I'm sure by Sam's estimation they're more than equal. But that don't necessarily make it so.
I was so encouraged by Dean's reaction to seeing Sam doing the exorcism w/ Ruby. It was so STRONG, so HONEST. To now see Dean forced to try to accept Ruby as a good guy -- when one of his last living memories before Hell was of her screaming about visiting him down there -- is monstrous. The longer the show refuses to allow Dean to be honest, the closer it edges to the shark tank. Perhaps the show wants us to see Ruby as a good guy, but the Dean the show gives us in all his forgiving nature, his eternal and never-ending tolerance of all Sam's behavior, suggests that the real saint here is Dean.
Why not just let him be pissed? Ackles would play the hell out of it (as it were), and it would BLAZE off the screen in its honesty. Not this milquetoast Dean, tugging his forelock at Lady Ruby.
Re: well...sam getting on with his life is what dean WANTED him to do
I'm sure by Sam's estimation they're more than equal. But that don't necessarily make it so.
I was so encouraged by Dean's reaction to seeing Sam doing the exorcism w/ Ruby. It was so STRONG, so HONEST. To now see Dean forced to try to accept Ruby as a good guy -- when one of his last living memories before Hell was of her screaming about visiting him down there -- is monstrous. The longer the show refuses to allow Dean to be honest, the closer it edges to the shark tank. Perhaps the show wants us to see Ruby as a good guy, but the Dean the show gives us in all his forgiving nature, his eternal and never-ending tolerance of all Sam's behavior, suggests that the real saint here is Dean.
Why not just let him be pissed? Ackles would play the hell out of it (as it were), and it would BLAZE off the screen in its honesty. Not this milquetoast Dean, tugging his forelock at Lady Ruby.