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xparrot and derry667! Dean Winchester has stolen my BRAIN!
You know, I didn't even really LIKE Dean in the first couple of episodes. And then, well ... there was a string of episodes culminating in "Faith", and by the point in "Nightmares" when he tells Sam that he won't let anything hurt him, I was just a fannish goo-puddle on the couch.
The eyelashes don't help. I think he gives Rodney McKay a run for the money in the "awesome eyelashes" department. Well, just his eyes in general, really ...
If I were to have a "type" (and being that I'm married, I probably shouldn't) Dean Winchester would not be that "type". I know the kinds of guys that appeal to me, on TV as in real life -- the sarcastic geeks. I'm not drawn to the macho gunslingers. At all. Usually.
Obviously it's a whole different story with sarcastic macho gunslingers with a soft marshmallow center that go all protective for their little brother.
I realize that I'm only up to about episode 15 or so at this point, so I'm still getting a handle on the characters and who they are. What made me fall so hard for Dean, I think, is the glimpses that we get of the side of him that is both incredibly self-sacrificing and someewhat self-hating. As my husband pointed out after we watched "Faith", in the reaper scene at the end, "he didn't try to run away." And I really do think that he would have just stood there and let the reaper take his life, knowing that in doing so the girl's life would be saved, and also feeling that he didn't deserve to live at another's expense.
xparrot and derry667! Dean Winchester has stolen my BRAIN!You know, I didn't even really LIKE Dean in the first couple of episodes. And then, well ... there was a string of episodes culminating in "Faith", and by the point in "Nightmares" when he tells Sam that he won't let anything hurt him, I was just a fannish goo-puddle on the couch.
The eyelashes don't help. I think he gives Rodney McKay a run for the money in the "awesome eyelashes" department. Well, just his eyes in general, really ...
If I were to have a "type" (and being that I'm married, I probably shouldn't) Dean Winchester would not be that "type". I know the kinds of guys that appeal to me, on TV as in real life -- the sarcastic geeks. I'm not drawn to the macho gunslingers. At all. Usually.
Obviously it's a whole different story with sarcastic macho gunslingers with a soft marshmallow center that go all protective for their little brother.
I realize that I'm only up to about episode 15 or so at this point, so I'm still getting a handle on the characters and who they are. What made me fall so hard for Dean, I think, is the glimpses that we get of the side of him that is both incredibly self-sacrificing and someewhat self-hating. As my husband pointed out after we watched "Faith", in the reaper scene at the end, "he didn't try to run away." And I really do think that he would have just stood there and let the reaper take his life, knowing that in doing so the girl's life would be saved, and also feeling that he didn't deserve to live at another's expense.
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...and oh, my, indeed, he is awful pretty. He's got luminescent orbs! It's quite distracting... ^_^
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This probably *isn't* the best show to be watching with my husband. Luckily he is suitably distracted with the guns. ;)
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Ah, if you're a puddle of goo at "While I'm around nothing bad's gonna happen to you" (and typically, immediately after that he makes Sam stalk off in disbelief with the suggestion they take his psychic powers to Vegas! Hee!). Well, I say again, Something Wicked will just kill you! And you are almost there... I'm almost anticipating the fannish goo explosion. LOL!
Yeah, Dean really does seem to believe that other people deserve to live more than he does. Even the death of a complete stranger for his sake tears at him. And y'know, even beyond devotedly protecting him just as his kid brother, I think Dean really believes that Sam is more valuable to the world as a person than Dean himself. Cockiness covering up low self-esteem isn't exactly a new idea, but Dean Winchester has it down to an artform - such that it really does take you a while to realise that that is what's going on with him.
And y'know, when you reminded me that you didn't like John Sheppard to start with, I began to wonder if there might be some parallels for you with Dean. They have quite a few traits in common IMHO.
As for "types", I tend to go for geeks and smartarses in equal measure (which is why Rodney hits me with a double whammy). And although he's definitely got the latter quality in spades, I think Dean's about the most ungeeky fan-crush I've ever had. Mind you, I do cling to the fact that he once built an EMF detector out of a Walkman (and the dorky grin as he announced it to Sam). How geeky is that? And yeah, even if not very geeky, Dean definitely has dork value!
Ah, there's just something about Dean Winchester. Something intangible. Not that he doesn't have awesome lashes surrounding amazing eyes of a debated green-grey-hazel colour. And I've never really gone nuts about freckles before, but... damn!
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I know. The parallel keeps occurring to me. With John, I didn't really fall for him until his lovably-dorky side started coming out to play a little more often than it does in the first few episodes. (This is another case where, looking back, I can't imagine why I *didn't* see it at first, but ... well, there you go.) But yeah, I do keep thinking of Sheppard with regards to Dean. If they ever really, overtly address Sheppard's abandonment complex on the show, it might come out similar to how Dean's does.
Sarcastic and geeky has always been a killer combination for me. My first geek crush was, after all, Spock. *grin* Not that I can't fall for the badass ones every once in a while (e.g. Jack on Stargate, although once again ... MacGyver, sarcastic and geeky) but I *really* didn't think Dean was going to be my thing in the beginning. Like you said, there's just something about him. And he *does* have dork appeal!
I know how you feel!
Here's the link, I know you'll love it:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2787883/1/
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I know what you mean about being immediately attracted to certain characters. Some have done that to me. Others have been what I think of as "slow burn" (like Dean), where I start out indifferent or even disliking them, and then fall like a ton of bricks as I get to know their personality on the show.
About the fic you recommend above ... does it have any spoilers? Because I've only seen up to about season 1, ep 16, at this point, and don't want to read anything that has spoilers past the part of the series that I've seen.
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My childhood hero was Tom Baker's Doctor Who (I wonder if calling that a "geek crush" is a little "off"). Long scarf, mad grin, "would you like a jelly baby?" and supergenius? Well, of course!
Nuff said, really ;-)
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It was my first fandom really and I was pretty "hardcore geeky" about it. I was writing fanfic for it before I knew what fanfic was (actually submitted it for creative writing classes in primary school and how sad is that?) Turned up for a trivia night at a pub a year or so back and the topic came up just out of the blue. Our table blitzed it and my fellow team members were looking just a little freaked by the end of that segment. LOL!
Anyways, what I was going to say was a) yes, Tom Baker is THE Doctor and b) of all those before and since, the current one, David Tennant (see icon) is most like him. Perhaps, not coincidentally, Tom Baker's Doctor was also his childhood hero. David Hewlett's too apparently... Sci-fi geeks of the world unite!