Who will Sam angst at if not Dean? They're each others sole support system, for God's sake, and if one of them falls down, the other one inevitably will follow. So I find it more than understandable that Sam is cracking also, when Dean is so obviously pondering saying yes and pretty much being all "Fuck it all! I'm outta here, bitches!"
About Woman With Boy and Said Boy – we've already seen in Dream A Little Dream Of Me that the things Dean longs and hopes for in the deepest of his subconscious are exactly the same as Sam’s. I don't quite understand how people are always overlooking that every single fucking time when accusing the Evil Boy King. The only difference between Sam and Dean is that Sam actually was aware enough to be able to recognize these feelings, whereas Dean never could allow himself to, or maybe thought he couldn’t allow himself to. Dammit, Sam wanted to be a lawyer! What do lawyers do? Help innocent people. Kick the criminals’ asses. Sound familiar, fandom? No? Dean does the fucking exact same thing, merely on a different level, dammit! I’m not sure that even Dean is aware of that parallelism, though – it has never been acknowledged, anyway – so I’m not surprised that many people in fandom haven’t either, thus exploding into random bouts of Sam, the bastard! Strip him and flay him alive! (Which sounds vaguely kinky, but this is for another time, I believe.)
Also, how is it so far-fetched that Sam would want to get out of their situation at that time, in his youth? Sure, John and Sam fought all the time, all right, but I still believe they also loved each other very much, to a fault, which we know is rather a family trait that every Winchester has shared or shares. There was more to that than that, I believe. The lack of stability, exempli gratia. Always being on the run, in danger; never staying at a place long enough to make one decent acquaintance, much less friend; having to hunt things, kill things, face things so few can even imagine; having to patch up wounds in motel rooms, pace in hospitals, or perhaps even wonder whether one soon might be the only Winchester left. How did Sam and Dean even come out of that as mentally sound adults? I mean, seriously – before the whole ordeal with the YED and, later on, Dean’s deal, they were doing pretty much okay, weren’t they? It’s an honest to God miracle one of them hasn’t just snapped in their youth, including the frothing mouth and a taste of SAW IV.
So, Sam’s departure to Stanford? Seems a very understandable reaction to me, even a ridiculously minor one, and one that had to have been building for years. No way Dean, even John, wouldn't have seen it coming. How could anyone not understand Sam? Seriously. When at times I get so fucking annoyed with my parents that I want nothing more than to get away from them for a good whole while – and I do believe many young people feel that way, a lot of the time – when that little (compared to Dean and Sam) is enough to get us completely worked up, how – how – could anyone not sympathise with Sam?!
DO NOT GET IT.
(Sorry, darling! I'm always having a fit over people dissing Sam.)
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Date: 2010-04-10 06:30 pm (UTC)Who will Sam angst at if not Dean? They're each others sole support system, for God's sake, and if one of them falls down, the other one inevitably will follow. So I find it more than understandable that Sam is cracking also, when Dean is so obviously pondering saying yes and pretty much being all "Fuck it all! I'm outta here, bitches!"
About Woman With Boy and Said Boy – we've already seen in Dream A Little Dream Of Me that the things Dean longs and hopes for in the deepest of his subconscious are exactly the same as Sam’s. I don't quite understand how people are always overlooking that every single fucking time when accusing the Evil Boy King. The only difference between Sam and Dean is that Sam actually was aware enough to be able to recognize these feelings, whereas Dean never could allow himself to, or maybe thought he couldn’t allow himself to. Dammit, Sam wanted to be a lawyer! What do lawyers do? Help innocent people. Kick the criminals’ asses. Sound familiar, fandom? No? Dean does the fucking exact same thing, merely on a different level, dammit! I’m not sure that even Dean is aware of that parallelism, though – it has never been acknowledged, anyway – so I’m not surprised that many people in fandom haven’t either, thus exploding into random bouts of Sam, the bastard! Strip him and flay him alive! (Which sounds vaguely kinky, but this is for another time, I believe.)
Also, how is it so far-fetched that Sam would want to get out of their situation at that time, in his youth? Sure, John and Sam fought all the time, all right, but I still believe they also loved each other very much, to a fault, which we know is rather a family trait that every Winchester has shared or shares. There was more to that than that, I believe. The lack of stability, exempli gratia. Always being on the run, in danger; never staying at a place long enough to make one decent acquaintance, much less friend; having to hunt things, kill things, face things so few can even imagine; having to patch up wounds in motel rooms, pace in hospitals, or perhaps even wonder whether one soon might be the only Winchester left. How did Sam and Dean even come out of that as mentally sound adults? I mean, seriously – before the whole ordeal with the YED and, later on, Dean’s deal, they were doing pretty much okay, weren’t they? It’s an honest to God miracle one of them hasn’t just snapped in their youth, including the frothing mouth and a taste of SAW IV.
So, Sam’s departure to Stanford? Seems a very understandable reaction to me, even a ridiculously minor one, and one that had to have been building for years. No way Dean, even John, wouldn't have seen it coming. How could anyone not understand Sam? Seriously. When at times I get so fucking annoyed with my parents that I want nothing more than to get away from them for a good whole while – and I do believe many young people feel that way, a lot of the time – when that little (compared to Dean and Sam) is enough to get us completely worked up, how – how – could anyone not sympathise with Sam?!
DO NOT GET IT.
(Sorry, darling! I'm always having a fit over people dissing Sam.)