heidi | Born Under a Bad Sign thoughts (Reply)

Well. 9/10 of the episode, right?

First thought - Jared does evil very well. Very. And as Dean says at the end, he's had a girl inside him for a week - a little more, actually - and he hasn't been himself for any of it.

Second, I've seen some wondering about the binding and why demons don't do it more often and I have two thoughts on that - first, it might trap the demon in a body for longer than it wishes to be - Meg certainly wanted to be Sam for quite a while to go on the hunter killing spree.

But also, is it possible that Meg had - and needed - human help - perhaps in the form of the FBI guy - or possibly Ava? - to capture and posess Sam? And maybe it takes longer for a demon to accomplish that than it would for a simple "I need this truck crashed into that car" thing, where it doesn't need to go beyond a few minutes or hours of control?

When Sam is telling Dean "what happened" we have, as we learn later, an unreliable narrator situation - Meg is "playing" Sam and saying what *she* thinks is necessary to get Dean to believe the story she's telling. But actually, through 97% of the episode, it's only Meg speaking - Sam is in there and sometimes aware, but not actually saying or doing anything. It's all an act, by Meg.

So it's possible that it took more than an instant for Sam to get taken and posessed and branded and all that. I think it's possible it took 2 or 3 days, and that's when he went to kill the other hunter. I'm curious as to why we'll learn why that guy was chosen first. And why don't *all* hunters put a nice devil's trap right inside each door, as a just-in-case?