spn 10x15 - bifurcated stories
Mar. 19th, 2015 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflyThe bifurcated stories that happen once Dean and Sam split up is really what I find most interesting about last night’s episode. Because the set-up is that it’s going to be another potential mirror either for good or bad, but then the mirror cracks and we get both versions, with Dean in one with Cole, and Sam in the other one with Kit and Gemma.
And Sam’s story is in a holding pattern waiting for a break in information in order to take action with Kit, which is exactly what he’s doing with the Mark of Cain situation as well at the moment.
Meanwhile, Dean is first trying what they already know, failing, but then not giving up and, at this point, he stops thinking about what worked on the last worms and then he and Cole actually examine the symptoms that this worm causes. And once they do that, once they stop living in the past and face present reality instead, a solution presents itself. And that solution works.
As a character, I’m one of the people who feels like Cole is more reminiscent of John Winchester, as opposed to Sam or Dean (or Cas). He has a traumatic supernatural-related event that sets him on a path towards revenge. He has a military background. He has a blonde wife. He’s a dab hand with research. But he’s, like, a Best of All Possible Worlds John. He’s a John who was capable of unhooking himself from the revenge cycle and going home to his family (and John certainly could have done this – little Sam and Dean would have benefited from it greatly). He’s a John who is capable of changing his mind when confronted with contrary evidence and who doesn’t ever write off the people he cares about.Original Post: bifurcated stories