I see nothing but pain here
Oct. 1st, 2011 03:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwaevalarinSo, now that I have found a safe place for my angel I think I can talk about a few other things that happened in that episode.
Other than usual I will ignore everything related to Castiel because I'm not ready to deal with that, and I won't rewatch the episode so I write abut everything from memory.
Let's start with Sam and his visions of Lucifer.
Mark Pellegrino is absolutely brilliant. I missed his Lucifer, and I hope he sticks around for a while. And yes, I do realise that this means a lot of pain for Sammy, and I don't want him to suffer. I just feel that this is by far the best storyline they have at the moment.
It's weird that Michael (and Adam!) don't come up at all. Are they in different cages? I think I remember Lucifer saying something about his/their cell?
Anyway, even Sam knows by the end of the episode that he is out of the cage, and that Lucifer is not real. Doesn't mean that he won't forget it when things get really bad. So everything that he sees is stuff that Sam's tortured mind comes up with.
The most prominent theme in this episode was Lucifer posing as Dean, and therefore taking the one thing from him that he knows he can always rely on.
I'm not sure I like that phyisical pain is the way for Sam to tell hallucination from reality, and I don't want to think about where this may lead.
The other theme is a direction I didn't expect them to actually, canonically go. I mean, there was always the subtext that Dean may have been raped by Alaistair. But with Sam and Lucifer it is all but actually spelled out: "Long time, no spooning.", Sam being his bitch in every sense of the word? Not much room left for interpretation, is there?
And Dean? Dean is at the point where he considers suicide. I don't think he just said that. I don't know if he literally meant it, but he did mean it. And even then he won't leave Sam behind. He is at the point where killing Sam and himself seems like the only option left. Except that, with their luck they would probably end up in Hell somehow, so for these boys not even death is a way out.
And then there was Dean telling Sam that he is the one with the broken leg and that Sam needs to carry him, and that heartbrealing scene in the ambulance, and Dean begging, and I really don't know how they are even supposed to last another season.
I know that Supernatural has the goal to break our hearts every week, and to prove to us that things can always get worse. But I think there comes a point where too much is too much. These boys have been broken beyond repair for years, but there was always some hope left, something to fight for. But when you reach the point where there is nothing left to break, where you have reached the end of all hope, isn't that where you are taking it too far?
I love that these boys are clearly more anti-heroes than heroes. That's what makes them interesting characters. But I literally see nothing but pain here any more, and I wonder if that is really the way they want to go? Is that really the message of the story?
Other than usual I will ignore everything related to Castiel because I'm not ready to deal with that, and I won't rewatch the episode so I write abut everything from memory.
Let's start with Sam and his visions of Lucifer.
Mark Pellegrino is absolutely brilliant. I missed his Lucifer, and I hope he sticks around for a while. And yes, I do realise that this means a lot of pain for Sammy, and I don't want him to suffer. I just feel that this is by far the best storyline they have at the moment.
It's weird that Michael (and Adam!) don't come up at all. Are they in different cages? I think I remember Lucifer saying something about his/their cell?
Anyway, even Sam knows by the end of the episode that he is out of the cage, and that Lucifer is not real. Doesn't mean that he won't forget it when things get really bad. So everything that he sees is stuff that Sam's tortured mind comes up with.
The most prominent theme in this episode was Lucifer posing as Dean, and therefore taking the one thing from him that he knows he can always rely on.
I'm not sure I like that phyisical pain is the way for Sam to tell hallucination from reality, and I don't want to think about where this may lead.
The other theme is a direction I didn't expect them to actually, canonically go. I mean, there was always the subtext that Dean may have been raped by Alaistair. But with Sam and Lucifer it is all but actually spelled out: "Long time, no spooning.", Sam being his bitch in every sense of the word? Not much room left for interpretation, is there?
And Dean? Dean is at the point where he considers suicide. I don't think he just said that. I don't know if he literally meant it, but he did mean it. And even then he won't leave Sam behind. He is at the point where killing Sam and himself seems like the only option left. Except that, with their luck they would probably end up in Hell somehow, so for these boys not even death is a way out.
And then there was Dean telling Sam that he is the one with the broken leg and that Sam needs to carry him, and that heartbrealing scene in the ambulance, and Dean begging, and I really don't know how they are even supposed to last another season.
I know that Supernatural has the goal to break our hearts every week, and to prove to us that things can always get worse. But I think there comes a point where too much is too much. These boys have been broken beyond repair for years, but there was always some hope left, something to fight for. But when you reach the point where there is nothing left to break, where you have reached the end of all hope, isn't that where you are taking it too far?
I love that these boys are clearly more anti-heroes than heroes. That's what makes them interesting characters. But I literally see nothing but pain here any more, and I wonder if that is really the way they want to go? Is that really the message of the story?
