Yes! Even to the stepping-into-John's-place thing, in the sense that while Dean might be John's heir in maybe more obvious ways, Sam's his son, too, and we haven't seen much note of that in terms of canonical pointers.
(Though I did kind of applaud wildly when Ruby made the point, gently, that these fine hunter-men had rather neglected to pay attention to what was going on on the distaff side of things, all these years. Which might turn out to be kind of important. You know?)
I'm sort of thinking about Sam, at this point, as a puzzle that might recapitulate something about what made John and Mary a pair, or brought them together; something like that. Because I'm all about the cross-generational ramifications, I guess, and because I have a kink for characters who don't wear themselves as leather jackets or drive themselves as vintage muscle cars, if that makes sense. (I also loved Julie's line in 303, where Dean's wondering if Ben is his son, and she goes, "What can I say, I had a type." Yeah.)
Anyway, I utterly agree with you that Sam's ruthless, he doesn't feel the need to justify that when it gets him what he needs for Dean, and he's blind to the implications of that. (Hence the final scene of "Seven Crows.")
And in my bit of fanon, Dean knows this, and it makes him afraid. When he thinks about it. Which isn't often, yet. Wheeee!
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Date: 2007-11-02 06:13 pm (UTC)(Though I did kind of applaud wildly when Ruby made the point, gently, that these fine hunter-men had rather neglected to pay attention to what was going on on the distaff side of things, all these years. Which might turn out to be kind of important. You know?)
I'm sort of thinking about Sam, at this point, as a puzzle that might recapitulate something about what made John and Mary a pair, or brought them together; something like that. Because I'm all about the cross-generational ramifications, I guess, and because I have a kink for characters who don't wear themselves as leather jackets or drive themselves as vintage muscle cars, if that makes sense. (I also loved Julie's line in 303, where Dean's wondering if Ben is his son, and she goes, "What can I say, I had a type." Yeah.)
Anyway, I utterly agree with you that Sam's ruthless, he doesn't feel the need to justify that when it gets him what he needs for Dean, and he's blind to the implications of that. (Hence the final scene of "Seven Crows.")
And in my bit of fanon, Dean knows this, and it makes him afraid. When he thinks about it. Which isn't often, yet. Wheeee!