New vidlet! Smile, like you mean it.

[ash48]

(You know it had to be done...)



Title: Smile, like you mean it.
Vidder: ash48
Song by: The Killers
Category: Character study
Length: 1.03 min (damn, that's short)
Size: 16mb
Summary Dean's doing all he can to smile. Like he means it.



Huge thanks to the lovely counteragent for the beta. *heffa hugs* hun. I appreciate it.<33

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notes

This is embarrassingly short. Mostly because I can't seem to make longer vids these days, but it's also because it punched out of me like this.

The notion of Dean smiling as a way of coping with everything really struck a cord with me. In the final scene from Adventures in Babysitting (7.11), you can see the wheels churning in Dean's mind. I wanted to play with the "practice smile" and show what he has to fight (in his mind) to put it on his face.

Feedback is always appreciated. :)




As an aside to the vid (though relevant to it if you watch to the very end), I've heard that some fans felt that Dean was being mean for making fun of Sam's fear at the end of 7.14 - laughing at Sam's ordeal and by buying him a clown doll. I ABSOLUTELY appreciate that everyone sees things differently (and I love that! I really do) but I can't say I saw it that way. The end, to me, was a very brotherly exchange.

Dean laughing at Sam's expense is how it works. Sam knows that. That's why he stopped himself from saying anything (notice that moment when he was going to call Dean on it then stopped?). Instead, he saw Dean enjoying himself for the first time in a long time and let it go. He loved seeing his brother actually smiling. Especially because it was Sam that made him do so. Sam does the same to Dean (note the ribbing Sam gave Dean in the previous episode, Slice Girls). It's such a brother thing. I think we sometimes get stuck on constantly wanting to see them worry and care for each other (which, yeah...*g*) but I think we can sometimes miss that siblings also rib and make fun of each other. (I'm happy to debate this of course. I can see that Dean could be seen as being being thoughtless. I just didn't get that vibe with that scene.)

Sam has a fear of clowns, (which does seem rather weird considering the all the things that are out there) so of course Dean is going to leap on that. Add to that a brother covered in glitter? Well...if Dean's looking for something to smile about you can't do much better than that.

Comments

[dotfic.livejournal.com]

Oh, Ash, that vid is perfect. I must enjoy pain because I watched it 3 times. But it's comforting in a cathartic way--a visual essay on what Dean is struggling with, and yet it hasn't broken him.

That last scene of 7.14 was love. That is my take. It was the boys looking after each other and they have both repeatedly needled and teased each other on things. There seemed to be a lot of growth here--it's not even back to S1 even though it has the surface trappings of the jokes and brother bonding but I think there were tensions in S1 that aren't there now while they have different tensions and problems. But the relationship has evolved.

That is the easiest they've seemed together in a while.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Yay Dot!! Thank you so much. :D

I think it's testament to how strong Dean is. If you put together everything he's suffered and still manages to work a smile he's one hell of a tough dude.

But the relationship has evolved.

Yes! I just love that it has evolved and isn't just a "let's go back to S1/S2 "happier" times". It's taking into account everything that's been before.

That is the easiest they've seemed together in a while.

*happy sigh* Of course this means there's trouble ahead but then it wouldn't be show if there wasn't.

Thanks so much for watching sweetie. :DD