Gadreel and audience expectations

[pocochina]

I could give a long list of things that I like about Carver's run of the show so far and it'd be totally honest. He's doing a lot of interesting stuff. But I think the core reason I'm enjoying it so much is that he manages to give me what I want but not at all in the way I'd expect it. And I think the opposite of that is happening for a lot of

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[percysowner]

Fandom's attitude toward Meg drives me around the bend. Crowley is a bad guy, but on a personal level he has never been as bad to the Winchesters as Meg. Meg killed Pastor Jim and Caleb, friends of John and Sam and Dean. She helped her father possess John which led to John's death. She possesses Sam, murders in his body, tries to rape Meg, and tries to kill Dean. She murders Ellen and Jo and does it using Dean's personal nightmare, Hell Hounds. And Sam and Dean are supposed to feel bad that she died. I mean, yes, it amuses me to no end that Dean "how dare you trust Ruby even though she spent a year helping save us both and then 4 more months keeping you alive" Winchester decides to trust Meg who has done nothing but work to hurt Sam and Dean because...okay I never quite knew why he decided Meg was trustworthy. I know they trusted her because she hated Crowley and had the hots for Cas, but at the time, Crowley had actively helped try to stop Lucifer giving them bullets for the Colt, getting to Brady to help find and stop Pestilence, helping Dean find Death to get the final ring. Yeah, Crowley had gotten the Campbell cousins possessed, but Dean didn't give a care about any of them. Even after his abortive attempt to take over Purgatory, Crowley pretty well called off his demons from Sam and Dean. Granted he did all this for his own protection and advancement, but at least he never took any of their close friends out, or used their bodies to commit murders.

[pocochina]

ME TOO, and I LIKE Meg. But I am perfectly capable of separating that from how the Winchesters might feel about her, GOD.

I actually can kind of understand the guys trusting her when they have no reason to do so, as some weird trauma-bond thing? But yeah, it amazes me that people forget that she worked for Azazel. She ACTUALLY DESERVED the kind of contempt the guys and fandom are happy to dump on Bela. She loved the YED as much as they loved John. The parts of fandom that just expect them to forget that and, IDK, start sending her valentines or whatever shit absolutely baffle me.