Dean and John clearly have very different personalities. Dean and Sam clearly have very different personalities.
Exactly. I mean look at ImtoD, both John and Sam clearly made an effort to get along at first but once Bobby tipped Sam off on the lying thing things go BOOM. And within two sentences off Sam yelling John goes BOOM too.
It`s not how Dean would have reacted if he came back from Bobby with the ingredients. That`s just not him. It`s not how things escalate with him. He has completely different trigger points than John or Sam.
And I think that's why Sam had such a hard time with it esp. at first. He was using himself as a guide and it just wouldn't work because Dean's coming from such a different place personality-wise.
That`s a good point. Sam while really genuinely trying to help thinks about what would bother him or make him angry, projects on Dean and works from there. He is trying to fix a tummyache but it`s Dean`s head that bothers Dean. No matter it all goes over so well. :) The thing that usually works is Dean`s universal trigger point, when Sam points out that he`s hurting Sam with his behaviour aka in CspwdT outside the father`s house. That makes Dean cave. But things like Gordon otoh are pretty widely off the mark.
Whereas Dean had experience of getting outside himself for it with Sam, not only just from dealing with Sam but from dealing with his dad.
That`s where Dean is the more "trained" empath IMO. After all you have to learn how to read others and their needs if you want to fulfill them 24/7.
Caring-wise I agree. Sam is more gentle and tactful which makes sense because of his desire to fit in. He just doesn`t like to stand out and make a scene. He wants to belong. Dean doesn`t have that urge and if people annoy him or if he thinks they`re useless idiots he lets them know. It`s not that he always puts on an obnoxious act everywhere. Otherwise they could never go eat in public or do a thousand other things.
They have the same concern for innocents in peril and bond accordingly with those they feel a special kinship too. Also normal. I just think Dean`s anger at the moment lends itself more into their occasional good cop, bad cop role playing. Did Dean get a bit rough with certain PiPs in the last episodes? Sure but when he was one his own like with the roommate in Cspwdt he was able to dial it down.
And sometimes they can be equally rude and dismissive. That poor lawyer guy in Usual Suspects? He looked like he was honestly trying to do his job but nobody would let him. I admit I found it funny. *g*
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Exactly. I mean look at ImtoD, both John and Sam clearly made an effort to get along at first but once Bobby tipped Sam off on the lying thing things go BOOM. And within two sentences off Sam yelling John goes BOOM too.
It`s not how Dean would have reacted if he came back from Bobby with the ingredients. That`s just not him. It`s not how things escalate with him. He has completely different trigger points than John or Sam.
And I think that's why Sam had such a hard time with it esp. at first. He was using himself as a guide and it just wouldn't work because Dean's coming from such a different place personality-wise.
That`s a good point. Sam while really genuinely trying to help thinks about what would bother him or make him angry, projects on Dean and works from there. He is trying to fix a tummyache but it`s Dean`s head that bothers Dean. No matter it all goes over so well. :)
The thing that usually works is Dean`s universal trigger point, when Sam points out that he`s hurting Sam with his behaviour aka in CspwdT outside the father`s house. That makes Dean cave. But things like Gordon otoh are pretty widely off the mark.
Whereas Dean had experience of getting outside himself for it with Sam, not only just from dealing with Sam but from dealing with his dad.
That`s where Dean is the more "trained" empath IMO. After all you have to learn how to read others and their needs if you want to fulfill them 24/7.
Caring-wise I agree. Sam is more gentle and tactful which makes sense because of his desire to fit in. He just doesn`t like to stand out and make a scene. He wants to belong.
Dean doesn`t have that urge and if people annoy him or if he thinks they`re useless idiots he lets them know. It`s not that he always puts on an obnoxious act everywhere. Otherwise they could never go eat in public or do a thousand other things.
They have the same concern for innocents in peril and bond accordingly with those they feel a special kinship too. Also normal.
I just think Dean`s anger at the moment lends itself more into their occasional good cop, bad cop role playing. Did Dean get a bit rough with certain PiPs in the last episodes? Sure but when he was one his own like with the roommate in Cspwdt he was able to dial it down.
And sometimes they can be equally rude and dismissive. That poor lawyer guy in Usual Suspects? He looked like he was honestly trying to do his job but nobody would let him. I admit I found it funny. *g*