SPN 4:19

[oselle]

I don't have too much to say about this one...I thought it was sad. I thought it was sad that Adam really was their brother and that they never knew about him until it was too late. I thought it was quite well-written -- I especially enjoyed Dean's transition from shocked resentment ("He took you to a baseball game!?") to protectiveness and not wanting Adam to turn out like them. And it was also sad to see Sam turning into John and plowing right into making those same mistakes...and Dean finally realizing that Sam was, and had always been, just like their father (something a lot of fans figured out years ago, heh!).

Of course...all this angst over the life of a hunter does seem strangely incongruous with what Sera Gamble had to say about it just a few episodes ago...you know, like, how cool it is with the classic cars and the fornicating and the kicking ass and all that. Doesn't it? I mean gosh, given how awesome it all is isn't Sam just whining when he says that the Winchesters are "cursed?" And what was up with all Sam's whining about how being a hunter means you can't have any connections to anyone or anything approaching a real life? Gee, why doesn't an angel show up to tell Sam to get over it and quit bellyaching and realize how neat his life is? Hmmm?

I also have to marvel that mere ghouls are apparently more powerful than Lilith herself because they certainly got the jump on New and Improved Sammy a lot better than she did. Here you've got a guy who can exorcize and kill demons with his mind but he can't get out of a few restraints?

Dean of course looked hot. He looked especially hot shooting the ghouls under the car while wearing his fake FBI suit-and-trenchcoat combo and he was wonderfully hot punching out that window and then pulling himself up through it and he was smokin' hot beating that ghoul's head in and of course he looked super-hot with that split lip there at the end. Oh Dean, when it comes to photogenic injuries, you will always be the king.

Loved the last lines too:

Dean: "You were more like him than I will ever be."

Sam: "I take that as a compliment."

Dean (long pause): "You can take it any way you want it."

Oh...the volumes of unspoken man-pain. Mmmm, so good.