A couple of tiny moments from 8.20

[ash48]

Man, that ep does get in. It's been a while since I've watched an ep 3 times. <3

A couple of little (tiny) reaction moments that had me thinking. (What? Obsessive? Me? Nah...)



Because I've been experimenting with gifs I've been looking extra closely at little moments.

This reaction from Sam made me think about how terrified he must have been after that very heartfelt hug from Dean. Dean's only really hugged Sam like this after one of them have returned from the grave (or elsewhere...). I wondered if Sam was thinking this was Dean acknowledging just how dangerous this is - acknowledging that Sam may well die and Dean was somehow accepting that. Sam might be thinking that Dean was getting a hug in before it's too late. And no, I don't mean that Dean has given up on Sam. This is about what Sam might have read from that hug.



zebra363 pointed this Dean reaction out to me:

This is after Charlie tells Sam that if anyone can do these trials he can. That's an eye roll! What's going on with that? He looks away as though he doesn't want to accept what Charlie's saying. He knows Sam is strong enough - maybe he doesn't want to hear someone else say it. Or something...?



While I'm here...

Awwww.... hand holding. :)

Comments

[cherie-morte.livejournal.com]

there's a limit to how bad things can be for Sam!

Ahahaahaha, OMG, BB, you say that as if the things that have happened to bring the boys back haven't already been worse than dying.

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but. We know he'll be back. We know he will be able to hunt. We know Dean isn't permanently losing Sam -- he could, at the end of the series, but he won't at 8.23.

That's why I'm hoping that the Trials really are working some kind of transformation in Sam and that it sticks. Because I don't feel that there's much moral or emotional complication in what we've seen of Sam's feelings about the trials, and putting all the suspense on "will Sam survive?" when the audience knows he will doesn't have much impact for me.

[cherie-morte.livejournal.com]

He might die and spend the next two seasons as a hallucination that Sam hangs out with/hunts with/genuinely has convinced himself is really because he's just that sad?

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