I agree with your nibbles and appreciations both, but dman, I really did feel an actual stab of emotional pain in my chest at that hug-shot and it was set up so well and telegraphed so I screamed out loud literally when it happened. Who directed this again? Oh, Phil Sgriccia yes of course the shows oldest remaining workhorse of a good eye. And I also didn't care for the Nick-plot even a little bit but Sam's send off, Jeez Louise, he's really coming into that leadership isn't he. Still, nothing killed me deader like that hug and the moment at the end where they had that honest, if agonizing, but truly honest talk with each other that laid the cards on the table. I still feel like there is going to be more to the end of the book, even though I do understand that Dean, being faced with his ultimate traumatic experience - being trapped with no way out and eternal torment for company (Hell) and leaving Sam on his own, making sure that he would neither cave to their need to be together and protect each other always as well setting him up in a way to have no in on Dean's deal with himself, would be quite horrifying. What we don't know is whether that's actually the end of Dean's book since 1) who's to say nothing more happens after he traps himself to his loved ones when he's not there anymore to prevent it 2) if we follow the theory that Dean - whether he's being kept alive passively by archangel grace or would eventually lose the fight to Michael giving him control back of the body and preserving it - has no natural way to die that way, like being dead dead, shouldn't the book be endlessly thick? I don't know, I feel like there's got to be a set up for a bigger episode hidden here we've half a season to go after all. If there isn't I will be thoroughly disappointed of course, but until we've reached the end of the line, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Man, now I've ranted on a lot, when I should be writing fic about how Sam was going to jump Dean over the top of that box with a desparate farewell kiss to unroll all that tension in a final acknowledgement of their feelings and stuff... ya know. As one does.
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And I also didn't care for the Nick-plot even a little bit but Sam's send off, Jeez Louise, he's really coming into that leadership isn't he.
Still, nothing killed me deader like that hug and the moment at the end where they had that honest, if agonizing, but truly honest talk with each other that laid the cards on the table. I still feel like there is going to be more to the end of the book, even though I do understand that Dean, being faced with his ultimate traumatic experience - being trapped with no way out and eternal torment for company (Hell) and leaving Sam on his own, making sure that he would neither cave to their need to be together and protect each other always as well setting him up in a way to have no in on Dean's deal with himself, would be quite horrifying. What we don't know is whether that's actually the end of Dean's book since 1) who's to say nothing more happens after he traps himself to his loved ones when he's not there anymore to prevent it 2) if we follow the theory that Dean - whether he's being kept alive passively by archangel grace or would eventually lose the fight to Michael giving him control back of the body and preserving it - has no natural way to die that way, like being dead dead, shouldn't the book be endlessly thick? I don't know, I feel like there's got to be a set up for a bigger episode hidden here we've half a season to go after all. If there isn't I will be thoroughly disappointed of course, but until we've reached the end of the line, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
Man, now I've ranted on a lot, when I should be writing fic about how Sam was going to jump Dean over the top of that box with a desparate farewell kiss to unroll all that tension in a final acknowledgement of their feelings and stuff... ya know. As one does.