31 Days of Supernatural - Day 13, Scene That Makes You Sad/Cry
Day 1 - Your favorite character
Day 2 - Your least favorite character
Day 3 - Your favorite season
Day 4 - Your least favorite season
Day 5 - Your favorite episode
Day 6 - Your least favorite episode
Day 7 - Your favorite Dean crying scene
Day 8 - Your favorite Sam crying scene
Day 9 - Your favorite Dean death scene
Day 10 - Your favorite Sam death scene
Day 11 - Your favorite quote
Day 12 - Your favorite funny scene
Day 13 - A scene that makes you sad/cry
Okay, again I have two. One, because it’s from my favorite episode and never fails to make me cry, and the other because it was sadder than I thought it’d be, and it made me tear up at the angstiness of it all.
The first is from “What Is and What Should Never Be,” and while I was going to use the graveyard scene-which, make no mistake, also never fails to make me cry-I watched the episode the other day and realized that the last scene in the alterna-’verse was killer, too. So:
Fake Sam: Wait!
Fake Mary, Fake Carmen, and Fake Jess walk into the warehouse.
Fake Sam: Why’d you have to keep digging? Why couldn’t you have left well enough alone? You were happy.
Fake Mary: Put the knife down, honey.
Dean: You’re not real. None of it is.
Fake Mary: It doesn’t matter. It’s still better than anything you had.
Dean: What?
Fake Mary: It’s everything you want. We’re a family again. Let’s go home.
Dean: I’ll die. The djinn’ll drain the life out of me in a couple of days.
Fake Mary: But in here, with us, it’ll feel like years. Like a lifetime. I promise. No more pain, no more fear. Just love, and comfort, and safety. Dean. Stay with us. Get some rest.
Fake Jess: You don’t have to worry about Sam anymore. You get to watch him live a full life.
Fake Carmen: We can have a future together. Have our own family. I love you, Dean. Please.
Fake Sam: Why is it our job to save everyone? Haven’t we done enough? I’m begging you. Give me the knife.
Dean looks at everyone.
Dean: I’m sorry. *stabs self*
Okay. So, this slays me because it’s so painfully obvious that Dean wants to stay. That if any of the admittedly fake family members surrounding him had said even just one more sentence, he would’ve agreed to stay behind. That Real Sam would, somehow, understand. Hell, he says as much in the ending scene of this episode. Sure, the people he and Real Sam saved over the past two years would have died, but to Dean, it would’ve been acceptable, given the alternative. He could have a life, Mary would live, Sam would have Jess and get married and would be a lawyer, everything he’d always wanted. (I was totally cool with the fact that John was dead, by the way. Just saying.) And truthfully, I don’t think Dean ever really got over the djinn’s whammy, even though they didn’t explicitly show the fallout.
I mean, think about it: If Dean had stayed, Sam wouldn’t have died in Cold Oak, Dean wouldn’t have sold his soul and gone to Hell a year later and thus never broken the first seal, they never would have met Ruby, Sam would never have drunk demon blood, he would never have unleashed Lucifer and started the Apocalypse, Adam would be alive and well, Dean and Sam would have maintained their good relationship. So, okay, Dean would have died eventually, and we’d never meet Cas, or Lisa, and the angst level would go down considerably, but to Dean, I’m sure that would all be justified.
Oh, Dean. D': Sammy, I love you, you know I do, but this is not the face of a guy who thinks the kinds of sacrifices you guys make are “worth it.” At all.
The next one is from “The Song Remains the Same,” when the boys are meeting their parents in the past. Dean’s seen them both before, but Sam hasn’t. The poor guy has never seen Mary when she’s not an illusion or supernatural. Here she is, real, and yet he has to keep this veneer of “Oh hey, I’m your cousin, and I’ve hung out with you a lot and you’re definitely not my mom.” Sure, he does get to later (though more eloquently), but the scene where he first sees her is just...gah.
Sam and Dean ring the doorbell, and Young Mary answers. She gives the epitome of a “Bzuh??” face mixed with “I hate you, ‘Dean Van Halen.’”
Dean: Hi, Mary.
Sam: *awed*
Young Mary: You can’t be here.
Dean: I’m sorry if this is a bad time.
Young Mary: You don’t understand. I’m not-I don’t do that anymore. I have a normal life now. You have to go.
Dean: I’m sorry, but this is important, okay?
Young John comes to the door.
Young Mary: Sorry, sweetie, they’re just-
Dean: Mary’s cousins! Yeah, we couldn’t stop through town without swinging by and saying hey, now could we? Dean. He and Young John shake hands.
Young John: You look familiar.
Dean (in an “Oh, fuck”-type manner): Really? Yeah, you do, too, actually, you know? Must’ve met at some time. Small towns, right? Gotta love ’em.
Young John (holding out his hand to Sam): I’m John.
Sam: *still shell-shocked, and tearing up*
Dean: This is Sam.
Young John: Sam? Uh, Mary’s father was a Sam.
Dean: Well, it’s a family name.
Young John (when Sam doesn’t let go of his hand): You okay, pal? You look a little spooked.
Sam: Oh yeah, yeah. I just, uh-long trip.
