Yeah - it was clearly meant as a vivid, visual callback to Lucifer's beatdown of Dean. No question. Just as Dean's unvamping vision sequence, which climaxed in seeing Sam stand still and let him be turned with a twist of pleasure glancing across his lips was a direct callback to Sam's vision sequence of himself and Dean that climaxed in Dean's embrace after he had given up his soul for him. These two sets of actions were inversions of each other.
I'm not disputing that this is a low point for Dean. I'm just saying that last week Sam purposefully did nothing and watched Dean become turned into a monster. And now Dean, triggered by rage and out of control, is acting monstrously to Sam. As I see it, what Sam's plan let loose, is pretty much a direct cause and effect, IMO.
In season 4, it never struck me that Sam fully understood what it meant that Dean get turned into a monster in hell. Hence him unleashing it insouciantly here.
Anyway, I don't feel sorry for this Sam 2.0 - but I feel very sorry for his soul, which is probably still in hell being tortured, or something horrible, or being kept by someone horrible.
I'm not disputing that this is a low point for Dean. I'm just saying that last week Sam purposefully did nothing and watched Dean become turned into a monster. And now Dean, triggered by rage and out of control, is acting monstrously to Sam. As I see it, what Sam's plan let loose, is pretty much a direct cause and effect, IMO.
In season 4, it never struck me that Sam fully understood what it meant that Dean get turned into a monster in hell. Hence him unleashing it insouciantly here.
Anyway, I don't feel sorry for this Sam 2.0 - but I feel very sorry for his soul, which is probably still in hell being tortured, or something horrible, or being kept by someone horrible.
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That's why the episode was so terribly great, IMO.
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