See, I'm taking it from the perspective of, I'm 37 years old, and if ANYTHING happened to my mom, I would be a fucking wreck. And I've been on my own for 20 years, y'know? I mean, it makes sense to me that Dean & Sam would be lost, because he's their emotional bedrock. He keeps them from relying too much on each other.
I've always seen Sam as someone who's just resentful that he didn't have the normal life he desperately wanted, and, well, I've got no sympathy for that. Life rarely turns out the way we planned & I'm pretty sure John didn't want things to turn out the way they did.
And, see, to me, what he did in the first season was sheer genius, because what he did, by pulling the disappearing act, was to get Sam & Dean to a) speak to each other again & b) to start working together again so that they'd be prepared when the Really Bad Stuff started happening.
And then season 3 happened & I dunno, it's like the writers did a 180 on how they were portraying John - at least, the boys' reactions to him - it drove me nuts.
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Date: 2008-07-07 08:27 pm (UTC)I've always seen Sam as someone who's just resentful that he didn't have the normal life he desperately wanted, and, well, I've got no sympathy for that. Life rarely turns out the way we planned & I'm pretty sure John didn't want things to turn out the way they did.
And, see, to me, what he did in the first season was sheer genius, because what he did, by pulling the disappearing act, was to get Sam & Dean to a) speak to each other again & b) to start working together again so that they'd be prepared when the Really Bad Stuff started happening.
And then season 3 happened & I dunno, it's like the writers did a 180 on how they were portraying John - at least, the boys' reactions to him - it drove me nuts.