Sometimes the lack of subtleness in the confrontation between dream!Dean and Dean is a bit irritating, but the fierceness in which the anger is unloaded is always great to watch. I think catharsis is exactly the right word for it, it is purifying for Dean and that makes that scene so extremely important. I've seen people complain that Dean's issues become repetitiv and that he needs so move on and it saddens me that those people don't realise that that's exactly what Dean is doing in this scene. Heh. It is a bit heavy-handed, but it's what Dean needed - lets face it, he was never going to break down like that in front of someone else, lease of all Sam, however much we might enjoy such a h/c moment. He needed this catharsis in order to face up to everything he's been repressing for so many years, and it was a huge breakthrough.
As a sidenote: I love how gorgeously underplayed, quiet and subtle the end scene between the boys is in comparison to the dream scene. It's the quiet scenes in this episode (the bar talk between Sam and Dean, the hospital scenes between Bobby and Dean, the end scene) that really make this episode for me in the end. Quiet, beautiful scenes. Gorgeous.
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Sometimes the lack of subtleness in the confrontation between dream!Dean and Dean is a bit irritating, but the fierceness in which the anger is unloaded is always great to watch. I think catharsis is exactly the right word for it, it is purifying for Dean and that makes that scene so extremely important. I've seen people complain that Dean's issues become repetitiv and that he needs so move on and it saddens me that those people don't realise that that's exactly what Dean is doing in this scene.
Heh. It is a bit heavy-handed, but it's what Dean needed - lets face it, he was never going to break down like that in front of someone else, lease of all Sam, however much we might enjoy such a h/c moment. He needed this catharsis in order to face up to everything he's been repressing for so many years, and it was a huge breakthrough.
As a sidenote: I love how gorgeously underplayed, quiet and subtle the end scene between the boys is in comparison to the dream scene. It's the quiet scenes in this episode (the bar talk between Sam and Dean, the hospital scenes between Bobby and Dean, the end scene) that really make this episode for me in the end.
Quiet, beautiful scenes. Gorgeous.