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[niko]

Minor, Pointless Irritation for the Week:

I was watching the rerun of What Was and Never Should Be (or whatever the title is... is it just me, or is that a very 5th-Season-of-Andromeda sort of episode title?  ^_^ ) last night, and for such a wonderful episode with the most woobly Dean-expressions ever, it's the petty irritating bit that sticks with me.

It's at the end.  The faux-family is trying to convince Dean to just give in and enjoy life.  Mom's alive.  He's got a great girl.  Sam can have Jessica and live happily ever after.  And Dean actually thinks about it!  Not that Dean being tempted is wrong. It's great.  But it seems so obvious to me that that last bit about Sam *should* have been the clincher that convinced him to go back... because he knows now that that isn't *really* Sam. 

If I was writing that scene, Dean's determination to fight would have only gone so far.  He's weighing the options, it looks like he's waivering... and then someone says something about Sam living happily ever after, and it clicks for him that actually, no, the *REAL* Sam will still be back in the real world fighting on his own, and that would be the realization that pushed him to take action.  It seems like such an obvious response to that moment, and it kinda bugs me that it didn't get touched, even in passing.