a response to responses to criticisms of Dean throughout S9

[pocochina]

In numerous meta communities, I've seen conversations of S9 which strike me as incomplete about some very important dimensions to the season, and I'd like to respond.

Comments

[pocochina]

Yeah, I think all of this has happened so methodically that I anticipate it will be followed through on, and I'm really glad about that. It's a lot of the frustrations I've had with Dean coming to a head and it just is so much *easier* to watch the show when I'm sure it's all "yes, we see this, you are meant to see it too, this is a PROBLEM."

I'm holding out hope that the narrative deals with it and Dean faces consequences for it beyond just feeling guilty.

I've been saying all season that I'm trying not to get too hung up on Dean getting some type of external justice or other because...usually there isn't any, you know? Sometimes people get away with shit, and people who have pulled the kind of crap Dean has are generally very good at getting away with it. But now, if nothing else, he has a body on his hands and he's going to have to fess up to someone, which he's been dodging frantically for a while now.

I do really hope Sam has grown the self-regard and not been so ground down that he can get pissed off about this, though I'm less sure that will happen.