SpNX 10x01

[roxy]

No spoilers, I'm still thinking. Reeling. It was really...disturbing. I'll have to rewatch for sure, I never really get it until the second or third time I watch the ep. In the mean time it was oddly upsetting, like, way out of proportion to what went on. At least thinking about it will distract me during my dental appointment, which I am looking forward to like one looks forward to a scourging.

eta: I loved the title card for this season, very nicely done, I thought.

Comments

[fanspired]

What struck me was, if Dean's so Devil May Care . . . why does he still need to drink so much?

[strgazr04.livejournal.com]

I <3 u so much rt now. This is exactly what I love about what Jensen is doing with this version of Dean. I love that he tells Cole he doesn't care about Sam then in the next breath he threatens to kill him if anything happens to Sam. Then when he asks Anna Marie to go away with him and she says no, he lashes out at her to make her go away so he can lick his wounds. So twisted. I feel like if anything, this absence of Dean's normal compassion and need to protect people will only leave him with nothing left but to focus on his insecurities and all the things he thinks is wrong with himself. Maybe Demon Dean isn't so much evil as depressed and thus violent.

[fanspired]

I think it was significant that Ann Marie accused him of putting on some kind of act. I think the truth is, he was already so far gone at the end of last season he really isn't any different now. He's just pretending not to care . . . and failing.

[strgazr04.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't be the first time Dean's used a crutch to try to drown his pain and the power of the Mark isn't any different than all that booze a few seasons back. A drug's a drug.