I don't know, I've long since learned and accepted that in any fandom the two sides are gonna be uneven. In Harry Potter the Marauder fans always gave Snape the benefit of the doubt, but Snape fans made the Mauraders out to be inherently evil.
Same goes for Supernatural fans. Sam fans always accept that Dean makes just as many mistakes as Sam ever did. But Dean fans never accepted that he was human, seeing him as this paragon of perfection...and Sam is inherently evil because he left to go to college. And in some ways, the script writers supproted that outlook, posting Sam as the "dark" brother.
As far as the beginning of the series, I ALWAYS saw more darkness in Dean than in Sam. And that has never changed for me. In fact, Dean has pissed me off more so than Sam ever did, and in the long run, I've found him to be more selfish as well.
Still, I like both brothers evenly. I may identify with Dean a bit better, and my friend idetifies with Sam a bit better, but both are evenly human, and evenly important.
I find this double standard in fandom annoyingly consistant. Though one also has to admit, that the majority of fans who go online only do it to compain, with a select few vastly more mature fans speaking up online...Its true that good news is spread by word of mouth and bad news goes "viral".
Just our luck, that most of the fana who want to complain appear to be your stereotypical "Dean fans".
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Date: 2012-01-18 03:18 am (UTC)Same goes for Supernatural fans. Sam fans always accept that Dean makes just as many mistakes as Sam ever did. But Dean fans never accepted that he was human, seeing him as this paragon of perfection...and Sam is inherently evil because he left to go to college. And in some ways, the script writers supproted that outlook, posting Sam as the "dark" brother.
As far as the beginning of the series, I ALWAYS saw more darkness in Dean than in Sam. And that has never changed for me. In fact, Dean has pissed me off more so than Sam ever did, and in the long run, I've found him to be more selfish as well.
Still, I like both brothers evenly. I may identify with Dean a bit better, and my friend idetifies with Sam a bit better, but both are evenly human, and evenly important.
I find this double standard in fandom annoyingly consistant. Though one also has to admit, that the majority of fans who go online only do it to compain, with a select few vastly more mature fans speaking up online...Its true that good news is spread by word of mouth and bad news goes "viral".
Just our luck, that most of the fana who want to complain appear to be your stereotypical "Dean fans".