SPN 4.17 It's a Terrible Life
I don't normally post about an episode, I've never done it before in my own LJ but I was insulted by this episode's treatment of Dean.
Dean needs an attitude adjustment? "Stop whining about it"?
The man was tortured in HELL. For DECADES. That is on top the childhood he never had because his obsessed father didn't take responsibility for his own kids and left it up to Dean to take of himself, take of his brother and take care of said obsessed father.
Dean's whole life has been devoted to "saving people and hunting things". Did Sera just forget that? Or did she think we'd forget it?
Do you say a returning POW he needs to just get over it and stop whining? Would anyone, in this day and age, think that was acceptable?
What is this? WWI? Where guys with shell shock were treated as cowards who just wanted to get out of going to the front?
We got that powerful episode last week and Sera Gamble follows it up with Dean needs to stop whining?
Dean's whole life he's "gotten over it", he's "not whined" - and after being through what he went through, THAT is what Sera Gamble considers a "pep talk", that's what she thinks is a "boost" to his self-esteem. Being told once again, it doesn't fucking matter how you feel, just shut up and do your job.
I am so pissed off right now. Literally, it made me cry. And not like Dean made me cry last week.
ETA: It's not that I don't think last week should have been "rock bottom", I want Dean to start his uphill climb. I do think this is what he's meant to do and he's strong enough and he can do it. But this...this was just an insulting way to do it. No one ever told Sam to "just stop whining" and Dean's been through all he has and THIS is what Sera comes up with?
How much better would it have to have the angel put them in this situation and have him, HIMSELF, start to think something was wrong, without the pushing? Both he and Sam can come to the same conclusions seperately and end up working together. And then no big, guilt inducing attempted speech from Sam but instead Dean, on his own, just turns down Adlers offer when Adler offers him the raise and promotion. And Adler leaves it at that. Gives him his memory back, tells him the bit about how this is what he was meant to do, he'd find his way to it in the dark and left it at that.
Dean needs an attitude adjustment? "Stop whining about it"?
The man was tortured in HELL. For DECADES. That is on top the childhood he never had because his obsessed father didn't take responsibility for his own kids and left it up to Dean to take of himself, take of his brother and take care of said obsessed father.
Dean's whole life has been devoted to "saving people and hunting things". Did Sera just forget that? Or did she think we'd forget it?
Do you say a returning POW he needs to just get over it and stop whining? Would anyone, in this day and age, think that was acceptable?
What is this? WWI? Where guys with shell shock were treated as cowards who just wanted to get out of going to the front?
We got that powerful episode last week and Sera Gamble follows it up with Dean needs to stop whining?
Dean's whole life he's "gotten over it", he's "not whined" - and after being through what he went through, THAT is what Sera Gamble considers a "pep talk", that's what she thinks is a "boost" to his self-esteem. Being told once again, it doesn't fucking matter how you feel, just shut up and do your job.
I am so pissed off right now. Literally, it made me cry. And not like Dean made me cry last week.
ETA: It's not that I don't think last week should have been "rock bottom", I want Dean to start his uphill climb. I do think this is what he's meant to do and he's strong enough and he can do it. But this...this was just an insulting way to do it. No one ever told Sam to "just stop whining" and Dean's been through all he has and THIS is what Sera comes up with?
How much better would it have to have the angel put them in this situation and have him, HIMSELF, start to think something was wrong, without the pushing? Both he and Sam can come to the same conclusions seperately and end up working together. And then no big, guilt inducing attempted speech from Sam but instead Dean, on his own, just turns down Adlers offer when Adler offers him the raise and promotion. And Adler leaves it at that. Gives him his memory back, tells him the bit about how this is what he was meant to do, he'd find his way to it in the dark and left it at that.