothers and the effect of Adam on Sam and Dean and their dynamic. Jake Abel did an amazing job bringing a familiar but new Adam into the mix. My only anal-retentive lament is that Adam doesn't look more like John (i.e. dark hair, dark eyes) as to play up that Winchester blood in him rather than his mother's.
3) I adore Kurt Fuller. Did you happen to see his video interview with an online entertainment webpage done at LA Con? He was so funny in this weird unassuming way that I was laughing out loud at my computer. I was so disappointed (but not surprised) that Zach was killed. I was hoping he'd make it to the finale.
5) WHAT?!!!?!? Noooooo. No. Really? Nonono. Edlund, Carver, and Gamble are the ones, in my opinion, who are holding the boat together, we can't lose any of them. I'm still sad over Tucker going to "True Blood" back in S2. It's my insane dream that with Gamble in charge, Tucker might return (haha, I know).
Finally, I'm glad this episode redeemed your faith in SPN! It's nice to look forward to Thursdays again.
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I also thought "YES, FINALLY!" after watching this episode. It does feel like it's been a long time coming. Like the episode title suggests, I feel like we've finally passed that critical tipping point we've been circling around and then teetering on for most of the season and now we've finally got some momentum. Now Show is now pointed directly at the finish line and, no doubt, we're headed there quickly. \o/
Kudos to all your thoughts regarding Sam and Dean's matured relationship and mental state reversal. I was SO HAPPY we finally got to see Sam step up to the plate and have an on-screen moment of redemption. It was perfect, not too overstated and melodramatic, no big yelling scene or tears ... just quiet faith and brotherly love and strength. That's how I like my boys (although the angst/drama addict in me does enjoy the occasional manpain tear)!!!
I love your point about how many times Sam didn't leave Dean when he could've. So true! I suppose Sam's big betrayals were so big that it's hard to see past them for Dean and myself (who forgot about this ... doh) and, it seems, the Sam-slam portion of fandom.
Dean’s almost shocked expression at seeing Sam in his motel room suggests to me that he either didn’t expect his brother to care enough to go through the trouble of finding him or that he had tried to cover his tracks and thought Sam wouldn’t be able to follow him to his current location.
I think it was the latter. Seeing your younger sibling (or I hazard to say "child" as Dean really did "raise" Sam) as a grown up and suppressing the urge to revert to 14 years of being solely responsible for them (i.e. seeing/treating him as a little person who must be tended/herded/looked after/is incapable of being without supervision and therefore underestimating their abilities) is a hard to do.
a considerable part of fandom has a problem with the simple existence of Adam’s character
Too bad. I adore Adam. While part of me is protective of the Sam and Dean brotherly bond, part of me would love to see how Show would deal with 3 Winchester brothers and the effect of Adam on Sam and Dean and their dynamic. Jake Abel did an amazing job bringing a familiar but new Adam into the mix. My only anal-retentive lament is that Adam doesn't look more like John (i.e. dark hair, dark eyes) as to play up that Winchester blood in him rather than his mother's.
3) I adore Kurt Fuller. Did you happen to see his video interview with an online entertainment webpage done at LA Con? He was so funny in this weird unassuming way that I was laughing out loud at my computer. I was so disappointed (but not surprised) that Zach was killed. I was hoping he'd make it to the finale.
5) WHAT?!!!?!? Noooooo. No. Really? Nonono. Edlund, Carver, and Gamble are the ones, in my opinion, who are holding the boat together, we can't lose any of them. I'm still sad over Tucker going to "True Blood" back in S2. It's my insane dream that with Gamble in charge, Tucker might return (haha, I know).
Finally, I'm glad this episode redeemed your faith in SPN! It's nice to look forward to Thursdays again.