I think Sam's come to terms with his father a lot more than Dean has. He had that moment in The Song Remains The Same where he got stuff off his chest. Dean, I think, understands he has major father issues, but I'm not sure he's moved past resentment. He hasn't gotten to separating himself from his father in specific and being a substitute for him in general.
Amy, write your fic where Dean meets him in heaven.
I think I would set it when Dean dies "for real" on the Wednesday morning in Mystery Spot. Although, crap, that doesn't work, because he would have gone to hell.
Hmm. All those times he died in that episode, did he go to hell each time? Or did the Trickster/Gabriel have him in a holding pattern somewhere?
Wasn't it an immediate reset? Death, brief moment for Sam to react, Sonny & Cher Asia. I haven't watched it in a while, but that's my impression.
You're right--if he dies in S3, hell. And he hasn't died since then, as far as we've seen. Which means, for him to have gone to heaven since then, there
have
been offscreen deaths. Because Ash died in 2x21, and there's no other way he'd have seen Dean in heaven. The bastards.
I hate making shit like that up, though. But I guess it's fair game since Ash said they've been there, and he's seen them.
I can't think about it till next week, though.
That episode with the wishing well (or wishing fountain, or whatever it was) and the suicidal teddy bear -- didn't they both die in that one? Let me go check... 4.8 Wishful Thinking. If they died then, did they go to heaven?
Only Sam dies in that one.
During the time when Dean died on Wednesday in Mystery Spot, would that have counted as Heaven? The hell hounds didn't take Dean and Gabriel was pulling the strings for the months Sam was on his own. Other than Mystery Spot, Dean's only died in NRftW and DSofM.
The Trickster told Sam, in Mystery Spot, that after he died on Wednesday he was downstairs roasting merrily or something along those lines when Sam said, "Bring him back."
Daniel Jackson!
Is Eureka running new eps right now? My dvr isn't picking them up, if so.