Smiling Sam...

[ash48]

Playing a round with gifs. :)

I was looking at this piece of footage recently (from 2.20 What Is...) and thought that the only time we really see Sam this happy and relaxed is in Dean's dream. Seems significant somehow.

Also, I adore this smile. His face lights up.

I'm sure this is deliberately made to look fake, or forced. Sam never seemed comfortable with Amelia's dad. Even at the end when they were sharing a "laugh". Or is that just me...

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[ash48.livejournal.com]

The Hurt Locker is an excellent film.

My reference is partly about not fitting in and partly about that moment when you notice how different things are.

There's a moment in the film where the returning solider is in a supermarket - looking at all the food and realising how mundane and "normal" things are (and realising that he can't live like this...)

For Dean it happens when he returns from Purgatory and he's staring at the food dispenser at the motel. It's not exactly a moment of "I don't fit in" but rather a reflection of how different life on "earth" is to life in Purgatory.

I think of this moment of Sam's in much the same way. He's staring "normal" in the face and can see how different it is to the life he's been living. It might be something he wants but after all this time of not having it, he just doesn't fit there.

Ha...or maybe I'm over thinking it...;)

[womanofletters.livejournal.com]

No, I don't think you're overthinking it at all. :) There's a lot of subtext in Supernatural, put there by the writers and the actors, and yes, I can see it.