Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Chapter 9 - On Sam, Captive on The Carousel of Time

[hearseeno]

Captive on The Carousel of Time

Sam is John Winchester's son, no less than is Dean. Though Sam may have spent much of his adolescence and early adulthood attempting to define himself in opposition to his father, one rarely escapes the transmission of deeper, implicit tendencies.

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[yourlibrarian]

SAM: I wish I could have that kind of innocence.
DEAN: If it means anything, sometimes I wish you could, too.

Great callback, I'd forgotten about that exchange.

[hearseeno]

Yeah, I always found that interaction jarring - in a good way jarring. The parallel responses to Sam's wish would have been that Dean wished he could have retained his innocence, too. What Sam says just begs for a symmetrical answer, but that's not what Dean responds with. I found it very striking.

[yourlibrarian]

Yes, that's such a good way of putting it! I remember when I first watched this my expectation was either for symmetry or for silence on Dean's part, because he could barely remember what that was like