General Sam meta and thoughts on S4
So I think I need to rewatch S4. As in, all of it. From Lazarus to Lucifer and yes, that unfortunately includes Yellow Fever and ASS and CAIADB. There are just so many interesting themes and nuances that keep getting brought up and even each of the MOTW throwaway episodes does something to refer to the overall mytharc in some way or another,
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Sam in turn just sort of denied the pain, like ripping out a section of his soul. Then again, Dean was dead, not just out of reach. When Sam died in S2, Dean just sort of shut down himself. If he hadn't been able to make a deal then, especially given that Dean was suicidal in S2, I'm pretty sure Dean wouldn't have outlived his brother by much. I'm not even sure he'd manage to kill himself in a hunt, like it seemed that Sam was trying for.
Between the two, I'd argue that Sam's method was the more self-destructive; he basically destroyed himself to prevent himself from feeling any more pain and the vacuum created by that denial of feelings allowed darker (but more comfortably felt) emotions to take root instead. Anger and pride and aggression, all of which had to be far more easily dealt with, almost comforting, instead of aching pain and guilt and despair.
I think it's sort of like a mirror of Dean's whole "I tortured souls and I liked it" mindset in Hell. Dean, like Sam, couldn't deal with the more wrenching emotions and so buried them under a shell of more easily felt, but ultimately false, feelings instead. I mean, we don't exactly have any objective confirmation on what Dean was like in Hell whereas we do have an entire season of Sam's facade, but it makes sense to me that they'd deal in a similar manner and that in each case (Dean's sadism and Sam's overweening pride) neither felt those emotions at their cores.
Man, YF. I was shocked and horrified to see how they killed that ghost. For one, it was the victim in the entire affair. Killing it, especially in that manner, was just absurdly cruel. Maybe it's in part because I live in the southern United States and so am more sensitive to it than most SPN fans, but it hasn't been too long since the last time I heard of someone actually being murdered in that manner. It still happens and it's one of the more gruesome and terrible ways to be killed that I can think of.
And the blase reactions to this by Bobby and Sam was just... Man. I can understand why they might have gone down that road with Sam, but I don't understand at all why Bobby had no issues. And that leads me to think it was an error of blatant OOC on the part of the writing staff. A
I very much had picked up on the fact that they'd written ASS which I also very much disliked. I was sort of surprised that I was able to enjoy JtS at all, but that episode seemed a lot less heavy handed and more on par with other episodes of the season. I'm not sure if the duo had a crash course in How To Write Winchesters or whether there was a SIGNIFICANT amount of outside influence for that script, but it did overall work a lot better. I've still got some issues with certain things in the episode, but that very first scene at the Impala when they're waking up and Dean's epic "Ugh, TUNA" face did a lot to win me over. *g*
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