Episode 3.10 Dream a Little Dream of Me

When we left Dean at the end of the last episode, after spending the entire season to that point accepting his own fate, not fighting back against it despite being truly terrified of it, he’d finally learned something about that fate that was too big to ignore: the fact that all demons started out as human souls corrupted by Hell. He would’ve taken an eternity of torture in Hell, but becoming a demon? Becoming the thing he’d spent his entire life hunting and seeking revenge against, and being powerless to stop it? OW.

But that was the final push he needed to dig really, really deep in this episode to unearth the tarnished shard of his own self-worth. Or more accurately, that tarnished shard buried deep inside him finally trapped him in a lucid dream and kind of literally holds him at gunpoint and forces him to listen to it. Not very polite, Deano, but at least he gives him the good shake he needed (and that Sam had just about despaired of getting through to him about).

But time is running out, and even with a mote of self-worth, they’re still no closer to actually saving him. Abusive parents shattering their kids’ dreams, abused kids who’ve lost the ability to dream for themselves (the literal dreams, and the figurative “dreams for your future”). And the beginnings of Bobby’s hunter origin story.

Things referenced in this week’s episode:

The Superwiki page for this episode

My tag for this episode

but since my tag is larger for this one, have a curated selection of posts:

Lizbob’s overarching view of the Dean/Lisa stuff, especially in s3
My watch notes from 2017
More watch notes from much later in 2017
My watch notes from 2019 (includes 3.11 watch notes, because that does for Sam what this ep does for Dean)
a closer look at their respective dreams
a closer look at their dreams, but from 2016 :’D

Casting sides for Jeremy

Casting sides for Dream Dean (yes, it’s just the Dean vs Himself scenes)

quick reminder you can always find me on tumblr or on twitter at SPNgeorg or mittensmorgul, on discord at mittens#4865, and at [email protected], if you’d like to chat :)

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