8.03...and also...

[ash48]

There seems to be a major sticking point about 8.03 and I feel like I just need to say this...



I've seem comments about Sam having amnesia about his past life. Him forgetting that he once did have normal. That he would have had a birthday cake before his time with Amelia. Jess would have probably made him one. Even Dean (maybe even John!) would have given him one.

The thing is. He does. He has forgotten those things. The fact is bad things make you forget about the good things. They do. I have SEEN it happen. Horrible things can erase all other good things (and I have honestly witnessed this. It's freaky). If your life is full of pain and heartache then it taints everything else. Even the past.

I can totally believe this has happened to Sam. We know the trauma Sam has experienced. I don't need to list it. So for him to think he has NEVER had anything good in his life is totally believable. In fact, it's a sure sign that something is wrong.

We haven't had the whole picture yet. Both Sam and Dean are suffering from their gap year. We've been given lots of hints. The cake is but one of them. (and I can't believe the writers or the Js have forgotten Sam's past. Jess was mentioned in the last ep. Sam remembers that "dream like" moment because it's recent.).

ETA: New (better!) theory below. I mean, I can totally accept Sam forgetting anything that might have represented "normal" for him before after all the suffering he has endured but I also love that it's Amelia who mentions the cake. Not Sam. He didn't say he's never had b'day cake before. (So stop giving him a hard time about it! *g*)

Comments

[greyowl88.livejournal.com]

First time I opened livejournal since I watched the ep and to find your facepalms makes me think I haven't missed anything. LOL (joking)

I was thinking that everything in Sam's past was attached to evil in some kind. As YED had posted demons in his friends even then (with Jess) and had Sam's future planned out and also Sam had to sort of hide the fact that his family was hunters. But this time he was really alone, broken off with his past entirely and just driving until he hit the dog. And after that apparently thing became normal in the sense that not only the dog survived but the vet didn't get killed by monsters/demons/whatever (or turned out to be one) but was only hiding to present him a cake in the park. So I do think this was the first time he actually experienced something like this with no dark strings attached. That he did have normal after all.

So yeah, end of gushing about this. lol

(pst, your tag says s5 musings..)

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Hee...yeah. Lots of mixed reactions to this one. And you know me, I cool with that except when... I'M NOT! I think I was just confused why there was all this "BUT JESS WOULD HAVE BAKED SAM A CAKE!"

And yes yes! You make a great point. I'm torn between Sam just not remembering that he's had an ok life at times and maybe not ever really having and sense of "normal".

It's so revealing that Sam acted so panicked when Amelia had disappeared - who would blame him. So many important people in his life have disappeared. I'm sure that was a direct comparison to Dean just disappearing.

Oooh... thanks for the tag pickup. It was midnight and I kinda rushed this post.
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