I think it's more that Dean will always always see every breath as an opportunity to save Sam, even if he *has* gone evil, so no situation is unsalvagable if they can only get on top of it and figure out what to do next.
Yes, this makes more sense to me -- Dean does a lot of damage control in this episode, and elsewhere. So for example faced with the evidence that Sam's killed a hunter, Dean's first instinct is to destroy the evidence, and then try to figure out what's going on. And part of the reason he insists on dealing alone may be that it's easier for him to control the situation that way -- he doesn't quite trust Jo to have the same priorities he does.
Well, yes, but making Dean a helpless passenger in his own meatsuit while she tortures Sam would have been pretty awful for Dean as well.
True. I wonder whether an unpossessed Sam in that situation would be too unpredictable -- would he be able to draw on some yet-unknown power, like he did in Nightmare?
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Date: 2007-02-10 03:26 pm (UTC)Yes, this makes more sense to me -- Dean does a lot of damage control in this episode, and elsewhere. So for example faced with the evidence that Sam's killed a hunter, Dean's first instinct is to destroy the evidence, and then try to figure out what's going on. And part of the reason he insists on dealing alone may be that it's easier for him to control the situation that way -- he doesn't quite trust Jo to have the same priorities he does.
Well, yes, but making Dean a helpless passenger in his own meatsuit while she tortures Sam would have been pretty awful for Dean as well.
True. I wonder whether an unpossessed Sam in that situation would be too unpredictable -- would he be able to draw on some yet-unknown power, like he did in Nightmare?