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

[vaznetti]

However, I do hope that at the big scene - you know, the one where Dean hammers John and there is flailing and screaming and finally weeping? In that scene, I hope that they convince JA to let it all out, and go for the whole storm cloud.

I don't usually say this, but yes -- it should be the kind of messy, uncontrolled weeping that you don't even realize is happening until there's snot all over your face. There needs to be snot, when that scene happens. Tasteful snot, but still.

Sam has just demonstrated himself capable of doing what Dean would not.

Sam has always had an easier time crossing lines than Dean has, I think; he knows that he'll find a way to justify it to himself. Dean draws fewer lines, but he takes them more seriously.

Next time the Demon possesses someone while Sammy has the gun, the Demon is going to regret it.

I totally agree. Part of me thinks the Demon is smart enough to know this, but then, who can say?

[cofax7]

Dean draws fewer lines, but he takes them more seriously.

Dean owns his guilt: Sam (generally) argues that it was righteous. Not sure how he's going to handle this one, though, especially if he realizes that they really didn't have to kill her right away.

... I wonder what would have happened if she'd turned herself in to the police?

[hossgal.livejournal.com]

... I wonder what would have happened if she'd turned herself in to the police?

*sing-song*

You should write that! /sing-song.

More seriously? She'd have either been let out on bail because I don't think any lawyer would have let them keep her -

she's charged with ripping the hearts out of the chests of two guys? *this* gal? please, pull the other one

or Baker Act'd into a nuthouse and broken out and killed someone, or if kept in the jail, broken out and killed someone. At the very least, she'd have been free by the next full moon, the cops would have still been searching for 'the real killer' -

- right, and she took down that cop, too - they aren't going to buy that, even a gal as tall as that -

and swept up the Winchesters along the way.

But you should totally write that.

- hg