Supernatural: "Southern Comfort" foreshadowing, parallels, and Sam is not okay

[msdori]

Reposting to top level from a comment I made in janedavitt's post here.

This episode reminded me very strongly of the one in season 7 where Sam ends up locked in the mental ward and helps one of the other patients get rid of her brother's ghost. That one made a big point of the fact that she had something her brother had given her that had to be destroyed,

Comments

[auroramama]

Nice discussion of the conspicuously flowered bedspread -- I hadn't noticed the flowers = secrets motif, but it sounds just right. And something is clearly Not Right.

[msdori]

Holy SHIT, is the NOT RIGHT going on. I don't think there's anything that's been going on AT ALL this season that's the way we've seen it except for Benny's girlfriend. I mean, I was freaking out when Dean was under the ghost's influence, because everything Dean said was plausible as something he might feel, but what I got from that scene was a big neon flashing WRONG:WRONG:WRONG sign.

I'm really interested to see if we start getting Cas' flashbacks to Purgatory, because that will be very interesting...

Also, I just noticed that Amelia's last name is RICHARDSON.

There is no friggin' way that's not related to Leviathans somehow, after all the gratuitous references to Dick last season. Vicissitudes of production aside, there is not a whole lot on this show that's random.

[missyjack]

Oh some wonderful observations here. There definitely is a strong message with the visuals in all these scenes. My thinking though is around the other way - that the doors are welcoming Sam in, offering a way out of his old life, that Amelia is helping him get out of prison... But maybe thats also what the show wants me to think so I don't see whats really coming! Either way i am intrigued, as there is obviously so much more to find out.