Thank you. I tend to wander through the early spoiler summaries, because there's no way my will is strong enough to last four months, but skip interviews and things. Now, suddenly, there's this whole other tempting reservoir of stuff. :)
Yes, Dean cheerfully eating the spell ingredients will never cease to amuse me. I've always liked that aspect to his character, and how it ties into his repeated assertions that they can only believe in what they can see and discover for themselves. I liked the way that tied into his differentiating between earthly pain and the pain of the afterlife for Sam, and I think it ties beautifully into the difference between their relationship and how he reacts to Castiel. We always see Sam bleed and suffer for his mistakes - all that screaming from withdrawal, and the punishing way he pushes himself to atone - but Castiel can, and as often as not does, simply pop out of the scene, or just become someone else entirely.
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Date: 2012-07-16 11:18 pm (UTC)Yes, Dean cheerfully eating the spell ingredients will never cease to amuse me. I've always liked that aspect to his character, and how it ties into his repeated assertions that they can only believe in what they can see and discover for themselves. I liked the way that tied into his differentiating between earthly pain and the pain of the afterlife for Sam, and I think it ties beautifully into the difference between their relationship and how he reacts to Castiel. We always see Sam bleed and suffer for his mistakes - all that screaming from withdrawal, and the punishing way he pushes himself to atone - but Castiel can, and as often as not does, simply pop out of the scene, or just become someone else entirely.
Er. And I may be rambling. Sorry. :)