![]() In older episodics, like, say, CHiPs, we don’t learn a lot about Ponch and John. If Sam and Dean became clearer with each episode, then there would be a point where the characters became static. ![]() What they do is become deeper, MORE complex. It’s not just peeling back the layers of an onion, because that implies that the characters become clearer with each episode, with each layer removed. That explicit-to-implicit (the reverse of how things normally go) is one of the greatest pleasures of Season 1, especially when you’ve seen the whole series. Beautifully, Episode 7, written by John Shiban (who also wrote Episode 6) takes those themes which had been made explicit in Episode 6, and goes implicit with them. “Skin”, episode 6, the one before this one, explored the theme of doubles and dark sides, the buried resentments that may be there between the Winchesters, especially from Dean’s side. We’ve seen the brothers start to get to know each other as men. For a couple of episodes now, the “trail for Dad” has gone cold.
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