6.05: Dean becomes the monster, and burns the last bridge to his normal life…
DEAN. Look at this. He’s WATCHING her sleep. How is that not rape-y?
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They’re staking out the Black Rose bar looking for their Emo Teenage Vampire who’s been luring young women with the whole Twilight act, and they’ve got three potential suspects:
DEAN. I dunno. It’s hard to tell. (He continues to look around and spies two other young men talking with girls.) Hey, we got multiple choice. SAM. Great. Three of them and two of us. (They watch as one of the men kisses another guy.) DEAN. (After taking a moment to process.) Okay. Make that two of them.
(oh my GOD this episode has so much homoerotic subtext– and actual text-text– it’s ridiculous)
(I mean, vampires as a symbol for dark and forbidden desire, and then it’s Dean who’s turned… it’s not subtle or mysterious subtext here…)
(DEAN starts to walk away.) VOICE. You’re pretty… (DEAN turns and finds himself face-to-face with BORIS.) DEAN. I’m sorry? BORIS. I said…you’re pretty. DEAN. Yeah, sorry again, pal. I don’t play for your team.
Being told he’s pretty was enough to get Dean to turn around… in a dark alley outside a club where they suspected vampires were abducting girls from… I mean, what was he expecting when he turned around? If he had truly NOT been interested in any way, he would’ve kept walking, right? I mean, that’s what a totally hetero dudebro would’ve done, right?
Sure, okay, they are working this vampire case and maybe the guy in the alley could be a suspect… or at least tangentially involved… but it’s been girls who’ve gone missing (SEVEN of them, it’s been a very consistent pattern), not “pretty” guys. So he initially wouldn’t be expecting the vampire to suddenly switch up his MO like that. He’d already dismissed another suspect inside the bar when he started macking on another guy.
So WHY did Dean turn around? Why didn’t he just keep walking? If he really didn’t play for that team once in a while?
Because heck, there were a lot of pretty people inside that club (and Dean was definitely one of those pretty people), and maybe one of those pretty people had followed him outside…
But the guy he came face to face with in that alley wasn’t what Dean had been hoping to find…
(what he’d been expecting to find:
what he actually found:
yeah… maybe this guy just wasn’t his type?)
But then Sam just stands by while Boris here attacks and TURNS Dean into a vampire. And then Sam also stands around while Boris escapes.
Dean goes to say goodbye to Lisa (which really is the end for them BECAUSE of WHAT DEAN IS, and not because he’s been turned into a vampire…)
LISA. Just stop, and explain to me what’s going on out there. DEAN. (Pauses. Miserably.) Lisa, I can’t bring this crap home to you. LISA. You’re talking about your work? DEAN. I’m talking about my LIFE. It’s ugly…and it’s violent…and I’m gonna die – SOON.
But ALL of this happened because of Sam’s actions– he lies to practically everyone and deliberately “weaponzies” Dean to achieve their aims of capturing the Alpha Vampire. He’s lying to Samuel when he confronts Sam with his belief that this is what Sam has done, he lies to Dean after Dean’s cured… and NEITHER Samuel or Dean really trust him anymore after this. I mean, not like Dean really trusted him BEFORE this, but this was the last straw for Dean. He knows there’s something seriously wrong with Sam now.
*cue Dean’s epic battle inside the vamp nest*
*and his strange vision of the Alpha Vamp*
And Dean learns the monsters are running a mass recruitment drive… they’re fighting back because they’re being attacked in record numbers
(in a direct parallel to s12, but with the MoL trying to wipe them all out wholesale instead of just trying to find and destroy their alphas to raid purgatory…)
When Sam and Samuel make their way inside after Dean’s slaughter of the entire nest, Samuel looks around at the carnage and says to Sam, “Looks like your brother has some Campbell in him after all.”
Which is REALLY creepy in the context of what a Campbell hunter is, and what that means about Mary in s12…
DEAN. Honestly? Recruitment drive. (SAM and SAMUEL register this.) Their alpha’s building an army. SAMUEL. Well, THAT’s comforting. DEAN. That’s not the worst. SAM. Then what IS? DEAN. We don’t scare them anymore.
Hunters didn’t scare the monsters anymore back in s6, but the MoL and their horrifying technology that can wipe them out en masse seem to have the monsters on the run in s12. But eventually those monsters will have their backs to the walls (like in 12.14) and will fight back.
Only now, Sam and Dean are in a very different place themselves. They’re working (mostly) together, they really DO have each other’s backs unlike in s6. They aren’t personally out to kill ALL the monsters. They know there ARE some monsters who deserve to live.
And sometimes people (like soulless!Sam in s6 and the BMoL in s12) are the real monsters…
Given how Dean reacts even as a grown man to the word “pretty,” and all his knowledge about roofies, and the CBGB incident, I always thought that hearing “pretty” in a male voice was an immediate DANGER flag for Dean.
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