Does Dean/Amara seem a little bit like Jessica/Kilgrave to anyone?

casualcas:

frecklesandfeathers:

some-people-call-it-tragic:

So, I’m watching Jessica Jones and can’t help but notice the similarities between Jessica and Kilgrave’s relationship and Dean and Amara’s. 

I think the first time i thought ‘wait, why does it all seem so familiar?’ was after the scene where Kilgrave comes to the police station so that Jessica woudn’t go to jail for his murder. He wants to express his eternal love for her, explains that everything he’s been doing was for her. Jessica, of course, thinks this is a sick joke, to what Kilgrave answers ‘I am new to love, but i know what it looks like. I do watch television’. 

Now, who else do we know who’s learned everything about pretty much everything from the internet and television? Amara. Who, probably, did not even know what love was before that. So, she stuffs herself up with all those romantic stories that have ever been written and thinks ‘hey, i’m feeling something towards Dean, but i’m not really sure what it is exactly, but i’ve seen all those romantic stories about star-crossed

lovers, and me and Dean fit the profile, that means we’re in love’. I know i exaggerated a little, but my point stays the same.

Then the similarities continued. Kilgrave bought Jessica’s old house to make her happy, to make her see that he loves her. Well, isn’t that the same thing, to some extents, that Amara’s been trying to do? She promises Dean ‘no pain, no prayer, just bliss’, only if he gives himself over to her.

Jessica Jones makes it clear that Kilgrave raped Jessica, violated every thought in her brain, made her doubt herself, he even tried to make her think that she felt something for him, which Jessica immediately denied. Amara forces her feelings onto Dean and calls it ‘destiny’ (Kilgrave calls him and Jessica ‘inevitable’), she kisses him against his will, makes him doubt himself, makes him think that he actually might be feeling something for her, which all scares Dean so much, because he doesn’t know what is true anymore.

Maybe, unlike Kilgrave, Amara’s not doing it all to Dean intentionally, but it still doesn’t justify her actions. Unlike Supernatural, Jessica Jones makes it very clear that you can’t blame bad parenting or every bad thing that has ever happened in your life for every shitty thing you do. Maybe nobody ever taught Kilgrave what is right and what is wrong, but he’s still a person who chose to be bad. The same thing with Amara. She learned everything about the world and its people. It didn’t stop her from consuming people’s souls and turning them into monsters. It didn’t stop her from killing innocents just to try to get God’s attention.

What they both don’t understand that free will is everything. That’s why their sick versions of love don’t sit too well with Jessica and Dean. 

Jessica Jones does everything to show us that Kilgrave’s a manipulative rapist, whose actions are not to be justified just because he had a bad childhood, while Supernatural has done nothing nearly enough to show that what Amara’s doing is wrong, which, honestly? makes me doubt if it’s ever going to. 

totally agree 100%. Amara uses her mind control to make Dean feel bliss and even enough to “return the kiss” much to his disgust afterward. If they take this further, I will be really disturbed. 

this this this. can’t believe i didn’t notice this before. the whole entire thing (for both shows) doesn’t sit well in my stomach…