Awwww, boys...this is always so painful to watch. The thing is though, if they didn't care about and need each so much then none of the things they were fighting about would have hurt each of them so much. Underneath all that anger is the hurtiest hurt and a lot of misunderstanding on both sides. There isn't a bad guy here. There's enough guilt and defensiveness in there that nobody is really listening to the other one anyhow.
Sam knew that wasn't all Dean and says that right at the beginning of the possession scene.
SAM: Come on, Dean. I know it's not you in there pulling the strings.
But Sam goes from that to letting it hurt him pretty quickly. This isn't the face of a guy defending himself, so much as standing there taking it in full of sorrow. There seemed to be a fair amount of resignation in there, too.
I think it's interesting that each of the victims/possessed killers had a bit of what Dean and Sam are fighting about and it's all in who's view you're seeing it from. In the first, it was a jealous spouse killing her husband for an infidelity that was really all in the eye of the beholder. They had broken up when the guy took someone else to the prom. The second was a bad business partner who drove the business into the ground. Sounds familiar. The third was a guy who's boss was overworking him and making him do a job he didn't want to do. The last was an ump who made a judgement call that the player didn't agree with. That's certainly in there with Sam and Dean. The last couple were based on perception too and none of them are killing offences.
The most important thing for me to see was that usually Sam walks away after a fight like this. This time he told Dean off and gave him an ultimatum and a warning and then he got IN the car.
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Date: 2012-11-11 03:56 pm (UTC)Sam knew that wasn't all Dean and says that right at the beginning of the possession scene.
SAM: Come on, Dean. I know it's not you in there pulling the strings.
But Sam goes from that to letting it hurt him pretty quickly. This isn't the face of a guy defending himself, so much as standing there taking it in full of sorrow. There seemed to be a fair amount of resignation in there, too.
I think it's interesting that each of the victims/possessed killers had a bit of what Dean and Sam are fighting about and it's all in who's view you're seeing it from. In the first, it was a jealous spouse killing her husband for an infidelity that was really all in the eye of the beholder. They had broken up when the guy took someone else to the prom. The second was a bad business partner who drove the business into the ground. Sounds familiar. The third was a guy who's boss was overworking him and making him do a job he didn't want to do. The last was an ump who made a judgement call that the player didn't agree with. That's certainly in there with Sam and Dean. The last couple were based on perception too and none of them are killing offences.
The most important thing for me to see was that usually Sam walks away after a fight like this. This time he told Dean off and gave him an ultimatum and a warning and then he got IN the car.