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Curse you, 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 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.

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!

[water-soter.livejournal.com]

I don't really know what attracts me to certain personalities in certain series. With Supernatural, I was immedietly drawn to Dean. It was instant. The same came with Rodney. But strangely, when I first started watching SGA, I really thought that I would be drawn to John, but nope, McKay was the one that captivated my attention, which was weird because Jack was the one in SG1, I guess I go for the wounded hero type. BTW, I found this wonderful story on the boys of Supernatural that is so good I just have to share it with all. It is well written, save for a few errors here and there, but the story line and the personification of both characters is flawless.

Here's the link, I know you'll love it:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2787883/1/

Re: I know how you feel!

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Well, hi! :)

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.

Re: I know how you feel!

[water-soter.livejournal.com]

The story takes place right after Faith, and since you said that you already saw all the episodes leading up to Faith. It's really great. It brings both of Sammy's worlds into a collition course that I have never seen done in such a realistic insightful way. There's a lot of brothers pathos and it lets you view the relationship between in the brothers and gives us glimpses into what life was for them during and before Sam leaves for Standford. There's no "fixes" or anything AU, you can read this story and feel it would fit nicely in the continuety of the show.

[derry667.livejournal.com]

My first geek crush was, after all, Spock. *grin*

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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I still haven't seen a whole lot of Dr. Who (I think I've mentioned that in the past) but most of what I've seen is Tom Baker (who is, therefore, the ONLY Dr. Who in my brain), and I do love him. He somehow manages to be hilarious and cool at the same time.

[derry667.livejournal.com]

Well, Tom Baker is definitely THE Doctor as far as I'm concerned. But I'm an "old school Whovian" from childhood - I've seen most of the series or read the novelisations of the stories that don't exist on film any more.

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!