(Son of a bitch, some random keystroke thing on my shitty laptop just lost my whole comment. Maybe I can remember it?)
Thanks!
And yeah, the tie-ins are crap. Sam is never "Sammich" anywhere but in Nevermore?
I'm only about seven months younger than Sam so it was easy to guess at what class he'd be in. If he did the regular 13 years, he'd have started kindergarten in '88 (I started in '89) and graduated high school in '01 (I graduated in '02). Then again, Sam and Dean were at the same high school in "After School Special" so either Sam skipped a year or Dean got held back, because there are three years between them, which means there should be three grades between them. (For example, my brother was born in '85 and is class of '04.) Unless it's a junior-senior high school, but as you've noted (and I hadn't even noticed the '96/'97 thing before you mentioned it), there are enough inconsistencies in that episode already. And it would have Dean still in high school his senior year, which leads you to wonder why he didn't stay and graduate when he'd made it that far...maybe he got injured, or John or Sam did? Or he just quit to hunt full-time, sounds like something John would approve of and he uses fake IDs all the time so the drivers license thing wouldn't have much effect on him.
(I have a growing list of WTF? questions and was going through all_spn to see if they'd been asked yet before I make a post with 'em myself.)
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Date: 2012-08-22 07:08 am (UTC)Thanks!
And yeah, the tie-ins are crap. Sam is never "Sammich" anywhere but in Nevermore?
I'm only about seven months younger than Sam so it was easy to guess at what class he'd be in. If he did the regular 13 years, he'd have started kindergarten in '88 (I started in '89) and graduated high school in '01 (I graduated in '02). Then again, Sam and Dean were at the same high school in "After School Special" so either Sam skipped a year or Dean got held back, because there are three years between them, which means there should be three grades between them. (For example, my brother was born in '85 and is class of '04.) Unless it's a junior-senior high school, but as you've noted (and I hadn't even noticed the '96/'97 thing before you mentioned it), there are enough inconsistencies in that episode already. And it would have Dean still in high school his senior year, which leads you to wonder why he didn't stay and graduate when he'd made it that far...maybe he got injured, or John or Sam did? Or he just quit to hunt full-time, sounds like something John would approve of and he uses fake IDs all the time so the drivers license thing wouldn't have much effect on him.
(I have a growing list of WTF? questions and was going through all_spn to see if they'd been asked yet before I make a post with 'em myself.)