SpN 8X06

[roxy]

Wow...it's Dean's turn to kill with the truth now! Boy, no wonder everyone lies about their feelings, it's been shown time and time again that the truth kills, hah! That was so well done that scene, I believed all that frustration and pain and anger. Now mind you, I'll have to rewatch to get the full sense of it because first time watching I'm always distracted by the beauty. Geez, Jensen is unbelievably good-looking this season. And so on top of things acting-wise.

My buddy Garth was perfect! There's another look at grief and how to handle loss. He's being as much Bobby as he can, and boy I get that right down to the soul. It can be a good, positive way to deal and Garth, Garth is wonderful. I can really believe that he has no rage hidden inside of him. I was glad to see at the end that Dean came around, Garth-wise.

Sam's scenes were a little distracting with the soap opera freeze, but it went a way to explaining how he felt. Why Dean insists that Sam react like he would, I don't know, you'd think after thirty years, he'd have some idea of how Sam works, and it's not like him at all. Still liking the girl--excuse me--*Amelia*. I hope they don't fuck it up.

I'm a little flummoxed by Sam's reaction to Benny. It all smacks of jealousy, which confuses me because I always thought of a selfish Sam so far as Dean's concerned as being more of a fanon thing. So, what else is going on here? What's the real reason Sam's so fucked up about it? Is it just because Dean killed Sam's friend the kitsune? Is it because Dean gave Sam rightly deserved shit about Ruby? Hmmmm...*strokes chins*

Well, I'm sure someone on my flist will explain what's going on because damn, ya'll are smart! I can only say that with Sera gone, we're missing prime opportunities for Sam to take his shirt off, tsk-tsk. Last season he'd have been exposed in all his manscaped glory instead of hiding behind a ginormo undershirt what the hell.

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[tabaqui]

WHOO!
I do so love Show. :)

I loved Garth. And and! I loved Garth snapping at Dean about Bobby. Dean's spent most of his life being isolated, dealing with everything either himself or with his dad and Sam, clinging to any tiny bit of family and love that he can cling to - it was nice to see Garth shake him out of that inward-looking and desperately lonely place and say that Bobby 'belonged to all of us'. That hurt *so much* but it's so true. Bobby was more than just Dean's second dad, and he didn't have the right to tell Garth, essentially, he couldn't grieve the way he needed to. Go Garth!

And sort of linked to that - isolation, loneliness, a desperate need for family and to *matter*, to be loved as much as he loves - Dean's specter-induced rage was spot on and god, so very, very pathetic (in the old sense of the word). Dean's self-worth issues and his need for his family was on raw, desperate parade there, and despite their final scene, Dean isn't going to get over that any time soon. He just isn't. Oh, Dean.

And Sam - i just can't be mad at him. I believe he's still laboring under PTSD issues, was doing so acutely when Dean went to Purgatory and has for years (just like Dean), and most importantly - SAM IS NOT DEAN. He reacts differently, he thinks differently, he *is* different. He did what he did and no matter how much it hurt Dean's feelings, i do think it's in character for him, and i grieve for him.

But, yeah - his Benny thing is aaaaaaall about jealousy, heh. And something else.... Now - the flashbacks. They were weird. They *have been* weird. Everything about his and Amelia's relationship is weird. They're so *fuzzy* and over-saturated and just...*odd*. And i got the powerful feeling - with no real evidence, it just hit me - that Sam and Amelia weren't together-together, at least not by the time he left. (And it's been confirmed he didn't leave because he got a message from Dean, he just left.) I think they were lovers for a while but roommates at the end, more like two veterans living together and helping each other overcome their past hurts than in love. I dunno, that was just something that jumped up in my brain last night.

I need to rewatch. But i love, oh, I love. :) And ah ha - set in Missouri. Show got one thing right - too many jackasses with Confederate flags around here for my taste.