Rewatch S4: Ep 13 and 14 (After School Special and Sex & Violence)

[hells_half_acre]

An episode a day now, because I'm trying not to slack off so much at work...but I'm still going to post them in pairs.

Comments

[trystan830]

i really gotta get my S4 DVDs.... and then i think the kids and i might really sit down and watch starting with 1x01 - i know they want to. just need to actually DO it....

[hells_half_acre]

Ooo...that'd be fun!

[trystan830]

you want to come on over and watch with us?

[hells_half_acre]

Sure! Do happen to live in the Vancouver area? Because, if not.....I might have to watch it with you in spirit. :-P

[claudiapriscus]

>> It's not that Sam wants to cut Dean loose and carry on without him, it's that Sam is not used to feeling like he needs to look after someone. He has NEVER been in a care-giver role in his life and he doesn't know how to manage it.

Very true. I think there's a lot of resentment there, too. It's the contradictory and irrational kind known only to family, though- I think Sam resented "having" to be the protector rather than the protected, despite how much he's railed against those roles and resents it when Dean (or their father) is/was in charge. It's like it is his *right* as youngest, his place in the family, his to rebel against.

[hells_half_acre]

Exactly exactly! There's nothing rational about how we react to family-roles, and that's exactly what I mean. Sam may have made a show of rejecting the "protected" role, but when it comes right down to it, that's where he's most comfortable, that's what he knows - with Dean being vincible and more vulnerable than usual, Sam is a fish-out-of-water, and it's THAT feeling that he's resenting, not necessarily Dean himself. Unlike Dean, Sam doesn't know how to juggle being a Hunter AND a protector.