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Season 3 ask (I'm the anon who thanked you for being a light when I was unwell). Season 3 is my favourite season. Jared padalecki acted so well and outpaced jensen ackles in so many scenes. It stands out because usually I get drawn to following dean in joint scenes, but this was more Jared's season, more than S.5. the season carried the foreboding of deans deal. It may only be referred to occasionally but it permeated it all. I dont understand how they achieved this technique. Can you explain?

Disclaimer: I have not re-watched season 3 in ten years except for a few classic episodes like "Mystery Spot" and "Very Supernatural Christmas", but I think it will actually prove my point in answering your question. This is what I remember about season 3: Sam's struggles with Dean's deal, Sam looking for ways and options to save Dean, his emotional turmoil and all the in-betweens. I remember Dean's impending dire fate but I don't remember what Dean was actually doing during that time. Some readers shared with me that they were surprised that they seem to "forget" Dean when they recall specific storylines, I said that's kind of supposed to happen with the support-protagonist. Do any of you remember what John Watson did in the classic Sherlock Holmes? Or what impact Nick Carraway had in The Great Gatsby? They all kind of disappeared into the protagonist's story.

What sets Han Solo apart from the disappearing-supporting-character is the humorous hypocrisy dialogues. For example,

Luke Skywalker shoots down a tie fighter: I did it! I did it!

Han Solo: Great kid! Don't get cocky.

Han had already been portrayed as an arrogant, cocky smartass. We found out only later that he has a heart of gold under his rough exterior. But the irony of the most cocky of men advising his much younger friend not to "get cocky" was brilliant because he was in denial about his own flaws. Humorous hypocrisy.

Fans say Dean Winchester gets the funny and best lines and Jensen delivers them brilliantly, but the missing piece in the lines is humorous hypocrisy, which is important because Dean is mostly in denial about his own flaws. Only when Sam brings it up and Dean responds with, "come on, don't quote me back to me", makes Dean memorable at that moment even if you don't remember which season or which episode that line was spoken.

Let's go back to Nick Carraway, we see Jay Gabtsy through his eyes. Nick is a flawed human but doesn't recognize it and is dishonest about his own shortcomings, so he becomes an unreliable narrator and readers and audience of the movie easily forgets that Nick is present in every page or scene. The few times Nick is memorable or visible is his interaction with his love interest, Jordan, and we see his honest emotions and vulnerabilities. Sounds familiar? Like Nick, Dean is an unreliable narrator. Like Nick, Dean becomes memorable in his interaction with his 'love interest', Sam, where we see his honest emotions and vulnerabilities. So unless Dean is honestly interacting with Sam or unwittingly verbally revealing his hypocrisy, he's in danger of becoming forgotten. This is partly why the Dean in fanfictions bears little resemblance to the Dean in the show, especially destiel fanfictions because they remove Sam or the Sam/Dean relationship entirely from the stories.

“the season carried the foreboding of deans deal. It may only be referred to occasionally but it permeated it all.”

Because Sam is absorbed and embodied by the foreboding Dean’s deal while Dean is in denial. As pointed out earlier, when characters are in denial of their own shortcomings and don’t have humorous hypocrisy lines, they end up kind of disappearing into the background.

At first glance Sam Winchester and Scarlett O'Hara couldn't possibly have anything in common, and they don't except for three distinct traits: they don’t conform, they change with the time, and they're not hypocrites, or at least they are the least hypocrites of all the characters in the book/movie/show.

Scarlett O'Hara is ruthless and very practical in every way (except for Ashley) and she just takes in what is going on around her and does her best to make it work to save herself and her family from starvation. Scarlett became an outcast of Atlanta society because she refused to be a hypocrite and conform, instead she change with the changing times, as did Rhett Butler, while the rest of the characters, including the noble Melanie Wilkes and even their servants/former slaves, refused to do so and cling to their old pre-civil war past. This is why she is one of the most memorable characters for the past 80 years.

Sam was ruthless in his pursuit to save Dean from his deal and even said he has to become like Dean, he thought he should change, while everybody else just carry on the same as they always have. Season 3 show the various state of Sam’s psyche that would later remind me season 14 Sam’s shredded psyche while Dean blindly accepted his dire fate without putting up much of a fight. Sam has consistently been a (mostly) dynamic character, a quality one usually finds in the lead protagonist.

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