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.
Yes, and wouldn't it be interesting if after all Sam's poking about what happened in hell, Dean suddenly remembers that Ruby was down there with a ringside seat? Though of course that's not going to happen...if anything, we're going to get some revelation that Dean himself committed such unspeakable acts in hell that he "understands" Ruby now. Or, even worse, that he looks to her as a shining example of redemption: if she can be a "good" demon, then there's hope for him, too.
Let me state for the record that I loathe this idea.
Ackles would play the hell out of it (as it were), and it would BLAZE off the screen in its honesty.
YES, gives me goosebumps just thinking about it but damn...you KNOW that at least a third of the fandom would then be bitching about "oh, here we go again with Dean's issues." As if no matter how much of a pounding he takes, he's supposed to just keep on going -- an uncomplaining, self-denying and unbreakable little bulldog.
Re: well...sam getting on with his life is what dean WANTED him to do
Yes, and wouldn't it be interesting if after all Sam's poking about what happened in hell, Dean suddenly remembers that Ruby was down there with a ringside seat? Though of course that's not going to happen...if anything, we're going to get some revelation that Dean himself committed such unspeakable acts in hell that he "understands" Ruby now. Or, even worse, that he looks to her as a shining example of redemption: if she can be a "good" demon, then there's hope for him, too.
Let me state for the record that I loathe this idea.
Ackles would play the hell out of it (as it were), and it would BLAZE off the screen in its honesty.
YES, gives me goosebumps just thinking about it but damn...you KNOW that at least a third of the fandom would then be bitching about "oh, here we go again with Dean's issues." As if no matter how much of a pounding he takes, he's supposed to just keep on going -- an uncomplaining, self-denying and unbreakable little bulldog.