I have to agree. There was a little paralleling of their stories, but not *really*, and it felt like it made Sam and Dean's issues ...cheap? I dunno.
Don't get me wrong, i loved the episode, and i still love Show. And it really, really sucks that Ed's unthinking actions forced Harry to kill a human, something that has devastated him.
But as borgmama1of5 said - Ed took away Harry's *choices* - ones he was really happy about. Dean kept Sam from dying, but nothing is keeping Sam from leaving the bunker, the hunting life, *Dean*, but himself.
I feel badly for all of them, but I keep thinking back to the first episode, and Dean telling Sam he had a way to save him, trust him, please. And Sam *did*. It was fucked up and not what Sam would have ever chosen, but he *did not hesitate* to trust Dean and to live.
So the whole 'i wanted to be dead' thing seems to me more like a cover over what the issues *really* are, which are trust and agency and sacrifice.
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Don't get me wrong, i loved the episode, and i still love Show. And it really, really sucks that Ed's unthinking actions forced Harry to kill a human, something that has devastated him.
But as
I feel badly for all of them, but I keep thinking back to the first episode, and Dean telling Sam he had a way to save him, trust him, please. And Sam *did*. It was fucked up and not what Sam would have ever chosen, but he *did not hesitate* to trust Dean and to live.
So the whole 'i wanted to be dead' thing seems to me more like a cover over what the issues *really* are, which are trust and agency and sacrifice.