It's always a good question... but I think they take pride in making "intelligent television" as C. Eccleston would put it. They may not ever answer every question, but usually the questions they raise are intriguing and worth arguing. :)
Do you watch Doctor Who at all? I know you've said your primary fandom was Star Trek.... I found the Russell T Davies Who series to be really good watching, especially Eccleston as Nine. He is a very Dean-like guy. :D
My children are bugging me to get into Dr. Who...but I seriously can only have one fandom at a time, so the good doctor will have to wait until SPN is only in reruns :)
I am that same way with one fandom at a time. The mitigating factor for me is that there are so many fewer eps of Who. For example, the whole of Eccleston's tenure as the Doctor is 13 eps and six novels, and most people don't even read the novels. :P Right now, one of the good comms, then_theres_us, is hosting a rewatch which began with 1.1 last week, and it's seriously cramping my style! People were meant to view the ep and then try to write a story based on that ep by the end of the week -- but dude, there's no way I can produce a story of any length every week on top of my other fic projects. I voted for a two-week process but the mods over-rode our vote
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I pretty much agree all around. If Show is being very clever, this is happening now because
a. Dean is in a very bad place to begin with from Cas's betrayal and then "death", and from the fact that Sam is "broken" and he doesn't know how to fix it. Pieces of Dean's world are crumbling apart, he feels helpless to do anything, so he falls back on being John, the one fixed point in his world before he grew up and grew his own moral center.
b. It's happening now because this is something Dean has to deal with Soon(tm) and it's going to (damn quickly) come to a head next episode.
I don't know number B for a facvt of course, just wildly speculating.
yeah A. Being duped again and again by monsters, and then by Cas, he's not in a place where he's very trusting. I'm pretty sad that he told Sam he would trust him and then didn't. :( woe!!
If I'm remembering right, I don't think Sam told Dean about her killing to save her son. I'm not sure that would have made any difference given Dean's mindset, but I think it's important.
Honestly, I thought they did a great job of showing the grey area when a creature could be considered a monster or a moral being feeding only from necessity and on the bottom feeders (although she looked like she was going for the guy with the flat tire when Sam stopped her, so...).
Her devotion to her son trumps her moral stance at not killing humans. Humans are her food source.
Is her son never going to get sick and need living human pituitaries again though? Do creatures have the right to live if they only kill out of necessity? As Hunters, is their job to save humans from creatures who would feed on them, to kill creatures that feed on humans pure and simple, or make moral judgments about whether the creatures are killing people who are "ok" to eat/killing out of hunger
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First let me say this: for me to say "Dean becomes the monster" may have been overstating myself a bit. More precisely, what I mean to say is "Dean takes the position that in his life Azazel took
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I hope us fans are not reading more into this than show will give us...
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Do you watch Doctor Who at all? I know you've said your primary fandom was Star Trek.... I found the Russell T Davies Who series to be really good watching, especially Eccleston as Nine. He is a very Dean-like guy. :D
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a. Dean is in a very bad place to begin with from Cas's betrayal and then "death", and from the fact that Sam is "broken" and he doesn't know how to fix it. Pieces of Dean's world are crumbling apart, he feels helpless to do anything, so he falls back on being John, the one fixed point in his world before he grew up and grew his own moral center.
b. It's happening now because this is something Dean has to deal with Soon(tm) and it's going to (damn quickly) come to a head next episode.
I don't know number B for a facvt of course, just wildly speculating.
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If I'm remembering right, I don't think Sam told Dean about her killing to save her son. I'm not sure that would have made any difference given Dean's mindset, but I think it's important.
Honestly, I thought they did a great job of showing the grey area when a creature could be considered a monster or a moral being feeding only from necessity and on the bottom feeders (although she looked like she was going for the guy with the flat tire when Sam stopped her, so...).
Her devotion to her son trumps her moral stance at not killing humans. Humans are her food source.
Is her son never going to get sick and need living human pituitaries again though? Do creatures have the right to live if they only kill out of necessity? As Hunters, is their job to save humans from creatures who would feed on them, to kill creatures that feed on humans pure and simple, or make moral judgments about whether the creatures are killing people who are "ok" to eat/killing out of hunger ( ... )
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