I’m dissappointed

Sam deserved that kill.

Seriously, why did this whole season build up to Sam standing up to his abuser only to have him succumb to Lucifer’s manipulation (I don’t blame Sam for this, I blame the stupid situation the writers wrote him into) and then get saved by Dean?

Don’t get me wrong, I liked the whole throwing the knife to Dean as a way of proving to Jack that family is important and that Lucifer was wrong, but it also kind of diminishes Sam’s arc this season. And if it wasn’t for the “only an archangel can use an archangel blade” rule they set up then they easily could have just reversed their roles in that situation, and Dean throw the knife and Sam stab Lucifer. Sure, Sam got to throw Lucifer back into apocalypse world last episode, but again, that’s diminished by Sam giving into Lucifer’s “kill each other” scheme.

On another note, Sam would have killed himself before even thinking about giving Jack that blade. The only reason the writers did it that way was to shock the audience to make us question if Sam would actually kill Jack. But that doesnt work because we all know he wouldn’t.

I think I would have been okay with Dean killing Lucifer if we would have at least gotten a big “stand your ground” speach from Sam, but we didn’t even get that, we just got… a flying fight scene that was super underwhelming.

I love seeing the relief on Sam’s face, but I keep thinking about how much stronger that moment would have been if he had been the one to kill Lucifer.