Blood will Flow

I loved the ep. Probably the best one I've seen in a long long while. This young Dean actor, he did a fantastic job; they hadn't been able to cast a good young-Dean actor in like, ever, so I was absolutely thrilled with this selection.

As to the end, when Sam asked and Dean 'shut him down'. Eh, if anything, if Sam has grown at all, he should know by now, when he scratches too deep into Dean's past feelings of abandonment and his choices from his past that lead him to his present, Dean always reacts the same way. If Sam hasn't learned not to be hurt by that by now, or us fans, we aren't paying attention. I give Sam more credit for knowing his acknowledgement is enough for Dean; but Dean made his peace with his choices a long time ago, at least those he'd made in his youth. It was pretty apparent every time Sam mentioned at any time in that ep, like how Dad abandoned him there for 2 months, and Dean shook it off... so yeah. I think Sam knows better and so does Dean, but hindsight isn't how Dean lives.

I think the future where Sam finds out the more recent choices with regard to Ezekiel will be far more telling. I really don't know how that is going to go but I sure hope the writer's will find a better way to deal with it than reusing Sam's past reactions and history with regard to Dean. We shall see.