Yes, I'm Ranting Again About Blatant Dean Favouritism!
Hi, guys, I'm back from my holiday, and with new thoughts on Blatant Dean favouritism!
I've been working my way slowly through the backlog of my flist, and I found a question someone had posted on one my groups. It was basically asking why, exactly, the boys didn't listen to Cas's reasoning about Purgatory. A lot of people mentioned how hypocritical ( Read more... )
I've been working my way slowly through the backlog of my flist, and I found a question someone had posted on one my groups. It was basically asking why, exactly, the boys didn't listen to Cas's reasoning about Purgatory. A lot of people mentioned how hypocritical ( Read more... )
UGH. I CAN'T EVEN WATCH SEASON FOUR. Seriously. It's my favorite season on paper in summary form. I LIKE the tension, the different sides, the beginning of the idea that this has been building up for centuries and Sam and Dean are just pawns.
I watched a couple of episodes on TNT this past couple weeks and they're showing season 4. I didn't watch much, like an episode and a half before I got pissed all over again, but I watched enough to remember that Dean didn't even know about the blood for a long time. And in the first episodes where he figured out Sam was using his powers he just JUMPED ALL OVER SAM FOR WHAT HE THOUGHT WAS JUST POWERS THAT WERE EXORCISING DEMONS BUT LEAVING THE HOST ALIVE. Like. WTF? He didn't ask for a reason, didn't talk to Sam, didn't find out more about the powers and what Sam was capable of, etc. He just went CRAZY about the powers.
And I get that lying to Dean for a year about the blood is a major point of contention to Dean by the time season 5 starts (except for the whole thing where John lied/misled them all the time and Dean's lied to Sam more than he's told him the truth about anything) but hell, of course Sam would lie to him. If judgmental, self-righteous Dean jumps down Sam's throat over powers without knowing about the demon blood then of course Sam would be too afraid to tell him. *rolls eyes*
And I also get that Sam trusted a demon over Dean. But what other choice did he have? He was trying to kill Lilith, something that they ALL wanted to be done, and Dean kept throwing punches and commands and insults and asking questions later (or never). And, you know. The whole secret pow-wows with angel thing probably didn't make Sam feel too good either.
The problem is, while all that is obvious (or I think it's obvious) in subtext/between the lines, Show doesn't spend ANY time pointing out these truths. They would rather hammer the fact that Dean's their favorite snarky little saint into our heads over and over until we're brainwashed than to expound on THEIR OTHER STORY LINE WHICH ARE REALLY AWESOME AND EVEN GREATER THAN DEAN'S EMO UNDERDOG STORY.
That's what KILLS me. Show has the perfectly great characters and story lines and DEPTH to the show ALREADY THERE and it's like they have blinders on/want to put blinders on us. Why would any sane writer want to do that?
Dean's an absolute hypocrite. It's a fact that's apparent as early as season 1. And I don't hate him. It's true that I'm a Sam girl but I would be as equally as pissed it Show were all in Sam's POV because I love his character. And I LIKE the show and will watch it until it stops airing and I'll probably even send in letter begging them to resume the show or something crazy like that. But I'm calling bullshit on this "writing from up Dean's ass" thing. D:
And yeah. I'm not that sympathetic towards Castiel, lol. But I loved that Dean repeated his mistakes because I would have CLAWED MY EYES OUT (lol not really) if Dean had shown easier treatment to Dean than he did with Sam--ESPECIALLY after Cas knocked Sam's wall down (which, OMG, I kind of want Dean to never forgive Cas for that). But yeah. It was on repeat. And I'm with you. I just want Dean to be wrong--and to know that he's wrong, because he did used to be wrong more often back in the good old days of seasons 1-3 but never admitted it/realized it.
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