SPN - Defending Your Life

[feliciakw]

First, allow me to give you a heads-up. There's a very good chance that this will feel confused and patchwork. I'm at my mom and dad's this week, as my dad is still having some problems, and I've not had a chance to actually sit down and give it my concentration. I've been doing it piecemeal, when I have a few minutes here and there, and though

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[izhilzha]

I liked this episode a lot, for many of the reasons you mentioned. And I hope this is leading into some more good stuff for Dean later in the season, because that whole conversation between him and Jo makes me... hopeful, as well as a little sad.

People, Osiris says, want to be judged. And I don't even know where to begin with that statement.

This jumped out at me, too. I think he's right--at least in the sense that most of us, while we say we want not to be judged, would love to have firm boundaries, to know where the lines are. Like Don in N3: when his boss asks him which side of line he's on, Don can only say, "If someone could show me where it is, I could tell you."

Food for thought.

[feliciakw]

Oh, you're going to make me expound, aren't you.

we say we want not to be judged, would love to have firm boundaries,

Yep, this is a succinct way of putting it. Do we want judgement? No. Do we want boundaries? Yes (even if we don't know we want them).

I don't agree with Osiris that "people want to be judged." People don't want to be judged, by human nature. There are those who feel they deserve to be judged (Dean fits squarely in that category), and in that regard, that feeling might progress toward "wanting." But the reason people balk at the thought of being judged is that they don't like it. They don't want it. "Judge not, lest ye be judged." There're two sides to that statement (at least), and neither side wants to be judged. It's human nature to want to do whatever we want to do without consequence