Supernatural: Dark Side of the Moon
Finally! A Practical Application for String Theory!
by Sylvia Bond
Supernatural Episode Review – Season 5, Episode 16
“Dark Side of the Moon”
I struggled this week with my enthusiasm for Show, on account of last week’s also-ran episode. And I was concerned about the direction Show seemed to be going, which was abroad-spectrum focus on secondary characters, with angels and demons living together, and less and less of Sam. Not that Show has to go exactly the way I want it, however, it should go the way it set up for itself. It should be true to itself, and to its fans. Of which I’m one.
So was this week worth my fealty and staying power? Yes, and then yes again. Plus, I can safely add that the boys look very pretty when dead. Which seems like an odd thing to say, except the boys have died quite a bit, and have gone to heaven quite a bit. Only this time, they get to remember that they were there, and we get to join them on their sojourn through the pearly gates, and their romp along the streets made of gold, and share their memories of the good times in their lives. Though, naturally, this being Show, the memories are made up of both the bitter and the sweet, all mixed together with Winchester angsty goodness.
Back to the boys looking pretty when they’re dead, okay?
The first scene opens, interior motel room, sometime. The camera scans over the empty beer cans. I count enough dented cans for at least three six packs of beer, which even for the Winchester boys is a lot, which makes me wonder what they were celebrating? Was it Sam’s successful detox perhaps? Given no other evidence, let’s say that’s what it was, but it really doesn’t matter because the important thing here is that the boys spent the evening drinking in their motel room, and probably were loosened up enough to talk to each other, and maybe come to terms with how different they are, and how they’re still brothers, and that the love is still there, in spite of it all. (And if the love is there, the trust can be worked on.) The entire scan of the camera lasts about a minute or so, and tells me much more than dialog ever could.
Then there’s the boys, waking up to shotguns being aimed at them. The shotguns are held by two men in balaclavas, except Dean recognizes them anyway, go Dean! They’re hunters who are pissed at the boys, and pretty much without warning, the one named Walt shoots my beloved Sam. He flies back, his beautifully pale skin spattered by crimson, and his hair spread across a white pillow much in the manner of a damsel in a fairy tale. He’s simply gorgeous in this shot (what’s not to love?), so thanks to the team for giving me this sigh-worthy visage.
One of the balaclava dudes (Walt) lets his friend (Roy) know that he’d best hurry up and kill Dean, and quickly too, because they’ve just shot Sam, and there’s no escaping Dean’s wrath. Dean backs this up with some hard looks and a “When I come back, I’m gonna be pissed,” threat, which, really, is quite perfect. And this is because it’s true. I can’t put it any more simply than that because the following axiom is eternal: mess with Sam and Dean’s the piper you’re going to have to pay. (A quick aside. The names of the guys in balaclavas are Roy and Walt, which just happen to be the first names of two brothers whose last name is Disney, which seems pretty clever, considering the theory about heaven that comes into play later.)
Anyway, back to the plot. Being a little smarter than your average bear, Walt blasts Dean right in the chest, and back he falls. But not to worry. This being Show, and Dean being Dean, the brothers are going straight to heaven.
The first memory is Dean’s. He wakes up in the Impala, (not dead and listening to strains of the quintessential Winchester tune “Knocking on Heaven’s Door.”) He finds Wee Sam (brilliantly played, as always, by Colin Ford) with a plastic milk carton full of fireworks. Then, in an empty field, Wee Sam asks Dean for a lighter, and Dean pulls out a lighter he’s not seen in many years. The Winchesters have always travelled out of their car and don’t have a home to call their own, let alone very many possessions, so it rather made my throat start to tighten to see Dean’s pleasure at this one small object.
And then the boys start lighting fireworks, setting them to glowing in the night sky, and shining on the smiles on the boys’ faces. This is followed by looks of brotherly adoration from Wee Sam, and a brotherly hug, and so much bittersweet goodness, my breath started to catch at the beauty of it. And, what’s more, I liked the idea of the Wee brothers having their own pleasures where they could, even without parental supervision. And then Wee Sam starts dancing around in slow motion, with Dean watching and grinning like a loon.
Now, normally, slow motion is hokey, and that much emo is usually overdone, but by god, I’m going to confess it right now. I love Hallmark commercials because they make me cry. I’m also terribly fond of those Liberty Mutual commercials, you know the ones where some guy picks up a kid’s doll, and then that woman pushes another man’s coffee cup away from the edge of the table, and another man sees that action, and helps a man up from where he’s slipped in the street in the pouring rain, and on it goes, making a huge circle of help, right back to the man with the kid’s doll. So watching this scene made me feel like that, all good and gooey and happy inside.
Then the scene goes away, and the Soap Angel comes on the radio of the Impala to tell Dean how to find Sam, which is always a good thing, because even if this is heaven, Little Brother cannot be allowed to wander around on his own. The other thing I liked was that the Soap Angel told Dean that his “light” (how he sees the way he should go) was a two-lane asphalt road, rather than a “light” or a river.” Plus I realized that what I was going to get was a slew of these types of scenes, memories and bits of the Winchester’s early life, and I knew I was in for a treat.
Post-fireworks, Dean drives off in the Impala, through the night, along a two-lane blacktop road. Overhead, is a full moon, and a sky full of stars. Which, as you know, is impossible, even if it is very pretty. But since this is heaven, since this is Dean’s heaven, the full moon is big enough and close enough to touch, all silver and blazing with moon dust. And around it, the stars sparkle white against the black and dark purple, like diamonds against velvet. This for Dean is a perfect night, this for Dean is perfection, and such a simple perfection it is, something that money and power cannot buy, and so right for Dean’s character, that he would choose this. Oh Dean, be it ever thus.
Onward Dean goes, to discover Sam playing Happy Family, sharing Thanksgiving Dinner with people who are not his kin. That’s one of Sam’s good memories, how at the age of 11 he managed to wrangle an invitation to his little girlfriend’s house. Apparently for the Winchesters, Thanksgiving was usually a bucket of extra crispy with The Dad passing out on the couch after drinking too much. (I really loved that detail, I can tell you.) And that’s a kind of Thanksgiving memory too, which I’m sure far too many people share some version of, but wouldn’t it be nicer to go to a Rockwell-esque gathering like Sam does?
Enter Dean to rescue Sam. Amidst the Happy Family, Dean looks all tough in his leather jacket, only Sam doesn’t need rescuing, and the scene goes a little wonky, because Sam is backlit while Dean’s face is in the clear light. I’d be thinking that the Lighting Guys hate me, only they gave me such a pretty Sam in the opening scene, so I’m willing to give them another chance.
