missjackil reblogged your photoset and added:
Actually in 10X21 Dean says “Sam, you answer that, so help me” like hes commanding him TO answer the phone. (checked transcripts) and this might be the only time in SPN history that Sam actually looked scared that Dean might kill him. In 12x15 though, I just think Sam wants to be sure it’s ok with Dean, they’re doing this together.
lizdoral79 reblogged your photoset and added:
@themegalosaurus uh hi there….um just a quick note, that sentence on the gif is wrong (cringe) Dean doesn’t say “ Sam if you answer that…” Dean actually says “Sam you answer that, or so help me” If you go on Netflix and slow it down, you’ll see…. He wanted Sam to answer the phone in front of him…sorry I m not being mean in fact it’s really scary for me to ever speak up…it’s just I thought you might want to know😖
hippychick006 reblogged your photoset and added:
Wow, can’t believe the different interpretations on 10.21 in the comments.
My own interpretation for what it’s worth is that Sam had been sneaking off the entire episode to take private calls and Dean was getting pissed off with it. The context and tone for Dean to say “Sam, you answer that, so help me…” was very much Sam you answer that phone and I won’t be responsible for my actions. When Sam’s phone starts buzzing, Dean looks at it and almost rolls his eyes, he then closes them like you do when you are angry and says the line. Body language, facial expression, tone are all saying don’t answer the phone. Sam glances back but doesn’t look his brother in the eye before grabbing the phone and answering.
I went back and double-checked (not on a transcript, none of which are after all official - I watched it) and the line as it is spoken is 'Sam, you answer that, so help me...'. There's obviously a word missing and as I see it there are three obvious possibilities, with two meanings between them:
'Sam, (if) you answer that, so help me...' = don't answer it
'Sam, you answer that (and) so help me...' = don't answer it
'Sam, you answer that (or) so help me...' = answer it
So that's a 2/3 probability for the first meaning, though I'd argue that the odds are actually higher than that. It's more common to drop the first word of a phrase than one in the middle (e.g. 'You have it?' for 'Do you have it?'), and a comma is more usually used to substitute for 'and' (e.g. in a list) than it is for 'or'. And that's all leaving aside the context, in which Dean has just confronted Sam about failing to destroy the Book of the Damned. It makes sense to me that he wants Sam to answer HIM, not answer his phone.
... But in any case, if you did read that scene as Dean instructing Sam to answer the phone, that would actually make my original gifset into a better parallel! It certainly doesn't change the point I was making about the power balance in both scenes.
