I have struggled with this about Dean for awhile, but you have outlined it so well. Sometimes I think that TV writers in general think that they have to go dark in order to be edgy and draw an audience, not just with the subject matter, but also with the main characters. But I don't think that has to be the case. I saw a post on Tumblr the other day that was specifically about Steve Rogers, but it was also about writing good guys in general. I ended up crying while reading it because it also hit me as to what is missing in SPN right now
What’s interesting about good and moral people is that they actually have to try and function in a world that isn’t. And the older you get, the more interesting that becomes. Because it’s also the hardest thing to do in the world The ridiculous thing about Steve Rogers is that he is everything that is brave, earnest and true. And no, he’s not perfect, he’s not a saint, he’s sassy and snarky and occasionally trips face first into the Land of Adorkable. Doing the Right Thing is hard and it hurts like a sumbitch at times and you’ll get crap thrown at you every which way but Steve Rogers keeps going and somehow manages to stay kind and still be this sweetheart, despite everything else that would’ve broken other people long ago.
Many of these same things could be said of Dean at one time. Now, they cannot. Dean himself knows and admits this. "I'm just trying to do the right thing man because I'm so sick and tired of doing the wrong one," Doing the right thing because you are tired of doing the wrong one is not the stuff heroes are made of. It is better than doing the wrong thing. And maybe, like an addict, in admitting that he has a problem, there is a small bit of hope that he is taking the first steps to returning the hero he once was.
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Date: 2014-11-07 03:37 am (UTC)What’s interesting about good and moral people is that they actually have to try and function in a world that isn’t. And the older you get, the more interesting that becomes. Because it’s also the hardest thing to do in the world
The ridiculous thing about Steve Rogers is that he is everything that is brave, earnest and true. And no, he’s not perfect, he’s not a saint, he’s sassy and snarky and occasionally trips face first into the Land of Adorkable.
Doing the Right Thing is hard and it hurts like a sumbitch at times and you’ll get crap thrown at you every which way but Steve Rogers keeps going and somehow manages to stay kind and still be this sweetheart, despite everything else that would’ve broken other people long ago.
Many of these same things could be said of Dean at one time. Now, they cannot. Dean himself knows and admits this. "I'm just trying to do the right thing man because I'm so sick and tired of doing the wrong one," Doing the right thing because you are tired of doing the wrong one is not the stuff heroes are made of. It is better than doing the wrong thing. And maybe, like an addict, in admitting that he has a problem, there is a small bit of hope that he is taking the first steps to returning the hero he once was.