Completely irrational but completely in character!
Well, let's unpack it a little: There's a lot John and Dean *didn't* tell Sam when he was growing up (he didn't even know Dean had carried him out of the house until "Home") and clearly this was intended as a way to protect the baby. And it was a rule not to tell regular people about what they did or about the supernatural, a rule Sam clearly internalized much more severely than Dean did. And it fits into Sam's somewhat rigid view of the world: there's the regular, safe world and the world of hunting; there's being really good and being really bad; there's being absolutely opposed to his dad or absolutely obedient to him. Beneath that soft exterior, Sam's an extremist and an idealist, which is what makes him so very dangerous.
I really like how this episode balances the different smartnesses (and idiocies) of the brother: Sam is really good at manipulating people to get what he wants, and really good at thinking through the monster's strategy (which has its own potentially disturbing implications), but he's really bad at connecting to people and why they act the way they do. He is a way better fake FBI agent than Dean (oh, Dean), but Dean understands Ron and connects to Sherry in a way that's more than her being a pretty blonde--he connects to her because she's a victim and she's trying to suss out what's happening, which is more or less how he connects to Ron and connected to various children over S1. And he would have killed her without thinking about it.
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Date: 2007-01-27 03:03 pm (UTC)Well, let's unpack it a little: There's a lot John and Dean *didn't* tell Sam when he was growing up (he didn't even know Dean had carried him out of the house until "Home") and clearly this was intended as a way to protect the baby. And it was a rule not to tell regular people about what they did or about the supernatural, a rule Sam clearly internalized much more severely than Dean did. And it fits into Sam's somewhat rigid view of the world: there's the regular, safe world and the world of hunting; there's being really good and being really bad; there's being absolutely opposed to his dad or absolutely obedient to him. Beneath that soft exterior, Sam's an extremist and an idealist, which is what makes him so very dangerous.
I really like how this episode balances the different smartnesses (and idiocies) of the brother: Sam is really good at manipulating people to get what he wants, and really good at thinking through the monster's strategy (which has its own potentially disturbing implications), but he's really bad at connecting to people and why they act the way they do. He is a way better fake FBI agent than Dean (oh, Dean), but Dean understands Ron and connects to Sherry in a way that's more than her being a pretty blonde--he connects to her because she's a victim and she's trying to suss out what's happening, which is more or less how he connects to Ron and connected to various children over S1. And he would have killed her without thinking about it.