{"id":249086,"date":"2013-10-24T01:50:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T01:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/24\/lookatthesefreakinghipsters-does-anyone-else\/"},"modified":"2018-10-04T02:14:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T02:14:25","slug":"lookatthesefreakinghipsters-does-anyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/24\/lookatthesefreakinghipsters-does-anyone-else\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-249086 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/24\/lookatthesefreakinghipsters-does-anyone-else\/attachment\/249087\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/tumblr_mkt8ivApwj1qiqh8to1_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail 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href=\"http:\/\/lookatthesefreakinghipsters.tumblr.com\/post\/47481405948\/does-anyone-else-find-it-a-little-sad-that-dean-is\" target=\"_blank\">lookatthesefreakinghipsters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Does anyone else find it a little sad that Dean is the only Winchester to identify the \u201cfamily business\u201d as \u201csaving people, hunting things,\u201d where saving people is the first priority?\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t John\u2019s priority.\u00a0 He was on a vendetta against the \u201cthing\u201d that killed Mary and anything evil that got in his way got ganked.\u00a0 Saving people was a happy by-product of his true aim: revenge.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After Dean gives his now-famous line, Sam counters with \u201c\u2026I gotta find Jessica\u2019s killer.\u00a0 It\u2019s the only thing I can think about.\u201d\u00a0 For Sam, saving people didn\u2019t come first, like John, hunting was a means to an end, in the earliest seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But for Dean, a character whose entire sense of self had been sublimated into a need to save and protect others, \u201csaving people\u201d came first.\u00a0 His need to save everyone, especially in those earlier seasons, came directly from what he believed his father wanted to achieve as a hunter.\u00a0 He believed that John\u2019s goals were to save people, first and foremost.\u00a0 And so, Dean believed if he just saved enough people, if he protected Sammy well enough, John would be proud of him.\u00a0 And if Dean saved people, other children wouldn\u2019t have to go through losing a parent to monsters and demons like he did.\u00a0 Other families wouldn\u2019t be torn apart at the hands of evil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But Dean could never make John proud by saving people, because that\u2019s not what John valued.\u00a0 And there is no way to save everyone, so Dean could only ever fail in his goal of saving people.\u00a0 Dean\u2019s tragedy is that even his laudable traits are turned against him, increasing his self-loathing through guilt and blame for his failure to meet an impossible standard.\u00a0 No wonder it\u2019s such a crushing burden.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lookatthesefreakinghipsters: Does anyone else find it a little sad that Dean is the only Winchester to identify the \u201cfamily business\u201d as \u201csaving people, hunting things,\u201d where saving people is the first priority?\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t John\u2019s priority.\u00a0 He was on a vendetta against the \u201cthing\u201d that killed Mary and anything evil that got in his way &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/24\/lookatthesefreakinghipsters-does-anyone-else\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> 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