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Hmm I'm not sure I agree on Dean not getting enough of a viewpoint, I always feel like Dean is more the audience PoV character in fact and it's generally easier to get where he's coming from, for me it was Sam who was given practically no PoV on why he wouldn't look for his brother. It felt like the writers did get how the audience would respond to that because they kept emphasising just how great a betrayal of his brother that was, and that was what was strange to me that you would write in something like that, and yet never give Sam much chance to defend himself on why he didn't look. There was a mention in the premiere of believing that Dean was dead, and so it would make sense to not want to get into deals into bringing Dean back from the dead, but then the writers never did any more with that, instead they seemed to settle on the narrative of Dean being trapped and Sam just not looking for him for whatever reason. They could at least have thrown in a protest of 'I thought he was dead' in the later mentions of it

Agreed on the Amelia flashbacks, I really didn't think that they needed to spend half a season on them. If there had just been a couple of episodes with more focused flashbacks, I think that would have worked much better when it came to trying to tell a story with an emotional focus, whereas Purgatory was more about the mystery of what happened down there with Dean, Castiel, and Benny, so those short flashback teases worked a lot better