I thought the former.
'Dirty Girls'
Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?
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How is "I hit a dog" the way you explain this to Dean? Unless the dog has you under a spell, you must have a better angle than that
I think the dog was Sam's last straw. I mean, we saw Sam's happiest memory up in heaven. He ran away, and there was a dog. A dog to represent good and calm and normal and companionship and loyalty and unconditional love. And he squished it and hurt it and nearly killed it, and was going to walk away, and he just... couldn't.
Sam doesn't handle alone well. Last time, he handled it with booze and violence and Ruby. It wasn't healthy, and his coping mechanisms nearly destroyed the world. So he swings the other way 'round. Avoidance and dog and life goes on, because if he's not trying, he's not failing and breaking things.
Ended six months ago.
because if he's not trying, he's not failing and breaking things.
Exactly. And we've seen him walk away before. Hello, Keith Sam.
Had this been linked before? [link]
I don't think so. Who's GWAR?
GWAR are... GWAR. Jilli should explain them.
because if he's not trying, he's not failing and breaking thing
Even with this, I think the sticking points for me are both Dean and Kevin, and how quickly Sam seems to have given up. (my reading of Kevin's calls was that they ended 6 months ago, and spanned a few months before that at least.) I wouldn't have had any problem with Sam just retiring from hunting, but to me as things stand now, it feels like they set it up as Sam saying "I was alone and it was hard, so I just immediately stopped trying, even though my brother and a prophet of the lord were at stake."
In addition to the fact that in my world, Winchesters don't stop trying on such a massive scale, this is in comparison to Dean being in purgatory and having to fight monsters every day. I don't want Dean to be fucked up AND have to (feel like he needs to) act as Sam's conscious/motivation. It makes the brother dynamic feel too unbalanced to me, at least right now.
It makes the brother dynamic feel too unbalanced to me, at least right now.
I don't see where it was ever really balanced, though, not long term. And you don't see Dean's plan to say yes to Michael as epic giving up? It was sacrificial, yeah, but it would have been essentially suicide.
And you don't see Dean's plan to say yes to Michael as epic giving up?
but it was a last resort, after everything else failed.