I never, ever would have thought about that comparison between those two characters, but now that you've pointed it out, man, I can see it really clearly. Both of them had really fucked-up childhoods and grew up unable to see beyond the way their fathers raised them. (Both of them fixated on tall, dark-haired young men with hero complexes...)
One of the things that always fascinates me about Dean is he's utterly comfortable with his own version of a moral code and he sticks to it absolutely. Like, in the beginning they present Sam as the "good" brother and Dean as the "bad" one, in terms of behavior and morality, but as the show wears on and Sam's ability for self-rationalization starts to show, you see that Sam will go a lot farther, because Dean can't rationalize moral compromises unless he's the victim, and he just hits a stopping point. But of course as long as he's the only one suffering from a choice, then it's perfectly acceptable, especially if it's something for Sam/something Sam wants.
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Date: 2010-05-31 12:54 pm (UTC)One of the things that always fascinates me about Dean is he's utterly comfortable with his own version of a moral code and he sticks to it absolutely. Like, in the beginning they present Sam as the "good" brother and Dean as the "bad" one, in terms of behavior and morality, but as the show wears on and Sam's ability for self-rationalization starts to show, you see that Sam will go a lot farther, because Dean can't rationalize moral compromises unless he's the victim, and he just hits a stopping point. But of course as long as he's the only one suffering from a choice, then it's perfectly acceptable, especially if it's something for Sam/something Sam wants.