I totally agree with pretty much everything you've said, esp in regards to the very limited Sam POV we are getting this season (and have in fact gotten for the last few seasons) I wrote in reply to a similar comment by ash48 in another LJ:
BUT! It hasn't happened yet. In a season Sam usually get 2 episodes of his pov. So far we've had some in 9.01 and an attempt at giving us some with his scenes with Cas - but that's it really (and the Cas ep ended up being more of Cas's pov anyway). I'm hoping they have an entire episode dedicated to Sam's pov before the end of the season (yeah, I know, and pigs might fly).
My reply: This makes me so sad. :-( That, on a 22/23 ep per season show with 2 lead actors playing the 2 main characters, that we would be hoping that Jared and Sam gets an episode or two that focusses on him. That 1 ep a season should make us grateful and excited, when shouldn't we be getting an equal number of eps split between Dean and Sam. When did it become so one-sided and Dean-centric??? It seemed a lot more even back in Seasons 1 & 2. Too often Sam seems like a supporting character (and Jared a supporting actor) on his own show.
I even notice when watching the previouslies, that Sam and his storyline is featured very little and usually at the end after secondary characters like Cas and Kevin and Crowley.
We could have even started the ep with Sam in his room, seeing as we had the next sequence following Sam through the bunker looking for Dean. But yeah, I was really ticked off that we have no idea what Sam did after he closed the door to his room at the end.
For me, Dean's real wrong came when he allowed Ezekiel's blackmail and subterfuge to continue. He chose to ignore all of the red flags that Zeke was not on the up and up. Once Sam was physically aware he should have been allowed to oust or to not oust Ezekiel as he saw fit. Heck, after Lucifer, we know he has it in him to take over.
This is the only part I don't agree with. For me, it was when Dean said and thereby acknowledged "That Sam would never agree to be possessed, that he would rather die" and then went ahead with a plan to have Sam possessed anyways, because as Sam pointed out in "The Purge" : You didn't do it for me. You did it for you, cause you didn't want to be alone." Every decision Dean made after that, manipulating coma!Sam by having Gad appear as Dean, agreeing to Gad wiping Sam's memory over and over, lying to Sam whenever he raised concerns about how he was feeling, missing chunks of times etc was just another wrong that would never have been necessary had he abided by what he knew Sam's choice would be. Death rather than possession.
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Date: 2014-03-02 06:08 am (UTC)BUT! It hasn't happened yet. In a season Sam usually get 2 episodes of his pov. So far we've had some in 9.01 and an attempt at giving us some with his scenes with Cas - but that's it really (and the Cas ep ended up being more of Cas's pov anyway). I'm hoping they have an entire episode dedicated to Sam's pov before the end of the season (yeah, I know, and pigs might fly).
My reply: This makes me so sad. :-( That, on a 22/23 ep per season show with 2 lead actors playing the 2 main characters, that we would be hoping that Jared and Sam gets an episode or two that focusses on him. That 1 ep a season should make us grateful and excited, when shouldn't we be getting an equal number of eps split between Dean and Sam. When did it become so one-sided and Dean-centric??? It seemed a lot more even back in Seasons 1 & 2. Too often Sam seems like a supporting character (and Jared a supporting actor) on his own show.
I even notice when watching the previouslies, that Sam and his storyline is featured very little and usually at the end after secondary characters like Cas and Kevin and Crowley.
We could have even started the ep with Sam in his room, seeing as we had the next sequence following Sam through the bunker looking for Dean. But yeah, I was really ticked off that we have no idea what Sam did after he closed the door to his room at the end.
For me, Dean's real wrong came when he allowed Ezekiel's blackmail and subterfuge to continue. He chose to ignore all of the red flags that Zeke was not on the up and up. Once Sam was physically aware he should have been allowed to oust or to not oust Ezekiel as he saw fit. Heck, after Lucifer, we know he has it in him to take over.
This is the only part I don't agree with. For me, it was when Dean said and thereby acknowledged "That Sam would never agree to be possessed, that he would rather die" and then went ahead with a plan to have Sam possessed anyways, because as Sam pointed out in "The Purge" : You didn't do it for me. You did it for you, cause you didn't want to be alone." Every decision Dean made after that, manipulating coma!Sam by having Gad appear as Dean, agreeing to Gad wiping Sam's memory over and over, lying to Sam whenever he raised concerns about how he was feeling, missing chunks of times etc was just another wrong that would never have been necessary had he abided by what he knew Sam's choice would be. Death rather than possession.