Have now caught up on SPN

[rivkat]

Poll #9156 Which Dean?
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Choose wisely.

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1944 Dean: comparatively, better adjusted (only time this will ever be said of him) and a shoulder holster
25 (52.1%)

2014 Dean: thigh holster; your argument is invalid
23 (47.9%)

Comments

[From: brownbetty]

…I have not watched SPN in like three years. But, thigh holster.

[From: rachelmanija]

My thoughts exactly! Also, Dean in 1944 clothes. What is the title of this episode?

[From: rivkat]

Time After Time After Time.

[From: smilla]

You can't force me to choose! I cannot choose.

For character-related purposes I may be more prone to 2014!Dean, but then I do think that actual Dean may be just a few steps away from being that broken just in a different way.

[From: rivkat]

You have to choose! That's why it's tough!

OMG his attempts to smile at the end of Adventures in Babysitting! His face! I agree, not so far away, but I think guilt is different than plain old smashed flat by loss.

[From: smilla]

But-- I can't. It's like they're two facets of the same man. And in one we saw the end result while in the other we see the work in progress, all the stages. They're both hot? LOL

I'm worried what smashed by loss (especially if the next person he loses is Sam) will do to him, though. Will he become a shell of his former self? Will he put all his doubts and fears in a box and become this automaton only bent on a suicidal mission? What is he going become?

[From: minim_calibre]

Got to go with thigh holster. But only because it won the coin flip.

Welcome to the most important ep of S7!

[From: auroramama]

I think 2014!Dean is more beautiful, but I can't enjoy looking at him because he's so blatantly miserable. At least 1944!Dean was distracted. It takes just a touch of obliviousness for me to avoid seeing the darkness behind his smiles, and I can easily be that oblivious.

Re: Welcome to the most important ep of S7!

[From: rivkat]

The scene at the end of Adventures in Babysitting destroyed me. And I love the idea of Dean still trying to make everything fit with his pop culture view of the world. Getting through the week (and the decades).

[From: serrico]

The shoulder holster did so many wonderful things for the lines of his torso and shoulders--which are *already* some of Ackles's nicest features, if you ask me, so it almost verged on gilding the lily--but the thigh holster defined his FRIGGIN' THIGH.

Which is why, in the final analysis, my response has to be NOOOOOOOOOO, YOU CAN'T MAKE ME CHOOSE. *refuses to take the poll*

[From: rivkat]

You must choose! There can be only one!

[From: serrico]

NOT FAIR. >:(

[From: arliss]

13! Thigh! Because 1944, while very very pretty, isn't real. And has no Sammy. And also? Thigh!

[From: sothcweden]

That was a terrible choice to make! I finally settled on 1944 Dean, only because I can't resist Dean being a pop culture geek!

Glad you're caught up!

[From: locknkey]

I chose 1944 only because in my head Sam got sucked back during the Chronos-killing spell and I get to see them both in the fedoras and shoulder holsters. :)

[From: sistabro]

Tho I voted for 1944 because of the clothes really. When he came out in that nice tailored suit and the hat.. mmmm. Also, Dean having fun is my favorite flavor of Dean.

Narrative and story wise, 2014 Dean is much more interesting to me. But I can't resist the hat.

[From: tehomet]

To be brutally frank, you had me at 'Dean: thigh.'