Or maybe the Father was referring to whatever the YED did to him as a baby?
Supernatural 1: Saving People, Hunting Things - the Family Business
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Maybe I could be saved. Oh Sam.
This was the first time I felt like maybe JP was going to grow up to be a decent actor--more than hitting his mark, staying in his light, and saying his lines. Very deeply felt and underplayed. Beautiful.
Oh, the completely gratuitous hand-and-flask porn.
Bless you, Show.
The end is the only thing that pings me. Sam:What did you see? Dean: Maybe, God's Will.
Huh. I've seen a lotta things that looked more like God's Will than that coincidental auto accident. I don't think God smites someone down whenever something falls off the back of a truck and crashes through the car behind it. I know it is "buy-able", but still, I would have liked to have had it sold just a little more to feel Dean's being able to open himself up to believe.
...or maybe Sam's sin was bringing Dean back from the grips of death?
But I think the point was these were people who needed saving, redemption, and I think a part of that is realizing that you have a choice. That, down the road, Sam would be put in situations that would (try to) tempt him to work for the YED, that this is one of his paths that he needs to be steered from... and I'm babbling and make no sense to my own self...
Maybe I could be saved. Oh Sam.
And then Dean's "Maybe God's will."
I don't think anyone, if you believe that way, is *without* sin. Even a priest will covet or whatever. I guess it struck me that Father Gregory seemed to choose people so clearly in despair, broken, sinned (or even sinned against?) to *carry out* his work, that appearing to Sam struck me as out of the pattern.
Of course, the people he chose to act for him were also people who possibly needed or wanted redemption, so...
Sam is just so. sad. and broken there at the end, so disappointed. And the line where Dean says he's looking out for him, and he says, "I know, but you're only one person. I was hoping something else would be looking out, too" ... GUH.
Although, that plays so well into Dean's anxieties and self-worth issues. Will he be enough? Can he be enough? He loves Sam most. Why can't he save him, protect him?
Oh, SHOW.
Sam is just so. sad. and broken there at the end, so disappointed. And the line where Dean says he's looking out for him, and he says, "I know, but you're only one person. I was hoping something else would be looking out, too" ... GUH.
Although, that plays so well into Dean's anxieties and self-worth issues. Will he be enough? Can he be enough? He loves Sam most. Why can't he save him, protect him?
Oh, SHOW.
So much Yes.
Of course, the people he chose to act for him were also people who possibly needed or wanted redemption, so...
Ohh, this.
This ep is one hell of a kick in the teeth when you know that BUaBS is right after it (especially on first viewing, when you don't know what's going on with Sam)...
I don't think anyone, if you believe that way, is *without* sin. Even a priest will covet or whatever. I guess it struck me that Father Gregory seemed to choose people so clearly in despair, broken, sinned (or even sinned against?) to *carry out* his work, that appearing to Sam struck me as out of the pattern.Well, no. Noone is without sin. But Sam and Dean live through stealing, lie daily, break in to places, desecrate graves. I mean, yes, they are fighting against evil. But I don't think I can really say they are fighting *for good*, they are fighting against evil.
And Sam is in despair. His visions and what he might become? He made Dean promise to kill him. And while I think that was easier for Sam to ask, I don't think it was actually easy at all for him. I see Sam as broken a lot of the time. Guilty too, the demon killing his mom, killing Jess and causing all of this death and pain was because of him. Not his fault, and I don't blame him, but it's about Sam a lot of the time.