I liked watching the brothers discuss the situation and try to figure out how they got into heaven, especially the part where Sam wonders more for himself than for Dean. (On account of how he started the apocalypse and all.) And then, how Dean reassures Sam that he “thought he was doing the right thing,” which explains, at least in part, how Dean is so readily able to forgive Sam for all his, um, goofs. In spite of any misgivings the brothers might have about being where they are, the fact that they’re talking about “remember when” and sharing the good times? That’s a good sign for the relationship between them.
When the lights start flickering in a creepy way, the boys work together to figure out how to contact the Soap Angel. Who promptly tells them that Zach is after them and that they must find Joshua, who is an angel who can talk to God, which the boys really need to do right about now.
The Soap Angel tells them also that they have to follow the road to find the Garden, which is where Joshua is. Sam stands passively by (which is not a good use of Padalecki’s talents!) while Dean finds the model race track in the closet, and when he bends down to play with it, the boys end up in their old home in Lawrence. The house in Lawrence, incidentally, appears several times in this ep, giving it the air of a way station through which supernatural ley lines pass, allowing pilgrims to get where they are going. This leads the boys into another scene, and it just gets darling and sweet and angsty from there.
Dean is dressed in a shirt emblazoned with a teddy bear and an “I wuv hugz” logo. Sam promptly makes fun of him, which tells me, just as promptly, that the brothers are in full brother mode. (Sam is dressed as himself, which is not sore on the eyes, no, not at all. Plus his hair is going every which way, which I take as a salute and acknowledgement to all Samhair fans everywhere.) Not only that, the camera pulls back to reveal that the boys are in Dean’s room back in Lawrence, which means Dean’s about four-ish (an innocent and pre-ceiling fire four) in this scenario. And not only is the room an answer to a long-held wish of mine to actually see Dean’s room since we got to see Sam’s on more than one occasion, it is a wealth of personal details
On the wall is a watercolor painting, done by Dean, at some point, and properly framed (instead of merely being tacked to the fridge). There’s a race car on the nightstand, and a dump truck with a little guitar in it, there’s clean pjs draped over the chair (the shirt has a blue star on it), and a little desk for Wee Dean to some day do his homework, there’s a coat rack with a puppet and a windbreaker, and a rain slicker, and a fireman’s hat, and a football helmet, and on and on and on, all giving evidence that Dean was highly indulged as a child. And whyever not, being as cute as he is? And was?
Not only that, but The Mom, dressed in a pretty spring dress and looking fairly Madonna-like, comes to the door to ask if Wee Dean would like a pb&j? And, back in the kitchen, this she makes him, with Dean looking pretty adorable while he watches, because for Dean, it’s quite symbolic when his mom makes him a sandwich. (Which she tends to do it every single time Dean goes “home.”)
And not only does she cut off the crusts, but she pours him a glass of milk. This ritual is one of the most powerful expressions of love that I know of. Plus, everyone who drinks milk knows this: milk that your mom pours for you tastes better than if you’d poured it for yourself. It just does, even though no one really knows why. Sam looks on, practically drooling, not just for a bite of the pb&j, but for everything the scene represents: the mother-love he never, ever, ever experienced. (See what I mean about these scenes being both bitter and sweet?)
Then The Mom is on the phone with The Dad, and it comes to light that they are arguing, and that The Dad moved out of the house for a few days. (It’s interesting to think of what John wanted and what Mary was supposed to “think about,” a choice which she refuses because of Sam and Dean. But I suppose we will never know.) Dean does his usual and empathic comforting of The Mom, which he does very well, even if he was only four at the time. (He’s such a good hugger, that boy.) In addition to that, the dialog between Sam and Dean is significant.
First, Sam comments about how he always thought relationship between The Mom and The Dad was perfect; Dean replies that it was only perfect after she died. Which speaks to the pedestal that John put Mary on, which echoes with the implications and of how much work it must have been to keep her there. Not that she wasn’t great, okay? But you can’t put people on pedestals for very long before it starts becoming very difficult and arduous to keep them there.
Then, after Dean hugs The Mom, Sam makes a comment about Dean having started early in cleaning up The Dad’s messes. To which Dean replies with that look in his eyes, the one he tends to get when he wants to defend The Dad and be stoutfast in his loyalty, but really can’t find the words to make it 100% true. He always looks so vulnerable when he looks like that.
See what I mean about this episode being chock full of Winchestery goodness? This ep is everywhere you want to be.
While looking for another clue to get them to Joshua, the boys stumble upon one of Sam’s memories. Yeah, finally! The memory takes place in a run-down cabin or motel room or whatever. Straight away, Sam has an introspective grin on his handsome face; it only takes him 30 seconds or less to figure out where they are. It’s Flagstaff, and there are empty pizza boxes and a Golden named Bones, and Sam looks pretty happy with his blissful memories of living off of Funyuns and Mr. Pibb.
But the memory is of the bittersweet variety, because apparently, Sam ran away for a few weeks, probably because he couldn’t stand being a Winchester a second longer. Trouble is, Sam ran away on Dean’s watch, and when The Dad came home, Dean had to pay for it. Naturally, Sam is sorry, and it’s interesting to see how different their perspective of the same memory is. Ever have a conversation with a sibling where you finally, after about 20 years, discuss what happened back then? It’s a shocking feeling to find out that your point of view isn’t the only one and is probably skewed by time.
The boys carry on and are shot right into a memory all fans know as “The Night Sam Left For Stanford.” Oddly enough, the boys stand outside the house and we don’t actually get to see the argument between Sam and The Dad, which is the one where The Dad told Sam that if he left he shouldn’t bother coming back. We still don’t know who Sam told first, or whether Dean actually drove Sam to the bus stop or not, and whether he gave him any money, or even a hug goodbye. (Canon won’t tell us, but fans seem to have a consensus that that Sam took the bus, rather than hitched, to Stanford.) Sadly, this is one of Sam’s happiest memories, yet he lacks any accoutrement such as Dean had. There are no toys, no cute shirt, not even a bus ticket and a duffle bag to round out the scene.
And while, yes, I am whining about that, I’m also whining about the lack of an appearance of Jeffrey Dean Morgan as The Dad, though it isn’t for purely selfish reasons. It is because this scene, mentioned time and again thorough Show’s run, is significant in the Winchester history timeline in oh, so many ways. Thusly, it deserves to be shown, rather than merely told, as it is here. And it’s not just that this is because it’s Sam’s memory given short shrift, this event was huge and pivotal in the Winchester’s lives, with surely as much, if not more, impact than a small boy getting a pb&j sandwich made especially for him.
