@rogue-translator reblogged your post âEric Kripke: Iâm pitching a show about AmericanâŠâ
#i saw an interesting idea that while the show was supposed to be about sam #dean was a more interesting character and jensen was a better actor #so obvs sam took a back seat #but the finale was basically trying to shoehorn sam back into the lead position #like he was originally supposed to be #and it justâŠ. didnât work #supernatural #spn
First of all kudos for the urlâŠ
The idea was that the story was ~about the two brothers~, which I suppose would share screentime in a fairly balanced manner, but Sam was intended to the the point-of-view character, the âfilterâ we would experience the story through.
It makes sense on paper: Sam is a character in a situation we can relate to (college student living a regular life), whom something happens to we can sympathize with (he loses his girlfriend tragically) and who - while he knows about that world having grown up in it - has distanced himself from the world of the supernatural, so we, the audience, who enter into that world for the first time as we watch the show, âenterâ that world together with Sam as he re-enters it.
Dean, on the other hand, is a character whoâs always been in that world, so he canât be our âguideâ into entering it. He also has a lifestyle we canât really relate to, because the audience in front of the tv is obviously closer to the college guy than the rebellious nomadic monster-killer. He doesnât have attachments other than to this mysterious missing dad, and is a generally mysterious person himself, so Dean is sort of an object to discover and decode rather than a subject to identify with.
Enter Jensen Ackles and Dean is suddenly a magnetic character who exudes a vulnerability that people can, indeed, relate to.
Enter Sera Gamble, Raelle Tucker, and John Shiban (Iâd say the authors who most explored Dean in s1) and they do write Dean in a way thatâs interesting and touching.
(Sera Gamble is a weird case, because she can do utter disasters but also write really good things, one could argue sheâs the one person who most drove Supernatural from Kripkeâs original idea to what we actually got, sheâs the one who most drove the story away from âurban legendsâ to religious themes & co, and while I havenât seen the Magicians I know that sheâs both the person who built a very interesting story and destroyed it.)
Dean and Jensen have carried the show all along both because Dean ended up a more compelling character and also because Dean has the strongest (narratively and emotionally) relationships. All the most interesting side characters have relationships with Dean, with a few exceptions (and again if a side character has a relationship with Sam, their exchanges with Dean are still more interesting, just think of Ruby!).
Crowley was supposed to be âassociatedâ to Sam in the Carver era, to balance Deanâs association to Cas (s7 ends with Crowley making a cruel speech to Sam, the scene in the church where Sam almost turns Crowley human, Rowena using Sam to kill CrowleyâŠ) but Crowley ends up having a massive arc with Dean and a love triangle with Dean and Cas, which is why the Carver era is so unbalanced towards Dean XD (Then the writers did their best to make Rowena a âSam characterâ, but at that point she was quite her own character with her story with Crowley and all, so it wasnât really a narrative-supporting arc.)
Mary was both Deanâs and Samâs mother, but her relationship is with Dean. Jack was presumably supposed to be associated to Sam more, too, with Sam taking him under his wing while Cas is dead and Dean blames Jack for it, but the relationship between Dean and Jack is the one that immediately stands out and gets developed.
One of the most unrealistic thing about the show is having all the side characters talk about âSamandDeanâ âthe Winchestersâ all the time when what they actually mean is âDean and his brotherâ, if not just âDeanâ at all.
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