One is on the Season 1 DVD as an extra but it is yet another Pilot draft. The one I'm talking about, I don't know have any links anymore, sorry. I read it once and was pretty disgusted with it.
Dean the leering half-pedophile (not kidding about that) whose attitude about people in need was "eh, whatever let them be eaten, we have our own problems". Basically, it was implied that he only stayed around in the hunting life because he pretty much got kicks from killing and well, was a sociopath, more or less. Whereas Sam who got to take two opposite stances, the "I had the right to walk away from this life" he held later in the actual show AND Dean's "people need us, that's why we have to stay" just mere scenes later. The set-up was so clumsily manipulative to make the Sam-character "the hero" no matter what and the Dean-character wrong no matter what.
And seeing how that was something Kripke wrote, it tells me pretty clearly where his bias was in terms of the characters. Even if that changed somewhat later, I don't think he really outgrew this ideas completely.
Dean the leering half-pedophile (not kidding about that) whose attitude about people in need was "eh, whatever let them be eaten, we have our own problems". Basically, it was implied that he only stayed around in the hunting life because he pretty much got kicks from killing and well, was a sociopath, more or less. Whereas Sam who got to take two opposite stances, the "I had the right to walk away from this life" he held later in the actual show AND Dean's "people need us, that's why we have to stay" just mere scenes later. The set-up was so clumsily manipulative to make the Sam-character "the hero" no matter what and the Dean-character wrong no matter what.
And seeing how that was something Kripke wrote, it tells me pretty clearly where his bias was in terms of the characters. Even if that changed somewhat later, I don't think he really outgrew this ideas completely.
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