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I mentioned the Stamford decision because I've seen it cited as being a proof positive that Sam hasn't changed since pre-Season 1 and that his current behaviour is simply another demonstration a long-standing behavioural traits. I don't necessarily agree with this because the stakes are so much higher now and I hope that we discover that someone or something has been working on him.
On the revenge front, TBH I'm just not seeing the kind of devotion that would mean he'd be prepared to put the world at risk. Likewise, with regard to "talking about Hell" I think we have to assume that Dean has been reticent or they wouldn't have needed to show Sam pressing him for details. Personally speaking I think the whole "Boo Hoo" stuff was just a cheap short-cut by the writers to make Dean appear more reasonable than Sam - in the same way that the irrational reference to Ruby's knife in the parallel argument in "Metamorphosis" was used to undermine Dean's position.
Frankly I don't really care which brother is right - because they're both being pretty unbearable towards the other at the moment - I just want what's going on between them to make sense and it isn't. I don't think we'll be able to work it out until we get a final answer on where Ruby stands and what she's after.
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I mentioned the Stamford decision because I've seen it cited as being a proof positive that Sam hasn't changed since pre-Season 1 and that his current behaviour is simply another demonstration a long-standing behavioural traits. I don't necessarily agree with this because the stakes are so much higher now and I hope that we discover that someone or something has been working on him.
On the revenge front, TBH I'm just not seeing the kind of devotion that would mean he'd be prepared to put the world at risk. Likewise, with regard to "talking about Hell" I think we have to assume that Dean has been reticent or they wouldn't have needed to show Sam pressing him for details. Personally speaking I think the whole "Boo Hoo" stuff was just a cheap short-cut by the writers to make Dean appear more reasonable than Sam - in the same way that the irrational reference to Ruby's knife in the parallel argument in "Metamorphosis" was used to undermine Dean's position.
Frankly I don't really care which brother is right - because they're both being pretty unbearable towards the other at the moment - I just want what's going on between them to make sense and it isn't. I don't think we'll be able to work it out until we get a final answer on where Ruby stands and what she's after.