Damn you show, how dare you make me feel sympathy for Bela after I’ve been pleading for her all season to be gutted like a fish. I didn’t see her having a demon deal coming. I should have given all the clues, but I didn’t. Thank you Sera Gamble (this week’s writer) for giving us something that believably explains her rotten behavior all this time. Ten years of thieving and procuring items just to find something that might save her own soul or protect her. After all that though, she couldn’t save herself, which sets up for next week what has been hinted for several episodes now, its all but hopeless for Dean. Why didn’t she ask Sam and Dean for help? That’s where the implied sexual abuse as a child fits well, too. Children who experience that sort of trauma end up with big trust issues. There ain’t no happy ending.
We were led to believe from the final scene and from what was hinted in the previews for next week that Dean has accepted his fate as well. Sam found the secret to eternal life, but Dean saw the cost of living that life. He couldn’t accept it and would rather die. He doesn’t have the colt, and is screwed no matter what. If Bela had to face her consequences, then so must he. There ain’t no happy ending.
This week’s creepy freak, a doctor who uses the so called “weird science” to live forever, gave us the moral lesson that there’s something to be said about dying. He’s so far from human that he believed cruelly maiming and killing innocents for their parts and living like a monster was worth the price of immortality. The sentence that Dean delivered was pretty horrifying, buried alive and left to rot, but it was the only way. There ain’t no happy ending.
Sam... poor, poor Sam. Sure, it’s killing me to see how Dean is coming to terms with his fate, but what’s even more painful to watch is that Sam isn’t. He’s still clinging to hope, desperately thinking the doctor had the answers and barely holding it all together. He would rather his brother live like a monster than let him go. He inconceivably let slide the fact that this doctor almost horribly disfigured him, all because he wanted that secret to eternal life. This is the more frantic Sam I expected to see last week but didn’t. His walls are starting to crumble. We already got a glimpse of how Sam dies emotionally in “Mystery Spot” without Dean and we still see him taking that path. There ain’t no happy ending.
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1 - vichi
hi, the episode was really good. Creepy but good. And you are doing a fine job with your reviews. Thank you very much.
Greetings from Roumania:)