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Thank you, Adam Glass.
This is the first time in awhile I actually got drawn into the hunt part of the episode. I don't normally like flashbacks, but the whole sequence showing how the penny got from person to person was very cool.
Garth is growing on me. "I forgot he was a hugger." Hee. He seems to lead a very full life for a hunter. Most of the hunters we've seen pretty much have hunting, and maybe drinking, and that's about it. I'm inexplicably entertained by the idea of Garth as a civil war reenactor.
Show was pushing the idea of Garth as the new Bobby pretty hard there for awhile. I love that Dean called him on it, because I sure wanted to. Dean almost made Garth cry there for a minute. But I also love that Garth pointed out that more people were feeling Bobby's loss than just Dean and Sam. The Winchesters are so insular that it seems like they sometimes forget that not all hunters are like that. Garth really needs to stop saying "idgit" and "balls" though. He just isn't crusty enough to pull it off.
The confrontation between Sam and Dean went differently than I thought it would, but I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised given the find/replace season we've been having. First Dean gets to play out Sam's secrets/Ruby storyline with Benny, and then he gets to replay the scene from "Asylum" where Sam unloaded all his resentment on Dean under the influence of Dr. Ellicott. Yes, writers, some of us do remember previous episodes, even the ones that happened seven years ago (and who'd have thought back then we'd ever have enough seasons of the show to be able to say something like that?).
Both Sam and Dean said some things that needed to be brought out in the open, but I'm disappointed that, having done that, nothing really came of it. Sam and Dean are no closer to reconciling than they were before. Garth was right about there being a lot of talking but not much listening going on.
I found it very interesting that Dean complained that Castiel and Sam let him down but Benny never has. Dean hasn't known Benny as long as he's known Castiel and Sam. What happens the first time Benny does let Dean down? Because it's going to happen at some point, and one of Dean's character flaws is that he can carry a grudge forever and never get tired. If he's waiting for the people in his life to be perfect, he's in for a lifetime of disappointment, and the fact that everyone in Dean's life is involved in hunting in some way means that when they let him down, it tends to be on a more epic scale than, say, forgetting an anniversary.
I still have my fingers crossed that Sam and Dean will work this out soon, but my fingers have been crossed for a long time, and they're starting to cramp. You're on the clock, boys.
This is the first time in awhile I actually got drawn into the hunt part of the episode. I don't normally like flashbacks, but the whole sequence showing how the penny got from person to person was very cool.
Garth is growing on me. "I forgot he was a hugger." Hee. He seems to lead a very full life for a hunter. Most of the hunters we've seen pretty much have hunting, and maybe drinking, and that's about it. I'm inexplicably entertained by the idea of Garth as a civil war reenactor.
Show was pushing the idea of Garth as the new Bobby pretty hard there for awhile. I love that Dean called him on it, because I sure wanted to. Dean almost made Garth cry there for a minute. But I also love that Garth pointed out that more people were feeling Bobby's loss than just Dean and Sam. The Winchesters are so insular that it seems like they sometimes forget that not all hunters are like that. Garth really needs to stop saying "idgit" and "balls" though. He just isn't crusty enough to pull it off.
The confrontation between Sam and Dean went differently than I thought it would, but I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised given the find/replace season we've been having. First Dean gets to play out Sam's secrets/Ruby storyline with Benny, and then he gets to replay the scene from "Asylum" where Sam unloaded all his resentment on Dean under the influence of Dr. Ellicott. Yes, writers, some of us do remember previous episodes, even the ones that happened seven years ago (and who'd have thought back then we'd ever have enough seasons of the show to be able to say something like that?).
Both Sam and Dean said some things that needed to be brought out in the open, but I'm disappointed that, having done that, nothing really came of it. Sam and Dean are no closer to reconciling than they were before. Garth was right about there being a lot of talking but not much listening going on.
I found it very interesting that Dean complained that Castiel and Sam let him down but Benny never has. Dean hasn't known Benny as long as he's known Castiel and Sam. What happens the first time Benny does let Dean down? Because it's going to happen at some point, and one of Dean's character flaws is that he can carry a grudge forever and never get tired. If he's waiting for the people in his life to be perfect, he's in for a lifetime of disappointment, and the fact that everyone in Dean's life is involved in hunting in some way means that when they let him down, it tends to be on a more epic scale than, say, forgetting an anniversary.
I still have my fingers crossed that Sam and Dean will work this out soon, but my fingers have been crossed for a long time, and they're starting to cramp. You're on the clock, boys.
