I was going to reply to something you said to me and then got caught up reading your other reply :>
If Dean died, I think it would be a process of years of Sam discovering more and more new ways that he misses his brother.
I agree. And that's why I think the dying of grief thing is so empty to me a storyline. Because it's too simplistic, and it's an interchangeable story with any other 2 characters who have been close and suffered loss. Whereas knowing what would cause Sam pain months or years down the line is very specific. It's also very realistic, loss happens like that, blindsiding you with things you didn't even realize until the gap appears.
think his grief would be complicated and worsened by relief that at least, now that the worst had come to pass, he no longer had anything to fear.
It's interesting that you would say that. I wrote a meta not long ago about how I felt that WIaWNSB might very well have been prompted by Dean's feelings of guilt on this subject.
y I'm so fascinated by trying to examine Dean when he has no one else's dream to guide him. If you cut him off from people he cares about, what would he do? I think the answer given to us by "Route 666" is that he'd find someone else to care about and adopt their dreams.
Huh, I hadn't thought of that but I find that very plausible. I agree, I think that Dean has needs but not dreams.
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If Dean died, I think it would be a process of years of Sam discovering more and more new ways that he misses his brother.
I agree. And that's why I think the dying of grief thing is so empty to me a storyline. Because it's too simplistic, and it's an interchangeable story with any other 2 characters who have been close and suffered loss. Whereas knowing what would cause Sam pain months or years down the line is very specific. It's also very realistic, loss happens like that, blindsiding you with things you didn't even realize until the gap appears.
think his grief would be complicated and worsened by relief that at least, now that the worst had come to pass, he no longer had anything to fear.
It's interesting that you would say that. I wrote a meta not long ago about how I felt that WIaWNSB might very well have been prompted by Dean's feelings of guilt on this subject.
y I'm so fascinated by trying to examine Dean when he has no one else's dream to guide him. If you cut him off from people he cares about, what would he do? I think the answer given to us by "Route 666" is that he'd find someone else to care about and adopt their dreams.
Huh, I hadn't thought of that but I find that very plausible. I agree, I think that Dean has needs but not dreams.