Lets leave aside "fair". Sam and Dean are subject to a spell that forces them to fight. They are facing each other when the urge to fight happen at the same time. No weapons or the same weapons. No advantage of position. Sam wins. Body mass and muscle. Dean's greater experience, and I think greater talent for combat does him no good.
Give Dean an advantage - more time to plan than Sam, better weapons, better position and the that same experience and perhaps talent can be deployed to compensate for Sam's greater strength and mass.
I mean you can say "oh no, the first case will never happen". But if you are going to question who will win in a fight between them then it is not unreasonable to think of different circumstances. And equal weapons, no great positional advantage for one or the other, equal time to plan is certainly one set of circumstances. So forget the term "fair fight". Too much baggage I don't intend.
Another way to look at it is Sam is stronger more muscle, more mass. If combat happens in circumstances where Dean has little chance to compensate for that, Sam wins. If Dean is given a chance to compensate for Sam's greater weight and amss then Dean wins, because Dean has more experience and more talent for combat.
You know what this discussion reminds me of?
Look, if cavemen and astronauts got into a fight, who would win?
If Dean is given a chance to compensate for Sam's greater weight and amss then Dean wins, because Dean has more experience and more talent for combat.
Suppose Dean always has a chance to compensate for it. Because he's faster, knows more moves, is more savage, and improvises weapons better.
I guess I just don't get how to strip a fight down to "the only advantage is weight and reach. Experience and speed and attitude no longer count."
That's a weird spell.
I mean, that is, of course, assuming Dean's faster, which we don't know (but is likely, because being 6'5 doesn't help with speed), and assuming he's more experienced (I think he just cares about fighting more, has done more, so I'm going to give him this one), and as long as Sam has his soul and isn't on demon blood, I'd say their willingness to beat the crap out of each other is severely situational.
The loud ticking sound you hear is my biological clock. That could totally be mine and Jensen's kid!
The smirk is the best part. It's totally, "See? See how velvety smooth I am? This kid LOVES me."
I loved "Weekend at Bobby's" so much the first time around and now it just makes me mad that they subsequently wasted Rufus, but not before unnecessarily angsting up his relationship with Bobby, which was clearly of the friendly bickering sort in this episode.
By "wasted" do you mean "killed" or "used carelessly"?
not before unnecessarily angsting up his relationship with Bobby, which was clearly of the friendly bickering sort in this episode
During that exchange where they were doing the "Thanks Bobby, I owe you" / "No, I still owe you more" / "Well add this to the list" (paraphrased, obviously), I found myself waiting for the angst that we saw in their last similar interlude and it was nowhere to be found. (You know, the implied "you killed my wife and I'll never ever forgive you for it" part of that episode.)
