Sweetie, I liked that it wasn't easy, for any of them.I liked that you could see how not okay Sam was with what they'd done when it showed him and Amelia in that hotel room the next morning. That was not the face, or body language of a man happy in love. He felt guilty as heck and I was glad to see it happen.
I liked that, rough as things are still between Sam and Dean right now, they both made a conscious decision to stay together. Either one of them could have walked right out that door but they chose not to. That was a pretty damned big step and I was sooo glad to see it happen.
You're right, and I need to watch the ep again. Still, artistically, I thought that scene was weak. I didn't feel like the actors felt it. It's rare when I feel that way, but I find, especially when it comes to Jared, that he was doing things I didn't see on the first go-round. *sigh* I think I wanted too much this ep, and set myself up for crashing. We'll see when I watch it again.
Jared works the scene really hard but the lack of real chemistry between the two of them doesn't help, that's for sure. Why couldn't they bring back Sarah Blake if they needed a love interest for Sam this season? His going to her would have even made sense storywise and wouldn't have injured his character half as much as Amelia has.
You're right. There's no real chemistry--no sexual tension between the two. When they were snarking at each other it worked and I believed it. But deep abiding love? Not really there. Same as Dean and Lisa. How did that go from "Weekend At Bendy's" to "The Love of My Life?"
I know. It's not that I don't want them to have relationships with anyone other than themselves, I just want to be able to believe in them. Jessica, Madison, Sarah, heck, even Ruby sometimes, all made me believe Sam cared for them. Amelia, not so much.
I like Benny, I want them to have a good supporting cast. It makes it easier on Jensen and Jared not to have to be in every scene and it makes the stories richer for giving them new things to play off. We can manage to do it in our fiction, why can't the people making the big bucks do the same?
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1/17/13 07:16 am (UTC)I liked that, rough as things are still between Sam and Dean right now, they both made a conscious decision to stay together. Either one of them could have walked right out that door but they chose not to. That was a pretty damned big step and I was sooo glad to see it happen.
*hugs you hard*
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1/17/13 11:39 pm (UTC)Let me know what you think on the rewatch.
*hugs*
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1/18/13 06:51 am (UTC)I like Benny, I want them to have a good supporting cast. It makes it easier on Jensen and Jared not to have to be in every scene and it makes the stories richer for giving them new things to play off. We can manage to do it in our fiction, why can't the people making the big bucks do the same?