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So. Jumping the Shark.
I'm going to go ahead an confess I didn't really get it. I mean, why bring in a brother if all you're going to do with him is kill him off before we ever even ACTUALLY see him? I know the ghoul's motivation was to kill anyone involved with their father's death, but there are PLENTY of ways they could have gotten Sam and Dean involved without a brother.
So I just don't see the point.
So John has this third kid that he decides to not raise as a hunter, except that the supernatural catches up with this kid anyway, so what's the lesson we learned? You should ALWAYS give a nine year old a gun on their birthday and tell them to aim it at the thing that goes bump in their closet? I wish they'd actually mentioned the fact that Sam had already run off by the time that John found out about this kid, which goes a long way to explaining why John treated him so differently.
I don't really mind the brother thing. I thought I would. But watching Sam get to be a big brother for once, teaching Adam how to shoot and clean a gun, etc. I really liked seeing that for Sammy, for whatever reason.
I thought that Sam almost passing out from blood loss and then having a towel pressed over the wound making everything better was kind of laughably bad, but I did enjoy Dean's "there, there" dialogue throughout.
Also, dying like a hunter, deserving to be buried like a hunter? Adam wasn't a hunter. Adam was a scared kid who knew ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about what was happening to him at the end. I mean, sure, burn him because he's your brother, I don't actually have a problem with that. But it's not because he's a hunter, because he's not. He wasn't.
Urg. This episode was okay? I guess? I liked it more than a lot of other episodes, and it didn't fill me with a murderous incoherent rage like so many others have, I just. Didn't understand the motivation behind it. And that kind of bothers me.
I'm going to go ahead an confess I didn't really get it. I mean, why bring in a brother if all you're going to do with him is kill him off before we ever even ACTUALLY see him? I know the ghoul's motivation was to kill anyone involved with their father's death, but there are PLENTY of ways they could have gotten Sam and Dean involved without a brother.
So I just don't see the point.
So John has this third kid that he decides to not raise as a hunter, except that the supernatural catches up with this kid anyway, so what's the lesson we learned? You should ALWAYS give a nine year old a gun on their birthday and tell them to aim it at the thing that goes bump in their closet? I wish they'd actually mentioned the fact that Sam had already run off by the time that John found out about this kid, which goes a long way to explaining why John treated him so differently.
I don't really mind the brother thing. I thought I would. But watching Sam get to be a big brother for once, teaching Adam how to shoot and clean a gun, etc. I really liked seeing that for Sammy, for whatever reason.
I thought that Sam almost passing out from blood loss and then having a towel pressed over the wound making everything better was kind of laughably bad, but I did enjoy Dean's "there, there" dialogue throughout.
Also, dying like a hunter, deserving to be buried like a hunter? Adam wasn't a hunter. Adam was a scared kid who knew ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about what was happening to him at the end. I mean, sure, burn him because he's your brother, I don't actually have a problem with that. But it's not because he's a hunter, because he's not. He wasn't.
Urg. This episode was okay? I guess? I liked it more than a lot of other episodes, and it didn't fill me with a murderous incoherent rage like so many others have, I just. Didn't understand the motivation behind it. And that kind of bothers me.