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lookatthesefreakinghipsters:

Ok, so I love this scene because Dean is adorable and the whole exchange is darling, but there’s actually something really sad here (and I don’t mean that I typed this all up and then accidentally deleted it and had to retype it).  It is said in the show that the jacket is John’s, a hand-me-down to Dean (3.10).  This is (I believe), the only time we see the brown jacket actually buttoned up.  The jacket never fits Dean all that well, it’s a little too long in the body, a little too long in the sleeves.  However, Dean normally fills the jacket with his presence, wearing it with confidence and it’s easy to overlook how incredibly badly this jacket actually fits Dean.

But here, it’s so clear how poor a fit his father’s jacket is.  Dean wears it as an second skin, an armour.  He cloaks himself in his father’s garb, trying to show to everyone that he is the man his father wanted him to be, a man who emulates John Winchester.

But this jacket mocks him.  In this, it pulls across the chest in odd ways because it fits John, not Dean.  The sleeves are too wide.  His shoulders are far too narrow for that jacket.  It makes him look like a little kid, wearing his father’s coat because he lost his own.  He’s swamped in it.  He can never be the man he thinks his father was and when he tries, he’s lost, like he’s lost within that overly-large jacket.  He is not his father’s son, not in many ways.  He’s motivated to protect people, not out of single-minded revenge.

But Sam is his father’s son in that way.  John and Sam are so similar that they cannot avoid conflict, both men have fiery tempers and short fuses.  John and Sam are motivated by losing the women they loved to the supernatural.  If Sam were to put that jacket on, it would probably fit him better, in the shoulders, in the length and in the sleeves.

No matter how Dean tries to posture, he is not his father and is not the man he thinks his father wanted.  Because that jacket will never fit him.

(via thatsupergleekywholockianhead)

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