Help...

[ash48]

Ok guys. I seriously need some intervention. I NEED to see and understand Dean's side of the story in S9. I need to start feeling sorry for him like so many others seem to. I actually mean this. By the end of S9 I was so god damn pissed off with him I can't even find it in my heart to feel bad that he's "become the very thing he hunts". He HAS become the very thing he hunts and not just because he's a demon now. He's been heading toward this for a while. It's actually one part of the S9 story telling that makes a lot of sense to me. He's slowly been blurring those lines and the consequence is what we are seeing now. I know we can feel sympathy for what they are doing to their characters the fact that Dean's actions have lead him here, but I am still struggling (so much!) with why people are still blaming Sam for what's happening to him.

So what the am I missing? (I promise I will listen if you can shed some light).

(this is actually effecting how I am feeling about the show atm and how I react to gifs (etc) that are highlight how bad things are for Dean. I need to stop thinking "but he deserves it!" and start feeling sorry for him. And stop reacting to things being said against Sam.../o\. I just wish I could understand why people are still so hard on Sam. All he did was tell some truths - in ONE episode).

Comments

[fioreitaliano.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think the show could be better about showing us Sam's POV more, even if it's just a showing vs. telling sense. Like, Sam saying his world imploded isn't any less valid than showing it, but showing it would stick in the mind of the audience better. For example, Show could have shown us Sam having nightmares about killing Kevin, rather than just having Sam say (last minute in the finale, no less) that he's the one having nightmares about killing Kevin. I don't want to ignore the bits of Sam POV we do get (I loved the insight from the Sir Galahad speech, for example, and the flashbacks were from Sam's POV, even if framing them like they were the solution to some big ~mystery~ kinda muddies things up), but the show could definitely be a bit clearer about it at times, and show it more often, in the most technical sense of the camera following Sam more than it has recently.

You're welcome! Yeah, even I sort of did a double take the first time I saw it (I binge watched and started watching real time near the end of s8), and I actually love the Sam/Amelia stuff lots now that I've thought about it. I just would have loved to see a few more flashbacks in between Dick exploding and Sam hitting the dog in addition to the stuff we did get.

I don't know that we ever see them make a don't-bring-each-other-back-from-the-dead-pact onscreen, but Dean says this in 8x01: "Now, we – we... always told each other not to look for each other." So I don't know if there's anything more specific than that onscreen, or if it's just implied to have happened offscreen.