"It's just really hard for Sam, I think, to ignore the way he knows things are. The fact of their world is that there are monsters, no matter what they do. And I don't want Sam to be stuck in this place where Dean has a monopoly on THE TROOOOOTH because obviously being a violent bully is COSMIC HONESTY, so Sam either has to live a lie (that there are no monsters) or limit his life to monsters and only monsters. Sam doesn't know how to set limits, with hunting or with Dean, because all he's learned in his life is that he doesn't get to have boundaries, he can yell and lash out and push back all he wants but people will do as they please to him. Those hard, absolutist walls he puts up are a survival mechanism - I don't blame him in the least, but they're not optimal, and I want him to figure out a way not to need them all the time
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I think she was much closer to that than anything he's had so far. I don't think we've ever seen him relax enough to laugh that big laugh we heard during the dinner with Amelia and her father; he feels safe enough to be sullen and uncertain with her in a way he hasn't been with Dean in a long while, if ever.
The big issue with Amelia was really that she didn't know about the supernatural. Which isn't her fault, of course. I don't even think telling her about it would have made it a more emotionally honest relationship, because breaking that kind of world-shattering news to someone means on some level you stop being a person and start being The Messenger, as unfair as that is. Sam's comfort with compartmentalizing like that is pretty sad, but he was very comfortable with her.
It just wasn't sustainable, at least, as long as she doesn't know about his world. His relationships are even more contingent on circumstances than most people's. Basically his options are Jodi Mills and Cas.
That is kind of why I wish they'd really given us Sam and Amelia in real time on the show, to make Amelia a more real choice for Sam for the viewers. Making it all memories of an already broken off relationship kind of puts all the chips in the Dean and Benny relationship instead, and that is exactly how the fandom is reading things, most love Benny and hate Amelia. Benny has a heart of gold and Amelia is just cold. It's kind of sad, really
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that is exactly how the fandom is reading things, most love Benny and hate Amelia. Benny has a heart of gold and Amelia is just cold. It's kind of sad, really.
Yeah. There also seems to be a lot of internalized sexism at play as well, unfortunately.
(when people thought the Road House was impractical)
That's bullshit, unless people were also going off on the "impracticality" of Bobby having a home. Christ on a pile of nachos, are women actually just supposed to rove the streets of this 'verse waiting to be poached off by some monster?
If Amelia set off like Charlie, I'm not sure that would help her be with Sam anymore than her being in one place.
I kind of want Amelia to run off with Charlie just to watch fandom's head explode. Our Token Acceptable Woman lowering herself to That Bitch Who Can't Possibly Be Real.
When Sam was nearly dying he still helped save a fellow patient's life. Sam does care about people and doing the right thing. But Sam also wonders about what the right thing for him is, and that should be allowed, too
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The big issue with Amelia was really that she didn't know about the supernatural. Which isn't her fault, of course. I don't even think telling her about it would have made it a more emotionally honest relationship, because breaking that kind of world-shattering news to someone means on some level you stop being a person and start being The Messenger, as unfair as that is. Sam's comfort with compartmentalizing like that is pretty sad, but he was very comfortable with her.
It just wasn't sustainable, at least, as long as she doesn't know about his world. His relationships are even more contingent on circumstances than most people's. Basically his options are Jodi Mills and Cas.
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Yeah. There also seems to be a lot of internalized sexism at play as well, unfortunately.
(when people thought the Road House was impractical)
That's bullshit, unless people were also going off on the "impracticality" of Bobby having a home. Christ on a pile of nachos, are women actually just supposed to rove the streets of this 'verse waiting to be poached off by some monster?
If Amelia set off like Charlie, I'm not sure that would help her be with Sam anymore than her being in one place.
I kind of want Amelia to run off with Charlie just to watch fandom's head explode. Our Token Acceptable Woman lowering herself to That Bitch Who Can't Possibly Be Real.
When Sam was nearly dying he still helped save a fellow patient's life. Sam does care about people and doing the right thing. But Sam also wonders about what the right thing for him is, and that should be allowed, too ( ... )
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