"If only I knew when to stop."

[llywela]

Because I absolutely cannot twist my brain around this episode any longer - herein find recap :-)

And, um, this one got really long again. I just couldn't stop talking, and found my thought process derailing itself off at tangents at regular intervals. Also, there is a vast surfeit of images in there, because...family!!

Must try to scale back a little next time!

Okay, so here it is: many, many pages wherein I ramble on about Dean sleeping, Sam sneaking and Castiel creeping, potential future confrontations and the fate of Castiel's holy tax accountant host, Young John's Jessica to Mary's Sam, Castiel's unhelpful vagueness, the brain-twistiness of time travel, the Campbell family and hunting, inherited personality quirks, pre-Internet research, more brain-twistiness of time travel, why The Family Business should be a spin-off show, Dean's priorities, Azazel, Mary's choice and the fate to which she doomed her family, pre-destination versus free will, secrets and evasion, and much more besides.

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"What, are you allergic to straight answers, you son of a bitch?"

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Comments

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we don't know what would have happened if Sam had never become a hunter, because Sam not knowing all he knows could be worse
Yeah, it's one of those where you can argue both sides. Sam being raised as a hunter meant that he had the strength and skills to survive where others like him fell at the wayside (except...he didn't, really, because Jake killed him). If he hadn't had that training, he probably would have ended up no differently than, say, Andy or Ava. So being trained gave him an advantage...but also brought him to the YED's attention a lot more than the others, which can't be considered a good thing, and also meant that his family and loved ones became much more of a target than any of the other psychic kids. Damned either way, really.

It also makes me think that it's all going to end with Sam. Whatever the end is.
You know, I have a horrible feeling that one truly fitting way for the show to end would be Sam sacrificing himself for the greater good, so that nobody - whether good or bad - could use his psychic powers, because they are part of him and will always be a target. And then Dean being the one who finally learns that it is possible to live with grief and go on and still lead a fulfilled life, even without his beloved family.

Course, I'd rather just see them both driving off into the sunset...

And that makes me hate him a little, for ever letting Dean, who already carries too much guilt over things that aren't his fault, believe he could do anything about it.
Yes. Sadistic bastard. I can understand him needing Dean to witness what happened, because it was the only way to be sure he would believe. But there was no reason to let Dean believe he could change things; that wa just cruel. I tend to think, though, that Castiel just honestly doesn't understand enough about how humans work - how Dean works. He's learning, though. There was genuine compassion in his eyes when he came to take Dean back, as if he finally got it, realised how hard the experience had been.

And I don't think the threat against Sam was designed to gain Dean's trust - it was designed to motivate him, and it worked!