Although, truthfully, even with the telling rather than showing, the conversation in the street is pretty interesting. Firstly, because Sam pretends not to remember where they are, even though it doesn’t take Dean long to figure it out. (Dean refers to it as one of the worst nights of his life. Aw, Dean.)
And secondly, because Dean finally notices that all of Sam’s memories have to do with him being on his own, rather than being with his family. Dean accuses Sam of not being connected, and then Sam explains, with heartbreaking clarity (and his forehead all scrunched up in that adorable way it gets when he feels bad), that he doesn’t have any memories like Dean does, of a mom making a pb&j for him, nothing like that, and thusly, has no sense of family like Dean does. In spite of the sadness throughout the dialog here, I felt this was the closest the brothers have been in some time. (And of course, as any True Fan could tell you, they are each other’s family, regardless of whether they are in proximity to each other.)
Zachariah is hot on the boys’ trail, and is chasing them, and while Running Boys is a delicious flavor indeed, I sense they are in peril. Just a little peril, mind you, but luckily Sam and Dean are rescued by a mysterious superhero with a mask and a cape. This superhero leads the boys back to a place that looks oddly like The Roadhouse used to. And, tad a! The superhero turns out to be Ash! You remember Ash, don’t you? Ash is the guy who used to sleep out his drunken state on the pool table, who was too smart even for his own good, and who is, with all due respect to Sam and Dean, my own true love.
Ash is in full form in heaven, living it up with his mullet hair and his earring and his sleeveless black t-shirt, shotgunning beer. Using the analogy of Disneyland, Ash also explains to the boys about how heaven is made up of individual heavens, like the different lands at Disneyland, which kind of makes sense when you think about it. Because your heaven is made up of what you think is heaven. And if everyone else’s is too, then, logically, by definition, you’d have all these heavens. (Winchesterland! Oh, my GOD, can you imagine the rides that land would have? There’d be an Impala ride and a shooting gallery, and a haunted house to beat the band…but I digress.)
Anyway, in Ash’s theory, all the heavens are connected by the Magic Kingdom (the Garden), although Ash is quick to point out that most people inhabit their heavens alone, but a few people share. Special cases, he explains, using a fist-bumping gesture, like soulmates. Soulmates are the only ones who can share their heaven.
Cue quick non-looking (and delicious) looks between Sam and Dean, while Ash goes blithely on. (Or perhaps not so blithely. Ash is not so dumb as he is tactful.)
Let’s talk about soulmates for a minute, shall we? The general definition of soulmate is “a person with whom one has a feeling of deep and natural affinity, love, intimacy, sexuality, spirituality, and/or compatibility.” (Thank you Wikipedia. And if you need more info, just google “soulmate” and be prepared to be overwhelmed by the response.)
So what does this mean, exactly? It means that Sam and Dean are SOULMATES! It can mean anything you want it to mean, but deep, way deep down, it means that they are destined to be together forever, joined with love and devotion and fealty and trust and happiness and joy. And maybe a few hugs now and then, a couple of chuffs to the back of the head, some wall-slamming, and more nights of drinking a few sixes together until they pass out on their beds in a haze of blissful relaxation.
And if that image isn’t enough for you, then think about this. They’re soulmates sharing the same heaven, right? It means that no matter what the angels or the demons try to do, they will never, ever, ever, ever, EVER be able to separate Sam and Dean on earth, so there. The angels and demons might as well just give it up now, except that would deny me my fannish joy in watching the boys running and jumping and leaping and shooting, and all the other marvelously boyish things they will need to do to finally avert their particular destinies of being meatsuits for Mike and Lucky.
Most people have to stay in their own heavens. But of course, Ash has figured a way around that. He’s spent his time having White Russians with Einstein, and tuning his computer to translate what the angels are saying into plain English.
Enter Pamela, the blind psychic, who is on a visit from her heaven to see Ash and the boys. Ash and Sam work the computer to find a shortcut to the Garden, and I about split a gut when Ash calmly announced that he’d finally, finally figured out a practical application for string theory. (Please marry me, Ash, I’ll be good to you. With a brain like that, can you imagine our kids?)
Pamela wastes her time trying to convince Dean that he should say yes to A.A. Mike. I got the feeling, as I do every now and then, that both Dean and Sam are going to say yes, and they might as well do it sooner rather than later. Have I bought a bill of goods? You tell me, because that’s how the finale to this storyarc has to go down. You can’t build it up this much and not have a showdown between Mike and Lucky whilst wearing the boys as shields. Moreover, I thought it was interesting that for all Pamela’s admiration of Sam’s ass in a previous ep, it is Dean she kisses goodbye. After which she announces it was as delicious as she thought it would be. So, no kiss for Sammy AGAIN? (Although Dean’s smirk was very cute.)
Back the boys go to the house in Lawrence, only this time Zach is there to torment Sam and Dean with images of kissing The Mom and mocking their pain, and generally being a big, fat, bald jerk, which the actor who plays him does wonderfully well. Again all the focus seems to be on Dean, for some reason, though I guess I should be grateful this time around on account of Sam doesn’t get punched in the stomach. And the guilt that Dean absorbs from The Faux Mom’s diatribe is neverending; the boy just simply can’t walk away from it, even though none of it is his fault.
Luckily, to save the day, the Angel Joshua arrives to tell Zach off and to pull the boys into another memory, this time in the botanical gardens in Cleveland. Joshua’s got a lot to say to the boys, stuff like welcome to Cleveland, and you’re on your own, neither of which anyone ever wants to hear. Yep, that’s what he tells them when they say they want to talk to God. God knows everything they want to tell him anyway, being omniscient and all that, problem is, he’s not willing to give them answers and directions or anything. According to Joshua (and God), it’s still Team Free Will around these parts, and nothing’s going to change that.
As if that weren’t enough, he’s even got more acerbic things to say, to the boys. “God saved you already,” Joshua says to Dean. And to Sam, “He granted you salvation in heaven, and after everything you’ve done, too.” (Well, Sam’s the Prodigal Son, after all, right? But the look on Sam’s face is heartbreaking. When is someone going to punish and then forgive this boy so he can go on with his life without this heavy burden of guilt?)
