Supernatural musing

[louiselux]

So, a few thoughts about giant woobie Dean Winchester the latest developments in Supernatural .

Dean spent forty years in hell! Thirty of them were spent being tortured, the others spent torturing other souls and enjoying it.

So it's quite a thing, what happened to him. How is he not insane? I don't get it. I have a suspicion that the scriptwriters don't know how to deal with all this angst, and I wonder if actually Dean's plight is of a too extreme nature for the characterisation and the show to bear. How are they going to have him moving on from that? What is he going to do? I don't know. Maybe do a Frodo? 'Sail' to the 'West'? Maybe he can be healed by the hot hot touch of an angel.

I think part of the problem structure wise is that there's an imbalance happening between the two angsts: Dean's and Sam's. If Sam's storylines were more developed and he was explored more as a character, then Dean's HUMOUNGOUS angst would have something to resonate against. As it is, he wins the Season Four Angst Open hands down and we're not even halfway through. It's worrying me.

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I only just thought of Castiel healing him as I was writing the post, but it's the thing that makes most sense.

Self sacrifice for atonement - yeah, I hope not too. It sounds like the easy scriptwriting option, doesn't it? I'd like Sam to help Dean forgive himself and accept what he has done.