Yeah, in my head this is Seasons 1-2, but it could really just as easily be some sunny future when they've got out from under all their deals, all their destinies, and all the vendettas, and they're just...brothers who hunt. But even without Dean's impending death angst, he deserves to hang on to his cheerful mood a little while longer.
As for the ways they relate, Dean is way more child-like in general, in the way he can be so pleased by little, minor things. Sam, ever the intellectual, is constantly looking at a broader scope and seeing what he didn't have. Dean has always been more in the moment, and that's very much the same way a four-year-old behaves. I'm not sure it's even a question of experience, so much as attitude. Sam and his "Name three kids you even know" in Dead in the Water is true for *himself* as well as Dean, but Dean is willing to get down on kids' levels, a skill that Sam has to cultivate in Playthings.
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Date: 2008-07-16 02:14 pm (UTC)Yeah, in my head this is Seasons 1-2, but it could really just as easily be some sunny future when they've got out from under all their deals, all their destinies, and all the vendettas, and they're just...brothers who hunt. But even without Dean's impending death angst, he deserves to hang on to his cheerful mood a little while longer.
As for the ways they relate, Dean is way more child-like in general, in the way he can be so pleased by little, minor things. Sam, ever the intellectual, is constantly looking at a broader scope and seeing what he didn't have. Dean has always been more in the moment, and that's very much the same way a four-year-old behaves. I'm not sure it's even a question of experience, so much as attitude. Sam and his "Name three kids you even know" in Dead in the Water is true for *himself* as well as Dean, but Dean is willing to get down on kids' levels, a skill that Sam has to cultivate in Playthings.