I'm totally with you on believing that John wasn't really, as you said, 'first-seal material', but I base this belief on the motivation he had for hunting to begin with. John, like Sam, was out to avenge the woman he loved; all the other hunts he did were basically 'training' for the final showdown. Though part of Dean's motivation was revenge, it wasn't all just about hunting down Azazel and he said as much back in 1.02 - 'Saving people, hunting things...' - he was in it as much (if not more) for the people he could save, the lives he could spare from becoming like his own, than he was about revenge. So, yeah. Dean was definitely a better man than his dad.
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Date: 2009-05-16 09:59 am (UTC)