But by the same token there is nothing to say Henry wasn't exactly either.
I think we were shown enough to indicate he was different.
I think his initial impression of Dean and Sam was so negative, because he was annoyed at being held up when he was trying to find his son. It wasn't until after he found out they were his grandsons that he calmed down. That is when he said hunters were apes, but who is to say that hunters in his time were anything like hunters nowadays? There's every reason to think that they knew nothing of lore, were given missions, told how to kill whatever it was if they didn't already know, and then came back for more orders. I think that while the hunters working with the AMoL went after monsters, the AMoL dealt with the big things themselves, like demons, Thule, and witches (hence how they got the codex in the Werther Project from Nadya). It's part of why I think Henry was so surprised that Dean and Sam weren't MoL with how much they knew about demons in addition to finding out that John never trained them as MoL because he never got back to John. Also, we know their initiations were nothing like the BMoL initiations. I get that the BMoL story line has tainted Henry and the AMoL for you, but I'm a big fan of Henry, and I don't think that's going to change. It's cool if you don't agree.
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fishpan (544)
8 years ago
The MoL has tainted so much for me. The whole thing about them being gone but we know they still exist and how bad they are. And to me there is a difference between, well monsters kill for food most of the time, I get that motivation its evil when you have other choices but again it is food. Demons are cruel and buy souls of people willing to sell. Angels are snobbish douches with insecurity issues who act out. It is just to me there is something worse with the systematic organisation doing what the men of letters do compared to them and probably the continually beating into my head that they have no redeeming features didn't help.
Because even Lucifer acting out even though I accept the stakes I know it is basically him being a tantruming child, but the coldness of the MoL and the excuses given to their methods it chills me more to the bone, the disposability they view everything is even worse than when Crowley kills his own kind. So everything about their organisation is now up for that type of chilling examination for me, Dabb succeeded in saying that Hell isn't as bad as humans. Which lessens demons and leaves a huge dangling lose end with the MoL if that is meant to be the end of them in the show.
And yeah we are going to disagree because as much as you are saying that hunters where different then but I can't help but think of Sam Colt, Eliot Ness and Dorothy.
Nothing suggests that Sam and Eliot didn't know that the had to do research and learn when they were hunting but there is nothing to say they worked with the MoL. Dorothy was treated with contempt and only given the time of day because she was Frank's daughter.
I get you are a fan of Henry but this storyline has to make me question things, was AMoL nothing like the BMoL or a light version of the BMoL or just as hard core and we never saw? If so it could have been that Henry was just in awe like Sam but does that excuse going along with that. So I guess we will have to agree to disagree
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