Amelia shamed Sam into adopting a dog, without caring about whether he was willing or able, without caring if that was the best situation for him OR the dog. Not abusive? 🤨
(For legal purposes this is a joke. But also uh 😏 it does tick me off every time I watch that part lol.)
Yeah, I kinda get why they orchestrated it to happen that way because the whole point was making Sam settle down there to take care of the dog and to introduce Amelia? But holy crap does her grossly unprofessional behavior in that scene piss me right off.
Not just pushing the dog on Sam when there could be a plethora of reasons he might not be able to care for it, which is bad enough all on its own? But also the specific way she actively blames and guilt trips him for hitting the dog. "Well, maybe if you were such an upstanding guy, you wouldn't have hit him in the first place?" The people most responsible for a dog getting hit are usually owners who didn't sufficiently secure the dog (which can be varying degrees of preventable) or shitheads who abandoned one near a road. The kind of scum of the earth that would hit a dog on purpose aren't going to take the animal to a vet afterwords. Sam is clearly upset and doing the responsible, compassionate thing by rushing this dog someone else put in a dangerous situation to get help immediately after an unavoidable accident! Only to get harangued by this chick who acts like she doesn't understand literally anything about the responsibilities surrounding pet ownership or usual circumstances in pet/vehicle collisions despite being, you know, a veterinarian at an animal hospital. Lady, what the actual fuck is wrong with you?
I get the whole aim of her having a prickly outer shell and them revealing the trauma underneath later as a concept. I just don't care, because that introduction made it completely impossible for me to ever like her.
Exactly, all of this, especially that last part. I do tend to like the character trope (is that the right word here?) of a character being introduced with a prickly outer shell, and later revealing the trauma (and especially if it comes with a softer side) underneath, but holy fuck did they make Amelia unlikable. Between her character being totally unlikable, as illustrated why above, and it being OOC for Sam not to even try looking for Dean in lieu of any evidence of Dean being dead, I hated everything about that cluster fuck, save Dean actually using the words “our deep abiding love for each other” with Sam.