Reviewer: Haylia Jones (Signed) · Date: 25/10/10 12:02 AM · On: Chapter 1

awesome!

Author's Response: So glad you liked it!!!  Thanks so much for reading and reviewing!

Reviewer: saltnburnem (Signed) · Date: 04/10/10 10:55 PM · On: Chapter 1

It was a great story.... and there really was a gap begging to be filled after that episode.  You truly brought the rawness, the intense emotions and utter unfairness to light.  I feel like I just got kicked!  As a reader.....I just wanted there to be justice at the end, or remorse.  I wanted Dean to rise up and defend himself, John to apologize and Sam to beg Dean for forgiveness.  But the Winchesters didn't have the same view of the events that I had.  Dean's brain is so hard-wired from a young age that he didn't even see the indignity of it all. He internalized it all into that damaged psyche of his....and life went on.  Sam was too young to even look to the consequences.  He remained in the dark until Dark Side of the Moon, and even then did not know how Dean coped with his disappearance.  John was too driven and too removed from true fatherhood to even know how to do things differently.  Again.....great tag, but a disturbingly sad time for the Winchester family.


Author's Response:

Thanks so much, hon!

I know what you mean.  You want so many things to happen after this episode, but know from watching 5.16 that there's no closure on this one.  John lost his temper and took his anger out on Dean, and Sam never had a clue.  (I confess, that episode REALLY changed the way I view Sam Winchester, and I'm still struggling to see  him as anything but self-centered.)

I wish there was closure on this, too.  I especially wish that Sam took responsibility for what he inadvertantly put on Dean.  Him just shrugging it off, all, "oops!" just wasn't enough remorse for me.  And yet, I totally get why he thought those two weeks were great.