if you think that I could be forgiven

[musesfool]

As I was drifting off to sleep last night, I realized something about my dissatisfaction with s6 of SPN so far. It's a matter of genre and expectations.

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[dotfic]

This articulates possibly why I've become uncomfortable as well. I'm not sure it's the set-up of S6 so much, since I was okay until the latest ep, the noir set-up is something I want (and wow, the show you're describing sounds kickass, I'd watch it), but I don't want the noir set-up to come at the expense of the Sam&Dean. In previous eps this season I had some hope that the show was swinging back to bearing less heavily on the angst, and that whatever was "off" about Sam would be a slow thawing and return to warmth between the brothers, even while it was growing more noir. But it feels like the latest ep they tipped their hand for how this is going to go (and the nature of Sam's issues are not what I thought they were) and I've had a very visceral DNW response to it.

They can still salvage this for me, and it can be noir. But you know I'm right with you with the kicked in the face feeling. It may be perfectly good writing and very hot but I don't want it.

[musesfool]

Well, you've already heard my rant about Sam not telling Dean he was back, but I think this just really compounds my DNW. Because yeah, the show I described above sounds AWESOME, but it's not the SPN I've been invested in the past four years, and while I understand that shows change and grow etc., this is not a direction that is working for me emotionally so far. Sigh.

[dotfic]

You'd think that would've been my first clue. Sigh. But I still thought it could be okay, even with that! (and you know I had my reasons for understanding why Sam would do that, I thought he genuinely was in a misguided way trying to do what was right for Dean because he loves him even though he ended up hurting him, which is pretty much standard MO for Winchesters).

Anyway, the last ep was game-changing and I could work emotionally with the first four eps and not with this. *shudder*

[musesfool]

I thought he genuinely was in a misguided way trying to do what was right for Dean because he loves him even though he ended up hurting him, which is pretty much standard MO for Winchesters

Right. Which I would have accepted if not liked, because every damn thing Sam did before this season was on some level for Dean - to save him, protect him, etc. But now? That seems to be out the window, and I can't think of a way they can get back to a place where Dean can really trust him again.

[counteragent]

I can't think of a way they can get back to a place where Dean can really trust him again.

I KNOW AND IT'S HURTING ME.

Ahem.

[musesfool]

ME, TOO.

*clings*