Supernatural - 5x14 "My Bloody Valentine" Rewatch
Added 2024-08-29 05:42:34 +0000 UTC
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What a fantastic analysis! Thank you for sharing this. This was definitely a parallel to Swan Song, and maybe even what was meant to seed that idea in Sam's head. The ultimate sacrifice. Being strong enough to take the weakness being used against him and flipping the script. What better redemption is there? **chefs kiss**
Vel
2024-09-03 06:28:03 +0000 UTCHope you feel better soon Shelley! I've had con crud many times (covid and non covid). I seem to escaped it this time though.
Sharon Owen
2024-08-29 18:54:50 +0000 UTCI love this episode so much. It is so dark and so brutal for the boys, but especially for Sam. Being forced back into his addiction, having his cravings jacked up against his wishes just really drive home how horribly controlled and manipulated Sam is, and has been. The guilt he feels for even just having the cravings, let alone for actually giving in and drinking the blood again just breaks my heart to watch Sam go through. I know there is some debate over this, but my theory on why Dean is the way he is here is not because he was “well fed”. It is because Famine makes you crave something you are starving for. And in Sam’s case it was blood, but for Dean it was nothingness. Dean was starving for feeling nothing, to feel nothing. He was so tired and so overwhelmed that what he craved more than anything was an absence of the pain and the betrayal and the weight that he is carrying, so that is what he started to feel. Famine i believe was mocking and manipulating Dean into feeling like something was wrong with him, pushing him down the road to saying yes to Michael, because Dean was “already dead inside”. This episode is so critical to the mindset of the boys, and it is so well written, but my favorite thing i noticed on a rewatch is that Sam’s arc in this episode actually parallels Swan Song. He goes in fighting against Lucifer/Tries to fight his cravings, loses initially against Lucifer and loses control of his body/gives in to his cravinga and drains two demons, and then when it actually matters, when he is face to face with Lucifer/Famine, he beats his addiction/destiny and comes out on top. I like to think it is the show giving us a little heads up on Sammy, like- dont count him out until he’s out. Because while this episode clearly shows Dean’s decline into hopelessness, i think it really shows Sam’s assent out of the hole he was in at the beginning of the season, and it shows us Sam’s climb towards redemption
Elisia
2024-08-29 13:43:43 +0000 UTC