Young Mary: Well. Sam and Dean were just on their way out.
Young John: What? They just got here. We’re real happy to meet folks from Mary’s side. Please, come in for a beer.
Dean: Twist my arm.
Mary: *scowl*
Sam and Dean sit on the couch, Sam staring at Mary in that same “Mom, I can’t believe it’s really you” expression. She thinks he’s a creeper.
Young John: You sure you’re okay, Sam?
Sam: Yeah, just, um... To Mary: You are so beautiful.
Dean: He means that in a non-weird, wholesome family kind of way.
Sam: Oh, yeah, right.
Dean: We haven’t seen Mary in quite some time, and, see, she’s a spitting image of our mom. I mean, it-it’s-
Sam: Eerie.
I love scenes with Sam and Mary-doesn’t matter if it’s Young Mary or Older Mary-I really do. I loved their scene in “Home” (even if she was just a spirit), I loved their scene in “When the Levee Breaks” (even if she was a hallucination caused by Sam’s withdrawal), I loved their sort-of scenes in “Dark Side of the Moon” (even though that was in Dean’s Heaven) I loved their scenes in this episode. We-well, I think it’s a “we”-tend to not address or notice the fact that Sam’s never really had a mom.
We know Dean’s longing to have one again, and we know Sam’s issues with John, but it hasn’t been broached too often about Sam and Mary’s relationship. It was evident in episodes previous to this one that he, too, missed having a mother, but it took until this one for at least me to fully see the effect her absence had on him. The fact that he was so amazed to see her living and breathing, real, really stuck with me. Not that I don’t also love Dean and Mary scenes, but I would really like to see Sam’s want of a mom and lamenting not having one addressed some more in the future.
(And on a purely shallow note, can I just comment on how great Sam’s hair looks in the last scene of this episode? A rarity in these past couple of seasons, to be sure.)
Wow. This was way more long-winded than I meant it to be. Sorry.
Day 14 - A scene that makes you happy
Day 15 - A scene that makes you angry
Day 16 - An episode that scared you
Day 17 - Your favorite SPN friendship
Day 18 - Your favorite SPN romance
Day 19 - Your favorite SPN song
Day 20 - Your favorite recap
Day 21 - Your favorite character entrance
Day 22 - Your favorite minor character
Day 23 - The character that is most like you
Day 24 - An episode you wish never happened
Day 25 - Something that you wish happened but didn’t
Day 26 - Your favorite SPN fanvid
Day 27 - Your favorite season premiere
Day 28 - Your favorite season finale
Day 29 - Your favorite SPN fanfic
Day 30 - Your favorite MOTW
Day 31 - Anything SPN related
Day 2 - Your least favorite character
Day 3 - Your favorite season
Day 4 - Your least favorite season
Day 5 - Your favorite episode
Day 6 - Your least favorite episode
Day 7 - Your favorite Dean crying scene
Day 8 - Your favorite Sam crying scene
Day 9 - Your favorite Dean death scene
Day 10 - Your favorite Sam death scene
Day 11 - Your favorite quote
Day 12 - Your favorite funny scene
Day 13 - A scene that makes you sad/cry
Okay, again I have two. One, because it’s from my favorite episode and never fails to make me cry, and the other because it was sadder than I thought it’d be, and it made me tear up at the angstiness of it all.
The first is from “What Is and What Should Never Be,” and while I was going to use the graveyard scene-which, make no mistake, also never fails to make me cry-I watched the episode the other day and realized that the last scene in the alterna-’verse was killer, too. So:
Fake Sam: Wait!
Fake Mary, Fake Carmen, and Fake Jess walk into the warehouse.
Fake Sam: Why’d you have to keep digging? Why couldn’t you have left well enough alone? You were happy.
Fake Mary: Put the knife down, honey.
Dean: You’re not real. None of it is.
Fake Mary: It doesn’t matter. It’s still better than anything you had.
Dean: What?
Fake Mary: It’s everything you want. We’re a family again. Let’s go home.
Dean: I’ll die. The djinn’ll drain the life out of me in a couple of days.
Fake Mary: But in here, with us, it’ll feel like years. Like a lifetime. I promise. No more pain, no more fear. Just love, and comfort, and safety. Dean. Stay with us. Get some rest.
Fake Jess: You don’t have to worry about Sam anymore. You get to watch him live a full life.
Fake Carmen: We can have a future together. Have our own family. I love you, Dean. Please.
Fake Sam: Why is it our job to save everyone? Haven’t we done enough? I’m begging you. Give me the knife.
Dean looks at everyone.
Dean: I’m sorry. *stabs self*
Okay. So, this slays me because it’s so painfully obvious that Dean wants to stay. That if any of the admittedly fake family members surrounding him had said even just one more sentence, he would’ve agreed to stay behind. That Real Sam would, somehow, understand. Hell, he says as much in the ending scene of this episode. Sure, the people he and Real Sam saved over the past two years would have died, but to Dean, it would’ve been acceptable, given the alternative. He could have a life, Mary would live, Sam would have Jess and get married and would be a lawyer, everything he’d always wanted. (I was totally cool with the fact that John was dead, by the way. Just saying.) And truthfully, I don’t think Dean ever really got over the djinn’s whammy, even though they didn’t explicitly show the fallout.