Joshua’s parting gift is that the boys get to return to their skanky, beer can-littered motel room with their memories of their recent visit to heaven intact. What do you think that will buy them? It buys them time. It buys them awareness. It buys them some platitudes about living in the moment, but it also gives them knowledge about the future, and that there is a heaven. Will it be enough to save them, and make them strong for the coming battle? Only Show knows for sure.
Everyone’s in the room, even the Soap Angel, who is despondent about not being able to talk to God. Angry, he tosses the super special amulet back to Dean, saying he doesn’t want it any more. And Dean? He doesn’t want it any more either, because he’s lost his faith utterly and completely. And then he throws it away.
Which leaves Sam (nattily dressed in a thin wale brown corduroy shirt with pearl buttons), who seems to know, somehow, that this is the exact wrongest moment to loose faith. Except that Sam hasn’t. Because while Dean has always put all of his faith into a father figure, be it God or The Dad, Sam has always put his faith in Dean. So Dean can loose his faith, but Sam, if he has Dean, will always have his. And since we know they’re soul mates forever’n’ever, Sam will always have that. And perhaps, with enough time and hugs and chuffs to the back of the head and wall slamming and whatever else you can think of, Sam can share his faith with Dean, and the boys will beat this stupid destiny thing. When Dean wonders how they’re going to find a way to beat this thing (stopping the apocalypse), Sam says stoutly, “You and me, we’ll find it.”
I sure hope Sam rescues the necklace from the trash can. Because he’s not just going to be rescuing the necklace, you see. He’s going to be rescuing Dean as well. Throughout their history together, when one brother is weak and stumbles, the other brother picks that one up and carries him for a spell. And then when he gets tired, the process is reversed. And Dean is well and truly at the end of his rope. You can see it in his face and the weariness of his gestures. His perpetual five o’clock shadow is sexy as hell, but it also means that Dean’s too tired to shave, and thus too damn tired to care about much else. But Sam’s been doing a lot of the Rescuing of The Dean lately, I feel fairly comfortable he’s got lots of practice and is up to the task.
Oh, if you couldn’t tell, I loved this episode. Loved it, loved it, loved it. It was extremely watchable, and in fact, I never had 40 minutes and three seconds go by SO fast. It gave me Winchester facts that I had not heretofore known and made several fannish theories canon. It had the brothers talking, really talking, and, I could watch this over several times and not get tired of it. You could say, in a way, that this ep has renewed my faith in Show.
Sylvia Bond is a ten-year technical writing veteran with too many degrees under her belt to count. She lives in Colorado, but does not ski, preferring instead to spend her money and time at the annual Great American Beer Festival, taking road trips across the United States, and reading historical fiction from the comfort of her fluffy green arm chair. She has been involved in fandom since 1993 and been writing fanfic since approximately 1993. What she finds most amazing about fandom (besides the open heartedness of fans and the sheer amount of creativity) is how visible fandom has become. “In my day,” she says, “we had to hide behind P.O. boxes to get fanfic. But nowadays, people wear t-shirts that shout their affiliation and share their shiny toys on the internet.” It’s a wonderful world.
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I dont think it had the boys talking , neither did Dean seem to accept Sams memories .The throwing of the amulet ? open to interpretation .
John and Mary's argument- I wonder if it could have been about having another child? Mary wasn't pregnant in this episode so maybe Dean was alittle younger than 4. Mary may have done some investigating and had an 'idea' of the YED's plan– just me jabbering aloud.
As for the amulet- I'm betting(praying) that Sam rescues the amulet,(God sonar), Dean and Cas have both lost their faith, wouldn't it be great if Sam (the boy with the demon blood) is the one how defeats the demons and Lucifer..
Yes, I agree with Robijean. Mary mentions two children in her conversation with John on the phone. She's wearing a very summery dress, so I'm thinking it's in the summertime, which would mean that Sam is around three months old (she dies when he's six months old), which would mean that Dean turned four in January of that year.
I'm probably thinking far too much about this calendar thing. : D
Mary mentioned in the argument that he was leaving two boys so I'm pretty sure Sam was born. And the comforting thing would have been strange for someone younger than 4. Sorry can't comment more, going to be late for work.
You're right, I forgot her phone conversation, my bad…
John and Mary's argument- I wonder if it could have been about having another child? Mary wasn't pregnant in this episode so maybe Dean was alittle younger than 4. Mary may have done some investigating and had an 'idea' of the YED's plan– just me jabbering aloud. ______________________________________________________________________As for the amulet- I'm betting(praying) that Sam rescues the amulet,(God sonar), Dean and Cas have both lost their faith, wouldn't it be great if Sam (the boy with the demon blood) is the one how defeats the demons and Lucifer..______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________I would__also love to see JDM back on the show, John is being trashed left and right lately and I for one have had enough!!! I'd like to see God appear in John's meat suit…____
I love your idea! What a path to redemption that would be! And Sam's been saving the day so often lately, it wouldn't be too far for him to go to be The Boy Who Does Good Things in spite of the demon blood and the Lucky connection. And then he saves the world. And Dean.
As for JDM, we could use a petition right about now, eh? The character of The Dad is in an episode whether or not JDM is there to say any dialog – so why not just have him show up and redeem John? We already know Ash can't find him in heaven, so where is he? Besides, we keep having Mary, who I adore, making appearances, I think it's about time that John did. But I don't need to convince you of that, do I. It's like preaching to the choir here!
This review was just what I needed to distract myself from pre-travel stress. Thanks Sylvia! I keep telling you that you make my Tuesdays, and I do mean it.
I have to say though, this episode didn't make my Thursday very happy last week. I didn't care much for big chunks of this one. I loved the beginning, even if the shock factor of seeing one of the Winchesters die has long since faded; as you pointed out, they do it so beautifully that it's still nice to watch. I LOVED Dean's anger and ferocity toward the hunters who killed Sam, and I thoroughly believed him about coming back pissed. A pissed off Dean Winchester is not something I would ever want to face. I loved seeing Wee!Sam again. Whoever cast Colin Ford in that role is a genius.
Watching Dean with Mary was heartbreaking. The way his face changes when he looks at her gets me every time. That scene was beautiful and wrenching at the same time. The comment about the marriage only being perfect after she died, and about Dean cleaning up John's messes, as you covered, were meaningful, and very real. It also killed me, the way that Dean asked Sam to give him a minute, and the fact that Sam did, even though it had to be ripping his heart out to watch that, on more than one level. Watching Dean hurt like that would be enough to tear Sam up on its own, but the fact that he had to stand there, and be completely ignored by their mother, while he watched her dote on Dean, that had to HURT. There was his brother, right there in front of him, getting everything he never had.
