5.14 My Bloody Valentine: Where Is Your Hunger?

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5.14 My Bloody Valentine: Where Is Your Hunger?

Famine’s hunger kills:
Overdose on what you crave,
Or be dead inside.

Comments

[zazreil]

Oh man yes thinking about Death is terrifying. Anything that needs a Nazi type atrocity to raise - shudder. On TWOP they joke about Death burning his way through America, killing off the population of one state at a time but it may be closer to the truth than we can imagine

Hmmm I guess I just thought Famine's ring was removed by Dean off screen, after Sam injured him enough that temporarily he was down for the count. I wasn't sure that Famine didn't do something to him to make him, hesitate but I agree I thought Dean should have been more proactive. I suspect part of my view is because my interpretation of the rings is strongly influenced by Tolkien for I always have felt that the rings were the real horsemen and the bearers ^_~ were the true horses.

I still think the effect of the Demon blood on Sam was psychological and spiritual rather than physical. He probably doesn't need it but in eschewing Demon blood, he also turned away from those powers and probably never even tried after Ruby told him that he never needed the feather fearing were it would lead. In this episode since he already drank the blood he might as well use the power that he has been conditioned to believe comes with it. I think the blood has been having a negative effect on him ever since he was a child, making him more prone to anger and arrogance, two traits that would place his soul in harmony with Lucifer

Love your comments about Jimmy, that would be an intriguing twist, but I think I still want Sam and Dean to just say NO

Lovely description of Dean's real hunger and emptiness, little different from where my thoughts first went. My first thought is that what Famine was reading was depression, the really bad suicidal kind. Its something that you can fight through but it really does feels like an empty hole, and though sometimes there can be a reason for the feeling of emptiness there does not have to be. Watching Dean no longer having a taste for the little pleasures, followed by Famine's comment and his ending speech, was like watching someone who suffers from depression really hit rock bottom and finally accept that they need help.

I so totally agree with you on Cupid. I mean in epi 1 or 2 of season 4 Castiel said Angels had not been down to earth in 2000 years! Ok he didn't know about Anna and Gabe breaking the rule or how he would be sent back in time but Cupids seem like part of the regular hierarchy of heaven. I would liked it better if Cupids were just a spirit who had a job like life affirming affirming version of a reaper. That would give the Supernatural world a yin yang balance and would avoid all the questions about how the heck did the Cupid get a vessel that fast etc

Yup squickiest episode ever!