I mean, think about it: If Dean had stayed, Sam wouldn’t have died in Cold Oak, Dean wouldn’t have sold his soul and gone to Hell a year later and thus never broken the first seal, they never would have met Ruby, Sam would never have drunk demon blood, he would never have unleashed Lucifer and started the Apocalypse, Adam would be alive and well, Dean and Sam would have maintained their good relationship. So, okay, Dean would have died eventually, and we’d never meet Cas, or Lisa, and the angst level would go down considerably, but to Dean, I’m sure that would all be justified.
Oh, Dean. D': Sammy, I love you, you know I do, but this is not the face of a guy who thinks the kinds of sacrifices you guys make are “worth it.” At all.
The next one is from “The Song Remains the Same,” when the boys are meeting their parents in the past. Dean’s seen them both before, but Sam hasn’t. The poor guy has never seen Mary when she’s not an illusion or supernatural. Here she is, real, and yet he has to keep this veneer of “Oh hey, I’m your cousin, and I’ve hung out with you a lot and you’re definitely not my mom.” Sure, he does get to later (though more eloquently), but the scene where he first sees her is just...gah.
Sam and Dean ring the doorbell, and Young Mary answers. She gives the epitome of a “Bzuh??” face mixed with “I hate you, ‘Dean Van Halen.’”
Dean: Hi, Mary.
Sam: *awed*
Young Mary: You can’t be here.
Dean: I’m sorry if this is a bad time.
Young Mary: You don’t understand. I’m not-I don’t do that anymore. I have a normal life now. You have to go.
Dean: I’m sorry, but this is important, okay?
Young John comes to the door.
Young Mary: Sorry, sweetie, they’re just-
Dean: Mary’s cousins! Yeah, we couldn’t stop through town without swinging by and saying hey, now could we? Dean. He and Young John shake hands.
Young John: You look familiar.
Dean (in an “Oh, fuck”-type manner): Really? Yeah, you do, too, actually, you know? Must’ve met at some time. Small towns, right? Gotta love ’em.
Young John (holding out his hand to Sam): I’m John.
Sam: *still shell-shocked, and tearing up*
Dean: This is Sam.
Young John: Sam? Uh, Mary’s father was a Sam.
Dean: Well, it’s a family name.
Young John (when Sam doesn’t let go of his hand): You okay, pal? You look a little spooked.
Sam: Oh yeah, yeah. I just, uh-long trip.
Young Mary: Well. Sam and Dean were just on their way out.
Young John: What? They just got here. We’re real happy to meet folks from Mary’s side. Please, come in for a beer.
Dean: Twist my arm.
Mary: *scowl*
Sam and Dean sit on the couch, Sam staring at Mary in that same “Mom, I can’t believe it’s really you” expression. She thinks he’s a creeper.
Young John: You sure you’re okay, Sam?
Sam: Yeah, just, um... To Mary: You are so beautiful.
Dean: He means that in a non-weird, wholesome family kind of way.
Sam: Oh, yeah, right.
Dean: We haven’t seen Mary in quite some time, and, see, she’s a spitting image of our mom. I mean, it-it’s-
Sam: Eerie.
I love scenes with Sam and Mary-doesn’t matter if it’s Young Mary or Older Mary-I really do. I loved their scene in “Home” (even if she was just a spirit), I loved their scene in “When the Levee Breaks” (even if she was a hallucination caused by Sam’s withdrawal), I loved their sort-of scenes in “Dark Side of the Moon” (even though that was in Dean’s Heaven) I loved their scenes in this episode. We-well, I think it’s a “we”-tend to not address or notice the fact that Sam’s never really had a mom.
We know Dean’s longing to have one again, and we know Sam’s issues with John, but it hasn’t been broached too often about Sam and Mary’s relationship. It was evident in episodes previous to this one that he, too, missed having a mother, but it took until this one for at least me to fully see the effect her absence had on him. The fact that he was so amazed to see her living and breathing, real, really stuck with me. Not that I don’t also love Dean and Mary scenes, but I would really like to see Sam’s want of a mom and lamenting not having one addressed some more in the future.
(And on a purely shallow note, can I just comment on how great Sam’s hair looks in the last scene of this episode? A rarity in these past couple of seasons, to be sure.)
Wow. This was way more long-winded than I meant it to be. Sorry.
Day 14 - A scene that makes you happy
Day 15 - A scene that makes you angry
Day 16 - An episode that scared you
Day 17 - Your favorite SPN friendship
Day 18 - Your favorite SPN romance
Day 19 - Your favorite SPN song
Day 20 - Your favorite recap
Day 21 - Your favorite character entrance
Day 22 - Your favorite minor character
Day 23 - The character that is most like you
Day 24 - An episode you wish never happened
Day 25 - Something that you wish happened but didn’t
Day 26 - Your favorite SPN fanvid
Day 27 - Your favorite season premiere
Day 28 - Your favorite season finale
Day 29 - Your favorite SPN fanfic
Day 30 - Your favorite MOTW
Day 31 - Anything SPN related