Last night’s episode of Supernatural was about whether going it alone is preferable to the alternative. Dean, of course, was on the side of going it alone, while Sam, of course, believed support is necessary to live a productive life or whatever. What’s confusing for me is what point the show is trying to make. Sam, in the overall arching season-plot, is wrong; this is undeniable. But in this episode, Sam appeared to be in the right. So are they saying that both Winchesters are correct, but in different ways? I’m not saying that’s impossible, but it’s just really strange to be fed this line of “Sam is wrong” for so long and then be like “well, perhaps not so wrong.” As an episode of television, both independent and contextualized, this was not Supernatural‘s best work. The directing, especially, was kind of strange; a lot of abrupt cuts that messed with the sense of…
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