Supernatural Fed My Fictional Sibling Angst Fetish Plenty Though - Tumblr Posts

Re: The Boys you mention your 'father son angst fetish'. Just wondering if SPN/John hit you the same way or not?

Huh - no, it didn't. Because John's physical presence in the narrative was so fleeting, perhaps? Because there was no point where real resolution or reconcilliation were on the cards for them? Yeah, I have no idea why not.

Some of the flashbacks to Sam and Dean's childhood broke my heart, but mainly because John is a placeholder in those stories - a blurry figure in the car, an anxiety looming on the horizon, a responsibility too heavy for young shoulders to carry, an absence they're struggling to cope with.

Later, 'Dad' is a weight on their adult psyches as they try to define themselves and their purpose, but it gets harder and harder to know for sure how reliable Dean and Sam's memory-filtered recollections of their father are - both the good and the bad.

Some of the Dean-filtered memories are horrific, specific to the point of indicating neglect and abuse, while Sam's issues with their father are more generalised and more typically TV father-son-conflict tropey. I suspect that's my fetish - that angsty TV trope about a clash of wills/personalities causing estrangement - but maybe only where there's the possibility of resolution and growth? (Do I really sense that on the horizon for Homelander and Soldier Boy??? Rlly?!)

It's a mystery of the fanbrain!