hmm
yes okay
Well, I made this gifset for obvious reasons. I’ve seen some people saying Sam and Dean didn’t care one bit about Adam, that they left him there and didn’t even give a shit about it. This was Dean’s face while Adam screamed for help. Sam wasn’t capable of helping Adam, he had to be carried away from there, so let’s just rule Sam out of the question. Dean helped Adam get up and asked him if he could walk. Adam said yes. Dean thinking Adam was right behind him, went to help Sam up. Sam wasn’t capable of walking like Adam said he was. So Dean helped Sam out. But instead of running away, Adam stood there for a couple of seconds. When he got back to his senses and followed Dean, it was too late. The door closed. Dean tried to go back and save him. He touched the door handle but it was burning hot. Anyways, my point is: he tried. Dean tried saving Adam. If you guys don’t remember, he was the one who walked away. He was the one who went there even though Sam and Dean told him not to. So when I see someone saying Sam and Dean don’t care about anyone other than themselves… Well. I call it bullshit! They spend their lives saving people they don’t even know. They’re constantly sacrificing their own happiness to help other people in any way. For fuck’s sake, they saved the god damned world! Of course, if I had to choose between my brother who I love and took care of since we were kids, and a kid I just got to know it was my brother, I’d choose the first one. But Dean didn’t have to make that choice. He didn’t choose. He tried saving both. About not ever talking about him again… Sam and Dean deal with things this way. They mourned their own father’s death for two weeks or so. They don’t talk about people they lose. It’s just how it goes. They lost a lot of people. So that’s just their own way of protecting themselves from the pain. So yes, they do care about Adam. But… what could they have done, really?
See, my problem isn’t the scene pictured above. My problem is that Adam is in Hell with Lucifer and Michael. And he’s been there for what? Two, three years? He’s in the same place that Sam was and we all saw what that did to Sam. My problem is that Sam and Dean aren’t even thinking about trying to get Adam out. They’ve never even thought, “Oh hey, maybe we could get someone to transfer Adam to Heaven or something.” No, it’s just, “Oh yeah, Adam’s in Hell. No biggie, Sammy’s here so everything’s cool.” That definitely sounds like caring, selfless heroes to me.
“Oh hey, maybe we could get someone to transfer Adam to heaven or something.”
I think we should keep in mind here that Dean didn’t actually get Sam out of hell. He spent a year collecting books and trying everything he could, and couldn’t manage it. Sam was pulled out of hell by Castiel, and only with Crowley’s permission. And even then, Castiel couldn’t manage to get all of Sam out of the cage. Not to mention Sam and Dean were under the impression that Crowley had pulled him out of the cage, so it wasn’t even like it was one of their allies that they could try and ask for help. By the time they knew who raised Sam, they were a little busy saving the world again.
So, the Winchesters literally don’t have the resources to get Adam out of hell, and they’re facing a world on the brink of immolation again. I don’t think it’sentirely wrong for them to focus on the world at large. It’s merely a moral issue that I sincerely hope the writers will touch on again. But I think you can hardly peg it as some selfish crusade by the Winchesters to let their brother stay in the cage when they simply can’t do otherwise.
I want to stand up I want to let go
You know you know, no you don’t you don’t
I want to shine on in the hearts of men
I want a meaning from the back of my broken hand
Another head aches, another heart breaks
I am so much older than I can take
And my affection, well it comes and goes
I need direction to perfectionAnd when there’s nowhere else to run
Is there room for one more son
These changes ain’t changing me
The cold-hearted boy I used to beYou know you got to help me out
Don’t you put me on the back burner
You know you got to help me out
You’re gonna bring yourself downI’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier
I’ve been waiting for you for a long, long time. Come on, Sam. You have to admit — you can feel it, right? The exhilaration. And you know why that is? Because we’re two halves made whole. M.F.E.O. Literally. I’m inside your grapefruit, Sam. You can’t lie to me. I see it all — how odd you always felt, how… out of place in that… family of yours. And why shouldn’t you have? They were foster care — at best. I’m your real family. All those times you ran away, you weren’t running from them. You were running towards me. This doesn’t have to be a bad thing, you know. I let Dean live, didn’t I? I want him to live. I’ll bring your folks back, too. I want you to be happy, Sam.
