Usually it feels great to see Dean and Sam together again, and im glad, don´t get me wrong, that our boys are back in the family business…but at what cost?Īnd Castiel. Im sorry he said good bye to Benny (great scene) and im sorry Sam didn´t choose Amelia. We knew they had to talk, we knew there was so many things that need to be solved…but its really their way to solve things choose each other again and not letting anyone in? I understand Sam´s giving up a lot.so Dean had to. I like how they´re addressing Dean and Sam´s conflict in their relationship. I feel ambivalent about this episode and im not sure whats road Spn is going this season anymore. I liked the episode, but i haven´t enjoyed it. Granted, we still see next week’s “ LARP and the Real Girl” as largely filler … but it’s fun filler, and it’s hard to argue against that.
What “Torn and Frayed” did, it did very well: it cut back on some of the excess and the controversial storylines, and created a strong sense of mythology that will likely carry over to future episodes. Meanwhile, Dean realized the same thing about his friendship with Benny, knowing that the troublesome vampire would continue to compromise things between him and his brother.
Sam made the predictable decision to let Amelia go, mostly because he realized where his heart was and he could not both be with her and continue to do his proper duties as a hunter. On the subject of the Winchester brothers, we see this episode almost as a response to some of the criticism that the brothers’ fractured relationship is not nearly as interesting as when they are working together and therefore, it was almost like the writers devised a way to hit a giant reset button.