Why is Sam the “only one”?
This is about how writer bias and “MarySue-ing” kills the quality of the writing. For this post I’m inventing a new trope “Adaming” for whenever the writers contrive a reason to take Dean out of the action because the invention of a 3rd Winchester brother to take over Dean’s storyline after a 2 year build up with Dean’s connection to Michael was the ultimate Adaming and happened because Sera Gamble was taking over as showrunner and being a self-confessed Samgirl wanted it to be “only Sam” taking a dive in to the pit so we’d have soulless Sam in s6, therefore two years of story build up for Dean was basically scrapped because of writer bias.
Season 11 and Adaming of Dean and Mary-Sueing of Sam is as strong as ever because why is it that only Sam can defeat the Darkness? I get the writers want it to be Sam and therefore needed to invent a reason to sideline Dean from doing it so we have this Adaming with the Amarra “bond” to bench him but we’ve seen that Dean can get close to her and he overcame her influence to attempt to stab her already, if he had the right weapon at the time she would have been dead.
If this was Sam in Dean’s position Dean’s storyline would be needing to learn to have faith in Sam so why is there never a storyline where Sam has to develop faith in Dean? Instead Sam is always telling Dean he can’t do it and he’ll handle things instead. It happened with stopping him from saying yes to Michael even though Dean’s plan made more sense than trusting with no prior evidence that Sam could overcome Lucifer’s control since previously he couldn’t even overcome a lowly Demon like Meg’s influence.
Sam also did it with the trials claiming Dean couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel and would kill himself in the process of doing them and then the show made Dean the “bad guy” for talking about stopping the last trial so Sam wouldn’t kill himself. The reason Sam got to do the trials was because Dean was “Adamed” by a noise leaving Sam to kill a Hellhound and then the condition of the trials was they could only be done by ONE so Dean was Adamed on the sidelines to make him soup and sandwiches.
The trials were a complete MarySue joke. The fact they made Hell stupidly easy to get in and out of and Bobby’s cell door unlocked just so Sam could pull it off, the way Sam had to fight through Purgatory after rescuing Bobby and the fact he had to do it all while he was suffering “trial sickness” was just contrived writing to get Sam from A-B and a Hero sticker. The big thing with MarySue writing is everything and everyone around the MarySue is weakened to create the effect they are strong (latest example of Sam near death but defeating 2 werewolves twice his size)
It’s happening again with Sam telling Dean he can’t defeat Amarra and Dean never believes in himself (no wonder with his “support group” around) so he goes along with the party line but we already have in writing more evidence that Dean can overcome Amarra’s influence than we had that Sam could overcome Lucifer because he’s already proved it. Who knows what Dean is capable of if Sam decided to have a little faith and allowed Dean to have faith in himself.
But even if we go with the excuse Dean can’t do it because of the “bond” why is everyone convinced that makes Sam the only one that can? On what evidence other than the show wants it to be Sam so it’s going to be Sam? This is God’s sister we’re talking about, she’s the most powerful being they’ve ever encountered and the other equally powerful beings including God can’t defeat her but we’re meant to believe Sam is the only one that can based on what?
They haven’t read any lore that indicates only Sam can, it took Lucifer to lock her away but Sam said no to being his vessel again, they haven’t built in the ground work to lead up to us believing only Sam can other than just saying it. If Sam even has the right weapon how is he going to get close to her unless Dean’s bait in which case it will be “only Sam and Dean can defeat the darkness” but that’s not what they saying so far, it’s this “Sam the chosen one” merry go round again but with no lore backing it up even if they write the lore in later we’ve still had the “fact” before the reasoning.
It’s Lucifer who locked her away so is Sam going to become Lucifer again? Are they really that out of ideas they’re going for Swan Song take two? but again Sam’s connection to Lucifer isn’t on the table because Sam said no so again why at this point in the story is it only Sam that can defeat the Darkness and this belief she can be defeated by anyone other than Lucifer?
The MarySue writing of Sam makes for lazy, contrived storytelling with plot holes that take the audience out of the story. I know a lot of Sam fans just love that Sam’s “getting the glory” but when you think how situations are bent to accommodate Sam being a Hero it makes the show look ridiculous and I know others are beginning to see it. They need more balance in the writers room to reign in the Sam bias and with it stop the Mary-Sueing of Sam and Adaming of Dean.
