it looks like they’re really making an effort to give us that ‘Dean and Sam alone against the world’ feel they had in the early seasons.
I really have no problem with the concept of Dean and Sam against the world, and I've never really felt that the show's universe needs to be "expanded" (which is why the Campbells probably wouldn't have worked for me, even if they'd been better executed). I think my problem lies in my no longer believing in the Dean and Sam relationship. It was compelling to think of the two of them living this renegade lifestyle when they really seemed like a team -- but now they just seem to be stuck with each other by default.
I think this is also why I'm so disappointed with how they handled Castiel. He was the only character besides Bobby who DID successfully manage to become part of the Winchester dynamic, and maybe one of the reasons they thought they had to get rid of him was to repair the Sam&Dean relationship that they wrecked in the first place. I am glad that at least this episode plainly stated that Castiel had been Dean's "best friend" -- that line sort of took my breath away because we haven't heard it acknowledged until now...and I don't think we WOULD have heard it if someone other than Ben Edlund had written this ep.
Not since Sam’s forearm cast in the second season (what was up with that, anyway?)
Jared's arm was really fractured. I think it happened during the running slide he took into an open grave in "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things."
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I really have no problem with the concept of Dean and Sam against the world, and I've never really felt that the show's universe needs to be "expanded" (which is why the Campbells probably wouldn't have worked for me, even if they'd been better executed). I think my problem lies in my no longer believing in the Dean and Sam relationship. It was compelling to think of the two of them living this renegade lifestyle when they really seemed like a team -- but now they just seem to be stuck with each other by default.
I think this is also why I'm so disappointed with how they handled Castiel. He was the only character besides Bobby who DID successfully manage to become part of the Winchester dynamic, and maybe one of the reasons they thought they had to get rid of him was to repair the Sam&Dean relationship that they wrecked in the first place. I am glad that at least this episode plainly stated that Castiel had been Dean's "best friend" -- that line sort of took my breath away because we haven't heard it acknowledged until now...and I don't think we WOULD have heard it if someone other than Ben Edlund had written this ep.
Not since Sam’s forearm cast in the second season (what was up with that, anyway?)
Jared's arm was really fractured. I think it happened during the running slide he took into an open grave in "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things."