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smilla ([identity profile] smilla02.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] x5vale 2012-04-05 01:42 pm (UTC)

Jumping in to say, that the strong impression I've had in the last two seasons is of Dean the hero and Sam the sidekick. I get that Sam had the big flashy storylines but considering how poorly they were used to reflect on Sam's character, I don't count that as being the hero, I count that as plot-movers and SPN has always been less about the plot and more about how the characters reacted to the plots. If you make a list of everything Dean's done since season 6, he comes up on top (got Sam's soul back, uncovered Samuel's and Crowley's plan, had Lisa and Ben on the side, Killed Eve, was in the middle of Cas's betrayal), and this season he has a lot going on compared to what Sam has (which has fizzled to nothing after 717). We may be disappointed with how those storylines have been treated (I am, in a way) but Dean has not had a shortage of being in the middle of everything that was going on. If you compare what Sam had in the last two season, you come up with passiveness over passiveness. He was soulless, he needed to be saved, then he had a wall, then he pressed his hand, then he needed to be saved. I sincerely think that in making him such a victim the story took agency from him, in creating dangers so big to his life, they made Sam's development totally residual because whatever choice he made, good or bad, fell under the umbrella of 'how much he was suffering'. It may be personal, but I like characters who make choices even when they are helpless and outnumbered like Sam and Dean obviously are at the moment, hence why I've enjoyed Dean's story for the most part. I realize that I almost sound like a Sam girl when talking like that, but in the end I believe that the show is better if both the leads are written in a way I can find inspiring; with Sam the most I can say is: poor Sam. Just my opinion, of course, but I wanted to put it out here. :)

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