I know, right! And there's so much negativity about him out there right now. : / The one that just made me D: D: D: was something I saw commented on a flister's entry, and I just...just had to stop snooping around. I really just felt bad when I saw how vehement it was.
But something I was discussing with another person on my flist, is just how...really unfair the negativity is, anyway. Because she was drawing parallels to things from the pilot, and how it was now very much the reverse, with instead of Sam wanting his normal/safe life, now it's Dean. And my thought on it was how early on in SPN, often fandom has considered Sam bad/selfish for not going back on the road with Dean at first, for 'abandoning' Dean. Yet now, Sam's seen as bad for asking Dean to leave his normal/safe life.
It's like...it's okay for Dean to do, but not Sam. And I love Dean, I do. But the difference in fan reaction gets me. And she pointed out how it was the same with the seals, back when Dean wasn't disliked for breaking the first seal, but wow, Sam was for breaking the last. But this bit recently really goes get me, because it is definitely Sam being pilot!Dean and he's disliked/hated for what people thought was perfectly okay for pilot!Dean to ask of Sam back then. And where's people feeling like Dean's abandoning Sam for not going on the hunt with him?
It's just very weird. I'm really glad that those on my flist that are very Dean favoring aren't anti-Sam. I know there are characters I'm not always fond of, but I try to think of my flist that likes those characters or considers them favorites, and don't say all sorts of really bad things about them. It just seems better to focus on the things I do like--Sam, SamnDean, SamnDeanTheImpala etc etc. XD;
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I know, right! And there's so much negativity about him out there right now. : / The one that just made me D: D: D: was something I saw commented on a flister's entry, and I just...just had to stop snooping around. I really just felt bad when I saw how vehement it was.
But something I was discussing with another person on my flist, is just how...really unfair the negativity is, anyway. Because she was drawing parallels to things from the pilot, and how it was now very much the reverse, with instead of Sam wanting his normal/safe life, now it's Dean. And my thought on it was how early on in SPN, often fandom has considered Sam bad/selfish for not going back on the road with Dean at first, for 'abandoning' Dean. Yet now, Sam's seen as bad for asking Dean to leave his normal/safe life.
It's like...it's okay for Dean to do, but not Sam. And I love Dean, I do. But the difference in fan reaction gets me. And she pointed out how it was the same with the seals, back when Dean wasn't disliked for breaking the first seal, but wow, Sam was for breaking the last. But this bit recently really goes get me, because it is definitely Sam being pilot!Dean and he's disliked/hated for what people thought was perfectly okay for pilot!Dean to ask of Sam back then. And where's people feeling like Dean's abandoning Sam for not going on the hunt with him?
It's just very weird. I'm really glad that those on my flist that are very Dean favoring aren't anti-Sam. I know there are characters I'm not always fond of, but I try to think of my flist that likes those characters or considers them favorites, and don't say all sorts of really bad things about them. It just seems better to focus on the things I do like--Sam, SamnDean, SamnDeanTheImpala etc etc. XD;
Aaand sorry for the babble. ^^;