#You conveniently forgot the part where Sam spent time in the cage getting tortured by lucifer after saving Dean's life

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Why do we hate John Winchester for literally being a Vietnam war vet with just heaps of trauma on top of his trauma with trauma sauce, who didn't do a great job as a dad for sure. Still he did the best he could with the cards he was dealt.... yet we forgive Sam who literally went to Stanford and spent 15 seasons bitching and moaning about how life's not fair. To his brother who literally spent what felt like lifetimes being tortured in hell to save his sorry ass, lost everyone he ever loved, had a shot at the family of his dreams and had to give it up to keep them safe, AND kept a good attitude about the whole thing?

Honestly? Fuck Sam Winchester right in the bellybutton.

Leave me alone why did you send me this

[mycasandstarrs]

SPN 6x11: “Appointment in Samarra”

THEN: Death is in town and he’s got a ring. Reapers are a thing, and Dean has a record with a particular one: Tessa. The value of souls, and the potential damage Sam’s soul might have. S!Sam no longer wants it back.

Dr. Robert. A possible Beatles reference?

“Son, I stitched up your daddy more times than I can count, let me tell you. Oh, it's good to see you. 'Course, that was ages ago, back when, uh, I still had my medical license.” That is like, the last thing you want to hear from a doctor.

Dean had a letter for Ben ready just in case.

“Don’t be a baby.” Those needles fucking hurt, Eva.

RIP Dean Winchester. Death #3.

Tessa! What’s good?

Hello, Death.

Dean really tried to bargain with Death?

“Lucifer's cage. I figure you're one of the few people that can actually jailbreak it.” He’s right.

“Sam’s soul is stuck in that box.”

“I’ve heard.”

“And our other brother is trapped in there, too. Michael rode him in.”

“Dean, quit shuffling and deal.”

“I want you to get 'em both out.”

Nice of Dean to at least include Adam.

Ultimately, he chooses Sam. Zachariah was unfortunately right.

“The soul can be bludgeoned, tortured, but never broken.” That’s actually rather reassuring.

“Can't erase Sam's hell, but I can...put it behind a wall, if you will.” 

“Okay, so that's the choice -- Sam with no soul, or Sam with some drywall that if or when it collapses, he's...Done?”

“Yes.”

“Do it.”

Dean will seriously do ANYTHING.

Death’s bet:

“Now, when you fetch my ring, put it on.”

“What?”

“I want you to be me for a day.”

“Are you serious?’

“No, I’m being incredibly sarcastic.”

haha, I love that.

“But why?”

“Simple, Dean. Because--”

Convenient timing.

Welcome back to the land of the living, Dean.

“I’m trying to save your life!”

“Exactly, Dean! It's my life! It's my life, it's my soul. And it sure as hell ain't your head that's gonna explode when this whole scheme of yours goes sideways!”

That’s unfortunately fair.

Well, S!Sam’s becoming a better liar.

Nevermind, Dean and Bobby totally knew.

“So, is this the part where you pull a gun on me and lock me in the panic room?”

“Do I have to?”

Aww Bobby.

“Wow. They'll just let any slack-jawed haircut be Death these days.” Jeez, Tessa.

“You have a long history of throwing a wrench in everything, so let's just stick to the rules.” She ain’t wrong.

Balthazar.

...but why him?

Ah ok. 

Balthazar was essentially "if Crowley were an angel". 

“To be clear, um, you need the blood of your father, but your father needn't be blood.” Damn it.

What a plot twist.

“He’s in agonizing pain, right?”

“Uh, yes.”

“Give me a minute.”

Dean was a ruthless Death.

RIP robber. Killed by the store clerk he was robbing.

“Call me crazy, but this smells like a heart attack.” Dean called it.

RIP pizza man. Died of a heart attack.

“Wait. Will you tell me what it all means?”

Of all the songs to quote...

S!Sam, you shady little bastard.

“The dad or the kid?”

“Kid.”

“Come on. What is she, 13?”

“She’s 12.”

Aww. :(

Shouldn’t have played the destiny card on Dean.

“Give me a break. I've spent my whole life fighting that crap. There's no such thing as destiny, just like there was no apocalypse -- just a bunch of stuck-up mooks who didn't want us human slaves asking questions.”

“So, all the times that you messed with life and death, they just worked out for you?” He DID tell Tessa at one point that he wished he hadn’t come back.

Dean let the girl live.

Next on the list just passed right by them.

“May have been born at night, boy, but it wasn't last night.” HELL YEAH BOBBY.

Fucking hell. How did S!Sam escape so quickly??

I’m nervous for Bobby even when I know he’s gonna be ok.

S!Sam hacking down a door with an ax...we’ll have Demon!Dean (aka Deanmon) doing the same with a hammer in 4 years.

Bobby, you always prepared son of a gun.

How does S!Sam not have broken legs.

It’s too quiet.

“Ain't nobody killing me in my house but me.” I love Bobby. What a legend.

S!Sam used the damn ladder to escape through the panic room.

Dean’s decision comes back to bite him in the ass.

RIP Jolene. Died in a car crash.

“Actually, you were supposed to live for many decades. Have kids, grandkids.”

“Then why?”

“Because he screwed up.”

Way to throw Dean under the damn bus.

I forgot how sad this episode is.

“You saw what happened to the nurse. Go and kill that girl, Dean.” You could have worded that better, jeez.

But Dean notices something’s wrong.

Bobby, no!

Dean loses...just to save a life.

Pretty sure Scotty stopped drinking after this.

“Sorry about your brother.” You don’t sound very sorry.

Back to Hilary.

That was the moment she took her final breath. I never really realized that.

RIP Hilary. Died of a heart condition.

“Well, then why?”

“ Because...There's sort of a --a natural order to things.”

“Natural order’s stupid.”

“Well, I agree with you there.”

“Listen to me. You don't want to do this. Sam. I've been like a father to you, boy. Somewhere inside, you've got to know that.”

“Well, that’s just it. Sorry.”

oh jesus noooo.

Dean with the save!

“What am I supposed to do here?”

“I don’t know.”

:(

How long was Death there?

Nice of him to buy Dean food tho.

“The human soul is not a rubber ball. It's vulnerable, impermanent, but stronger than you know. And more valuable than you can imagine.” Another reassuring thing I’m gonna take away from this episode.

“I want you to keep digging, Dean.”

“So you're just gonna be cryptic, or...”

“It's about the souls. You'll understand when you need to.”

Ooohhhh, Death dropping a major hint.

Sam’s soul is so bright.

“Now, Sam, I'm gonna put up a barrier inside your mind.”

“No, don’t touch me.”

“It might feel a little...Itchy. Do me a favor --don't scratch the wall. trust me -- you're not gonna like what happens.”

What a cliffhanger.