Season 2, Round 5, Bracket #1/1:
John:You know, when you were a kid, I'd come home from a hunt, and after what I'd seen, I'd be, I'd be wrecked. And you, you'd come up to me and you, you'd put your hand on my shoulder and you'd look me in the eye and you'd... You'd say "It's okay, Dad." Dean, I'm sorry.
Dean:What?
John: You shouldn't have had to say that to me, I should have been saying that to you. You know, I put, I put too much on your shoulders, I made you grow up too fast. You took care of Sammy, you took care of me. You did that, and you didn't complain, not once. I just want you to know that I am so proud of you. 10:3
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Dean: When you were little, couldn't have been more than five, you just started asking questions. How come we didn't have a mom? Why did we always have to move around? Where's Dad? I remember I begged you: "Quit asking, Sammy. You don't want to know." I just wanted you to be a kid, just for a little while longer. Always tried to protect you. Keep you safe. Dad didn't even have to tell me. It was just always my responsibility, you know? It's like I had one job. I had one job, and I screwed it up. I blew it, and for that, I'm sorry. I guess that’s what I do. I let down the people I love. You know, I let Dad down, and now I guess I’m just supposed to let you down, too. How can I? How am I supposed to live with that? What am I supposed to do? Sammy? What am I supposed to do? 13:0
Yeah, I'm not ready to vote yet either.
Alright.
One resonates ever so slightly more for me so I'll take the plunge. It was the delivery.
Bracket #1
They both resonate with me for different reasons. I really needed to hear John say #1. But my heart breaks when Dean says #2. I'm also thinking, there will be so many more Dean quotes. Is that a valid reason to vote for a John quote?
Is that a valid reason to vote for a John quote?
There can't possibly be any invalid reasons.
I just want you to know that I am so proud of you. Cause Dean needed to hear it and I needed him to hear it. It was the capstone of that arc to me.
Season 2, Round 5, Bracket #1/1:
Dean: When you were little, couldn't have been more than five, you just started asking questions. How come we didn't have a mom? Why did we always have to move around? Where's Dad? I remember I begged you: "Quit asking, Sammy. You don't want to know." I just wanted you to be a kid, just for a little while longer. Always tried to protect you. Keep you safe. Dad didn't even have to tell me. It was just always my responsibility, you know? It's like I had one job. I had one job, and I screwed it up. I blew it, and for that, I'm sorry. I guess that’s what I do. I let down the people I love. You know, I let Dad down, and now I guess I’m just supposed to let you down, too. How can I? How am I supposed to live with that? What am I supposed to do? Sammy? What am I supposed to do?
Oddly, this was a harder choice for me. But I'd already made my peace with voting against the John quote last round. Nothing says Supernatural to me like codependent Winchester brothers apparently. Plus JA just killed me in this scene. Not as much as it killed Sam, of course.
I'm running out of good S5 Castiel fics
Have yo read aesc's "FreedomHangs Like Heaven"? [link]
It's a slow burn, maybe a bit dry, but I'm rereading it, and I kinda love the take on Sam.
Season 2, Round 5, Bracket #1/1:
- I am so proud of you: They are both marvellous, revelatory, relationship-clarifying quotes, but I gotta go with the John and Dean moment. It just said so much about who he was, and gave so much depth to what we were seeing onscreen. And, oh, how much he needed to hear it.
Ugh. Hard pick. Every vote is the wrong one. Also, right.
eta: Thanks, Julie. I haven't looked at aesc's stuff in an age.
