Sam the Believer: meta on "Faith"

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Sam in “Faith”

Continuity-wise (or at least air-date-wise), this episode aired right after “Scarecrow”, which was the Big Breakup of the brothers. We don’t know how much time had passed since Sam returned to Dean, but any misfeelings or misgivings that Sam might have are obliterated when he sees Dean dying in a hospital bed.

Sam has spent the first

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Somehow I think that normally both Sam and Dean would have scoffed if they heard about some "faith healer" in a tent. I bet they stumbled upon their fair share of "psychic" frauds in their lifes. I`m not so sure Sam generally leaps to believe in good, his life hasn`t been the greatest testament to "good" out there.
Just in this case Sam was desperate, he needed a miracle and he needed to believe in it to keep it together. And he also tried Dean to believe to keep up hope.

but I got the impression it was more for what Dean now has to go through,

Me too. Not that he was giddy that another person had died but in the end of things it was more important to him that Dean lived.
Dean with his "I`m not worthy"-attitude looked at it different than Sam for whom Dean IS worthy. I guess that was a large chunk of Dean`s anger at Roy when he believed the man the culprit.

Though hilariously when they find out it is SueAnn, Dean has to point out to Sam that she initially did it out of desperation to save her husband. Short-term memory failings,