Supernatural: Dream A Little Dream Of Me
By fred | February 8, 2008
(S03E10) Yes, of course, Thursday night is the big night, the night of Lost. There’s no question about it, yet I am starting my night watching Supernatural. It just works better that way for me. I won’t be doing that all the time though, since – sadly – after this one, there’s only two episode left. But for now, let’s focus on the Winchester brothers and their new adventures.
And this episode was quite a “special” one, in a way. Not in what happened, we had the two brothers going after some demon of sorts, fighting, and eventually winning. No what made it so special was what it really was about. And what is was about, was the future.
It was about the future of our boys, and of Dean more specifically. As it started it looked like the doubts, questions and fears regarding what seems to be inevitable for Dean were once again on Sam’s side. He was the one hanging out in a bar, in the middle of the day, drinking. He was the one affected by this, Dean, on the other hand, always looks as if he doesn’t care.
But we know he doesn’t, he doesn’t want to go to Hell, and doesn’t want to die, but he also doesn’t want others, Sam, to worry about him. And he’s not one to show off his emotion, that’s not how Dean works. Yet, this was about Dean’s fears, and as we ventured into his head, walked amongst his dreams and nightmares, it became clear that Dean is nowhere near as confident and at peace with the whole situation as he’d like people to think he is.
And the episode was a turning point, as Dean finally “came clean” to his brother and told him that he was scarred, that he did not want to die, that he carred. He confessed all that and I’m sure this will have an impact on Sam and on the way they will work in the future, because now they might try to find a way out for Dean in a (much) more active way than they had so far, which pretty much only consisted of trusting Ruby, even though we now know she was lying.
But as good as this whole development might have been, I found the actual “case of the week”, the big fight with today’s evil, which was no demon, to be actually pretty weak. I mean, if wasn’t that difficult for them to find out what Bobby was doing here, and it shouldn’t have been, Bobby wasn’t trying to hide any more than that, and those two are hunters, as well as friends of his. So obviously they were going to find out, and then go walk into Bobby’s head.
Normal stuff so far. But I thought that it was a quite dangerous, not to say stupid idea for the two of them to go inside of his head. I mean, unless they were 100% sure that it was easy, once in there, to get out, maybe it might have been a much better idea to let someone on the outside, someone who could still have a chance to help from there and wake them up somehow. Because had it not worked out, the three of them were stuck in a coma, and that was it.
Pretty dumb move here I think. Plus, it’s not like Sam was of any help, really, to wake Bobby up.
Moving on to Bobby’s past and his wife he had to kill (did he ever go to jail for that?), it was really a easy resolution we got there. They go in, Dean tells Bobby it’s a dream of his, and they wake up. Next! Seriously, I was a bit disappointed. I’m not saying I have an idea that would have make things better, but it felt pretty easy, didn’t it?
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Shows: Supernatural
