See, Sam's got on the V-neck Tee of Vulnerability. He'll need it later for the crying.
'Sleeper'
Supernatural 1: Saving People, Hunting Things - the Family Business
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"No! No. She's my werewolf. I'll do it." (TM Demian at TWoP)
I'm running off of the dvd, how am I possibly ahead? Oh well, I just spoiled y'all. Sammy kills his new puppy. And Dean breaks with a Single Perfect Tear.
This ep has a lot of faults but I realize rewatching that I really like it and am willing to let them go in the moment. I only really get bugged by them later.
I think her lemming dive into martyrdom may be speeded by the belief that she's already killed people.
In the moment, I'm crying. It HURTS.
Later, it will unravel like a cheap sweater. But then I'll watch again and want to hug all of them, and cry again.
Oh, Sammy.
(Though his teary face still makes me giggle for no reason I can define.)
Oh, Dean.
As an actor, you use what you need to to get where you need to go, emotionally. Rumor has it that JP imagined that his dogs were sick or injured because of his own mistake or neglect, and he was having to have them put down to get into the headspace for that scene. Yes, somebody wrote a fic about it, but it was apparently based on a morsel of truth.
...I just...find it...ironic...that it was his dogs. This makes me a bad person, doesn't it?
Maybe just not a dog person?
Maybe he thought a close family member would be too much?
(Half a minute later, I get the irony.)
I think her lemming dive into martyrdom may be speeded by the belief that she's already killed people.I just wish they'd let her say any of that instead of talking about the future and what might happen. Because the guilt of what she'd already done is far more plausible for me.
But at that point in the season arc, she was Sam's avatar, so the lines she was speaking were what we assumed Sam was thinking.
I remember at the time being not so much sad for Madison or Sam, but being appalled and terribly sympathetic for Dean and what he was looking at having to do to or for Sam if things went bad. And also, feeling like, for the first time, maybe Sam understood what he'd asked Dean to do for him in Playthings. It's a completely different perspective from here, I think.