Sam was wonderfully sympathetic in this, although I did think the sunrise et al was a bit much at the end. But it was beautifully played, overall, and I liked what they did with Sam a lot.
I thought maybe they had no choice but to do it this way, because Molly had been cremated. Either way, it worked. :)
The Sam stuff was fairly gentle and nicely done, I think it was mostly the too-pretty sunrise that was the problem. If it had been done some other visual way, I'd probably wouldn't have any grumbles about the overly mournful Sam.
This episode? Totally hot. I actually didn't call the twist, and I thought it was elegent and awesome, and then they pulled out the five minute flashback of Our Viewers Are DUM, which annoyed me a bit. But, overall, I thought it was excellent. And you're right on the myth-building; it was well done, and not heavy-handed (unlike the flashback).
I spent the first forty minutes being like, day-yum, Dean is Cranky McCrankerson tonight!, but I'm glad it made a bit more sense by the end.
All in all- thank goodness the hiatus is over! Do you know how many more episodes are left in the season?
I think this was a recruiting episode, so to speak. A way non-watchers can come into it with a bigger name guest star and maybe get hooked. It served a purpose, it just was an obvious one and not as well-done as one might hope. But I still liked it a lot.
No idea how many episodes are left. Hopefully, at least enough to get me to the Heroes return!
he was creeped out and unhappy, he gets abrasive when he's in a corner.
Why was Dean creeped out? What did he have to be unhappy about, in particular? What corner was he in? He deals with this stuff all the time and ghosts who don't know they are dead are not that unusual I am quite sure he's run across more than one or two in all his years of hunting.
And until the retcon in Bloodlust, Dean just hunted evil as well but that wouldn't have worked in their forced black and white dichotomy of this season so that had to go and so they retconned it to "supernatural regardless of what it does". And more importantly if that had been the case all along as they had him state, then he came to a revelation in Bloodlust. Which has since been completely forgotten about including in this episode. Because we certainly saw no signs of the Dean from the end of Bloodlust in this episode when you look at his interactions with Molly.
I think we've seen hints of "supernatural is always evil" in Dean's attitude from jump. It's how he was trained. John didn't give the boys a lot of moral wiggle room. If it's not natural, if it's not human, it's suspect because it will turn on you. So here he is, going along with Sam's kinder, gentler touch when dealing with a ghost. Sam feels sorry for them because he sees himself now as Other. And Dean does not want to see Sam as Other. Sam is just Sam. Having to acknowledge that Sam shares something in common with the things they hunt is not one of Dean's shining moments. He's always insisting that Sam is normal, Sam is okay, Sam isn't going to turn on him. Sam can't be supernatural like the other things they hunt are supernatural. That's why he's clinging to the black and white this season: if supernatural things the hunt are always evil and never good, and Sam is always good, then Sam is not a supernatural thing to hunt. He just can't acknowledge that other supernatural things may not be closer to Sam's category than
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I thought maybe they had no choice but to do it this way, because Molly had been cremated. Either way, it worked. :)
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Usually, they confront the spook, force it to give up the ghost, so to speak. This time, it was gradual. Gentle. And I think that was all Sam.
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I spent the first forty minutes being like, day-yum, Dean is Cranky McCrankerson tonight!, but I'm glad it made a bit more sense by the end.
All in all- thank goodness the hiatus is over! Do you know how many more episodes are left in the season?
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No idea how many episodes are left. Hopefully, at least enough to get me to the Heroes return!
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Why was Dean creeped out? What did he have to be unhappy about, in particular? What corner was he in? He deals with this stuff all the time and ghosts who don't know they are dead are not that unusual I am quite sure he's run across more than one or two in all his years of hunting.
And until the retcon in Bloodlust, Dean just hunted evil as well but that wouldn't have worked in their forced black and white dichotomy of this season so that had to go and so they retconned it to "supernatural regardless of what it does". And more importantly if that had been the case all along as they had him state, then he came to a revelation in Bloodlust. Which has since been completely forgotten about including in this episode. Because we certainly saw no signs of the Dean from the end of Bloodlust in this episode when you look at his interactions with Molly.
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