I'm a bit torn about the episode too. It seemed inconsistent, and I agree with the comments about WTH were they doing, and was it on purpose or just clumsiness?
I might actually buy that Sam's idea of heaven does include his moments of independence, because Sam has always wanted to do his own thing. I seriously doubt that ALL of his heaven is moments where he ditched Dean, but I'll buy that the angels perhaps manipulated what the boys saw in order to alienate them. I could go with that.
The John leaving Mary for a few days I have some issues with though. One of the revelations this season was that the angels had spent a lot of time and energy getting John and Mary together to begin with, and that it was one of the major plans that Heaven had been cooking up. It doesn't quite ring true to me, but then again they also established that J&M hated each other before douche angels got into the mix, so maybe they're going for the "free will is ineffable" schtick, without throwing us a bone beforehand? Though we do have Team Free Will, so maybe that was supposed to be our clue?
Yeah. I dunno. For the most part I did like the ep, but I did wonder how much of what they boys were seeing was them, and how much was a manipulation so they would do what Zack wanted them to. The angels have probably had a buttload of practice by now. :-P
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I might actually buy that Sam's idea of heaven does include his moments of independence, because Sam has always wanted to do his own thing. I seriously doubt that ALL of his heaven is moments where he ditched Dean, but I'll buy that the angels perhaps manipulated what the boys saw in order to alienate them. I could go with that.
The John leaving Mary for a few days I have some issues with though. One of the revelations this season was that the angels had spent a lot of time and energy getting John and Mary together to begin with, and that it was one of the major plans that Heaven had been cooking up. It doesn't quite ring true to me, but then again they also established that J&M hated each other before douche angels got into the mix, so maybe they're going for the "free will is ineffable" schtick, without throwing us a bone beforehand? Though we do have Team Free Will, so maybe that was supposed to be our clue?
Yeah. I dunno. For the most part I did like the ep, but I did wonder how much of what they boys were seeing was them, and how much was a manipulation so they would do what Zack wanted them to. The angels have probably had a buttload of practice by now. :-P