These are brilliant points! I love them all and don't really disagree with you. John did a good job, in the end, but he did a bad job of it, if that makes sense.
John had hard choices, he did the best he could, and the boys he produced who we love so well and who have saved so many practically wipe the slate clean. But he wasn't perfect, as you pointed out, he could have done a lot of things better to provide his children something more stable. Certainly they felt loved and protected, but their current emotional states (that always come out jagged and rough when they speak of it) tell me just how hard their childhoods were. (But who among us didn't have a rough childhood?)
The Djinn ep...such an interesting way of looking at Dean's desires - you get what you want in the worst possible way. And funny how Dean's perfect world had no Dad in it? But then, he had no Sam either. So....looks like he had to take the good with the not so fun. Poor guy.
And to be totally flip about your last point, it was all of Mary's friends that were systematically eliminated, because, you see, John had no friends. He alienated ALL of them. Thusly, none of them were at risk. (Maybe he did that on purpose, knowing....) At any rate, I hope we get to find out what it was all about, why Mary's pals all got eliminated. It would shed so much light.
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Date: 2008-03-13 01:41 am (UTC)John had hard choices, he did the best he could, and the boys he produced who we love so well and who have saved so many practically wipe the slate clean. But he wasn't perfect, as you pointed out, he could have done a lot of things better to provide his children something more stable. Certainly they felt loved and protected, but their current emotional states (that always come out jagged and rough when they speak of it) tell me just how hard their childhoods were. (But who among us didn't have a rough childhood?)
The Djinn ep...such an interesting way of looking at Dean's desires - you get what you want in the worst possible way. And funny how Dean's perfect world had no Dad in it? But then, he had no Sam either. So....looks like he had to take the good with the not so fun. Poor guy.
And to be totally flip about your last point, it was all of Mary's friends that were systematically eliminated, because, you see, John had no friends. He alienated ALL of them. Thusly, none of them were at risk. (Maybe he did that on purpose, knowing....) At any rate, I hope we get to find out what it was all about, why Mary's pals all got eliminated. It would shed so much light.