Now we come to the first part that really annoyed me. I was mildly irritated when Dean jumped on Sam for having happy memories of another family's Thanksgiving, but the brouhaha over the next one of Sam's memories to come up really pissed me off. We go from Dean's good memory of a (fairly) happy home, a loving mother, and PB&J's with the crusts cut off, to Sam's good memory of an abandoned trailer in the middle of nowhere (not just the middle of nowhere, but the middle of nowhere Arizona, that's about as nowhere as you can get), with just a sweet Golden Retriever for company. That's pretty damn sad. But does Dean see it as sad? Or care that this counts as a good memory for Sam? Well Dean does hone in on that last part, but not in the way I meant it. Just like the Thanksgiving scene, Dean jumps down Sam's throat because of his own memories of the same time. And I get it. Dean's memories of that time are scary and painful and so not something he ever wants to revisit.
But as you pointed out, that's a fairly common thing with siblings, even ones who grow up in a reasonably stable home, for each of them to remember the same event from very different points of view. Dean's feelings of anger and hurt are no more or less valid than Sam's happy point of view of the time. Should Sam have run away? Well, they never bothered to explain WHY he ran away, so we don't know for a fact, but it's a safe guess that it was the wrong thing to do, so no, he shouldn't have. Should Dean have been upset when Sam ran away? Hell yes. My issues weren't with Dean's feelings, which were pretty much inline with the situation, but with the way he chose to express them.
Sorry, I got all wordy again and had to split it up.
Don't apologize for being wordy! I adore your passion.
And yeah, such a very, very good point about the comparisons. Dean gets all these good memories, and is allowed to wallow in them, and yet Sam gets shouted at for wanting to enjoy his. Plus he's forced to watch Dean's happy memories, but doesn't get to share in them. Show is just really pounding Sam into the ground – I wished I'd seen that more clearly when I was writing my review. I think I was wallowing in the insights into Sam and Dean's pasts, you know?
Thank you for letting me be wordy. I tend to feel a lot better once I get it all out of my system.
I was right there with you, enjoying the insight into their past until Dean up and lit into Sam the first time. I was very "Bwuh huh?" at first, and then I got mad. I'm very tired of the games Show is playing, and the erratic way they've written Dean lately. The message they're sending is that Sam is less than Dean, and as you said, they seem to want to pound Sam into the ground. That's so wrong I don't know where to start, and unless it has a huge, HUGE pay off coming up, it needs to stop, NOW. And I have exactly zero faith that they're working up to anything regarding Sam. He'll wind up being even less important than he is now by the time it's done. Dean's the saint after all.
Just moments before, we saw Dean ask Sam for a little more time (and yes, I've seen the countless thoughts of people screaming at Sam for trying to "rush" Dean through his memory), and Sam gave it to him, despite the hurt it cause him personally. Now not five minutes later, Dean can't be bothered to let Sam have thirty seconds in his rather sad memory with his dog (who you know didn't get to stick around once Sam was found), before he's tearing Sam a new one and stalking out the door. He really failed at the whole reciprocation part of that encounter. And what does Sam do? Gets up and follows Dean, once again giving Dean what he wants at the moment, which is apparently to get out of there. I hate to break it to Dean, but it's not all about what he feels and what he thinks and remembers.
Then we get to the infamous Stanford night memory, and Sam tries to spare Dean by encouraging him to keep going. Sam didn't want to linger there and relive it, he wanted to get out, because he didn't want to hurt Dean. Then when Dean got upset again, what did Sam say? "I can't control this", or something to that effect. Now not only is Dean getting mad at Sam for remembering things that he personally doesn't like, he's getting mad at Sam for something Sam isn't even doing. As to who was controlling it, my money would be on Zachariah, if there was anyone at the controls. But it's possible that memories just come up at complete random in that heaven. I would find that suspicious though, that if it was totally random, that three of Sam's memories that came up in a row would be the exact ones that would piss Dean off the most. You can not convince me that those are the only happy memories Sam has. I know he has a boatload that include Dean. He has to have some that have Jess in them. He might even have one or two of John. Stranger things have happened. So I tend to lean toward someone manipulating it, as Zachariah did later on. And the thing is, I disagree with you on Dean's capacity for forgiveness. The way he reacted over those memories makes me think he never even came close to forgiving Sam for any of that stuff. If he can't forgive Sam for that, he's never going to forgive him for the Ruby debacle and letting Lucifer out, though Dean's said as much on the latter front. I think Dean shoves things aside without ever really closing the matter, so it appears that he forgives and forgets, but all he really does is forget. Or refuse to remember.
Ash! I missed him so much! I was so happy to see him. Chad Lindberg is made of awesome, and I'm so glad he got to bring Ash to life one more time. Seeing Pamela again was nice, but boy she sure was acting funny. First all the encouraging Dean to say yes, and saying that people would be going to a better place even if they died and so on, then pretty much completely ignoring Sam (not that everyone else doesn't do that on a more regular basis) when before she couldn't keep her hands off of him. Weird. That's something else that makes me think Zach had his egomaniacal, pudgy little fingers in this pie all along.
Cleveland? Seriously? The Mistake by the Lake's botanical gardens are Sam and Dean's ultimate garden? Uh huh. Sure. And the fact that Kripke is from Ohio had NOTHING to do with that one, I'm sure. Though it did get a snicker out of me. Now, I'm not sure if Zach and co had anything to do with Joshua (I loved the actor who played him too) and the message he gave Sam and Dean. But if Zach wasn't behind it, then that's just cold. God created this mess and now he's just saying "Screw that" and wandering off on sabbatical? Someone needs to take over that throne, if the current ruler doesn't care any more than that. I was irritated by Joshua's pointed dig at Sam too. Like Sam hadn't already questioned why he was there. And it's not like Dean is some squeaky clean saint who's never "done things". Perhaps not the same sort of things that Sam did, but he made a demon deal, and he broke the first seal, so squeaky clean he ain't.
You know, I haven't been this wordy in a while, so I guess this one was at least good enough to get a reaction out of me.
I think the part about Dean forgiving Sam does indicate his capacity to forgive Sam. He distinctly gives Sam his forgiveness when he says, "Well, you were trying to do the right thing" with regard to the apocolypse.
