SPN--Season 4 Rewatch

[borgmama1of5]

Rewatch of Supernatural 2022

Season 4

General Observations-I remembered this season as the one where Sam and Dean’s relationship falls apart because they don’t communicate, and started this rewatch looking for the signs. Interestingly, it felt different than I remembered it.

Comments

[fanspired]

Monster Movie: Edlund was a master of writing OTT comedy episodes that still felt true to the show. Attempts to emulate his work since have mostly shot wide of the target for me. He was also good at using those comedy episodes to foreshadow darker aspects of the mythology arcs. Here, when when the shifter talks about his father wanting to kill him because he was a monster, there is a poignant parallel with Sam - especially coming directly after Metamorphosis; and his final words "perhaps this is how the movie should end" should have been a warning to us that Sam's story wasn't going to end well

[borgmama1of5]

...when when the shifter talks about his father wanting to kill him because he was a monster, there is a poignant parallel with Sam...

I didn't catch that!

...it left a bad taste in the mouth that the case of a ghost who'd been bullied all his life and horribly murdered was solved by recreating the horrific circumstances of his death.

Again you articulate something I felt but did have the words to express it.

The body language in this scene is interesting. Uriel gets up in Sam's face and tries to intimidate him with his *angelic power*; it's a parallel to the similar scene where Castiel did it to Dean, but Sam's body language isn't cowed like Dean's was. Although he's clearly alarmed and probably is intimidated, he stands his ground and doesn't allow Uriel to subdue him.

Demonstrating both Sam's strength and weakness simultaneously...

I think Sam represents the popular psychology view that it's bad to bottle things up and it helps to get them out in the open. I'm not sure though that the action of the show actually supports this

[fanspired]

> Demonstrating both Sam's strength and weakness simultaneously

[borgmama1of5]

The fic you mention sounds familiar, I may have read that a long time ago--I will sometimes read Hell fanfic if I am familiar with the author.

I am generally not a TV watcher--other than the pre-2000 iterations of Star Trek, Supernatural is the only TV show I have ever watched. I'm a serial monogamist that way, I only have space in my life for one show at a time. But while I passionately loved Trek (see username,) I never went down the rabbit hole like I have with SPN!

I'm a third of the way through season 6, and it's better than a lot of fans give it credit for being--watching Dean trying to cope with 'new and improved' Sam and then finding out he's soulless is psychologically fascinating, you'd probably have lots of intriguing analysis!

[fanspired]

> I never went down the rabbit hole like I have with SPN!

Me either. It does seem to be the ultimate rabbit hole :D

> Season 6 was, indeed, highly under-rated. I think perhaps many fans saw a Sam they didn't recognize and never waited for an explanation before they dismissed Gamble as show-runner. Some fans have since acknowledged they liked the season better watching it a second time round knowing in advance what was going on with Sam. I look forward to reading your thoughts :)))