The confrontations with War and Famine were not pretty - many civilians were killed in those battles. Death, however, fights much more cleverly. He never came into direct contact with Sam (Jared Padalecki) or Dean (Jensen Ackles), never had any intention of involving them in this scheme while it was going on. And though they killed the Zombies and prevented quite a few deaths, Death's attack was still successful.
Sam and Dean are physically very strong. They are smart and resourceful, and they have many friends to back them up. They also have two very powerful angels - Lucifer and Michael respectively - who have a great interest in seeing that the boys come to no physical harm. But psychologically, it's a very different game. As Dean stated in Sam, Interrupted, it would not be shocking if at some point either of the boys lost his mind. Mentally, they are far from stable.
Death's attack was for Bobby (Jim Beaver). Had the Zombies killed him, that would have been a great success. That they didn't was not necessarily a defeat, as it meant that Bobby's wife who ha been resurrected had to be killed by her loving husband a second time. Time does not heal wounds, but allows them to scab over cleanly enough, allows to pain to become a dull, consistent ache in the background. And the most painful event of Bobby's life was not played over for him a second time, but was repeated with new details. And that pain is very fresh, and very very crippling.
Will Bobby be able to keep helping out? And if not, how will Sam and Dean continue without him?
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