Maybe Dean can forgive Sam for anything that doesn't involve him personally. That fits with what he said in Lucifer Rising, when he chewed Sam out for apologizing too much and told him there was nothing Sam could do to make things right. He wasn't mad about the Apocalypse; he was mad about Ruby. He was mad about the part that was personal. Of course, Dean isn't dumb, at all, so he probably saw that being angry with Sam for starting the Apocalypse wasn't fair, since he broke a seal too. But it was still the personal hurt that seemed to hit the hardest for him.
Yes, that's the way to put it. As long as it isn't about Dean, then Dean can forgive Sam anything…
Though, yes, you are right in that Dean's not forgiving Sam (or being very kind to Sam) about how his memories are non-family related. Sam's got a very good explanation in that his idea of family doesn't involve mom-made pb&js. So I disagree with you that Dean' never forgives Sam, though, yes, when you point it out, Dean was pretty much slamming every thing Sam had ever enjoyed that didn't involve Dean.
Dean's always been that way, to a point. Sam was never really allowed to talk about John, or their lives growing up without being reminded that he left. It seems that in Dean's mind, Sam's leaving for school equated to Sam failing to appreciate his entire childhood, or something like that. I think it's Dean's nature to see black and white, and Sam running away, both in Arizona, and when he went to Stanford, is more of a grey area. So it doesn't fit into Dean's view of things, and that's why he can't let go of it. That's just a theory.
Someone more eloquent than I am (ancastar) said on LJ that "Dean needs to realize that it's okay for Sam to find joy in things that aren't directly tied to Dean. He needs to be able to love that Sam as well as the one who worshiped him as a child." And I think that sums it up nicely, as well as, I think, fits in with what I was saying about Dean black and white with no grey areas in his personal relationships.
Remember how Dean said that the night Sam left for Stanford was the worst night of his life? Not the night his mom died, not when his dad died, not being in hell, no. THAT night is the worst night of his life. Which tells me that he simply cannot live without Sam, and he's incensed that Sam appears to be able to live without him. Although, truly, I think Sam's ability to live without Dean stems from the fact that he's always felt like the isolated outsider. He didn't think huntery thoughts while in the cradle, and while he might be very huntery now, it wasn't how he felt when the Winchesters were on the road, so, black sheep he was, and he fended for himself emotionally. I'm thinking that he's somewhat flummoxed now that Dean won't let him enjoy his memories (such as they are), because at the time, he was looking for his own happiness, which was different from Dean's.
I think that shrink at the mental institution was right; they're far too co-dependent.
What I think Dean is totally failing to grasp here is that what he's angry with Sam for (and I agree that he seems to be furious with Sam for being able to live without him) is something that he himself forced on Sam. Maybe not so much with the Stanford thing, though I seriously doubt Sam would have said no if Dean had wanted to go with him. And maybe not as much when they were younger, though if Sam felt that Dean was on John's side about things, then he might have felt forced by both of them to learn to live alone, by virtue of being made to feel like he didn't fit in at home, as someone else pointed out here in the comments. That's purely conjecture, and I'm not trying to blame Dean for all of it. But once someone learns to take care of themselves emotionally on their own, doing so physically isn't that big of a leap.
The forcing definitely came into play when Dean went to Hell. That was a decision Dean made, without consulting Sam (yes, I realize that he COULDN'T consult Sam), and he left Sam behind with no choice but to go on without him. Dean himself forced Sam to learn how to live without him, and now he's turning around and berating Sam for it. That's not just illogical, it's cruel.
Now to the part that just sealed it for me. First, though, poor Castiel! I never thought I'd care enough about him to feel bad for him, but I really did. He was so hurt and disillusioned and it was sad. I wouldn't go so far as to say that I like Castiel, not yet, but I'm closer to it than I was last season. And whether you like someone or not, to see their last thread of hope yanked away like that is very sad.
The part that did it for me, that sealed my opinion of the episode, was the amulet. I never thought Dean should have given it up in the first place, given how possessive he's always been of it, and the way he acquired it. When Castiel gave it back to him I was yelling "Put it on!" at my television (the poor TV was back to cowering this week, alas). When Dean stopped at the trash can, I literally gasped, appalled that he would do such a thing. Throwing that away is bad enough, but doing it right then, after he'd spent pretty much their entire time in heaven chewing Sam out, and deliberately trashing it in front of Sam, that was just cruel. It seemed to me that in your review you, as a lot of others I've talked to, saw it as a comment on Dean's faith and hope, not on his relationship with Sam. I saw it as both, but with the emphasis on Sam, and that's why it upset me so much. I was beginning to think that I was crazy, until Jensen spoke up at one of the cons this past week and confirmed that, in his opinion at least, Dean doing that wasn't just about God, it was about Sam too. So if I'm insane for seeing it that way, Jensen's insane too. :p
I hope Sam picked it up out of the trash. But if I were Sam, Dean wouldn't be getting it back any time soon, if ever. Fortunately, Sam is a bigger person than I am, in more than a physical sense, so if he did rescue it, and I'm pretty sure he did, I'm sure he'll eventually give it back to Dean.
I'm so very, VERY frustrated that we're going through all of this angst between the brothers again. This season was supposed to be about bringing them back together, or so the lying liar who lies, also known as Kripke, said. Yet here we are, 16 episodes into this season, and they're further apart than ever. I'm tired of it. I want the conflict between them laid to rest so that they can face this mess together.
And now I swear I'm done. I can't believe I took up so much space.
Whisky you summed it better than I did lol. Sam fans are angry because it felt like another lesson for how horrible Sam has been by not realizing how much he hurt Dean by decisions made.The sad thing is Stanford must of been just has tough on Sam or worse and Dean made Stanford about Dean .The show hasnt done enough to put Sams side across and now we get the usual he doesnt appreciate his brother he was selfish. But which brother was more selfish the one who needed to go and it had nothing to do with his love for Dean or the brother wanting him to stay even though he would know it would make him unhappy?
I looked for your review first thing this morning. I had to leave for work so was only able to read the last paragraph so far. I was thrilled to see you loved it as much as I did.
Thanks for taking the time to do these each week. I will comment more after reading the entire review.
I think Dean tossing amulet in trash shows his disappointment with Sam…It was a continuation to their conversation upstairs before Zach interrupted.
Interesting. It almost felt like he forgot that it was Sam who gave him the amulet, and that it had more to do with Dean's dissapointment in God, and not so much to do with Sam. Even though in the first clips we got to see Wee Sam giving the amulet to Wee Dean and how much Wee Dean liked it, the act of throwing the amulet away had less to do with thumbing his nose at Sam than with acknowleding his dissapointment in this particular "deadbeat dad" who is going to leave him to "muddle through," on his own.
