Fabulous comic, though I must reiterate the saddening lack of Comic!Sam in a towel. Maybe next week, yeah?
And, regarding 'Mystery Spot', I think that the scene following Dean's Wednesday badness is very much in character. If one thinks back to season one's ep 'Wendigo', wherein it's been mere days after Jessica's death, Dean points out that Sam's "...like a powder keg..." and so on. The only reason Sam didn't wander down the dark side, so-to-speak, at that point was that Dean was there to keep him grounded. Without that grounding, I'm sure the potential!Sammy we saw in MS would have become reality much sooner.
And... The writer's strike is *over*?? Egads! WTF have I been doing that I missed *that* news-flash??? Ah... I see now. It was the same day I spent at the casino. Sigh. Shoulda known better than to waste a hundred bucks *and* spend that long away from my computer. Guess it's time to break out the champagne! WOOT!!
Caption possibility: I don't care if they have free WI-FI, we're not eating here.
I'm so getting hashed on Comic!Sammy-towellessness.
You know, you bring up a valid point. That inhuman coldness of Sam's isn't so foreign to the audience. That moment in "Wendigo" proves that he can and will go ruthless, and without Dean, potential!Sammy in "Mystery Spot" would have happened sooner, yes.
Something else dawned on me regarding the characterization of Sam in MS: As we saw in AHBL2, Dean-without-Sam loses his carefully constructed hardcase shell and we see that he's really just a big softie under that leather jacket. Sam-without-Dean loses the emo!boy costume and we find that underneath it all, he's really quite frighteningly intense
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Hmmmm....I knew something was up with the trunk but for some reason I couldn't actually tell what it was *smacks head* Good going. I think I'll blame it on the a.m
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Regarding the shallowness of the bullet, I assume it hit a rib. It's not like Sam's got a whole lot of padding over his ribcage - it's all smokin' hot muscle and sinew.
Good point on the possibility of the Trickster's motivation, but I have to wonder what could be so powerful as to render a god's powers/autonomy invalid?
Very true, but it looked a bit low to have hit a rib. Though that could just be my (most likely unfounded) bias towards the idea that Sammy's powers were his own and only augmented by the demon blood. Telekinesis shield for the win.
Other than the actual existence of the demon's god-figure Lucifer, and maybe direct progeny aka the antichrist (and not the anti-antichrist which is what Sam is shaping up to be) I can't really think of anything powerful enough to keep the Trickster on his toes like that.
Double-checking the scene in question, it almost definitely hit a rib. This assumption is based on the position of said wound and the shadowing available in the scene indicating where potential!Sam's ribs lay.
And, regarding 'Mystery Spot', I think that the scene following Dean's Wednesday badness is very much in character. If one thinks back to season one's ep 'Wendigo', wherein it's been mere days after Jessica's death, Dean points out that Sam's "...like a powder keg..." and so on. The only reason Sam didn't wander down the dark side, so-to-speak, at that point was that Dean was there to keep him grounded. Without that grounding, I'm sure the potential!Sammy we saw in MS would have become reality much sooner.
And... The writer's strike is *over*?? Egads! WTF have I been doing that I missed *that* news-flash??? Ah... I see now. It was the same day I spent at the casino. Sigh. Shoulda known better than to waste a hundred bucks *and* spend that long away from my computer. Guess it's time to break out the champagne! WOOT!!
Caption possibility: I don't care if they have free WI-FI, we're not eating here.
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You know, you bring up a valid point. That inhuman coldness of Sam's isn't so foreign to the audience. That moment in "Wendigo" proves that he can and will go ruthless, and without Dean, potential!Sammy in "Mystery Spot" would have happened sooner, yes.
Yes, the Writer's Strike is over! *taps her head*
Love the caption suggestion!
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Good point on the possibility of the Trickster's motivation, but I have to wonder what could be so powerful as to render a god's powers/autonomy invalid?
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Other than the actual existence of the demon's god-figure Lucifer, and maybe direct progeny aka the antichrist (and not the anti-antichrist which is what Sam is shaping up to be) I can't really think of anything powerful enough to keep the Trickster on his toes like that.
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