META: 'Not Normal. Safe.' - Why S8!Sam Makes Sense in Context of his History & in Relation to Dean

[zimshan]

My God, metas for shows with eight seasons are EXHAUSTING. I believe this is why I haven't gotten an SPN meta done since last fall. This was an extra hard one for me to write up, because it was based on an initial feeling, one that I was not expecting to get from the premiere. And one that I felt the need to work out exactly WHY that was. So cue

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[zimshan]

Also, you've convinced me that the actors were given very purposeful direction to play those two separate strands of PTSD in the first ep.

You know, that's a very interesting point! Hilariously enough, when I started writing this out, the PTSD was just a random extra tidbit. And it wasn't til I fleshed out everything else that I had a sorta duh moment and realized it actually explained the whole thing. I gotta say, that it all comes together so easily like it does convinces me that this has to be intentional. 'Cause it really is a miracle this thing makes "such perfect sense", it was a messy of jumbles I thought would never make sense when I started it. I've started on metas that don't get finished cause I feel like I'm trying to shove a square peg in a round hole, and it just doesn't work. I've written and posted ones that are kinda shoehorning what I want rather than laying out the story that's already there. I've even done some crazy ones with colors predicting the show direction. But none have come together quite as naturally as this one. I'm kinda positive it has nothing to do with me (besides being an obsessive nut) and everything to do with real footprints of plans carefully laid out in the setup of the season (which I guess makes Carver even a more obsessive nut! I say, lovingly! :D)

Anyway, long ways of saying, I'm so very glad this worked for you! I'm always happy to spread the optimism around when I have some to spare! :)