4.13 After School Special: I’m Looking For The Brutal, Funny, Maybe Even Painful Truth

[bardicvoice]

4.13 After School Special: I’m Looking For The Brutal, Funny, Maybe Even Painful Truth

Ghost high school bully
Drives nerds to revenge on jocks;
Sam sees with new eyes.

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[erinrua]

but I would bet that Wyatt’s remembered advice and his final question - Are you happy, Sam? - have just reinforced Sam’s desire to confound destiny and escape again. Right now, with everything that he and Dean face, happiness seems unattainable - but if there’s a way to win, a way to put an end to all of it? This episode may have seemed years and worlds away from last week’s Criss Angel Is A Douchebag, but I think it’s far closer and more on point than it may have appeared.

Yes. That is *precisely* what I brought away from this episode. I thought there's some unexpectedly subtle and brilliant hinting going on, forewarning that Sam is leading himself up to doing *something* that will probably scare the pants off all of us. But I believe Sam has abruptly had it with being a passenger in his own life, and this episode merely builds upon Sam's revelation in the last: that he doesn't want to grow old and lonely and miserable doing this.

I think Sam has finally hit boiling point, and he's fixing to take charge of his own life, again. Just that the means by which he goes about it, and the goal I'm sure he has in mind - Lilith's messy death - probably will wreck us and Dean, both. Yikes.

Anywho, I'm so far behind in reviews it ain't funny, so thank you for pinning down and articulating everything I loved and even the things I loved less about this episode. :-)

[bardicvoice]

Thank you! I'm right there with you, thinking that Sammy has decided to take his own action rather than just being acted on. I think the problem is that doing wrong things for right reasons will still net out to a wrong ... Yipes!