Yeah, like I said, I let Dean have that little-boy "But she's not MY mommy!" reaction so that the audience would feel it, too, so that they didn't feel like they had to hate her on the boys' behalf. I personally loved the conversation when he walks in and is all, "Dad loves Mom" like he's protecting his family unit from the big bad interloper.... And she's not about to tell them they've already broken up, but she can tell exactly what he's about. Poor little guy.
I was really worried about the case fizzling, out, too, because I knew it couldn't be demons (because "Sin City" makes it clear that they hadn't seen any since "Mag7") but I wanted it to be *something* that fed into Sam's growing sense of powerlessness for the season. I'll tell you a secret: I really didn't think the casefile was going to work at all and even as late as three days before the deadline, I was still figuring out how to resolve it. But then I decided on the old "Missing Page Changes Spell" trick and it clicked into place.
I was still worried everyone would find it lame, though.
So yay. Seems like so far that's not happening.
And John. Yeah, John. Poor, poor man. I knew that even though I had to know what was in that letter, I was only going to reveal a tiny piece of it to the audience in this context. Maybe someday. But the whole point of that letter was that he poured his heart out in a way he never would have done verbally. And that's, of course, why he ultimately decided to let it lie.
But he fact that he kept it, sealed, addressed, etc., speaks volumes. (And not just about how much he cared - about how FUCKED UP the man was.)
I loved from the beginning the irony in the fact that Dean was *right* and Sam was *wrong* in a way - that John never really intended that letter to find its way to Beverly - but at the same time, *Sam* was right and *Dean* was wrong because delivering it gave them all a form of closure that they (and certainly Beverly) never had at the time.
Oh, boys. You are all so screwed in the head.
Anyway, there I go talking about my own stuff again.
It's too short for a tie-in, but thanks for the vote of confidence!
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Yeah, like I said, I let Dean have that little-boy "But she's not MY mommy!" reaction so that the audience would feel it, too, so that they didn't feel like they had to hate her on the boys' behalf. I personally loved the conversation when he walks in and is all, "Dad loves Mom" like he's protecting his family unit from the big bad interloper.... And she's not about to tell them they've already broken up, but she can tell exactly what he's about. Poor little guy.
I was really worried about the case fizzling, out, too, because I knew it couldn't be demons (because "Sin City" makes it clear that they hadn't seen any since "Mag7") but I wanted it to be *something* that fed into Sam's growing sense of powerlessness for the season. I'll tell you a secret: I really didn't think the casefile was going to work at all and even as late as three days before the deadline, I was still figuring out how to resolve it. But then I decided on the old "Missing Page Changes Spell" trick and it clicked into place.
I was still worried everyone would find it lame, though.
So yay. Seems like so far that's not happening.
And John. Yeah, John. Poor, poor man. I knew that even though I had to know what was in that letter, I was only going to reveal a tiny piece of it to the audience in this context. Maybe someday. But the whole point of that letter was that he poured his heart out in a way he never would have done verbally. And that's, of course, why he ultimately decided to let it lie.
But he fact that he kept it, sealed, addressed, etc., speaks volumes. (And not just about how much he cared - about how FUCKED UP the man was.)
I loved from the beginning the irony in the fact that Dean was *right* and Sam was *wrong* in a way - that John never really intended that letter to find its way to Beverly - but at the same time, *Sam* was right and *Dean* was wrong because delivering it gave them all a form of closure that they (and certainly Beverly) never had at the time.
Oh, boys. You are all so screwed in the head.
Anyway, there I go talking about my own stuff again.
It's too short for a tie-in, but thanks for the vote of confidence!