I understand where you're coming from with season 4. I'm kind of a lover of angsty storylines *g*, so I enjoyed what the show did with the brotherly rift though. I actually took more issue with season 5 funnily enough, season 4 was more about building up to epic break-up OMG, whereas a lot of their season 5 interaction just felt kind of melancholy to me and left me with a heavy feeling. Hate hate hate Swap Meat which puts so much emphasis on how irritating Dean finds Sam, and then ends on Dean looking irritated and all "yep got the real Sam back now all right" when Sam asks him to turn the music down, that episode was just really against the whole spirit of the show to me :/ I mean yeah brotherly banter sure, but Dean almost come off as depressed about having to travel with Sam, I did not care for that at all. It was interesting early on in season 5 when they seemed to be gradually building up to Sam and Dean reuniting, but then they never really did properly get close again until close to the finale :sighs: