SPN Darkside: The Evolution of Sam Winchester
I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about Sam’s evolution in the series. There are three points I want to touch on. Read more …
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Get ready for the season 10 finale of Supernatural in 2 DAYS!
Where Sam is the fandom wondering what the hell all the consequences of using the book actually are
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you know, this actually linkes to all the ‘show, doen’t tell’ that the show ISN’T DOING this season. everything is being told by the (unreliable) narrators, and nothing can be really trusted.
Dean is under the mark influence, can we tell what those consequences be? are the consequences of Dean going on murder spree are better? who knows?
it’s like… they keep saying things but showing nothing and that’s just… unreliable…
First rule of fiction: Show, don’t tell.
So what they are doing isn’t just unreliable. It’s bad storytelling.
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With the season ten finale just days away and the questionable “The Prisoner” [10.22] soundly in last week, I thought we’d look at the “road so far” as they say and consider what has and hasn’t changed for the major players this season: Read more…
I’m getting the feeling from fans on Tumblr that expectations going into the season ten finale are the lowest they’ve ever been, and that doesn’t speak well of the job that Jeremy Carver and his team have done this year.
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I feel the same. last year I was devastated- but the good kind of. I could see reason in s9 and the story and I waited to see how they’ll fix it. this, however, took them 23 epiosdes and still it isn’t fixed. so. idk. i hvae a feeling that this sideblog of mine is going to be very active.
otoh, I can kiss goodbye to getting up in 4am every thursday morning now for a while, and get on giffing and analyzing old school spn. :)
Right?! I won’t miss getting up early to do a re-watch, screencap, and write a review of increasingly disappointing eps.
The bigger issue for me isn’t that Carver can’t “fix it” in the finale. It’s that the season as a whole was so inconsistently written and poorly plotted. That cannot be fixed. It is what it is. Carver could (theoretically) write an amazing finale and that wouldn’t change a thing about what came before it--from the aborted demon Dean storyline to the last minute plot-device Styne family.
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I told you to leave it alone. What was I supposed to do?
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What you missed on 5x06 of Game of Thrones:
It’s time to have a real conversation about Game of Throne’s war on women.
What was especially disgusting was the focus on Theon, which made it clear that Ramsay’s rape of Sansa was about the relationship between the two men. It showed Ramsay’s recent forgiveness of Theon to be a lie. Sansa’s rape was punishment of Theon. She was nothing more than an instrument of that. It’s a metaphor for what female characters are for the writers/producers – plot devices. Nothing more.
I feel like I should add that it was also a warning to Theon that if he helps or cares for Sansa, the punishment will visited on her. She will be the one hurt. Again, she’s just a pawn to Ramsay (and the writers).
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DEAN WINCHESTER AND COLOURS — Y E L L O W
if heaven’s grief brings hells rain;
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10x23 - Brother’s keeper [x]
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In that case, could you do a post about Sam's lack of stability or a mother during the most important developmental years of a child's life? And/or his lack of a female contact while he was growing up? I mean, we know that Dean did the best he could, but he was just a kid himself.
You are pushing my buttons again!!! LOL
First of all, neurologically we are born with way more neurons in our brain than we get to keep. This is because infants are programmed to learn while adults are programmed to act.
At first all these excessive neurons are firing all over the place but in neurology we have a saying “fire together, wire together”. This means that neurons that gets activated at the same time starts to form stronger and stronger connections while the neurons that doesn’t get activated start to die off. This dying off process starts at around the age of four and continues for the rest of our life. The responses that are wired by this point, if they keep being reinforced are very hard to undo, if not impossible. It becomes normal. It becomes the base on which we build the rest of our emotional development. This is why it gets harder and harder to change the older we get.
Given what we know about Sam as a child it’s reasonable to assume that certain “truths” are hard wired into his system.
Like, Dean is the source of any comfort, consistency and security. Not men in general because his father isn’t really there, just Dean. Females are not a reliable source of anything (other than sex) and are redundant as long as Dean’s around. If Dean’s not there they are the next best thing.
Also a child raising a child will have consequences. A parents job is to teach your child how to handle emotions and any other difficult part of life. You teach them how to handle fear, anger, sadness etc by showing how it’s done and believing in their ability to do it themselves, even when they don’t think they can.
For example you say “See, there is nothing under the bed, there’s nothing to be afraid of. You can turn on the light if it will make you feel less scared” and then you tell them to go back to sleep and you walk away.
If you don’t, if you start to bring that child out of their room and into your bed or if you start spending every night in theirs you are actually telling that child that there’s a reason for fear and that you need to be there to protect them.
As far as we know this is what Dean did. As cute as Dean’s overprotectiveness as a child is, he didn’t actually teach Sam how to control and handle his fear/anger/sadness, he taught Sam that Dean is the reason bad things don’t get him which is something else completely. What must have gotten hard wired into Sam is that “No Dean = Danger. Dean = No danger”
And what’s worse is that since they both were children it is likely that Dean imprinted this truth on himself in the process thus creating the famous codependency. Dean’s idea that he is essential to Sam’s survival and well being was probably not helped by the fact that at age four, Dean managed to save his brother while his father failed to save their mother. In the mind of a four year old boy that can very easily turn into a hard wired belief that no one else can be trusted with his brother. Not even his father.
I would argue that this would create an adult man (Sam) who is very very bad at regulating his own emotions, that is dependent on his brother to ground him and bring him back from from the over-emotional edge. It also would create a man who is basically unable to function on his own because his emotions would quickly spiral out of control, thus prompting him so search out the next best thing (women) as soon as Dean can not be reached. Which is what Sam has done on more than one occasion.
So I’ve read it yesterday, and since then I’m trying to see why this line “ thus prompting him so search out the next best thing (women) as soon as Dean can not be reached” was troubling me so much.
But I get it now, it’s again the dependent/avoidant treat you just mentioned .he wants/needs this but don’t really, so he is searching for the ‘next best thing’ but once it’s there, next to him, that’s enough and he can be the independent person he wants to be.
(this also explains the fact that at 22, he was already planning on proposing to Jess, which is imo still very young)
so again, spot on meta.
Except, of course, that he isn’t being independent. He isn’t relying on himself. He is replacing Dean as a source of support and stability with someone else. And that someone else may be a horrible choice, in the case of Ruby, or relatively adequate like Amelia.
With the season ten finale just days away and the questionable “The Prisoner” [10.22] soundly in last week, I thought we’d look at the “road so far” as they say and consider what has and hasn’t changed for the major players this season: Read more...
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Smiling!Sam in s01 & s02 requested by anonymous
Source: fallenbadass
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Get to know me meme Favorite shows (1/5) ☛Supernatural
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1.02| Wendigo