A Writers View

Hi there! Long title, wasn’t it?

I realize that I’m stepping in a hornets nest here. After all, a quick google search let me know that noooobody likes Dean Forester, and I’m gonna be absolutely honest with you – I’m new to Gilmore Girls! I’ve never seen it before, and I just started it last night, so I’ve only seen 14 episodes thus far haha! But, I think that there’s something very important that we all need to realize and accept about Mr. Dean Forester, and that is that … he does NOT exist! He is just Sam Winchester in disguise!

Hear me out! (I’m sure this joke has been made before, but please humor me!)

Little Sammy, as we all know, had a rough childhood. Growing up hunting monsters, ghosts, and demons, does not leave much time for your regular little league games and elementary school science fair projects that Sammy would have so enjoyed. We also know, that before the start of season 1 of Supernatural, Sam and his Dad, John Winchester, had a falling out which resulted in Sammy ‘running away’, so to speak, to attend college as a ‘normal’ kid, who was just estranged from his family for ‘normal’ reasons. We’re just gonna rewind the clock a bit and say that maybe his first stop was – Stars Hollow.

Now, there are a couple of options for how Sam Winchester could have ended up in Stars Hollow, and we’ll go through them each one by one.

• First: This was the beginning of his ‘running away’ phase, where he split from Dean and John, attended high school and then eventually college, where he met Jess (his girlfriend Jess not Milo Ventimiglia’s Jess from later seasons of GG), and then the rest is history.
• Second: Dean and John were working a particularly nasty case and they dropped Sammy off in Stars Hollow to hang out for awhile while they went off hunting.
• Third: Sam was/is/always-has-been in Stars Hollow BECAUSE of a case with Dean and John.
• Fourth: Stars Hollow was the location of Sammy’s first ever solo job.

Whichever event led to Sam ending up in Stars Hollow, all of “Dean Forester’s” mysteriousness, awkwardness, standoffishness, and toughness can be explained once we all realize and accept that “Dean Forester” doesn’t exist! Sam Winchester is just living a lie.

First now, lets explore the options of Sam Winchester being in Stars Hollow NOT on a job (either Sammy ran away or his brother & dad dropped him off). That would mean that we had a Sammy that was eager to re-invent himself. To leave the identity of Sam Winchester behind and become someone entirely new! Unfortunately, when they asked him for his name he, missing his brother, said “Dean. Dean – Forest, er. Forester. Dean Forester.” (cause c’mon, forester is a made up name [no offense to any foresters reading this hahaha]!!)

Equipped with his new name, “Dean” enrolls in high school, meets a pretty girl, and falls in love!

OR … Second, let’s explore the ‘being there on a job’ options. If he’s there on a job, the whole ‘attending high school’ thing is just a cover and not Sam trying to start a new life. The thought process for the name is probably the same though. His reasons for approaching Rory could also be the same – she was pretty, he liked her, he made a move, he fell in love. OR, it could be that there was something ‘haunting’ the Gilmore’s or the people around the Gilmore’s and so Sammy was just trying to get close to gank whatever monster it was.

Regardless of how he ended up in Stars Hollow things are far from perfect, as everything, but his feelings for Miss Rory Gilmore, is a complete and total lie.

It’s really sad when you think about it! He talks about how he has “sisters”, either in an attempt to disown his brother Dean, or as a secret inside joke that only he’ll be able to laugh about now that he’s all alone. Then later, he talks about his Mom, and how she cooks dinner for his Dad every night, painting the picture of a perfect Leave It To Beaver style family – that little Sammy Winchester never had. 😥

Then, there’s the dance episode! “Dean” tells Rory that he ‘doesn’t go to dances’ – of course he doesn’t, because he’s never done any of those normal, usual, teenage school things! He seems very uncomfortable dressing up in formal wear – of course he would! The Winchester’s wear leather jackets and jeans. That’s it! Then, there’s the confrontation with Tristan. Sam, aka “Dean”, tells Tristan, ‘I’m not fighting you’, and ‘you don’t wanna fight me… cause I’ll kill you, idiot.’, and as we know for Sam Winchester that is a one hundred percent true statement! Sammy Winchester is MORE than capable of absolutely destroying anyone in Stars Hollow. Being raised with a Glock under your pillow will do that to a person.

I haven’t gotten to the bits where it all falls apart for Rory and “Dean”, but I’m sure that when it all does, it will be symptomatic of the classic Winchester ‘push-away’ routine, of needing to be on the move, and keeping people at a distance so that they don’t get hurt, traumatized, and/or killed. “Dean” would have to/will end things with Rory, maybe (quite probably) even be a bit of an ass about it, to protect Rory Gilmore from the Winchester curse. (which typically involves a lot of death!)

Other proof that “Dean” is just Sam Winchester in disguise:

1: on movie night he buys the Gilmore gals pizza and grabs a salad for himself – a very healthy Sam Winchester thing to do! 2: the leather jacket – do I even need to explain about the leather jackets? 3: the swagger. Winchester’s have swagger. 4: “Dean” is sensitive just like Sammy, but also not to be pushed around (him talking to Lorelai on that first movie night about how ‘he’s not going anywhere’ and ‘I need you to like me’, boy was he a lot braver in that moment than I expected him to be!).

Imma wrap it up here… maybe I’ll add more thoughts into the comment section of this post as I continue watching. Cause, like I said, I’m new to Gilmore Girls and I’m only 14 episodes into the first season – but I’m loving it! And as an OG Supernatural fan and especially a fan of the Real Dean Winchester, I felt it was my duty to point out that “Dean Forester’s” flaws exist because “Dean Forester” does not exist – Sam Winchester does!

Talk to y ‘all’s later!