I ended up writing a lot on these because they were so interesting! Thank you so much!
9. Apairing that I love: I don’t really have an OTP inSupernatural (or in anything, really), and I adore friend!shipping people with Sam as much asI love shipping them. The only problem is that the show hasn’tallowed for much real development between Sam and any other characterbut Dean, so there isn’t too much to work on. I love Sam and Cas, and(thanks to some awesome writers here! You know who you are) I havecome to like Sam and Benny, and I (don’t kill me please) also sort ofeven have a soft spot for Sam and Gabriel, and I love love loveSamand Dean (if only they’d get aloooooong)! So… basically, I ship Sam withabsolutely everyone who can build him up and make him happy, even ifI have to turn to fanfiction for that to happen.
19. What was yourfirst impression of the show? Sooo… actually, even thoughI watched this series over winter break in 2013, I saw the firstepisode in fall of the same year (maybe September?) and was notimpressed. Although I liked Sam better than Dean even in the first episode, Ithought the whole thing seemed kind of forced, like it was trying toohard to be interesting and funny, and I just didn’t really get thejokes. Both characters seemed kind of one-dimensional, and, while themystery was interesting and the pacing was good, I wasn’tobsessively in love with any of the characters. I just let it go fora few months, thoroughly uninterested until Christmas, when (alone ina different country and living in my own apartment, I made somedinner and decided to put on some Supernatural with it. I made it toBloody Mary before I went to sleep that night, and that is the storyof how I devoted my life to Sam Winchester and Supernatural.
21. Name 3 things youlike/dislike about your favorite character? This is a greatquestion! I’ll start with the things I like, Iguess, since those will be easier. Sam is my favorite (big surprise),and if I had to choose just three things, I’d have to say that I lovehis faith, not only in God but in people (which extends to his credothat monsters don’t have to be evil and can choose to be better). Ilove his vulnerability, how it ties into his belief and hope thatmonsters can be better and his inability to accept that hecan be better, that his past doesn’t define him or dirty him. It’s awful, and I want him to learn to love himself,but it’s so much a part of him. Finally, stemmingfrom the first two, I love how willing he is to give of himself forand to others. His thoughtless self-sacrifice gets me right in theheart. Now… for the things I don’t like…(are there any?) Uhhhhh… okay. This is going to be hard. I guess Idon’t like how, sometimes, he can say things without realizing thatthey hurt the people around him. Just like I don’t blame Dean for thetimes he does this, I can’t blame Sam, since they don’t know that they’re doing it. I don’t like how Sam sometimes feels obliged(for whatever reason) to go against his ideals in order to achievesomething (post-Mystery Spot Sam, parts of s4 Sam, Sam trying to save Demon!Dean,etc). It makes for fascinating television and it adds so many facetsto his personality, but I don’t have to enjoy it. Finally, I don’tlike how, with time, he’s stopped trying to save the victims of demonpossession and instead just throws away the lives of the peoplewho’ve been possessed. It makes for a lot of interesting theoriesabout why he might do that (do his own experiences with possessionmake him believe that even if the people were alive, theywouldn’t want to live with the memories of what the Demon had doneto/with their bodies?) but Ireally want to go back to the Sam who cared for the victims ofpossession and tried to believe that even Demons could be good.
38. Do you likeCas? Yes. Like all the characters, he makes unwisedecisions sometimes, but I really love him (and the way you writehim!). I like the way his character has developed, but I feel likethe show sometimes loses sight of the fact that he is millennia oldand instead just uses him as comic relief. Still, though, it makestotal sense that he might be unfamiliar with the intricacies of humaninteraction, and I’m one of the people who finds hisawkwardness endearing beyond words. I like thedissonance between the whole ’powerful warrior angel who canwipe away your very existence’ and ’awkward beingtrying to learn how to interact with humans.’ It’sinsanely adorable.
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