The parallels in this episode were outstanding. At first, Max seemed more like the obvious Sam parallel to me. Remember when Dean showed up all worried about John and Sam was just like “Oh he’s off on a bender. He’ll show up.” Max was very Sam. Plus even though Sam made the comment to Alicia about both Dean and John being in the life like Max and his mom, Dean said that it was actually Sam that was more like John.
But when Alicia died? That was so clearly a direct parallel to Sam’s death and Max reacted EXACTLY like Dean did. Make a deal, bring them back, who needs a soul anyway?
This show does love beautiful codependent siblings.