Cynthia said:

“When I was a kid, my mother had a needlepoint sign that she would hang on her bedroom door when she needed some alone time. The sign said, “mommy has had it.” Dean Winchester needs to put that sign on his door then maybe Sammy will surprise us all and become the savior of the world instead of the one that leads us all into the pit.”

IMO this would be HORRIBLE. Dean already feels weak because of what Sam said to him in Sex and Violence and because of everything that’s happened to him. So you’d like to see Dean being shown up by Sam (again) and basically prove him right when Sam said that he’s stronger, smarter, and better than Dean? Ugh.

Everything Sam does now, with the aid of his girlfriend’s demon blood of course, is so that he can prove to Dean that he’s BETTER. To me, Sam is at the height of arrogance right now. He acts like a cocky show-off when he uses his powers and this was especially apparent when he confronted Alastair.

I think Sam loves feeling that he’s stronger, better, and smarter than Dean based on what he said to Ruby. [And the fact that Sam talks to Ruby about Dean's issues really angers me. I certainly hope Dean keeps everything to himself from now on]. So if Sam (fueled by demon blood) becomes the savior of the world while weak and pathetic Dean is curled up in a ball on the floor … I just … wow, I WOULD HATE THIS.

Just because Dean isn’t a demon blood addict like his brother, doesn’t mean that he isn’t capable of being a hero. Dean is at a low point right now (with good reason), but I am certain that he can come back from this, stronger than ever.

I enjoyed the scenes of the Angels. Jensen and Jared have often commented on how tough it is working relentlessly long hours week in, week out, I’m sure they appreciated the break not having to carry the entire load for once. But I do agree it should have been Castiel and Uriel. Anna is totally unnecessary (and totally outclassed in acting by both Wisdom and Collins) other than as a booty call for Dean and the boy has more important things to deal with these days. The way the writers handwaved her managing to reconstitute her human body was ridiculous as was her Mary Sue-esque role of coming in at the last minute to save the day. Castiel should have been allowed to save himself.

I love the way the Dean/Castiel relationship is developing, I enjoy watching these two talented actors who have great acting chemistry, share the screen.

I was very disappointed in the way Dean’s story was handled earlier in the season, coming back from the worst experience imaginable and seemingly just fine. I’m glad they’re finally showing he’s not fine, and he shouldn’t be after everything he’s been through. The longest relationship of Dean’s existence has been with his torturer. How messed up is that?

I hope that in the end, the brothers are working together to end Lilith and whatever plans Azazel had of his own, and not at opposite ends, but I think Sam is going to have to take a hard fall before he sees past the self-delusion, to what he’s allowing himself to become. Unfortunately I don’t see that happening soon and with only a few eps left in this season, doesn’t look like the brotherly bond will be mended by season’s end.

We had Rev. LeGrange in Faith, saying Dean had a purpose that he hadn’t fulfilled yet and that’s why the Lord has guided his hand to him. It was as though “God” if you will was using a bad situation created by a human(SueAnne) in order do some good with it. Dean was saved from would have seemed to be his death yet again, in IMTOD. Then we had Dean relating to Archangel Michael in Houses of the Holy.

This is one reason why I do not believe John was really meant to break the first seal and that Alastair was lying. Dean is the one who was presented as having a purpose, though it was subtly done, that had not yet been fulfilled.

I don’t think Dean’s purpose was so much to break the first seal as that by Dean breaking the first seal, it insured that Dean would be the one who would finish it, whether that means stopping the last seal or somehow stopping the apocalypse after it starts.

There is too much balance to that for it be “Here Dean, you go sit in a corner and take a rest, let Demon powered Sammy do it because you’re just too weak”. In Death Takes a Holiday they even pointed up Dean’s rather complicated “relationship” with death, who happened to be personified by Tessa, which is a subtle thread I’ve always appreciated on the show and I’m glad they didn’t forget about it. On the one hand he longs for it to a certain extent, yet I on the other he has work to do. Stopping the Apocalypse, however that is supposed to happen, really ties into that.

I disagree here, because Sam has clearly been drinking blood since at least Criss Angel. So he didn’t “do it for Dean”. That is what he and Ruby were cryptically talking about early in that episode and what he decided to do when he got into the car with her at the end. He was already going to see Ruby as he talked to Dean about, at the beginning of this episode. Sam was clearly going to get his hit from her prior to the angels coming to get Dean. He even talks like an addict “I need it”.

““Dean Winchester needs to put that sign on his door then maybe Sammy will surprise us all and become the savior of the world instead of the one that leads us all into the pit.”

Wow that would suck. So it would be like “Hey Dean you are really are a pathetic weak loser, let the big boys do this”. After how low the show has pushed Dean nothing less than Dean rising like a phoenix out of ashes to save the world will be enough to balance out how low they’ve taken him. Sam’s just a junkie, as soon as he stops drinking demon blood, he’ll be fine. Dean was in HELL, responsible for breaking the first seal by turning torturer himself, though he had no way of knowing that at the time, he’s been pushed as low as anyone possibly could be. Nothing less than being the one to “save them”, as the angels said in Anna’s Angel Radio days, can balance that out.

If Kripke did what you suggest, it would be terrible storytelling, in my opinion.

Aw, that’d be awful, though, wouldn’t it? After everyone telling him as much, Dean really IS a weak failure who can’t do anything, and has to just shut himself up in a room and cry while his brother saves the world? No, thanks. I’d be out of here so fast it’d make Kripke’s head spin. I’d like both boys to have some agency, thank you very much!

Sammy’s sums it up for me about what I want for this season’s convoluted mytharc: “Miracle, Now!”