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rose mnor

Characters in an ongoing show cannot remain static, they would develop and regress with the ebb and flow of their journeys. This is what made stories good, the cyclical of events would make their actions make sense. If they remain morally correct throughout the seasons, it won’t make their story compelling and true to ongoing events. What happened to Dean in this episode is what I would call character regression, after all those that had happened to him from S2 onwards and with the most recent events with Castiel, and these events made his actions make sense (when I mean making sense here does not mean morally correct). In earlier seasons, Dean had met monsters that would not kill humans, so he viewed them as ‘safe’ to be let free. But should the same monster kill humans later, no chance should be considered and given anymore. Sam had been manipulated before by Ruby and now he hallucinates Lucifer, so to Dean, his judgment seemed suspect, specifically this time as he let Amy go even when she had already killed people. Amy might be manipulating him too. We as an audience have the advantage of Amy’s backstory and can sympathize with her and her son, but Dean did not. He only has Sam's version that Dean already deemed suspect, as mentioned above. The murder of Amy is what I would call Dean’s emotional continuity from previous episodes, which I reiterate, made sense at this point of his character's journey. He had witnessed his very best friend, Castiel, a supernatural being, kill many humans because of power corruption before he could be stopped. That is why even though Dean’s action was deplorable but story-wise, it made sense for Dean to not let Amy go free after her murder spree of humans, no matter her reasons. Because Sam let her go free before, people are dead. To Dean, monsters that killed humans needed to be put down. Humans that killed humans are up for the authorities to deal with. The story continuity and Dean’s character remain true here. At this time, I am proud that Supernatural, a seven-year-old show, still managed to invoke highly charged discussions about morally ambiguous decision-making from multiple points of view.

Tara

Did you notice that Jensen directed this episode? His first was Weekend at Bobby’s which was perfect because he was only in a few scenes and was able to focus on directing. He went on to direct a handful of other episodes over the rest of the show. He even directed an episode of Walker earlier this year and I bet it was fun for both Jensen and Jared to be on set together again. I tried watching Walker, but it was difficult seeing Jared’s character with a different actor playing his brother. One day soon I will try again. I immediately recognized Amy from the show Firefly with Nathan Fillion, who I love. This is definitely one of the grey areas. I understand why Dean killed her, but I wish he wouldn’t have lied to Sam about it. You’d think they would know better by now and I love seeing young Sam. The actor, Colin Ford looks more and more like Jared every episode we see him in. Shelley, you brought up the werewolf Madison in your outro commentary and I know you don’t like that episode, one thing that I remembered is that Madison wanted to be killed. She asked Sam to shoot her. She was afraid she might get loose sometime and kill somebody. I don’t know if that makes a difference, I thought it was an interesting take. Similar to when we recently saw vampire Lenore again (Amber Benson) and found out that she started killing people again and also asked to be killed. This show loves to play in that gray area.