Episode 3.07 Fresh Blood

I’ll begin this week by apologizing for the short length of this one, but I’ve had a migraine for the last three days and it was either record or miss my posting date... luckily I’ve typed up what serves as a nice summary of this one about three years ago, and my general thoughts on it. You can read that here (it’s pretty short for an episode post for me, too).

This episode is a turning point for both Sam and Dean, though. It’s also got a nice “nothing stays locked up forever” reminder with Gordon getting out of jail. Dean was ready to kill him after 2.10 and Sam thought he found a better way to deal with him, but even Sam now understands that Gordon will never stop trying to kill them. He didn’t even have to become *a literal monster* for Sam to accept it was an “us or him” situation, but that definitely helped in the final confrontation. I still think Sam’s shifting attitude adds to the s3-s4 arc of him gradually going to the dark side too.

For Dean, it takes Sam’s plea to “drop the act” he’s putting on, the false bravado Dean’s been using to cover his own terror about his rapidly approaching fate. Which... is Sam neatly explaining what we all mean by “performing Dean.” While Sam might know there’s terror lurking under Dean’s “everything’s fine!” mask, he’s not aware of the even larger pool of self-worth issues Dean is even more terrified to confront, and his own feelings about what compelled him to make that deal in the first place. But that’s coming up over the next few episodes. Wheee! I guess? :’D

Things referenced in this week’s episode:

The Superwiki page for this episode

My tag for this episode

Casting sides for Dixon

Network Draft full script

Production Draft full script

Blue Revision Pages only (24 pages)

Pink Revision Pages only (11 pages)

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