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Supernatural: What's Sam Going to do Now?

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Written by April Yorke   
Wednesday, 07 April 2010 11:26

Photo: Jack Rowand/The CW ©2010Again, sorry about the delay, so let's get right to it. "Dark Side of the Moon" was a very nice take on death, the afterlife, and Heaven. It goes a little like this:

Only The Good Die Young

Instead of seeing your life flash before your eyes, Sam and Dean, killed by angry hunters (who, btw, share a nice dialogue about how they want to kill Sam but have to kill Dean to save themselves from his revenge), get to visit some of their favourite memories. Despite being told for over a year now that hunting is the only life for Sam and he wouldn't return to a "normal" life if offered the opportunity, Sam's favourite memories notably feature an absence of Dean and Sucky John and are heavy on the normal side, including a Thanksgiving dinner where an 11 year-old got a little handsy under the table (don't worry, Sam was 11, too, when it happened, though he's hilariously Jared Padalecki in the memory). Can we just take a minute to appreciate that girl's moxie? Rrrwr! Dean's memories, par contre, feature Sam and Mom also without Sucky John, though his spectre looms over both glimpses into Dean's psyche. Mary once again makes Dean a sandwich because that's how pathetically low Dean's sights are set.

You Could be Headed for the Serious Strife

Supernatural's afterlife is an infinite number of Heavens, each dictated by the owner's desires, so Ash's Harvelle's never runs out of cold beer and peanuts, whereas Psychic Pamela gets to hang out at a rock concert all day every day. While Sam focuses on the task at hand, Dean makes sad faces about how boring and disconnected it all is because that's all Dean does now.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

At the centre of all these Heavens is indeed a garden, though what you see varies from person to person. Sam and Dean get a botanical garden they visited on a field trip as kids, and Angel Joshua, who takes card of this garden for The Gardener and gets to hear what He says as a bonus, unfortunately informs our Intrepid Heroes that God has indeed checked out. He pulled Sam and Dean out of Lucifer's way in the season opener and put Castiel back together, but that is it. Earth sucks, so they're on their own. Of course, Dean starts in, way too on the nose, about "just another dead beat dad," but once they're back on Earth you can see the fight's completely gone out of him. Castiel is absolutely broken by this news, stopping only to send a "son of a bitch" heavenwards before taking off. Finally, Dean tosses his God-seeking amulet in the garbage.

Man, did that image hit me like a punch. Sam's still trying to rally, saying that they can do this without God, and Dean just turns his back on him, drops the necklace in the garbage, and walks out the door. You know, the Christmas gift from Sam that Dean said he felt naked without. What's Sam going to do now?

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Madison
April 09, 2010
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Well yeah, because if Dean says yes he gets to be Michael...but if he forces Sam to have to say yes too, Sam has to be Lucifer...I mean, you'd be begging him to rally too!

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