What a brilliant start to an episode, with Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam (Jared Padalecki) going to see a psychiatrist because Sam thinks that he started Armageddon. It's all his fault because he was drinking demon blood and killed the demon Lilith and thus released Lucifer. And if that wasn't wonderful enough, to have Dean then defend him by saying it wasn't his fault, because after all he had been high on the blood and besides, there were other supernatural factors as well...heeheehee
I was a little surprised/disappointed that the episode didn't take the angle that perhaps Sam and Dean were crazy, that their save-the-world complexes, mixed with religious mania, weren't in fact actual delusions. After all, some of the brilliance of them ending up in the insane asylum was that they were speaking the truth, and if we ever met anyone who honestly believed the things Sam and Dean know to be true...well, we'd lock them up too.
But going with a wraith that did make them crazy wasn't a bad choice either. And it allowed us to explore not only how bad a shape our boys are in - hardly sleeping at night, drinking far more than any person ever should, completely unable to have long-lasting, serious relationships - but also Sam's anger. He is angry, always has been angry, and it's probably a good thing that he knows about it.
I can't say that it's the best philosophy for either Dean or Sam to take their pain and anger and shove both in a corner, but trying to deal with all that right now, when the fate of the world is in the balance, is not really going to help them either.
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