SPN 9.19 (I think)

[cordelia_gray]

I've lost track of what episode we're on. I feel like I've also lost track of what's supposed to be happening anymore. I have a pretty high tolerance for the meta episodes generally, Monster at the End of This Book is in my top five for the whole show. But I just don't know what they're trying to say here.

[But Why?] What is Metatron's actual plan? Why doe

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[de_nugis]

At the moment I'm almost relieved that they are doing so little with Sam, because it makes him much more potentially writable for me than Dean -- between the squick of feeling that the most disturbing aspects of Dean's choices will never be confronted and the feeling of knowing quite a lot about his current state and finding it dull, I've developed total Dean-related writer's block. But if I think of it as a viewer it drives me insane, and it reminds me how little in the way of sheer pleasure and admiration there is in my watching of Spn these days. It's not like going for a stroll in the woods, it's more like going to a woodpile that may be infested by snakes to get cooking fuel. /wild metaphor.

I've been catching up on The Good Wife, and there were about five minutes or so of the opening sequence of the most recent episode that were just so. damn. good., so perfectly conceived and tonally right and recognizable and surprising and beautifully acted (and why are there not more scenes of two middle-aged women getting drunk together?), and it's been a long, long time since Spn gave me that feeling, that I wanted to just watch something on loop for the next ten days. But from a fannish POV it isn't inspiring for me. I don't watch the perfect loop and think I want to write fic from that, I just feel terrible envy because it wasn't me that wrote that exact perfect thing. Envy, the evil twin of enjoyment, or something. tl;dr I've hardly been writing but s9 still makes me want to write All The Sam.

[killabeez]

but s9 still makes me want to write All The Sam.

I would like to encourage this in any way possible. :)

I've developed total Dean-related writer's block

Yes. Or rather, I keep starting things, getting two pages in, and then remembering that I can't actually go anywhere meaningful with it. I've been thinking about making a Dean vid, actually, because nothing makes me empathize with a character faster and more intensely than vidding them. And I have a song! But then I remember that I don't have a life or that thing called "free time."

[sylsdarkplace]

I was thinking that watching SPN used to be alternately exhilerating and scary like a fun house ride; now it's more like a forced march through forest preserve at night wearing a 50lb pack. It's just exhausting, confusing, and only occasionally creepy.

I think a lot of the problem with Metatron is casting as well. I keep thinking of Alan Rickman as Metatron in Dogma and how much better the part would be played by an actor of that caliber.

I still love the boys but they so frequently don't seem like them anymore. I have zero investment in the angel war, which just keeps dragging out season after season. *sigh*

[manzanita_crow]

Please do write All The Sam. I have withdrawal, since Show isn't delivering.

Although in some ways, I'm wishing that the good fanfic writers, like yourself, stopped writing about S9 entirely, so I didn't have to endure watching Show in order to understand their wonderful stories :)