#2.19

hunting ain't exactly a pro-ball career | dean and baseball

i should be paid every time someone willfully misinterprets sam's concern here by projecting the argument that dean made about the inmates lives onto the sam's actual concern—regarding the fact that they're wanted and being actively investigated by the fbi and the subsequent escape plan made by someone he and dean do not know enough to trust beyond their father—in order to morally scale dean as perceivably more politically righteous (towards the left, because there r straight male conservative fans of the show doing this same thing to dean vs sam, but while pushing dean towards the right lol) and therefore validate their interest in him as a character on the monster-of-the-week show. honestly, i should be paid every time someone adopts and regurgitates dean's projected ideal or perspective of sam as if it's sam's actual character lol

really and truly though, this is discourse that is tired to me; what i want people to ponder about their argument here are 1) what about these inmates beyond their status as humans places them within a category that deserves to be saved by dean (and sam, although i'm tagging sam in here in brackets because they don't actually see sam as For saving these people at all, even though he is) winchester over the monsters they've hunted, when it's likely that these inmates have endangered or killed just as many or more people 'innocents to be saved'/'us' as said monsters and even sam and dean? and 2) there is so much more in this episode to be critiqued than petty righteous fictional media consumption like the relationship john has with his army buddies and how dean is actively adopting and putting it to use within the way he hunts (ie. the narrative's development of particular 'hunter code') and the ways in which the show writes the police system and hunters, especially as systems that foil each other. i understand that not only is arguing this more shallow stuff more fun and easier to handle but so is demonstrating your lack of literacy abilities within your wilful misinterpretations of the scene, but i'm honestly bored and annoyed, more so the latter.