SPN countdown -- Season Two

Let's linger on this scene for a moment. The last we saw of the Impala and her passengers, savaged, broken, alone in some dark field, no sound but the ticking of hot metal as it cooled, the only glimpse of her interior showing three bodies slumped unmoving, faces slack and bloody.

This is what we carried into summer, our last glimpse of a show we'd come to love, characters we cared about, their unknown fate, and an unresolved storyline. This is what we had, for months ("for months!"), while the fate of the show teetered in the hands of the network and whoever was making decisions about fall lineup. We had no way of knowing if we'd ever find out what happened. Did they all die? Lost and alone in that desolate field? Did someone find them? Did rescue come? Did any of them survive? Who?

Then late in the summer, hope broke--SPN had been picked up for the 2006-2007 season! We would find out what happened after this traumatic season finale!

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IMTOD brought SPN roaring back onto our screens, and set a standard for excellence I believe most of Season two lived up to. Overall, it may be my favorite season.

SPN countdown to Season 10. Season 2 (part 2)

I can't let Season two day go by without adding to my earlier post. I never got beyond Episode 1! And while most of my favorite episodes of the entire series are in this season, most of the worldbuilding, much of the mytharc and overarching mythos, at least before the advent of the angels, I'm going to bow to others who have posted about particular episodes, most of them my favorites, from the season. And I'm going to go straight to the two-part finale.

At Dallascon 14 recently someone finally asked about Sam's death scene in AHBL 1. It's 11:20 minutes into the J2 breakfast panel, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_3Ahqfc2aM (Thanks to maryjo24 for finding the vid for me!)

Jared did a truly amazing job of dying. As an actor will, I had it broken down by beats at one point, as Jared showed Sam's life slipping away. He gave Jensen a lot to work against, as Dean felt Sam dying in his arms. It's such a powerful scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQlKlfD8rYk






Dean's monologue over Sam's body in AHBL 2 before he sells his soul has been praised to the skies, and deservedly so. But Sam's death scene affected me as deeply, and both are etched into my memory.

For me, trying to process it took writing fic about it. If you're interested, it's here.