That was said of Dean at the moment that Sam died. Dean was certainly both grieving and damaged, as well as working on getting Sam back, while Sam was gone, but he was also finding moments of joy and pleasure in the life that he had, forming a real bond with Lisa and Ben. Thinking that that time would only be OK if he were suicidal every moment of it to the exclusion of real interaction with people -- doesn't that seem like a, well, pretty horrible thing to suggest?
And, dude. Sam voluntarily took on Lucifer, defeated him with the help of Dean's love, and went to the Cage. He then voluntarily took on the memories of his torture and turned away from the possibility of staying happily in his head with Jess for his brother's sake. If Sam isn't heroic enough for you and doing big enough things (and that's leaving out the things that aren't directly about Dean, like reaching out the Cas after Cas had done him terrible damage, thus averting a major disaster, or helping a girl in the asylum when he was hallucinating constantly and dying of sleep deprivation), then, I've got to say, you seem to have a smaller and less sympathetic view of Sam's character than most of the Sam haters out there.
It's honestly pretty easy to read your comments as an attack on Sam, which is something you might want to consider if you consider yourself sympathetic to him.
Re: question about Sam and season 8.
That was said of Dean at the moment that Sam died. Dean was certainly both grieving and damaged, as well as working on getting Sam back, while Sam was gone, but he was also finding moments of joy and pleasure in the life that he had, forming a real bond with Lisa and Ben. Thinking that that time would only be OK if he were suicidal every moment of it to the exclusion of real interaction with people -- doesn't that seem like a, well, pretty horrible thing to suggest?
And, dude. Sam voluntarily took on Lucifer, defeated him with the help of Dean's love, and went to the Cage. He then voluntarily took on the memories of his torture and turned away from the possibility of staying happily in his head with Jess for his brother's sake. If Sam isn't heroic enough for you and doing big enough things (and that's leaving out the things that aren't directly about Dean, like reaching out the Cas after Cas had done him terrible damage, thus averting a major disaster, or helping a girl in the asylum when he was hallucinating constantly and dying of sleep deprivation), then, I've got to say, you seem to have a smaller and less sympathetic view of Sam's character than most of the Sam haters out there.
It's honestly pretty easy to read your comments as an attack on Sam, which is something you might want to consider if you consider yourself sympathetic to him.