The Impala was filthy at the end of Reichenbach 10.02 but when Sam brought the blood back to the bunker at the beginning of Soul Survivor 10.03 it had been cleaned. That means Sam got his brother home, secured him in the dungeon, then headed to a car wash before getting what he needed to start the cure.
The Impala has been Sam’s home for most of his life, it gave him the strength to take control away from Lucifer, it comforted him the times Dean died and he was on his own. Dean may love the Impala most but it holds a special place in Sam’s heart too.
or they fucked up on the set
No. They showed an overhead shot of the Impala driving down the street and then this pan to it in front of the bunker. The fact that those two shots were put into the episode has meaning. They had to use crane cameras for that, those are expensive, they take time and effort to set up, and are used sparingly on Supernatural because of the tight budget and filming schedule. Plus, those two shots of the Impala weren’t necessary to the overall plot of the episode, they could have been cut out entirely. The fact that all that effort and money was put into two Impala scenes proves that they wanted us to focus on the Impala. You do not orchestrate two separate scenes revolving around a key prop and then fuck up the details on that prop. The prop department, the producers, and the director would all have collaborated on those scenes to make sure the extra time and money was worth it, meaning they would have discussed and inspected the Impalathoroughly. And Soul Survivor was directed by Jensen Ackles, he certainly wouldn’t have fucked up and forgotten that in Reichenbach the Impala was filthy, that was an important detail to his character and not something an actor would forget. They wanted us to notice that the car was now clean, there is no other reason for those scenes to be included and for so much time and money to have been devoted to them
I will never understand how some fans can be so critical that even when something good happens they insist it had to have been an accident














