okay i really do love the pilot. especially now that i've seen thru s5 i appreciate the tragedy of dean being tasked from the very beginning to keep pulling sam out of the fire over and over only for sam have to leap into hell on the precipice of the apocalypse. dean cursed to have a big hemorrhaging wound of a heart of course. it's all for love. reminds me of someone we all know! i'm on a tangent now but how jealous do you think dean was of adam leaping into the cage with sam. it should have been him it wasn't him. in a terrible codependent way of course. but other factors had since been introduced. perhaps i should not speculate on this without watching s6. other things established - the impala (will have to scan for similar concepts in other cars as they show up, if applicable) as a place of commitment/decision/fidelity (and lack thereof) and also bodily autonomy/fate/curse/free will (mainly given the sam situation in this episode)...sam's hunting instincts. is he cursed to be his father. i feel like the show really loses that thread but i don't remember how or when. we will monitor. dean is so dialed into the cult of the nuclear family and its mission (or is convincing himself and/or sam that) he is. i think it's genuine at this point. we will monitor. the mary, constance, jess woman and white throughline is on the nose but it's good for cohesion. i like the fire (clear end/death physically but persisting psychological haunting mainly re: john) bookending the water (stagnation, lingering). either way nobody is going home. they plan to burn constance's body but they end up not having to do so. the winchester home burns....sam's place in palo alto burns...the car is still kicking. ok i like that there's a ceiling vs floor thing set up with the women in white. guilt/not being able to face your children too. oh and the dripping of course. yippee oh also going back to the car and fate/free will of course the road is implicated. theyre following john's trail. who is driving the car. who is really driving the car (a ghost drives the car in this episode). who paved the road, who gets on and off the road. surely this has been excessively discussed in the past 20 years. okay thank you pilot!
