#spn is like if you don't give up all of your independence and personhood you'll never be able to achieve what you really want

[paellegere]

thinking... maybe there's something to be said about soul survivor and salvation. this would be the first time sam has actually saved dean in the show since faith. sam has protected dean several times by sacrificing himself, but every time sam has tried to save dean's life in the same way dean so often saves sam, he's failed. i didn't think about this at first, but curing dean of being a demon really should count as saving dean's life.

so that opens the door for the interpretation that by giving himself into codependency at the end of season 9, and through the role reversal that persists through seasons 9-10, sam is able to step into dean's shoes, which does involve saving his brother's life because that's what dean does. in that case, it's another way which the narrative rewards their codependent relationship: the more codependent they get, the more capable they are of keeping each other alive (the most important thing). it's not until sam wholeheartedly embraces a codependent relationship with dean that he finally sees success in his endeavors to revive dean and bring him home to him. by contrast, dean was able to bring sam back all those times because he was all in with their tangled-up, unhealthy relationship from the start.

insane show for insane people. seriously

#supernatural #wincest #i will never stop talking about 9.23-10.04 sorry #this show is so crazy for rewarding codependency and unhealthy attachment. i appreciate that #spn is like if you don't give up all of your independence and personhood you'll never be able to achieve what you really want #you are a failure unless you define yourself by your brother and he defines himself by you. unless you are two halves of one whole #unless there is no end to you and no beginning to your brother. unless everything about you is inextricable from him #.txt #the winchester gospel #spn posting