So this weekend I started harassing the ol' f-list like, "can I talk your ear off about my deep and abiding love for early-S6-Sam" and got a solid "you're the one with the Jolly Green Jackass fetish, you post about it" (I'm paraphrasing). So here is my scatterbrained flail about why it was so perfect for Sam's arc.
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spoilers through S6 )