No butting in all comments are welcome, which is why I posted this. I want to get as many views as possible.
As to the Sam hate issue I personally I think this is the only theory which holds water at this point, at least from what I have seen. Most of the time when you engage with viewers who hate Sam it's usually because they are fans of Dean who feel Sam is 'being mean to him' which usually consists of Sam not taking Dean's side and not taking his orders. They will bring up him choosing Ruby over Dean (never mind that Dean chose to confide with Castiel at several points and was meeting with Cas behind Sam's back as well), Sam beating Dean up in Levee (when Dean has punched Sam in Bloodlust, Metamorhosis and You Can't Handle The Truth when he was unprovoked) and also bring up Sam insulting Dean (yet they don't notice that Dean teased Sam endlessly about Stanford, has called him selfish and has rubbed salt in his wounds in Everybody Loves A Clown, Metamorphosis and Levee). The truth is everything that is said against Sam could just as easily be flipped on it's head to be used against Dean as well. Neither of them are blameless and both of them have hurt one another. Their relationship is painful and dysfunctional on both sides and both Dean and Sam love each other fiercely so why the need to attack Sam who is the best part of Dean?
Honestly I find saint Dean to be such a joke now. It's like he has no flaws. He is whiter then white and is constantly written to be the one moral compass of SPN and that just makes him so incredibly boring. I do admit that it's hard to like Dean because well he just comes out seeming so self-righteous, sanctimonious and in several ways just smug because well he is always right and everyone compared to him just pales in comparison. He doesn't even have real faults that anyone can blame him for or hold him accountable on. We can't blame him for breaking the first seal because well he was tortured for ten years and he is broken up about it, we can't blame him for putting Ben and Lisa in danger because Cas snapped his fingers and everything is made better again, we can't blame him for wanting to say yes to Micheal because well it's all Sam's fault because he released Lucifer so he has to be proactive, etc. Well when you do that and you don't have a character in control of their own actions and don't give their actions any consequences then what's the point of trying to make them a hero? They have no failures and they have no faults. You end up creating a Mary Sue character.
I long for the Dean in seasons 1-3 who had flaws, made mistakes and wasn't seen as the golden boy of all things right, shiny and good. It's getting to the point now where Dean's purity and righteousness is a thing of profound parody.
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Re: Thanks for the Comment
Date: 2011-07-23 06:23 am (UTC)As to the Sam hate issue I personally I think this is the only theory which holds water at this point, at least from what I have seen. Most of the time when you engage with viewers who hate Sam it's usually because they are fans of Dean who feel Sam is 'being mean to him' which usually consists of Sam not taking Dean's side and not taking his orders. They will bring up him choosing Ruby over Dean (never mind that Dean chose to confide with Castiel at several points and was meeting with Cas behind Sam's back as well), Sam beating Dean up in Levee (when Dean has punched Sam in Bloodlust, Metamorhosis and You Can't Handle The Truth when he was unprovoked) and also bring up Sam insulting Dean (yet they don't notice that Dean teased Sam endlessly about Stanford, has called him selfish and has rubbed salt in his wounds in Everybody Loves A Clown, Metamorphosis and Levee). The truth is everything that is said against Sam could just as easily be flipped on it's head to be used against Dean as well. Neither of them are blameless and both of them have hurt one another. Their relationship is painful and dysfunctional on both sides and both Dean and Sam love each other fiercely so why the need to attack Sam who is the best part of Dean?
Honestly I find saint Dean to be such a joke now. It's like he has no flaws. He is whiter then white and is constantly written to be the one moral compass of SPN and that just makes him so incredibly boring. I do admit that it's hard to like Dean because well he just comes out seeming so self-righteous, sanctimonious and in several ways just smug because well he is always right and everyone compared to him just pales in comparison. He doesn't even have real faults that anyone can blame him for or hold him accountable on. We can't blame him for breaking the first seal because well he was tortured for ten years and he is broken up about it, we can't blame him for putting Ben and Lisa in danger because Cas snapped his fingers and everything is made better again, we can't blame him for wanting to say yes to Micheal because well it's all Sam's fault because he released Lucifer so he has to be proactive, etc. Well when you do that and you don't have a character in control of their own actions and don't give their actions any consequences then what's the point of trying to make them a hero? They have no failures and they have no faults. You end up creating a Mary Sue character.
I long for the Dean in seasons 1-3 who had flaws, made mistakes and wasn't seen as the golden boy of all things right, shiny and good. It's getting to the point now where Dean's purity and righteousness is a thing of profound parody.