SPN 4.11

[layne67]

I've been wallowing in misery after I watched 4.11 last night. Oh, okay, maybe that's putting it a bit too dramatically, but you know what I mean. Because Dean saying he enjoyed torturing those poor souls in hell? I felt like I had lead in the pit of my stomach, because this is Dean we're talking about. So there I was trying to rationalize what he said, reading every reviews on my flist - and yeah, 30 years is a long time in hell, and he was on his way to becoming a demon himself, Ruby had said that would happen, so he wasn't really the Dean that we know - but still ...

It wasn't until I read oselle's thoughts here that I feel somewhat better, because those souls that Dean tortured in hell? They were in hell for a reason, we're not talking about innocent people here.

Let's assume that very few souls in hell are self-sacrificing Dean Winchester types or are there because of silly things religion says you go there for, like, I dunno...eating a cheeseburger on Good Friday. Let's assume that hell really is for the worst of the worst. So if Dean Winchester is putting pedophiles and serial killers and drug dealers on the ol' rack well...that's not so out-of-keeping with his character, is it?

It somehow slipped my mind as to what type of people got into hell in the first place, because my mind is weighed down by the thoughts of "Dean torturing people", and now "Dean enjoying torturing people". Not that it makes it alright for Dean to enjoy doing what he did of course, I suppose that's going to be Dean's personal hell for a long, long time, but it makes me feel a bit better about the whole thing, that I'm no longer *this* close to being disenchanted with Dean, that my love for Dean Winchester is back full-force.

I suppose with that final confession ( well, I hope it's the final one, I don't think I could bear it if he were to make yet another confssion to Sam ) the boys are now going to work towards being brothers again, back to being SamandDean. An uphill battle, that, what with Dean being Dean, and Ruby still out there somewhere, but I have hope ...

As to the episode per se, I have to say that unfortunately, it's not quite in the same league for me as Bloody Mary, Provenance or The Kids Are Alright. It's scary in the right places, yes, but gosh, I screamed, many times, during those three episodes.

And, am I the only one who wish, really wish that Sam and Dean manage to save the girl? That, for once, the MotW isn't killed? Because really, it's NOT her fault, what she became. I really pitied her when they showed her with Danny ...

Comments

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

I'm still hoping that this story line will eventually lead to redemption for Dean, and that it will be Sam and he who do it, together. His soul has to be deeply wounded by what's happened to him, and he could easily turn to real evil and become a demon himself.

But I'll tell you one thing, I'm getting a little sick of Sam being used as window dressing. It's almost like they've turned him into a supporting player. I started watching and kept watching because of the relationship between these brothers, because it lifted this show above the usual fare in this genre. But they're so separated, even though they're together, that it's almost become a different show.

I'm becoming frustrating enough to stop watching, if something doesn't change soon.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

The writers need to step up Sam's storyline more, because Jensen could steal a scene even when it's not about him, remember his one single tear to Sam's weeping in 'Heart'? Or when he was in the background in 'Yellow Fever', just standing there being drunk when Sam was talking to that Deputy, so what more if Dean's in the limelight?