I have very mixed feelings about this episode. On the one hand, that teaser was one of the best they've ever done, all the dead Deans were so awesomely creepy. I also loved the Meg/Sam talk, an actual canon callback to Meg having possessed Sam! Sam was very calm about it, but I guess the poor boy's been through so much worse stuff since then that regular demon possession doesn't seem so bad. On the other hand... there was the rip-off of Swan Song's epic finale of brotherly love, only it was Dean/Cas this time, and yes, that made me roll my eyes very hard.
I agree with you about Dean and normal. In my headcanon, if Dean wasn't raised as a hunter then I can see him as a military dude, a sergeant or some sort of military leader who would inspire men to follow him and lead the good fight. I can't imagine him just being like you say a BBQ in the backyard sort of guy. Definitely resignation more than actual happiness is what comes across in the 6-01 episode, though I think that was also largely because he was grieving.
I also wish that they'd stop pushing the Sam-wants-normal thing so hard. For one thing, we've already been told, and for the other, I think it makes Sam's desires a lot more simplistic than they actually are.
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3/22/13 06:58 pm (UTC)I agree with you about Dean and normal. In my headcanon, if Dean wasn't raised as a hunter then I can see him as a military dude, a sergeant or some sort of military leader who would inspire men to follow him and lead the good fight. I can't imagine him just being like you say a BBQ in the backyard sort of guy. Definitely resignation more than actual happiness is what comes across in the 6-01 episode, though I think that was also largely because he was grieving.
I also wish that they'd stop pushing the Sam-wants-normal thing so hard. For one thing, we've already been told, and for the other, I think it makes Sam's desires a lot more simplistic than they actually are.