I love your reviews, and especially the insight you display re Sam and Dean's rocky relationship, but am curious as to why you refer to Castiel as the "Soap Angel." Is there a story behind this?
Yes there is, actually. : D When reading, I sometimes skim the first time through, so when I read about the introduction of this new character, I read it as being spelled "castile" which is a type of soap that's got olive oil in it. Naturally my mind started thinking of bubbles, and I thought of him as the "soap angel" every time I came across his name. And thus, his moniker was born.
LOL! I love this!
<bookmarks your reviews for further perusal>
I hope you enjoy them!!
I had several issues with this one. Although I liked much of it, I felt like Sam wasn't getting a chance to really be part of the storyline. That Dean was so convinced that he was right and Sam was wrong, that he was reconsidering (and not in a positive way) every memory of Sam in his life. It made me feel like the writers see it that way too. I like your version better, so I'm going to try to believe that.
I did wonder if Mary and John's fight was because Mary finally told John something about her past and what might be coming. It would be difficult, I would think, with the ten year mark approaching (and if Sam was born, then it had to be close) for someone NOT to start worrying, even if Mary had chosen to forget. I also question the truth of the memory, filtered through a four-year-old's point of view and remembered 26 years later. I have a very good memory, and I mostly remember things at age four that stood out as unusual from everyday life.
I also think that this Heaven was as true as the future Dean saw earlier this season. I think Zachariah either made it up completely, or at the very least, influenced things to happen the way he wanted them to happen. I think the whole episode was to manipulate Dean to turn away from Sam, and to get rid of Castiel. I hope Sam can be strong enough to keep all three of them going, but he's going to have an uphill battle.
I'm going to read your review again and hope. Because I want to believe your version, I really do. I hope that Thursday's episode gives us something more to go on. I really need to see something that makes me think that Dean still cares about Sam, that Castiel will regain his faith, and that Sam isn't all alone, facing Lucifer without help.
I like my version better as well, partly because it allows me to think of even more about the story of the Wee brothers and how their lives must have been. I like it when a TV show sets it up so that you know there's a story in back of the story. But realisitically, my rose-colored glasses aside, Sam got slammed against the wall for every memory he treasured, and how mean is that? In a few reviews, people have commented that maybe Sam was being isolated for a reason, that it was part of Lucky's plan to get him alone. But, uh, the boys are in heaven, and Lucky can't really get to them there. Unless Zach is in on the plan to hand Sam over to Lucky? Oh, but that can't be! Don't let it be so! Speculating just upsets me, so I'll stop.
Actually I think Zach was behind it but he was trying to isolate Dean so he'd say yes to Michael. We know Sam has many good memories with Dean (the fireworks for one) but not one of those was shown. Sam said he wasn't choosing the memories but I think it's very possible Zachariah was. He chose memories that would help drive the brothers apart. He knows Dean's issues (not surprisingly, since everyone seems to know them) with abandonment and he played those up later with Mary. And the scene with Mary was all the stronger because of Sam's memories dealing with him leaving Dean. That was not a coincidence IMO but a very well thought out way of pushing Dean to feeling all alone so he would say yes.
I didn't take this episode as slamming Sam about his memories and I'm a Deangirl. I saw nothing wrong with Sam's memories or the fact he could still take pleasure in them. As he said, he hadn't looked at it before from Dean's POV. The minute he did, he tried to prevent Dean from recognizing the final memory and being hurt by it. I thought it showed real empathy on Sam's part, something we don't see as much of as we did in the early seasons. I felt it was a sign that Sam is fully on the redemptive arc we were promised.
To continue, the writers certainly seem to have it in for Sam, though why, I don't know. I do like it when he looks miserable, but I don't want to encourage that sort of storytelling!
As to what the fight was about….I take Dean's remark to heart, in that the marriage was only perfect after Mary died. Plus, Cupid indicated that John and Mary had to get married, and that Cupid had to work hard to make that happen because John and Mary weren't inclined to fall in love. So maybe the problems of the marriage were more commonplace than supernatural, less to do with the YED (though that had to be making Mary nervous) than with the common problems that young married couples have. Like the fact that John was a former Marine, or that Mary wanted more kids like Morganslady suggests?
Your theory about Zach manipulating the entire heaven thing is well founded, I think, and I agree about the "future Dean" thing as well. Who is to say that Zach didn't invent those situations much as he did the time he put Sam and Dean working in the same office, but having no memory of each other? In all of these "otherworldly" sitautions, Sam and Dean are at odds, and bickering. I like how Sam even suspected Joshua, on account of they've been messed with so much. Maybe heaven was real, and the future was real, but maybe Zach was pulling the strings so that the boys saw and heard and experienced only what he wanted them to. Besides, he's a powerful angel with four faces, one of which is a lion or something! I'm pretty sure he can make whatever reality he wants to. Case in point, Pamela delivering the message about saying YES to Mike! (Because his brother Mike can do the same kind of manipulation, remember the hoops the The Trickster made Sam jump through? And Joshua too, in addition. Who's to say that ALL the angels are messing with the boys?)
I hope you can find that faith, and I agree with you. The boys need more than crumbs from a beggar's banquet if they are to succeed at this, and so do fans!
Which makes me wonder why. If you love someone, you are pleased for their success or happiness even if you're not around and aren't involved. I think Dean's jealous as hell, though I can't figure out why, because Dean's the angel's golden boy, he's the "righteous man" you hear tell of.
I think it ties back to Dean's self-esteem (which is pretty much residing in a sub-sub-sub-sub-basement of the gutter at the moment as we know all too well; they've stopped dropping those anvils and started hurling them at us like we're targets. We need to become moving targets at the very least. Serpentine, people, serpentine!) He knows how much he did for Sam, but if Sam (in Dean's mind) doesn't appreciate it, then maybe Dean didn't do enough. If Dean didn't do enough then he failed, and he doesn't take failure well, and therefore he gets upset. I'm not sure. Jealousy fits all too well, as you said, but I can't figure out what he'd be jealous of either. He doesn't admire anything about Sam at this point, so what could he possibly want so badly that Sam has?
Whiskey, it's interesting that you mention jealousy. This is something I've been thinking about. If you look back at Season 1, there are some hints on that. In Skin, we have the following lines from fake Dean to Sam: “I am your brother. See, deep down, I’m just jealous. You got friends. You could have a life. Me? I know I’m a freak. And sooner or later, everybody’s gonna leave me.” We should have in mind that fake Dean was able to borrow thoughts and feelings from the real Dean. Then, in Scarecrow, we have Dean's words to Sam: “You’ve always known what you want. And you go after it. You stand up to Dad. And you always have. Hell, I wish I—anyway….I admire that about you. I’m proud of you, Sammy.”
