Anla

I'm gonna hold off on some comments until I get to the finale thread.

Something that caught my attention when rewatching this ep was Sam's response when Dean pointed out he used to always object to killing humans, no matter what they were doing. Sam answers "Where has that gotten me?" That hurts, both because it shows how Sam has had to harden himself emotionally, but also because I've figured that, in the back of his mind, Sam has to keep on thinking that it's his fault Dean's in the situation he is now. If Sam had killed Jake when Jake attacked, rather than choosing to walk away, then Jake couldn't have killed him and opened the Devil's Gate, and Dean wouldn't have made his deal.