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I'm watching all of Season 2 again with MrIris, and probably this was analysed to death way back when the episode first aired (before I was paying much attention to meta on various SPN-related LJ comms), but it just struck me again.

Just a thought about Playthings.

Is it chance that this case, coming so soon after Dean telling Sam the truth, ends unsatisfactorily for our heroes? (Yes, the hotel owner and daughter are saved, but at Granma Rose's expense.)

I shouldn't think so.

Is it meant to tell the viewer that there might not be a happy ending for the boys? That was my first thought, and given that we don't know yet what'll happen with Dean's deal I think that's still part of the message.

The other parallel that fascinates? The sacrifice of one sibling for another's happiness (if you can call it that) and for the life of other family members. The dialogue is a twisted version of what Sam and Dean say to each other at the end of AHBL2, and not so far off from the deal John had to make for Dean's life in IMToD: "You'd really do that for me? If you did, I'd let them go."

Hmmm. More meaningful in retrospect.

ETA: Mwahahaha. I just got an email from J in which I am described as E-VOL, because she is now completely addicted to Supernatural, which she only started watching because I kept insisting how awesome it was.