What I think is that deep down Dean resents Sam for doing what he, Dean, would have liked to do himself – getting free of John, having friends, having a different sort of life. But for some reason he never made the move. This can be a kind of jealousy.
I'm surprised you didn't comment on the cross emblazoned across Sam's chest formed by the white pearl buttons on his shirt. I noticed it immediately in the episode and have read several reviews saying it symbolizes that not only has he not lost his hope and faith, but that Sam will be the ultimate savior in this whole mess. Thoughts?
Oh, good one! No I didn't notice that! I think I was too busy thinking about how Sam was wearing a shirt with pearl buttons and wondering if those buttons were of the snap variety. My thoughts were far too shallow to be noticing something like this, so thank you for pointing it out.
I like the idea of Sam saving the day, which has come up in several reviews, both by myself and other commenters. What I failed to do was to run with that idea, the idea of what makes a savior, and "by these things, ye shall know him," and stuff like that.
On the other hand, although I personally like the idea of Sam's story coming to the fore on account of he's the one who saves the world from the apocolypse (like in that one ep where Dean is focusing on Magical Bobby, and Sam is saving the whole town?), what I really think is that the boys must first save Each Other, and then, together, save the world. Kind of like in the Hero From Otherwhere, by Jay Williams, which is about two boys who are opposites from each other and don't get along, but who must, at the end, join together to make the united hero who saves the world. That's my personal preference for how it all shakes out.
The cross meaning that Sam is the only one with some faith left, yes. I agree. As for being a savior, it depends on who or what is he going to save. I very much doubt that they'll give him the role of savior from the apocalypse. If Kripke ever lets this happen, he had better take a ride with Roy and Walt and run for his life. Because this is supposed to be DEAN's role. The fandom (or Dean's side of the fanfdom) would never forgive him. No, much as I like the aforementioned idea, I think that Sam's better propects are to save DEAN and help him restore his faith, so Dean can save the world.
Sorry, I mean "best prospects". When I get excited about something I tend to make some gross grammar mistakes. Even though I'm not a native speaker – Portuguese is my mother language – I like to think that I write better than this. : )
Hey, I can't even speak Portuguese, let alone write it, so you're way ahead of me!
The cross meaning that Sam is the only one with some faith left, yes. I agree. As for being a savior, it depends on who or what is he going to save. I very much doubt that they'll give him the role of savior from the apocalypse. If Kripke ever lets this happen, he had better take a ride with Roy and Walt and run for his life. Because this is supposed to be DEAN's role. The fandom (or Dean's side of the fanfdom) would never forgive him. No, much as I like the aforementioned idea, I think that Sam's better propects are to save DEAN and help him restore his faith, so Dean can save the world.
I confess I didn't notice it. I'll have to check it out. But I definitely LOVE this idea. I hope so much that you're right about it, as long as they don't have Sam crucified (read sacrificed) in the end.
I found it interesting that the "road" is a two-lane road. Also, I keep tinking about Castiel's sentence: follow the road and you'll find Sam. I have a feeling that it means much more than just Dean finding Sam in his Thanksgiving Dinner. Does anyone feels the same?
I've got to say that I'm in love with the fireworks scene. I must have watched it like one hundred and fifty times already. Everytime I hear that Colin Ford will make an appearance, I anticipate something good and I wasn't disappointed. That kid is awesome. He’s growing though. They won’t be able to have him as little Sam much longer.
Isn't that a great scene? I'm with you! A hundred gabillion times wouldn't be enough times to have seen it. How often do we get a moment even remotely happy like this? Almost never!!
Colin Ford is a GEM of a find!
I read a comment by a reviewer that Dean has always tried to be the Dad to Sam that John wasn’t. And to tell the truth, I saw much of this father-child relationship in this Jensen-Colin scene. To start with, it’s noticeable that Dean’s memories of Sam were of little Sam rather than adult Sam. It’s as if he still sees Sam as the boy that needed his protection and care. And he actually looks like a gleeful father, delighted with his kid’s happiness. In doing so, he was playing what should have been John’s role. Also, little Sam was looking with adoration at that cool brother who was doing for him what his father wouldn’t. I adored the way he silently asked for Dean’s permission to start the fun. And how about the hug? How sweet was it? It was bittersweet because I wonder when, if ever, we’ll see a hug between the adult versions again.
Oh boy what an episode…but I find myself annoyed with Dean. I love the angst as much as the next fangirl, but Dean has crossed the very thin line from angst to self pity, for me at least. I get it, I really do. He is in an impossible situation and things are really bad right now. But they're bad for everybody. His advice to Sam at the end of "Sam, Interrupted" was to suck it up. Well, as of now it looks like Sam is the only one who is. Sam was able to look at Dean's memory of his mother, as well as his own memories, and see both perspectives. (He even apologised!) Dean looked at them and could not see past his own hurt.
What a cool observation to make about Sam….he's doing his best. So's Dean, they're both struggling so hard, but when it comes to Sam being apart from Dean, Dean can't handle it. Not saying that Sam can very well, but he seems better able to handle it.
Not that I would have their messed up selves any other way. : D
I found it interesting that the "road" is a two-lane road. Also, I keep tinking about Castiel's sentence: follow the road and you'll find Sam. I have a feeling that it means much more than just Dean finding Sam in his Thanksgiving Dinner. Does anyone feels the same?
Oooooh, I'm raising my hand! I heard the Soap Angel say that but didn't make the connection. Doesn't this road (it had a special name that the Soap Angel said which I couldn't for the life of me figure out) go straight to the Garden, also? So there's significance there, as well. The road leads to Sam AND the Garden, so…is Sam the Garden, in a way? Is Sam the center of the universe? Mmmmmm…..at the very least, Sam is the Magic Kingdom….. : D
Sam as the Magical Kingdom! LOL, adorable.
But seriously, isn't it a puzzle? This episode has so many pieces, I can't quite elaborate my ideas. But I feel that Sam is a sort of destination for Dean, and I don't mean only in this episode. Do I make any sense?
Sam as the Magical Kingdom! LOL, adorable.
But seriously, isn't it a puzzle? This episode has so many pieces, I can't quite elaborate my ideas. But I feel that Sam is a sort of destination for Dean, and I don't mean only in this episode. Do I make any sense?