Hmm ... if you see my stamina hiding out somewhere, rat it out to me, would you? I think it's on the lam ...
I don't dispute the accuracy of Dean's position that Sam coming along was a stupid decision. Tactically and strategically, he was right; keeping Sam far away and hidden from Lucifer is logically the right thing. Emotionally, however - speaking in terms of the brothers' relationship with each other, which I think will be more essential in the end than simple logic - giving Sam the support of trust was the right thing to do. They're rebuilding their partnership by pieces, and this was one.
I've been betting for a while that all the fractures still existing between the brothers are going to split open sometime soon. The boil of their mutual resentments needs to be lanced and the poison let out so their healing can continue. I think we're both seeing something the writers mean to be there!
I'm not sure the Detroit timeline was accelerated. In The End, it wasn't clear to me when the big showdown in Detroit happened; only that it took five years for future Dean to learn the whereabouts of the Colt and be able to lay his hands on it. His line about not having spoken to Sam in five years could have been taken either as, he hadn't spoken to Sam in that long and Sam recently said yes to Lucifer in Detroit, or that Sam had said yes in Detroit almost that long ago and therefore wasn't himself to have let them speak. Don't know which way that worked. But this episode definitely accelerated the timeline of Dean, the Colt, and their intersection with Lucifer, and all of that - combined with Dean's having reunited with Sam - has clearly meant that the precise future we saw in The End won't come to be, at least not that way.
I'm betting we won't learn more about the Colt, and that you're right; this was the writers' way of removing it from silver bullet status as a way to win the war. But that just leaves all of us free to speculate and write about it ... *grin*
I don't dispute the accuracy of Dean's position that Sam coming along was a stupid decision. Tactically and strategically, he was right; keeping Sam far away and hidden from Lucifer is logically the right thing. Emotionally, however - speaking in terms of the brothers' relationship with each other, which I think will be more essential in the end than simple logic - giving Sam the support of trust was the right thing to do. They're rebuilding their partnership by pieces, and this was one.
I've been betting for a while that all the fractures still existing between the brothers are going to split open sometime soon. The boil of their mutual resentments needs to be lanced and the poison let out so their healing can continue. I think we're both seeing something the writers mean to be there!
I'm not sure the Detroit timeline was accelerated. In The End, it wasn't clear to me when the big showdown in Detroit happened; only that it took five years for future Dean to learn the whereabouts of the Colt and be able to lay his hands on it. His line about not having spoken to Sam in five years could have been taken either as, he hadn't spoken to Sam in that long and Sam recently said yes to Lucifer in Detroit, or that Sam had said yes in Detroit almost that long ago and therefore wasn't himself to have let them speak. Don't know which way that worked. But this episode definitely accelerated the timeline of Dean, the Colt, and their intersection with Lucifer, and all of that - combined with Dean's having reunited with Sam - has clearly meant that the precise future we saw in The End won't come to be, at least not that way.
I'm betting we won't learn more about the Colt, and that you're right; this was the writers' way of removing it from silver bullet status as a way to win the war. But that just leaves all of us free to speculate and write about it ... *grin*
Thanks for coming by, and happy holidays!
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