I still think things are looking up actually. I mean, we all knew roboSam did some hinky stuff and he even said in the skinwalker dog ep that he had killed innocent people who got in the way (or implied it). So this wasn't new at all, in my opinion - we just saw it rather than were told it. Actually, as I said in my post, I don't think he was cold bloodedly rational enough - he knew the Arachne only died when her head was caught off and he only assumed that she was using the men for food (like you say - if he had taken them to the hospital they might have learned the truth). If he were being truly smart he'd have covered all his bases and chopped off their heads as well, so I was disappointed in roboSam.
It's really too bad how no-soul Sam's callous disregard for the possibility of helping the men, led to their becoming monsters. I think it was interesting he presented it as compassion (not letting them suffer as the poison eats them from within) to convince Samuel when we the viewers know he couldn't have been feeling that.
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"it makes me wonder if in the final ep Dean will be forced to kill Sam because he is suffering " --omg I've been wondering that too, esp. since he was fingering his Death ring before the resouling. o_o
For me s4 is my favorite of all. I guess I am cruel, but I was intensely invested in watching the two of them struggle with these great moral quandaries, sacrificing everything, their relationship, the things that made them most who they were, in the grip of this awful set of external forces. Dean, with trying to recover from Hell, while trying to maintain his integrity while being lied to by Angels -- and Sam, having to deal with the tantalizing nature of his Powers and the Blood, driven by his paramount desire to save Dean and destroy Lilith (ultimately to save Dean). The way they're entirely wrapped up in each other while they tear each other apart -- man, that ep with the Siren was like, MAJOR.
This season, the very dark aspect for me is that Sam has really no idea what he's done, or how culpable he is. Terrifying!
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It's really too bad how no-soul Sam's callous disregard for the possibility of helping the men, led to their becoming monsters. I think it was interesting he presented it as compassion (not letting them suffer as the poison eats them from within) to convince Samuel when we the viewers know he couldn't have been feeling that. ( ... )
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For me s4 is my favorite of all. I guess I am cruel, but I was intensely invested in watching the two of them struggle with these great moral quandaries, sacrificing everything, their relationship, the things that made them most who they were, in the grip of this awful set of external forces. Dean, with trying to recover from Hell, while trying to maintain his integrity while being lied to by Angels -- and Sam, having to deal with the tantalizing nature of his Powers and the Blood, driven by his paramount desire to save Dean and destroy Lilith (ultimately to save Dean). The way they're entirely wrapped up in each other while they tear each other apart -- man, that ep with the Siren was like, MAJOR.
This season, the very dark aspect for me is that Sam has really no idea what he's done, or how culpable he is. Terrifying!
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