Dean Winchester - hero or loser?

Sep 19, 2007 11:57

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shoiryu September 19 2007, 02:45:53 UTC
I do think Dean's the sort of guy who benefits from structure. I personally tend to define him as one of those "middle of the pack" types-- he'd do well as a leader so long as he had someone else to tell him what needs doing, then left it up to him to decide how that doing got done.

I think also that he does have an inherent nobility, that has nothing to do with Sam or his father. He obviously wants to help people, and obviously does want to do the right thing simply because it is the right thing. He speaks kindly enough to most people and seems to want people to think well of him in general. (His apologizing to Tiny in FPB was really indicative of that to me.) I think that even when you take away his hunting and all that goes along with it, he does have a lot of very nice traits that make him a good human being.

I think that "loser" is really kind of a hard thing to define, too. Being jobless and homeless when you obviously crave structure has got to do things to a person, but take the hunting out of that equation and you've got an interesting deal, which I think then comes down to, well, situation. Dean is obviously somewhat aimless without someone else's worldview thrust upon him (in a manner) and yeah, I can see the "bar brawler, drifter" thing most definitely. But I don't know that I'd call him a loser per se.

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missyjack September 19 2007, 02:56:34 UTC
I think also that he does have an inherent nobility I like that, and agree with it. Remember his speech to Sam in Wendigo - about saving people; hunting things? its about helping other people as much as anything for Dean.

And yes, I cringe at 'loser' - maybe 'lost' is a better term, for him without hunting.

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shoiryu September 19 2007, 03:30:44 UTC
Yeah, exactly that. He isn't just doing right because it's been drilled into him, he's doing it because it's what he wants to do.

Lost is a good term, I think, yeah.

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