Supernatural Ponderings

[vixalicious]

Comparing and Contrasting Faith, Season 1, to Fresh Blood, Season 3
Spoilers for everything that has aired in the US to date.

Comments

[just_ruth]

On "Faith" has anyone wondered _why_ Dean was chosen? Aside from he-is-co-star-of-the-show, how were the healed chosen? Was there a very subtle force of good "nudging" things along while still allowing the boys the free will to express their doubts and fears? (If I have learned anything in my life it is that God's touch can be so subtle you don't recognize it until it has passed

[zillah975]

Yay thinky thoughts! I would never have noticed the parallels between Faith and Fresh Blood - very interesting!

Also, re: Sam being 100% Sam, I think he is. I don't really believe that anything evil hitched a ride with him - for one thing, how could it? someone like Sam wouldn't have gone to Hell if he just died, so.... I think what happened was that Sam's just losing some of his idealism. It hasn't gotten him much so far: he refuses to kill Jake, so Jake stabs him in the back, literally; he refuses to kill Gordon, so Gordon busts out of jail and comes gunning for him and Dean; they save Bela's life and she sells them out to Gordon; and so on.

I think he's just growing more pragmatic, less idealistic, and less patient. He doesn't have time to ... oh, see, now I may have to write more thinky thoughts myself, 'cause I touched on this at What's In Your Trunk yesterday but now I'm thinking more about it, and I'm getting all interested all over again. He doesn't have time to deal with Lucy; he's got less than a year to save Dean, so what

[dean_and_lauren]

aye, there's the rub my dear. Or is it that Sam's tired of being pushed, a similar exchange of dialogue took place in Nightmare as well when Sam didn't want to kill Max. But when he came back he made swiss cheese of Jake, before he even knew he died.

But all the same, nice catch. I was too busy laughing at Dean's ninja joke to notice.