#thinking over how a younger dean would react to jack. vs a dean so calcified from years of grief and anger over his own powerlessness | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

finalgirlsamwinchester · 5 months

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part of the many many bits of heartbreak over the jack arc is just sam and dean replicating their childhood dynamics from different places. jack is now sam. sam is now dean, jack's ally but at the end of the day, that means nothing when john's word is the final rule. and john is now dean, determined to keep his family under control, bc to lose control is to invite further death and despair into your home.

#like s13-15? objectively bad but jack kline and his little speedrun of sam's arc? means everything to me #spn being a show to depict the full cycle of the cycle of abuse in a way no other piece of media could. simply bc of its sheer length #sam gives jack the love and support and the benefit of the doubt never awarded him. but at the end of the day #none of it matters. he's reduced to enabler and bystander. bc that's what it means to be the family mediator #you can't make both sides happy when it comes to this!!#also why would he defy his family! what has that gotten him over the years!!#dean sides with john as he kicks sam out of the house. sam sides with dean as he decides to lock a boy in a forever box #thinking over how a younger dean would react to jack. vs a dean so calcified from years of grief and anger over his own powerlessness #clamping down w the coldblooded ruthlessness of someone determined to never lose control again #but sam doesn't get to break the cycle of abuse. jack does (but i will say. mixed feelings over the end of his arc lmao)#j.txt

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