By demand, I take on the fan complaints and define who Sam Winchester really is.
For Sam fans, as promised, I’m taking on the common concerns many have voiced over the younger Winchester brother recently. I’ve been struggling with this analysis for a week now, unsure how to capture my views into coherent thought. Then I saw “Criss Angel Is A Douchebag” and all the pieces fell in place. Poor Sammy!…
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26 - Lieo
That was a great analysis!
I totally agree with everything. My understanding of the change of Sam was that Sam thought Dean was gone forever, even though he tried so hard to get him back.
When Sam died, there was no question, Dean WAS going to get him back.
But after that whole "Take me! Let Dean go!" speech from Sam he realized that it wasn't going to happen.
Point being:
"I told you to take care of her, not jazz her up!"
"Dean, I thought it was my car!"
Once again, very good analysis :)
27 - kk
Ah, I see I missed this when it was published.
One of the big problems I'm having is that with regards to Sam, much of what we know about him comes from interviews with the writers and analysis like this. People have to -explain- what's happening because it's not on the screen. The above Sera Gamble quote is the perfect example. We aren't seeing Sam's story on the screen, we're being told about it afterwards in interviews because it's all taking place offscreen. And that's poor storytelling, poor writing and does a disservice to both Sam and Sam's fans (And even fans who don't have a preference between the boys.)
As someone else pointed out elsewhere, when there's a Sam-centric episode, at least Dean is still a major part of the plot, front and center in the story. When there's a Dean-centric episode, Sam disappears (sometimes literally, see Family Remains and In the Beginning).
Sam does take a backseat to Dean and has for almost this whole season so far. And I really don't trust the writers to fix that. Based on the last 14 episodes, I don't have the same faith you do, Alice. Why would anything change in the last third of the season? It breaks my heart to say it because I love the show a lot, but I'm really actually mostly hating this season. There are bright spots, but I don't see the writers doing a sudden 180 and fixing the things they've been falling down on for the entire season. As someone else said, it's too little, too late. They should have found a better way to balance things all along-- that's the hallmark of decent writing. As this article perfectly demonstrates.
28 - CharlotteM
Great analysis!
Personally, ive enjoyed this season less than the first 3, mainly because the dean-sam relationship is slowly but surely falling apart, and that to me is just heartbraking! It's now much easier to understand dean's character rather than Sams-probably due to the fact that season 4 focuses more on dean.
The big question for me is, what can we expect from Sam now that theres a possibility that he will turn against dean or go bad? We've already seen the brothers pit against each other in 'sex and violence' and i have a bad feeling that this season's finale will be focused on Sam vs Dean rather than Sam&Dean Vs Lilith/evil things.
I completely agree about 'mystery spot'- that was a really powerful episode and really shook sam's character to the core! It was dissapointing to see it just left like that.
Anyyyywayyy....
I really hope that this season won't dissapoint! Lets hope we get to see Lilith choking on her own black smokeness :) Fingers crossed! Here we goooo....
29 - Turrin
First off Great analysis. Personally i just started watching the show and i watched season 4s current episodes within the spand of two weeks and i can't really see how people seem to think that this season is focused more on Dean i think its far more focused on Sam if anything. The small Sam scene paint a far bigger picture then the long dean scenes.
To just throughout a theory here i think its very clear that the ending of this season and possibly the 5th season will be about Sam vs Dean. Dean is quite clearly brought back by the Angels to kill Sam when the time comes. But why would it be so important that Sam die to bring back Dean from hell. The answer is also very clear which is that Sam is the going to become evil very soon which will probably be forshadowed in the episode The Monster At the End of This Book.
But why is sam so important to the demons and angels the i think this is because lucifer is not a demon like people are thinking he is rather whats sealed behinde the 600 seals is the grace of the orginal angel who has long since died. So how does lucifer bring hell on earth well by some one taking his grace and becoming the new lucifer. Lilth likely thinks she can take Lucifer's grace for herself, but she is a demon and it will probably just kill her if she does.
Yellow eyes knew that this would kill any demon and thus tried to create the perfect Human/Demon hybrid host for Lucifer's grace which turns out to be Sam. Sam was the biproduct of three sins. The sin of his mother to make a deal with the devil to save his father which made his existance possible, the sin of feeding off of demon's blood, and the sin of his brother bringing him back from hell(which is why Dean bringing him back was so important that and what was said in this anyalisis).
The ending of this season and possible next will be Sam being willing to take in Lucifers grace so he can use those powers to rid the world of evil like Lilth while Dean attempts to stop him w/o outright killing him. And Ruby is also very obivously the second in command of the time when the Yellow Eyed demon was in control and she is trying to finish his master plan by sending sam in this direction by tempting him with the power to destroy evil.
Whether Dean kills sam before he takes in Lucifer's grace, Sam kills Dean and Repents, or whatever the ending is the final battle will be Sam vs Dean over what should be done about Lucifer's grace(at least in this season).