Promo pics from The One You’ve Been Waiting For (episode 12.05)

Do you think the episode title has anything to do with Dean FINALLY getting to use that grenade launcher? 

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Jared: The show has to end with the boys dying because they’ll never stop hunting otherwise.
Jensen: Someone would bring them back. They should just walk away from hunting.
Jared: Which one would walk?
Jensen: They’ve both tried before so it would have to be both of them. They walk away together. To a movie.

You didn’t live blog the show! i missed you. Did you like it? I did bu the pt with Sam hallucinating and then faking killing himself about did me in.

I know. I wanted to just watch the premiere so I could really absorb it. I missed commenting about stuff on here though, so I’ll probably go back to that next episode. 

I can’t believe I haven’t seen more people talking about Sam’s hallucinations.

He sees Kevin being killed by Gadreel then sees Dean’s face after he got torn apart by hellhounds. He sees Meg dying and Jessica on the ceiling.  

Then it’s just Dean. Dean in Swan Song beaten by Lucifer using Sam’s own hands. Dean’s voice saying “I’m dead because of you. This is all your fault. We’re all dead because of you, Sam. It should have been you. You’re a freak. It’s your fault. Why won’t you die? It’s all your fault.

And he says “You’re right”, surely the most heartbreaking line Sam has uttered since he said “So?” after Dean told him he’d die if the trials were completed.

He was being confronted by all the stuff he feels guilty about. Most of that involved Dean. He has so much guilt over Dean. Thanks to the BMoL and their mind games, he had to listen to Dean, his rock, the only constant in his life, telling him to quit, to give up, to die. But he didn’t. He probably wanted to right then. As far as he knows, Dean’s dead. Cas is gone. EVERYONE is gone. But he fought back. He didn’t give up. Instead he cut his hand right where it was cut before. The spot where he always pressed to control the hallucinations after Dean showed him how. “I am your flesh and blood brother. Okay? Believe in that! You gotta make it stone number one, and build on it.” 

I’m a little bit awed by Sam’s character right now and by how awesome Jared did in those scenes. 

Can we just talk about Jared’s adorable bare feet though?

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And when Jensen said this?

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He wasn’t kidding. They should put that in the show. Sam’s researching and having a cup of coffee just like

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Jared Padalecki on the episode that made him “miserable” (from ew.com)

The show has handled death any number of ways, whether it’s Dean’s emotional plea to bring Sam back to life in season 2, or on the other end of the spectrum, Dean dying over and over for comedic purposes in season 3’s “Mystery Spot,” when the brothers find themselves in a world created by the Trickster.

And yet, the show’s more comedic handling of death resulted in an hour that star Jared Padalecki will never forget. “I feel like all I can do is be totally honest as Sam Winchester, and he’s not a funny guy,” Padalecki says. “The way I treat the death, like ‘Mystery Spot,’ which was a kind of comedic episode, was miserable for me. I was crying day in and day out. I mean it. This is not hyperbole. That was a miserable, miserable, miserable week in my life.”

“I could only treat it like it was reality,” Padalecki says, even surprising co-star Jensen Ackles with his revelation. “I had to treat it like Sam, and Sam would be mortified. When [Dean] kept on getting shot, I was playing, as best as I could, my brother is dead. My brother is dead in my arms. He got shot. A f–king piano fell on him, whatever it was. For me, it was miserable because I was legitimately trying to convince myself that my brother had died from some funny way, but it’s not funny if it’s happened to you.”

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