SPN 9x02 and Gravity

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OK I am a horrible person but I thought that Dean’s speech to Kevin was incredibly manipulative, though not deliberately so. It’s just that Dean’s only tactic for keeping people with him is leveraging their guilt about how much he’s given for them, and he’s learned that it works. Also, what is with ‘family equals person you’d die for’? Dean Winchester began this odyssey risking his life for perfect strangers as a matter of course, which is a big part of what made him so awesome, and he and Sam kept it up this episode running straight into the trap for a hunter he knew and one he didn’t. Family has to mean more than that-person you’d live for, maybe. I wanted to think that Dean, at some level, knew that. At least that gives some good parallelism with his interaction with Sam at the end: Dean is saying what’s expedient, but not what’s true, and it’s not good for anybody.

Ok, and at the same time Dean is brimful of love and hands it out readily (see above re: what makes him so awesome) so I do think he feels deep affection for Kevin, and he would plainly risk his life for Kevin-but when you say “Dean, Sam, Cas and Kevin” you have gone beyond what I believe in the profound bond area, sorry.

Gravity: Sorry, Film Critic Hulk, but I have to agree with my husband here: the incredible visual accomplishments of the film were undermined, to the point that I found it rather silly, by the terrible soundtrack. Parts of the film knew how to use space’s silence! Why the horrible music cues telling us exactly what was going to happen at key points?


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