I already wrote this comment on your entry earlier but then I had to leave for work sooner than anticipated. I haven't read your rewrite, but the first entry didn't read like an attack on Sam.
I agree about the episode feeling like some weird AU character bashing fic and the first 10 minutes being the most interesting part. I would have liked to see more of that dissonance. And I had exactly the same thoughts about Mary. I love Mary and her relationship to dean.
I guess at this point I just don't trust that I'm being intentionally knocked off balance for a satisfying payoff instead of being asked to go along with the patch job and embrace Dean's conflict as organic instead of something he was tricked into Yes.
And the whole deal with Dean being "out of his game" after one year pretty much broke my mind. But Oselle covered that part.
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I agree about the episode feeling like some weird AU character bashing fic and the first 10 minutes being the most interesting part. I would have liked to see more of that dissonance. And I had exactly the same thoughts about Mary. I love Mary and her relationship to dean.
I guess at this point I just don't trust that I'm being intentionally knocked off balance for a satisfying payoff instead of being asked to go along with the patch job and embrace Dean's conflict as organic instead of something he was tricked into Yes.
And the whole deal with Dean being "out of his game" after one year pretty much broke my mind. But Oselle covered that part.