That's hardly tl;dr! You must have a very laconic flist.
Everything about Dean has been screaming hateful to me during this season (which seems to be underlined by Jensen Ackles's acting, at least to me), and his fight with Ruby and how he got to win despite her having perfectly good reasons to beat the hell out of him made sure I felt nothing for him by the end of the episode.
I was hoping during the fight between Ruby and Dean that she was beating him up in part to get Sam to use power to save him, but sadly, I was mistaken, and it was just a chance for Dean to get the better of her. Although when he came up with the knife, I did rather think it was a move he must have learned from Bela.
Part of the issue, too, is that JA is a relatively good actor for a show like this, so when he says these lines, he really does sound like he means them, and that impacts my opinion of the character and the whole show. But I was still surprised by how little I felt for him.
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Date: 2008-05-17 06:09 pm (UTC)Everything about Dean has been screaming hateful to me during this season (which seems to be underlined by Jensen Ackles's acting, at least to me), and his fight with Ruby and how he got to win despite her having perfectly good reasons to beat the hell out of him made sure I felt nothing for him by the end of the episode.
I was hoping during the fight between Ruby and Dean that she was beating him up in part to get Sam to use power to save him, but sadly, I was mistaken, and it was just a chance for Dean to get the better of her. Although when he came up with the knife, I did rather think it was a move he must have learned from Bela.
Part of the issue, too, is that JA is a relatively good actor for a show like this, so when he says these lines, he really does sound like he means them, and that impacts my opinion of the character and the whole show. But I was still surprised by how little I felt for him.
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