*sneaks online for 5 minutes when I should be getting ready to catch that bus*
I also wonder what went on that, at the beginning of S1, Sam thought his dad hated him and Dean apparently thought John doted on Sam. Because that's a huge chasm of difference. I know John bragged about Sam to people, amd maybe he didn't really with Dean? *ponders that* I want more wee!chesters!!!!!!! Just another sign of John's shaky parenting that he managed to leave both sons believing that he favoured the other! Dean because he saw John placing such emphasis on Sam's safety, while heaping nothing but responsibility and over-expectation onto his shoulders, and Sam because he saw John holding Dean up as the standard to which he must strive but never quite felt able to achieve, not least because he never had the same kind of motivation that Dean did.
John sold his soul to save Dean's life, so why would Dean think that? Is it something left over from before that incident? Something so deep-seated(sp?) that even his dad going to hell for him isn't able to get rid of it? I'm gonna guess...Faith. Dean was dying, not just injured, but dying, and John never called back. Now, he might have been wrapped up in a job or something, but that shouldn't have stopped him anxiously checking in later to find out if he was all right. John might have considered contact too dangerous, except that he'd contacted the boys by text and then telephone on the last two episodes in a row to send them on jobs. We know from Salvation that it really hurt Dean that his father had never called to find out how he was. He's possibly also thinking about all those other dangerous jobs John so cryptically sent him on without touching base later to find out how they went, any one of which could have cost his and Sam's life, and the fact that John placed his quest for revenge ahead of his sons' wellbeing for 22 years, but I'm guessing Faith is at the root of it. IMTOD was too little too late, and the damage was already done.
It's kind of like they're willing to put the little things on hold in favor of the big picture, and Dean thrives on the little things. Mmhmm. John and Sam was so very alike. They both look at the problem, often to the exclusion of all else, while Dean looks at the person, often to the exclusion of all else.
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I also wonder what went on that, at the beginning of S1, Sam thought his dad hated him and Dean apparently thought John doted on Sam. Because that's a huge chasm of difference. I know John bragged about Sam to people, amd maybe he didn't really with Dean? *ponders that* I want more wee!chesters!!!!!!!
Just another sign of John's shaky parenting that he managed to leave both sons believing that he favoured the other! Dean because he saw John placing such emphasis on Sam's safety, while heaping nothing but responsibility and over-expectation onto his shoulders, and Sam because he saw John holding Dean up as the standard to which he must strive but never quite felt able to achieve, not least because he never had the same kind of motivation that Dean did.
John sold his soul to save Dean's life, so why would Dean think that? Is it something left over from before that incident? Something so deep-seated(sp?) that even his dad going to hell for him isn't able to get rid of it?
I'm gonna guess...Faith. Dean was dying, not just injured, but dying, and John never called back. Now, he might have been wrapped up in a job or something, but that shouldn't have stopped him anxiously checking in later to find out if he was all right. John might have considered contact too dangerous, except that he'd contacted the boys by text and then telephone on the last two episodes in a row to send them on jobs. We know from Salvation that it really hurt Dean that his father had never called to find out how he was. He's possibly also thinking about all those other dangerous jobs John so cryptically sent him on without touching base later to find out how they went, any one of which could have cost his and Sam's life, and the fact that John placed his quest for revenge ahead of his sons' wellbeing for 22 years, but I'm guessing Faith is at the root of it. IMTOD was too little too late, and the damage was already done.
It's kind of like they're willing to put the little things on hold in favor of the big picture, and Dean thrives on the little things.
Mmhmm. John and Sam was so very alike. They both look at the problem, often to the exclusion of all else, while Dean looks at the person, often to the exclusion of all else.
Gotta go.