Sam, the proper response to “I don’t care what happens to me” is not “If we die we’ll do that together, too.” It’s “I do care what happens to you.” Like, toxic codependency and all, but this one was real simple.
And like. Imagine you had a friend that was going through these things with their family. You would beg them to get the fuck out of there. Could you even IMAGINE telling them to stay for the benefit and “love” of said family member?
Imagine your very best friend was, for example, STRANGLED by their druggie brother. Would you, on any PLANET in the UNIVERSE, take the brother’s side?????? No matter HOW much you liked the brother in the past????????????
Sam:Hi. I’m Sam Winchester. I have demon blood coursing through my veins. I fear becoming a monster but I will do everything within my power to prevent that from happening. But if I can find a way to use my demon blood for good, then I’ll do it.”
Dean of Seasons 1 – 4
Dean:“Hi. I’m Dean Winchester. My family was destroyed by forces beyond my control. My mission in life is to prevent other families from being torn apart like mine was. I’m also dedicated to looking out for my brother: preventing him from becoming the monster he fears he will become.”
Sam of Seasons 6 – 9
Sam:“Hi. I’m Sam Winchester. If you had tried to contact me a few weeks ago, you would have gotten the soulless version of me. Wait. Or was that a month ago? I think a few weeks ago I was re-souled and then soon after the wall in my head was destroyed. Ok. So that means I was hallucinating Lucifer a couple of weeks ago. Then not too long after that, I was spitting up blood and fainting. Sorry for the confusing timeline. It’s hard to keep tra…”
Gadreel/Ezekial: “Sorry. Sam Winchester is not home at the moment. You’re speaking with Gadr…I mean, you’re speaking with Ezekial.”
Dean of Seasons 6 – 9
Dean: *follows Sam around with a bib* “Hi. I’m Dean Winchester. Sammy’s nanny.”
Dean was constantly moved from school to school and since there were no nation-wide standards for curriculum he would have been consistently thrown into different lesson plans. He would have left one school where they had just started learning about World War 1 to discover that at his next school they were almost done with World War 2. He would have been expected to catch up on his own (because we all know John didn’t devote time to helping him) and hand in assignments along with the rest of the class where he would have been graded the same as the students who got full instruction on the subject even though he’d missed most of it.
Dean’s first priority was taking care of Sam, which would have included helping with his homework. Ever wonder how a kid who got moved from school to school so frequently earned a full ride to Stanford? Ever consider that part of Sam’s success is probably owed to Dean helping him catch up on missed lessons because he knew how important school was to Sam? It’s also owed to Dean taking care of every parental responsibility so that Sam could be a normal kid who’s main priority was homework.
In My Time of Dying 2.01 John talks about all the times he came back from a hunt completely wrecked and Dean had to take care of him. When Dean wasn’t being a parent to Sam he was being a parent to his own damn father. On top of that he was expected to study weapons and lore so he could protect his brother, which was drilled into him as his number one priority since the age of 4. So let’s look at what would have been an average day in the life of young Dean Winchester:
He gets up, makes breakfast, gets Sammy up, gets them both to school, spends about 7 hours there, goes back to the motel, does a weapons check and makes sure the room is secure, helps Sam with his studies, makes dinner, does the weapons/lore work that John would have ordered him to complete, puts Sam to bed, by then John’s probably back and Dean has to take care of an emotionally wrecked (and probably drunk) grown man which may last until Dean’s bedtime or may last well past Dean’s bedtime depending on how bad John’s day was. Not only would Dean have had little to no time for his own school work but he would have often gone to school on not enough sleep thanks to all the responsibilities he had at home.
But you’re right, Dean being held back must mean he’s not smart. If he were truly intelligent he would have magically known all the test answers without studying and been able to do his homework with one hand while the other one packed salt rounds and made dinner.
(Sorry for the sarcasm, I know it’s rude and I usually don’t get this way but this question really got to me. School success is not always a reflection of intelligence, it’s often a reflection of how you were raised)
No, seriously, Andrew Dabb, Imma need an explanation for why it was so VITALLY important to this episode to show the British Woman-of-Letters Lady bantering with servant, having tea while watching the telly, and making a flight connection…
but Cas, one of the main characters, actually getting resolution to his 8-year long character arc, getting a chance to talk with God, his father, whom he’s never met, was deemed unimportant?
Why?
The lack of God/Cas convo was so obvious. Like they sat in that bar together for how long and Sam is the one to talk to and tend to God? Ok then.
Andrew Dabb couldn’t find time for Castiel to react to his absent, dying father or for Cas to get any real closure, other than, “thanks for being Lucifer’s bitch, bro” even though that was Castiel’s entire arc and reason for disappearing, and yet he had time to show the new chick sipping tea in four different rooms of her house and to let Crowley and God have a heart to heart about Rowena.
I’m not gonna lie, I would almost rather that Dean died. That he just straight up made the sacrifice play and blew Amara and himself up.
Then maybe when the dust settled, it turned out that the soul bomb didn’t blow Dean and Amara up, but instead, caused the two of them to fuse along with the all the souls and what we have now is God!Dean to replace the dying Chuck with the Darkness dwelling within him. Dean brings balance to The Force type of thing. Perhaps not something exactly like that, but something along those lines.
Otherwise the point of the arc for him? What was the point of the soul bomb? Everything was tied up so nicely and neatly. Nothing was gained and nothing was lost and all of that build up and foreshadowing was for absolutely nothing and Dean did nothing on top of it.
Funny how all that talk about Amara and her bond with Dean came out to presicely nothing given that apparenlty she discovered her love for humanity after a conversation with a one-scene wonder old lady and seeing a picture in the bunker.
Funny how once again, Dean was reduced to a plot device that was good for nothing in the end.
Want to be happy about Dean and Mary meeting, but given that LAST time they met, Mary coudln’t care less for Dean and was all BUT WHAT ABOUT MY SAMMY!!! despite Sam being 6 months old last she saw him, I am not positive about how that is going to end.
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