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Supernatural 10x17 "Inside Man" Reaction

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Elisia

Bobby!!! gotta love the return of our favorite paternal figure, still helping his boys. Also don't worry, no nachos were harmed in the making of this episode. Presumably Dean ate them off screen while he waited for Crowley to show up

Virginia Slothour-Hudnall

Oh, maybe I just missed it, but I was hoping you'd react to the bit about Dean hustling those guys & seeing the flash of black afterwards (along with the sting of the Mark). I felt like that really validated Dean's earlier attempts to control the Mark through controlling his "id" (abstaining from drinking, junk food, etc.). That's how Cain seems to have controlled it for many years, after all: going completely cold turkey from violence & focusing on a meditative life (living in isolation, beekeeping, practicing self-discipline). It seems like Dean can't toy with even mild schadenfreude without the Mark goading him into something fully cruel, like taking the watch that that guy's dad gave him. (IMO, that's where he slipped from "teaching some rich brats a well-deserved lesson" to "indulging in causing someone real pain," because it was obvious that fooling them & taking their money would sting, but they were clearly rich enough that it wouldn't *ruin* them. But that guy really, genuinely seemed to care about his watch, and Dean mocked him to get him to wager it & then took it from him.) So, the Mark burns both hot & cold. We get scenes of Dean completely losing it & slaughtering an entire roomful of people and then we get scenes like this, where the Mark's simmering rage just adds a cold, hard edge of contempt — a dehumanizing distance — to interactions with anyone he's framed as "other." I know there was SO MUCH to react to in this episode, so I don't blame you if you did miss talking about this part, though! It was just a pretty scary glimpse, I thought, at what the Mark is doing even when Dean's *not* outright killing people under its influence.