There were only two ways they could go, kill him or save him. It was 50/50 either way. Both of them were expected. :D Both of them were predictable. If they'd have saved him I would have screamed cop out. So I think it just depends on what one's individually preferred ending would be.
I have to admit didn't find seeing Dean ripped to shreds unaffecting. :D Maybe I'm just a sap. I hoped for it, expected it and it still felt powerful to me, because they'd allowed Dean to be so strong in his convictions right up to the end, it's like he never shined more brightly than right before his darkest hour and then suddenly he's dead and he's been killed in the most horrific way, alone on the floor with the last thing he knows being that Sam will probably be killed too and...it's Dean! Brave, fun-loving, damaged, sometimes crude, protective, badass DEAN. What can I say, I love Dean so for me that's kinda enough. :D So long as they don't kill him again, I think it's good. Then I think it they would be going overboard.
I think it would have been more of a cop out to have Sam suddenly save him. More importantly I think then it would have been about Sam only - all that worrying would essentially have just been a red herring to give an excuse to bringing about Sam's powers. Dean deserved Hell. LOL Seriously though, I think he deserved it as a character for his storyline and development.
This is where his tragic flaw AND his strength led him and I think he deserved to see it through as a character. Not to have it cut short for an interruption of Sam's destiny. For once he wasn't pulled back from or pulled off of his "hero's journey", he actually went to "the underworld" and now hopefully he'll come back, perhaps with knowledge or a boon, maybe hidden from his view for a while and it will have also cost him dearly(I assume:).
So I was both upset by his death and happy as, well, Hell that Kripke killed him and sent him to Hell. I think it'll make it alot easier for the writers. I think they've been struggling trying to keep the Mytharc as a one hero story(with Sam as the hero) in what is a two hero show.
Dean failed to save Sam in Season 2, thus the Deal(which was a failure for Dean, as good as his intentions were and as much as we needed Sam back in the story). Sam failed to save Dean in Season 3 and I assume(this isn't a spoiler because it's supposition on my part) however he has dealt with that failure will also be something of a failure for him.
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Date: 2008-07-29 03:41 am (UTC)I have to admit didn't find seeing Dean ripped to shreds unaffecting. :D Maybe I'm just a sap. I hoped for it, expected it and it still felt powerful to me, because they'd allowed Dean to be so strong in his convictions right up to the end, it's like he never shined more brightly than right before his darkest hour and then suddenly he's dead and he's been killed in the most horrific way, alone on the floor with the last thing he knows being that Sam will probably be killed too and...it's Dean! Brave, fun-loving, damaged, sometimes crude, protective, badass DEAN. What can I say, I love Dean so for me that's kinda enough. :D So long as they don't kill him again, I think it's good. Then I think it they would be going overboard.
I think it would have been more of a cop out to have Sam suddenly save him. More importantly I think then it would have been about Sam only - all that worrying would essentially have just been a red herring to give an excuse to bringing about Sam's powers. Dean deserved Hell. LOL Seriously though, I think he deserved it as a character for his storyline and development.
This is where his tragic flaw AND his strength led him and I think he deserved to see it through as a character. Not to have it cut short for an interruption of Sam's destiny. For once he wasn't pulled back from or pulled off of his "hero's journey", he actually went to "the underworld" and now hopefully he'll come back, perhaps with knowledge or a boon, maybe hidden from his view for a while and it will have also cost him dearly(I assume:).
So I was both upset by his death and happy as, well, Hell that Kripke killed him and sent him to Hell. I think it'll make it alot easier for the writers. I think they've been struggling trying to keep the Mytharc as a one hero story(with Sam as the hero) in what is a two hero show.
Dean failed to save Sam in Season 2, thus the Deal(which was a failure for Dean, as good as his intentions were and as much as we needed Sam back in the story). Sam failed to save Dean in Season 3 and I assume(this isn't a spoiler because it's supposition on my part) however he has dealt with that failure will also be something of a failure for him.