SPN 2x17: Heart

[vaznetti]

So there I was, thinking that this episode was surprisingly low on the boy/boy melodrama, and then wham!, the ending: Sam and Madison reversing the scene of possessed-Sam and Dean (and how much of that, I wonder, does Sam remember?), as Madison begs him to kill her before she hurts anyone else. And then Dean stepping in to do this thing, because this is his role, and Sam's the innocent -- and after all, he'd already killed Glenn, one innocent dead, what does one more death on his hands matter? And then Sam demanding to take that burden on. Beautiful.

If only I didn't have the irresistible urge to mock Dean's single perfect tear. I'm sorry, fandom. I know this makes me a bad person. I know how important the scene was. It's just -- Single. Perfect. Tear. I can't help it.

But that said, I loved that Dean was the final shot, because a lot of what was important here happened in Dean's head -- Sam might have drawn the first connection, but it's Dean who can see the whole of what happened here, all the implications, even more than Sam can. And I wonder whether Dean is driving a bargain of his own: every half-innocent he kills is another sacrifice to keep him from having to kill Sam.

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Sam had sex, too. That was nice.

...sorry, where was I? Sam looked really good in this episode.

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The two scenes which made the director's cut this week did not stop being awesome. And I maintain that in the second scene, all Dean is thinking is, "scissors! that's a good one -- I'll go with scissors!"

And I think I had better officially apologize to vee_fic about being all nit-picky about parking the Impala in San Francisco. Or even in Vancouver trying gamely to look like the city.

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But mostly, it was all about those final scenes: Sam and Dean, and what they do. And what they might be or become.


Spoilers under the cut, of course.

Comments

[camille-is-here.livejournal.com]

Oh, I thought there was more than one tear. But, he does seem to have a go-to teary look. The flinch, though, was a heartbreaker.

I thought it was effective that they had no "then" at the beginning, as if this was a completely stand-alone episode. And they never specifically referenced any of the backstory. So, on the one hand, I wondered what someone who hadn't watched the show before thought about all that weeping manpain. And on the other hand, I was pretty amazed at what a completely different episode it is if you have watched the show...obssessively?...

Those sneaky devils

[vaznetti]

So, on the one hand, I wondered what someone who hadn't watched the show before thought about all that weeping manpain.

I asked BH about this, since he hasn't seen any of S2 but was of course watching with me last night. He thought it was obvious that Sam was worried about becoming evil, but otherwise it all seemed a little random. He felt that the episode ran out of steam at the end, whereas of course if you'd watched all season the final few minutes were what it was all about.

Then again, he is not much for the weepy manpain in general.