Which brings us to the big conversational wince. See earlier comments on Dean scared to death. The second after it sinks in just what he's said, that lost look is like a kick in the teeth. Doesn't mean the hollow look on Sam's face hurts any less, though.
I love that little scene. It rings so true to the most awful family arguments. Sam looks like SUCH a kicked puppy, and Dean totally knows that he just kicked the puppy, and they both feel horrible about it, but what's said is said.
(Of course, had it been the other way around, and Sam kicking the puppy -- god, that sounds dirty -- the fandom would be SHRIEKING about what a horrible brother Sam is and how he's always so mean to Dean and how that scene is proof that he's the worst person in the universe. People are weird.)
Your comments about Dean's dangerous life are interesting. In many ways, I see his reaction to John's death not only as a son reacting to his father's death, but in the same way a cop would react to a partner's death. It has that angry, aimless overtone, the unspoken assumption that it could happen to other guys but not to the guy who supposed to be by your side. And you're right -- while Dean has always known that his life is dangerous (heck, I think he loves having a dangerous life, but that's a topic for another meta), the reality of it is to fresh and too new for Sam to be all eager beaver about jumping in and joining the police force and going under cover with the mob, all barely a week after John died. (How's that for a mixed metaphor?)
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I love that little scene. It rings so true to the most awful family arguments. Sam looks like SUCH a kicked puppy, and Dean totally knows that he just kicked the puppy, and they both feel horrible about it, but what's said is said.
(Of course, had it been the other way around, and Sam kicking the puppy -- god, that sounds dirty -- the fandom would be SHRIEKING about what a horrible brother Sam is and how he's always so mean to Dean and how that scene is proof that he's the worst person in the universe. People are weird.)
Your comments about Dean's dangerous life are interesting. In many ways, I see his reaction to John's death not only as a son reacting to his father's death, but in the same way a cop would react to a partner's death. It has that angry, aimless overtone, the unspoken assumption that it could happen to other guys but not to the guy who supposed to be by your side. And you're right -- while Dean has always known that his life is dangerous (heck, I think he loves having a dangerous life, but that's a topic for another meta), the reality of it is to fresh and too new for Sam to be all eager beaver about jumping in and joining the police force and going under cover with the mob, all barely a week after John died. (How's that for a mixed metaphor?)