I don't understand the criticism Dean gets for this. :) Dean CAN'T know about this. Dean HAS to shut down conversation about it. He can't seem to encourage someone else to get him out of the deal, because then he's involved and then he's 'welching' which it was made very clear were against the terms of his deal.
True, true. And I don't see it as a criticism of Dean so much as an observation. It's like watching atoms bounce around in a nuclear chamber. They're just doing what they're doing, but eventually, fission happens.
One thing, though, Dean has a lot of choices about how to make the above happen. How could he get Sam to stop. He's tried passing off the implications and putting on a bluff face... that didn't work. He's tried matching intellectual wits with Sam.. that hasn't worked. He's tried simply asserting authority.. and that hasn't worked. He has a lot of options, and I find it interesting that, of all of them, he hasn't tried an emotional appeal. But then, that would opening himself up and making himself vulnerable. Tough stuff, especially for Dean. Not his usual way of doing things though he chose to show some of the effect innocents dying for him to Sam in Faith. That, unlike many other things Dean had done, seemed to have an impact on Sam.
So I see it as Dean, like Sam, is doing things that are pushing them apart, unwittingly maybe and with the best of intentions, but.. the effect is the same. If Dean had made himself vulnerable and made an emotional appeal would Sam have still have shot the Crossroad's Demon? I dunno. Perhaps he still would have, but I wonder if his choices would have been any different if he hadn't felt so isolated and trapped.
True, true. And I don't see it as a criticism of Dean so much as an observation. It's like watching atoms bounce around in a nuclear chamber. They're just doing what they're doing, but eventually, fission happens.
One thing, though, Dean has a lot of choices about how to make the above happen. How could he get Sam to stop. He's tried passing off the implications and putting on a bluff face... that didn't work. He's tried matching intellectual wits with Sam.. that hasn't worked. He's tried simply asserting authority.. and that hasn't worked. He has a lot of options, and I find it interesting that, of all of them, he hasn't tried an emotional appeal. But then, that would opening himself up and making himself vulnerable. Tough stuff, especially for Dean. Not his usual way of doing things though he chose to show some of the effect innocents dying for him to Sam in Faith. That, unlike many other things Dean had done, seemed to have an impact on Sam.
So I see it as Dean, like Sam, is doing things that are pushing them apart, unwittingly maybe and with the best of intentions, but.. the effect is the same. If Dean had made himself vulnerable and made an emotional appeal would Sam have still have shot the Crossroad's Demon? I dunno. Perhaps he still would have, but I wonder if his choices would have been any different if he hadn't felt so isolated and trapped.
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