Right about now (the funk soul brother)

[corbyinoz]

I'm finding Season 8 fascinating. And although we've explored choices before, I think this time around we're going further into the territory of identity

Comments

[tabaqui]

It's so awesome to read really *interesting* meta about the boys, and particularly Sam!

Too many knee-jerk reactions out there - i love the more thoughtful stuff, and totally agree.

Not only enjoying this season, but loving how the boys are figuring their lives out.

[corbyinoz]

I'm glad you liked it, thank you. I had to come to it slowly - my knee-jerk reaction was nowhere near balanced! But I tend to do that - go off like a bucket of prawns in the sun, and then get to thinking, well, hang on, let's try it from another angle.
I'm loving it all, too.

[missyjack]

While a default setting of Dean's partner is on the table, he can afford to be careless with it - when it's possibly taken off the table, Sam's panicked. THIS, definitely. I do think Sam is unaware of how much Dean's need for him, is important to him. To not be needed. To be replaced - and by a vampire at that, when Sam had always struggled with whether Dean could accept Sam's own "monster" aspect - is a whole other thing.

[corbyinoz]

Yes, it's fascinating, isn't it? And very OOC for Sam to be so resistant to notions of meeting monsters on a level playing field, so you just *know* there's a whole lot going on for Sam that is robbing him of his rationality just now.

[candygramme]

Thank goodness for someone who isn't just calling the boys names because they don't look deeply enough. This is the Sam and Dean that I see, you just express it far better than I do. You use your words! I wish I had your words too.

[corbyinoz]

Thank you! You're always so generous with your comments. And there are much better metas already out there - Gaelic Spirit's is awesome, and I like what Missyjack had to say, too. (And read Bertee's, if you haven't already - priceless!)

[scubarang]

While I can agree with what you've said and your psychological reasoning for it, one thing still stands out in my mind, it screams out, actually. Sam is not acting like Sam - at all - and that apparently started as soon as Dean disappeared

[corbyinoz]

Thanks for your thoughts, and no, I would never dismiss someone's opinion as merely knee-jerk - mainly because I already posted my own knee-jerk response immediately after viewing it! It took me a night of reflection before I could begin to take a more balanced view. I have a sort of Devil's Advocate gene, that insists that once I've seen one side of an argument, I have to explore the other! I agree that the flashbacks are not particularly well done, and that there is much work yet to be done to explain Sam's behaviour. But I think we started to get that in this last episode, when Sam said his world imploded

[maraceles]

So much love for this post.

[corbyinoz]

Thank you! That's very kind. I'm glad it made sense.