what is going on here
BRAINDUMP.
IS IT JUST ME, or does it sometimes seem like the SPN writers have created these impressively complex characters without actually realising it? I swear. No matter how much the tangled ball of the Winchester relationship makes me clutch my face and worry, I’m always impressed by just how tangled and yet understandable it is - or sometimes illogical, but that works too. What I’m trying to say is Sam and Dean seem like really human people with all the really human hang-ups and idiosyncrasies that go with it…
And then sometimes they open their mouths and the dialogue that comes out it just like… DEAN HAS DADDY ISSUES. SAM LIKES FEELING STRONG.
Writing on TV shows is always inconsistent, really, especially when it’s churned out at the rate and with the number of writers that the American TV industry has. I’m quite forgiving of writing quality on TV shows, but sometimes when I’m watching this show I just feel like DO THESE PEOPLE NOT REALISE WHAT THEY’VE GOT?
That is what I’ve been feeling like for these last two episodes!
I did enjoy 5x05 a lot when I watched it, because I am not ashamed of how much I heart Paris Hilton and on a less Hilton-y note the interaction and conversations between the boys had been exactly what I’d wanted at the time. But once it was over and I’d reflected on it a bit I just started scratching my head.
5x06 didn’t really work for me either, but without the delightful addition of Paris Hilton to distract me from my qualms.
There is so much more going on with these guys than what the writers give us, sometimes. Obviously that was one of my big problems with season four as far as Sam was concerned, but the difference there was that he just wasn’t being USED at all, whereas now they are actually having CONVERSATIONS and sharing their FEELINGS and I am just like ‘… is that it? Where are the rest of your manful emotions?’
Perhaps I have completely over-read their emotional complexity. Idk. I freely admit that, even if my Deangirl years, I never really ~emotionally connected~ with Dean like I did Sam, so what do I know about what goes on in his head. But I swear there’s got to be more in there than daddy and/or abandonment issues, surely? And where the hell has the parts of Sam that aren’t ~I like power~ and My Bad Decision gone?
I love that they're actually talking again, but I'm feeling kind of let down by the words coming out of their mouths.
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On an actually related to 5x06 note: I saw more Sam/Castiel subtext in that one little punch-you-in-the-face-with-my-eyes scene than I’ve ever seen for Dean/Castiel ever. SORRY DEAN/CASTIEL. And sorry Castiel, because even shipping you with Sam a little bit squicks me. PLEASE BE ASEXUAL TY.
IS IT JUST ME, or does it sometimes seem like the SPN writers have created these impressively complex characters without actually realising it? I swear. No matter how much the tangled ball of the Winchester relationship makes me clutch my face and worry, I’m always impressed by just how tangled and yet understandable it is - or sometimes illogical, but that works too. What I’m trying to say is Sam and Dean seem like really human people with all the really human hang-ups and idiosyncrasies that go with it…
And then sometimes they open their mouths and the dialogue that comes out it just like… DEAN HAS DADDY ISSUES. SAM LIKES FEELING STRONG.
Writing on TV shows is always inconsistent, really, especially when it’s churned out at the rate and with the number of writers that the American TV industry has. I’m quite forgiving of writing quality on TV shows, but sometimes when I’m watching this show I just feel like DO THESE PEOPLE NOT REALISE WHAT THEY’VE GOT?
That is what I’ve been feeling like for these last two episodes!
I did enjoy 5x05 a lot when I watched it, because I am not ashamed of how much I heart Paris Hilton and on a less Hilton-y note the interaction and conversations between the boys had been exactly what I’d wanted at the time. But once it was over and I’d reflected on it a bit I just started scratching my head.
5x06 didn’t really work for me either, but without the delightful addition of Paris Hilton to distract me from my qualms.
There is so much more going on with these guys than what the writers give us, sometimes. Obviously that was one of my big problems with season four as far as Sam was concerned, but the difference there was that he just wasn’t being USED at all, whereas now they are actually having CONVERSATIONS and sharing their FEELINGS and I am just like ‘… is that it? Where are the rest of your manful emotions?’
Perhaps I have completely over-read their emotional complexity. Idk. I freely admit that, even if my Deangirl years, I never really ~emotionally connected~ with Dean like I did Sam, so what do I know about what goes on in his head. But I swear there’s got to be more in there than daddy and/or abandonment issues, surely? And where the hell has the parts of Sam that aren’t ~I like power~ and My Bad Decision gone?
I love that they're actually talking again, but I'm feeling kind of let down by the words coming out of their mouths.
*
On an actually related to 5x06 note: I saw more Sam/Castiel subtext in that one little punch-you-in-the-face-with-my-eyes scene than I’ve ever seen for Dean/Castiel ever. SORRY DEAN/CASTIEL. And sorry Castiel, because even shipping you with Sam a little bit squicks me. PLEASE BE ASEXUAL TY.