7.03 episode review
1. Kitsunes shouldn't be bad. They should be tiny and cute with giant fluffy tails like Shippo from Inuyasha.
2. I think that Dean killing Amy was a bad decision. His bad decision, not the writers. They've been skirting around this idea of what do you do when things aren't black and white for awhile now - like with the girl with her dead sister's kidney in Mannequin 3: the Reckoning, and the Jefferson Starship kids in Mommy Dearest - but conveniently killing them off before Dean or Sam have to make some kind of decision about what to do with them. This time, Dean had to make his own decision, and like I said, I think it was the wrong one. I saw some comments about him letting Lenore (and her coven) go, back in season two, and I do think that played a part, because that was back when he was the Righteous Man. But after Hell, and the apocalypse, and living with Lisa, that's not who he is anymore. In a way, that makes sense. He served his purpose (and evolved as a character) and now he's just a regular hunter again, just as flawed as anyone else. It kind of makes me wonder if, in addition to all those other things he manipulated, God/Chuck was engineering the situation so none of those hard to answer, shades-of-grey questions came up while he had plans for Dean.
On the other hand, I think this puts Dean fairly level with Cas in terms of morality after his little episode as God.
2. I think that Dean killing Amy was a bad decision. His bad decision, not the writers. They've been skirting around this idea of what do you do when things aren't black and white for awhile now - like with the girl with her dead sister's kidney in Mannequin 3: the Reckoning, and the Jefferson Starship kids in Mommy Dearest - but conveniently killing them off before Dean or Sam have to make some kind of decision about what to do with them. This time, Dean had to make his own decision, and like I said, I think it was the wrong one. I saw some comments about him letting Lenore (and her coven) go, back in season two, and I do think that played a part, because that was back when he was the Righteous Man. But after Hell, and the apocalypse, and living with Lisa, that's not who he is anymore. In a way, that makes sense. He served his purpose (and evolved as a character) and now he's just a regular hunter again, just as flawed as anyone else. It kind of makes me wonder if, in addition to all those other things he manipulated, God/Chuck was engineering the situation so none of those hard to answer, shades-of-grey questions came up while he had plans for Dean.
On the other hand, I think this puts Dean fairly level with Cas in terms of morality after his little episode as God.