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Supernatural - "Jump the Shark"
This is one episode that left me feeling - unsatisfied? Conflicted? Angry?
So the Winchesters do indeed - or shall I say did have a younger brother; a brother who was brought up by a good mother; who had father that took him to baseball games, and took him fishing.
Normal parents. A normal life. Something which Dean Winchester has never known, and something that Sam Winchester has only had a small taste of: normalcy. Too bad the kid's been dead a while, and is in fact a ghoul intent on killing the Winchester brothers because their father killed his.
Strange, though, isn't it? Strange how a man who seemed so obsessed with seeking vengeance for the death of the love of his life could in fact being living a second 'normal' one.
♠ Dean -
Oh, Dean. I can only imagine how you must've felt, standing there looking at this boy who had everything you've always wanted: A normal life, a mother, a father who was proud of you. And yet, despite all of that, you still wanted to protect the boy; protect him from the life of a hunter. Even when faced with something such as this, you put your anger aside, and thought of the boy.
♠ Sam -
What's going on here, Sam? This boy has a fighting chance at something that you want for yourself and Dean, and yet you're so quick to condemn him to the same tragic life that both you and your older brother have been forced to bear? What has happened to you?
By the way, Sam, I honestly don't think that was meant to be a compliment, and quite frankly, I agree completely with your brother: you are exactly like your father, in both the good ways and the bad.
♠ Papa Winchester -
A double-life. I must admit that I never would've thought that you would be capable of something such as this, Papa Winchester. Still, you never abandoned the boy. You made sure to let him know that he was loved - something all fathers should do, but unfortunately, many don't.
Maybe if you had showed the same consideration to your other two boys, things would've been different...
That's all I've got to say on this episode. I was left feeling extremely angry, and I actually felt like crying, so yeah... I'm just going to stop there before I actually do start crying.
Oh, boys... I love both of you so very, very much.
KITSU'S FINAL GRADE: C+
So the Winchesters do indeed - or shall I say did have a younger brother; a brother who was brought up by a good mother; who had father that took him to baseball games, and took him fishing.
Normal parents. A normal life. Something which Dean Winchester has never known, and something that Sam Winchester has only had a small taste of: normalcy. Too bad the kid's been dead a while, and is in fact a ghoul intent on killing the Winchester brothers because their father killed his.
Strange, though, isn't it? Strange how a man who seemed so obsessed with seeking vengeance for the death of the love of his life could in fact being living a second 'normal' one.
♠ Dean -
Oh, Dean. I can only imagine how you must've felt, standing there looking at this boy who had everything you've always wanted: A normal life, a mother, a father who was proud of you. And yet, despite all of that, you still wanted to protect the boy; protect him from the life of a hunter. Even when faced with something such as this, you put your anger aside, and thought of the boy.
♠ Sam -
What's going on here, Sam? This boy has a fighting chance at something that you want for yourself and Dean, and yet you're so quick to condemn him to the same tragic life that both you and your older brother have been forced to bear? What has happened to you?
By the way, Sam, I honestly don't think that was meant to be a compliment, and quite frankly, I agree completely with your brother: you are exactly like your father, in both the good ways and the bad.
♠ Papa Winchester -
A double-life. I must admit that I never would've thought that you would be capable of something such as this, Papa Winchester. Still, you never abandoned the boy. You made sure to let him know that he was loved - something all fathers should do, but unfortunately, many don't.
Maybe if you had showed the same consideration to your other two boys, things would've been different...
That's all I've got to say on this episode. I was left feeling extremely angry, and I actually felt like crying, so yeah... I'm just going to stop there before I actually do start crying.
Oh, boys... I love both of you so very, very much.
KITSU'S FINAL GRADE: C+
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The timeline is EXACTLY what I was terrified of and the first thing I was paying attention to at the start of the episode.
As fans, we fully realize that John was not the perfect father. We have spent nearly four years meta-ing that so I think we're able to understand this situation better. We have to look at John's head space at this time. His baby boy who has this horrible destiny has run away after a terrible fight. His oldest son has serious abandonment issues and clear hero-worship. It was really too late to really fix things with his boys so Adam at least helped relieve the guilt of what he did to his sons (especially if he eventually found out about Mary).
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So, now that it's been placed after his boys are men pretty much, then we're TOTALLY fine. Sam was what, 19 when John found out about Adam? (Sam was born in 1983, I think. Making him 7 in 1990 when Adam was born... and if Adam didn't find out about John until he was 12... then Sam would be about 19).
This is why watching the show with people is not cool. It distracts me and I get all upset and crazy. I was totally not doing the math and figured John was just running off on the boys when they were still boys! And it was making me sick!
But now... now we're awesome. You have literally (I seriously mean this) lifted the pressure on my chest. I felt all tight and upset at the notion of John being an ass and neglecting his boys, but now that I see it's more of a reaction to realizing how he was, a second chance and all that... we're so beyond good it's not even funny. ^___________^
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I was scared it would ruin all my awesome wee!Chester fic.
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Second chances and all that. Thanks. :)