Oh god, you're right. We should be grateful we only got just enough of Dean's life to keep them from going overboard.

But that was the line in the interview that jumped out at me too, that Sam wasn't going to be lovey-dovey anymore. You mean like when he was too closed off to be happy Dean wasn't dead anymore? When he tried to choke him and stepped over him to go with Ruby? When his eyes were turning black? When he was calling Dean weak? When he was just having to watch while Dean was hurt over his fantasies of heaven?

Even the climax of last season was more about Dean getting beaten up to remind Sam of his humanity while Lucifer was inside him--iow, Dean was more lovey dovey there.