#yeah this is a pretty solid read
You know, I have plenty to say about John but at least what I dislike about him isn’t stuff i literally made up…when most people hate John it’s because they can’t follow a story logically without inserting outrageous levels of hypocrisy and isolating his behaviour from the wider plot.
Like I even have trouble with the concept that Sam was his favourite as so often proclaimed by Dean stans, to whom Dean is this fragile abused baby boy who’s father charged him with his brother’s care for the hell of it. Can’t be because he knew that he had a target on his head and wasn’t going to live as long as Dean and if his youngest son wasn’t handled with incredible care and responsibility he could literally destroy the entire world.
Like sure I have issues with Johns prioritising revenge, but I also followed the story- enough to know that if he hadn’t learned what he learned about the Supernatural and passed that legacy on, Dean would likely be dead, and Sam would become a puppet for the Antichrist. So like- what John was battling wasn’t just a personal battle isolated to the confines of his family relationships. He knew in their reality that the literal apocalypse is a thing that could happen and that humanity as an entirety could be damned because of his sons, and he didn’t just shoot them both and then himself- which is honestly more than most boomer dudes with PTSD AND living in a reality where the devil is actually real, would have done. Sorry.
And shut up with the homophobic John stuff there’s literally nothing to support it for a second it’s just all projection and it’s boring. Everyone rages at the supernatural writers for their cardboard characterisation but they’re nothing on the fandom’s lazy nuance absent takes.
