Aww, no pretty things to print! Oh well, I'll live. I'm actually still on the fence about this episode, but it was fun to read through your review!
You know what's particularly heartbreaking to me? For all the years before this one, Dean was trying to protect Sam from becoming too hardened. It was Dean opting to take on all the tough decisions and choices that allowed Sam to keep his soft heart, and now it looks like it will all be for nothing, because Sam is right - if he wants to survive, he can't really be the Sam we known and love.
And what's also hard is that I think Sam is hardening not only because he has to, but because he thinks it will somehow help him save Dean. And he couldn't kill someone before - meaning Jake and Gordon - when it was his own life at stake, but the second it's Dean's soul on the line, he doesn't have a problem.
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Date: 2008-02-06 10:55 am (UTC)You know what's particularly heartbreaking to me? For all the years before this one, Dean was trying to protect Sam from becoming too hardened. It was Dean opting to take on all the tough decisions and choices that allowed Sam to keep his soft heart, and now it looks like it will all be for nothing, because Sam is right - if he wants to survive, he can't really be the Sam we known and love.
And what's also hard is that I think Sam is hardening not only because he has to, but because he thinks it will somehow help him save Dean. And he couldn't kill someone before - meaning Jake and Gordon - when it was his own life at stake, but the second it's Dean's soul on the line, he doesn't have a problem.