Let’s all talk about Appointment in Samarra (S6 E11)
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August 21, 2023 at 2:11 pm #72828
Oh yeah; Dean gets to “be” Death for 3 hours in an effort to save Sam’s soul. I also remember very little about this one.
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OOOF this episode is DARK, but really good.
The parallel of both brothers going to EXTREME and desperate measures to do what they think is right is clear but not in a belligerent way.
Of course, BOTH are misguided ways to deal with the situation. It’s very disquieting that Sam would even consider the spell he needs to kill Boibby for! UGH. Making it absolutely clear that he cannot go on without his sould, tattered as it may be.
At the end of the last episode I was left with a little annoyance at Dean’s pig headed focus on shoving Sam’s soul back in his body, no matter the cost, BUT in this episode Sam’s cold hearted approach of how to keep his sould OUT of himself is DEFINITELY not the right way about it either. And I am a bit surprised that the writers went THAT far into the dark side for Sam.
I would hope that there is even a shred of feeling left for the fact that Bobby IS like a second father to him. And if not from a emotional angle….wouldn’t soulless Sam at least consider the wealth of information and support he needs Bobby for?
But in any case it makes for a great, chilling, story line in this episode. And also shows again how Bobby still has the upper hand in many situations, outsmarting even Sam, if not in the physical strength department.
For the Dean side of the story: LOVED having Death and Tessa back. Both are portrayed so excellently and always a joy to watch.
I absolutely delight is every interaction between Death and Dean!!! They have found a unique chemistry in these scenes that just keep me on the edge of my seat. Death seems to find Dean mildly interesting and maybe even amusing in his “snarky bacterium” way. And Dean can’t help STILL being defiant and demanding no matter the power Death holds, BUT it is definitely tinged with a healthy dose of respect and hidden doubt. The way Jensen plays that is just incredible! Tight, slightly turned away, body language as if Dean is on the edge of running, just as he makes a crass comment or demand. Surprise instead of relief in his eyes when Death doesn’t kill him for his defiance, like Dean fully expected not to make it out of this. It is ALL so very good.
I also love how the entire “Day as Death” turns out for Dean. OF COURSE, no one counted on Dean to be able to kill people indiscriminately, like the little girl. His whole life’s work is about protecting people from too early death and cruelty of the supernatural world. Dean goes in blind and goes by his gut instinct that has mostly worked for him in hunting and dealing with the world.
To find out at the end that the whole experiment was pretty much a lesson from Death so Dean could get a glimpse behind the curtain and see the bigger picture how things are connected was brilliant! To see that even the biggest powers in this universe cannot just wield that power however they see fit, but that there are rules and boundaries on how one effect the other. And that Death actually wants Dean and Sam to keep digging at the mystery at hand regarding souls was a real surprise. And also shows that as annoying as the Winchester’s meddling of the natural order of things is to the PTBs….it is sometimes necessary to shake things up, I guess, to rearrange some of the big players….as we find out soon.
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JessicaAugust 21, 2023 at 2:11 pm #152961
I thought this was an interesting episode with Dean being Death. It was one of the best episodes in Season 6, I remember thinking, when I first watched it — as I was quite sad at how the storyline was like after the apocalypse with Sam/Lucifer and Adam/Michael jumping in the hell pit. I liked that he met Tessa again, he remembering her from when he was comatose from the car crash he, his brother, and his father suffered. She reminded him that he was a kind interesting person, even though he thinks himself a soldier. I liked the scene in My Time of Dying, where he is talking to Sam with a ouija board. It would have been scary if Sam actually killed Bobby, as he would not have been able to forgive himself, if he had a soul.
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August 21, 2023 at 2:11 pm #167908
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Tessa is a beautiful reaper, she feeling souls illuminate into her, as she stands on the road.
I agree Dean and Death scenes were interesting, PigNaPoke! 🙂 Dean does believes in reapers, having seen them when hunting with his father. He meets a reaper in Faith, when suffering a heart attack when he and Sammy are hunting. He goes to a hospital.
He eats pizza at Rinascita Pizzeria with Death in Chicago, and has a meal with him in continuing conversation – they conversing about his day ; about the apocalypse and the death day. He rolls his eyes at Death at hesitant cynicism, the reaper saying that was impolite. He is surprised, although that is more to do with the analytic claustrophobia and that he is speaking to a supernatural elderly reaper who seemed to understand life, than anything else.
He is not a particularly good Death the one day he is, yet he does try, wanting Death to help his brother. People see a good looking man as Death, remembering in their lore, it was a old man with a scythe and robes. They see a man who likes Kansas, and is like a man they may meet in real life.
He had already been fighting to know his belief, during his rough life, it making sense to him in his roadtripping life. He feels peace especially with Sammy by his side, since his childhood, although why did he go to Stanford and leave him and his father and his mother and family behind? His father and him fought demons and monsters during, his father always thinking about Sammy, and hoping he was safe, seeing him when he had time to, adrift in the background. Dean feels guilt at leaving Sam behind and playing in the arcade one day in the motel room, and then seeing the Shtriga sucking his soul out, as the windows are open and wind rushing in ; of not connecting staying dots in observational understanding to…
They are slow-motion hugging each other.
I think Sam would feel a lot of hallucinations and tension headaches, now that his soul is back, Death placing his soul into him and saying not to scratch the wall. He empathising with people with supernatural abilities, soldiers the Yellow Eyed Demon created.
It is interesting how Sam is seen as evil and Dean is good in supernatural deities, yet in modern times, it is the opposite. He is Lucifer, a fallen angel, and Dean is Michael. They are both soldiers.
Sam and Dean are carrying each other ;
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