I only occasionally read sides, and I didn't see them for this episode. *sigh* This scenario is precisely the impression I got from the truncated scene. Well, there goes my last rationalization; I had deeply hoped that Edlund had written the scene intending a different meaning without realizing the scene was open to this interpretation.
Dean's reaction as written is "somewhere between ick and awe" in response to a following scene of Andy stopping a different gorgeous woman and leading her inside her apartment. Which is taking the horndog!Dean and the bad boy!Dean a few steps over a line that he has never shown any inclination of crossing before now. It's not only morally questionable, it's horribly lazy characterization.
While I despise propetuating a rape myth, this could have been fixed through the writer's reaction for Dean and Sam. I didn't see anything in Dean's character up to now that indicated someone with such a wide protective streak would find middle ground between ick and awe here. Dean enjoys a good time with a party girl; he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would get off on removing his partner's power to consent or using force to overpower an unwilling partner. His general protectiveness and his dealings with Sam argue against this, IMO. Dean wants people to want to be with him, but I don't see any indication that he'd settle for or be comfortable with forcible company.
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Date: 2006-11-14 01:27 pm (UTC)Dean's reaction as written is "somewhere between ick and awe" in response to a following scene of Andy stopping a different gorgeous woman and leading her inside her apartment. Which is taking the horndog!Dean and the bad boy!Dean a few steps over a line that he has never shown any inclination of crossing before now. It's not only morally questionable, it's horribly lazy characterization.
While I despise propetuating a rape myth, this could have been fixed through the writer's reaction for Dean and Sam. I didn't see anything in Dean's character up to now that indicated someone with such a wide protective streak would find middle ground between ick and awe here. Dean enjoys a good time with a party girl; he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would get off on removing his partner's power to consent or using force to overpower an unwilling partner. His general protectiveness and his dealings with Sam argue against this, IMO. Dean wants people to want to be with him, but I don't see any indication that he'd settle for or be comfortable with forcible company.