Devil's Trap: die, John, die
Jul. 12th, 2006 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieOK, pardon me for a second while I vent. I. Hate. John. Hatehatehatehate.
When you have one of your sons literally bleeding to death in the backseat (and it's your fault), as a concerned father, should you:
a. Show that your primary attention and/or concern is on that kid?
b. Bitch at your other son for not shooting you, paying no attention to the other kid. because hey, disobedience is the most pressing issue here. Even though any normal person would hesitate to shoot one's own father.
Geeee, let me think.
The first words out of your mouth should be:
a. Dean, are you OK? We'll get you to the hospital soon, boy.
b. Sam, are you OK? Let's deal with all of our medical issues here first, then we can go after the demon.
c. *groan*
d. "I am disappointed in you, Sam." It's totally dreadful of him not to shoot his own father. Adding that nothing is as important as killing the demon. While your sliced up son looks at you from the backseat.
Gee, let me think again.
If a train ran over John, I won't feel sorry.
There is also the heart-breaking fact that Dean realizes that John is possessed by the fact that John says he is proud of him. It's something real John would never do and that is mindboggling (and how indicative that Dean buys it for a bit because he wants to hear something like that so badly). Also mindboggling that real John would yell at Dean for wasting a bullet though it saved Sam's life. John is a sick puppy. I get the feeling Dean is so desperate about his family because it's the only family he's got. Because in abstract? John is a crappy crappy dad.
And I love demon in John's body pointing out Dean's inner insecurity (and I do think it's true) when he says that he needs the family more than they need him (it's true in John's case, I don't think in Sam's). And adds that Sam is clearly John's favorite. Because I agree, the fighting is still more attention than Dean gets. And I love Dean trying to snark about offing the demon's children and then getting slashed up and begging for John to stop it. The writers know how to make me happy.
Also, the bit where Dean is terrified that he killed people to protect his family and didn't even pause? Yay. He knows (some of) his issues.
When you have one of your sons literally bleeding to death in the backseat (and it's your fault), as a concerned father, should you:
a. Show that your primary attention and/or concern is on that kid?
b. Bitch at your other son for not shooting you, paying no attention to the other kid. because hey, disobedience is the most pressing issue here. Even though any normal person would hesitate to shoot one's own father.
Geeee, let me think.
The first words out of your mouth should be:
a. Dean, are you OK? We'll get you to the hospital soon, boy.
b. Sam, are you OK? Let's deal with all of our medical issues here first, then we can go after the demon.
c. *groan*
d. "I am disappointed in you, Sam." It's totally dreadful of him not to shoot his own father. Adding that nothing is as important as killing the demon. While your sliced up son looks at you from the backseat.
Gee, let me think again.
If a train ran over John, I won't feel sorry.
There is also the heart-breaking fact that Dean realizes that John is possessed by the fact that John says he is proud of him. It's something real John would never do and that is mindboggling (and how indicative that Dean buys it for a bit because he wants to hear something like that so badly). Also mindboggling that real John would yell at Dean for wasting a bullet though it saved Sam's life. John is a sick puppy. I get the feeling Dean is so desperate about his family because it's the only family he's got. Because in abstract? John is a crappy crappy dad.
And I love demon in John's body pointing out Dean's inner insecurity (and I do think it's true) when he says that he needs the family more than they need him (it's true in John's case, I don't think in Sam's). And adds that Sam is clearly John's favorite. Because I agree, the fighting is still more attention than Dean gets. And I love Dean trying to snark about offing the demon's children and then getting slashed up and begging for John to stop it. The writers know how to make me happy.
Also, the bit where Dean is terrified that he killed people to protect his family and didn't even pause? Yay. He knows (some of) his issues.
