Re: Supernatural 3X10 "Dream a Little Dream of Me" SPOILERS
Last week the demon mentioned a power rising in the west. I wouldn't be surprised if that power hired Bela to get the Colt.
I took that just as a kind of off-hand comment, a kind of Wild West reference. There's a new power rising, but i think the "in the west" thing isn't to be taken seriously.
Also nice to see Sam's plight. From his feelings of a Anti Christ like future, to what I strongly believe is a hint that his powers aren't quite as gone as he might have thought.
Anti-christ figure... blatantly obvious crucifix position when bound to the ground by the bad guy and allowing himself to be beaten up.
Twice this season, I have gotten the feeling that Sam may have actually harnessed abilities beyond what he might have been able to do.
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Yet what other power do people like Sam have access to, but super human strength.
Possibly. This episode seemed to try to put to bed the hints they've been dropping all season - that what looked like Sam being taken over by his powers, or having come back "wrong," was actually just Sam deliberately trying to toughen himself up to take over from Dean. But of course, the two aren't mutually exclusive.
It felt like they were throwing together several different ideas that never really came together and seem half developed.
I feel kinda the same way. It used all the usual tricks of "it's all a dream" stories that we're familiar with from the
Elm Street films, like "we're awake oh no we're not" and "take control of the dream." I felt like, while the ultimate message the ep was trying to get to was valid, they chose a pretty obvious and heavy-handed way of getting there. I wasn't really surprised by anything that happened. And we've been been beaten over the head with the Dean's-going-to-hell arc so many times that this was kind of inevitable.
But, of course, the "evil Dean" scene was gold beyond gold. So many of Dean's issues came out - his anger at John, his wish for a normal life, his jealousy of Sam. Beautiful stuff.
It reminds me of Buffy's issues, in a way. Dean wanted to let himself die because a) he felt he deserved it for all the horrible things he's done, and b) it was a way out of the horror his life has become. Then the one thing that breaks him out of his funk is the revelation that he'll become what he's been fighting all along, but of course that's the point at which they drill into him that there's no way out.
Sever-O said:
Is this the episode that Jason Voorhees was originally supposed to appear in?
I also heard that Jeffrey Dean Morgan was supposed to be in this episode - that he was to be the one Dean faced in his dream, rather than himself. I have to say, I'm glad it turned out the way it did.
The Sam/Bela dream evoked only indifference. Sam's "hard on" gave me a minor giggle.
Ugh. While the thought of Jared Padalecki with an erection is always to be enjoyed, this was inappropriate and out of character. It feels like another desperate ploy to forcibly attach Bela to the boys in one way or another. I can only hope we can write it off as either Sam's premonitions coming out again, or Bela having already taken some dream-root before coming over, specifically to throw sam off his game.