I'm tired of making excuses for the show on this-- TWO YEARS of suffering through the bullshit, and not only is this not the show I want to see, but these don't "feel" like the characters they should be.
I don't believe in the choices either one of the boys is making, which doesn't help when I also don't like where they lead.
Yeah. Last week I was optimistic but tonight's episode pushed me over the edge. Major rant on my journal and I have never done that after an episode before. Last year, I had to save up episodes, sit down on a Saturday afternoon with a wine glass FULL of whisky and watch them all at once cause I couldn't deal with it week after week. I really don't want this season to turn into that. I will stop watching if it looks like it's heading in this direction. Seriously, I had been saying all summer that the 1st episode will determine whether or not I will watch SPN at all this season and while the 1st ep. made me go "Yes!" now I am thinking the same thing about next week's episode.
I've seen other fans take the same road you did. Some didn't watch the episodes until the season was over, because they didn't want that feeling of repeatedly being "jerked around" and having the angst linger over a whole week. Others took to the alcohol, to numb both the grief and the rage at where the show was going.
And I totally understand why-- at least when you back off and mainline it, it doesn't kill you by inches.
I could maybe tolerate a week of this, but not much more.
And part of the problem is that the choices not only don't appeal to me, they also seem OOC for both Sam and Dean. If they STICK to their unbelievable choices, that draws out the OOC-ness until pretty soon the show may feel like it's lost its hold on canon. :(
I'm going to try and get my episode review done in a timely fashion, for a change, but I honestly am okay with this. In a real life context, I think it works, I think it's psychologically sound - and healthy - and I also think it's very strictly TEMPORARY.
It's like a married couple who've had a horrendous, horrific fight, and they need some time apart to really sort out how to be , how to live together again. I mean, for us, it's been all summer waiting. For the boys ... 3 or 4 days ago, they were beating the crap out of each other and saying things that can't be unsaid.
The thing that hurt me most is that the boys parted ways not with anger, but with love. They just can't be together right now. And honestly, I think it's a healthy choice, for the moment. In a Real Life context, it's maybe one of the healthier things they've done. The Trickster was right, they can't just keep doing this crazy stuff for each other
( ... )
So, I think it's just a temporary split, and I think they'll come back together a stronger, better partnership. They've both hurt each other terribly, but I think they can come back together as true equals, true partners, and brothers by choice. I think that's what will happen.
I really hope you're right about this, and that the temporariness of it is brief. I guess I've just lost all faith in Kripke at this point, because I feel like I've already been down this road for the last 2 seasons, and I want it OVER already.
I want the brothers back to being together as a unit-- and a complete unit at that, where neither of them is sleepwalking through through the whole thing.
And I didn't feel any love in them parting-- more the opposite. Both of them were making selfish choices, and they were both okay with that, and they honestly just don't seem to even care about each other right now. That bothers me most of all. *sniffle*
Awwww. I'm so sorry your perspective is different from mine, because mine is much less sad. That's the thing about Show, though - everyone watches through their own lens of perception. *HUGS*
Out completely. I was sitting back and waiting to watch, but that's just pointless. Dean's been replaced by a cardboard cut-out and Sam's been replaced by Castiel.
I don't know what to think, because I've been holding out hope for two seasons of things getting better, and... they haven't gotten better. The torture has continued, and periodically it gets worse. And I'm utterly hating that. :(
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I'm tired of making excuses for the show on this-- TWO YEARS of suffering through the bullshit, and not only is this not the show I want to see, but these don't "feel" like the characters they should be.
I don't believe in the choices either one of the boys is making, which doesn't help when I also don't like where they lead.
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And I totally understand why-- at least when you back off and mainline it, it doesn't kill you by inches.
*skips off to read rant*
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And part of the problem is that the choices not only don't appeal to me, they also seem OOC for both Sam and Dean. If they STICK to their unbelievable choices, that draws out the OOC-ness until pretty soon the show may feel like it's lost its hold on canon. :(
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It's like a married couple who've had a horrendous, horrific fight, and they need some time apart to really sort out how to be , how to live together again. I mean, for us, it's been all summer waiting. For the boys ... 3 or 4 days ago, they were beating the crap out of each other and saying things that can't be unsaid.
The thing that hurt me most is that the boys parted ways not with anger, but with love. They just can't be together right now. And honestly, I think it's a healthy choice, for the moment. In a Real Life context, it's maybe one of the healthier things they've done. The Trickster was right, they can't just keep doing this crazy stuff for each other ( ... )
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I really hope you're right about this, and that the temporariness of it is brief. I guess I've just lost all faith in Kripke at this point, because I feel like I've already been down this road for the last 2 seasons, and I want it OVER already.
I want the brothers back to being together as a unit-- and a complete unit at that, where neither of them is sleepwalking through through the whole thing.
And I didn't feel any love in them parting-- more the opposite. Both of them were making selfish choices, and they were both okay with that, and they honestly just don't seem to even care about each other right now. That bothers me most of all. *sniffle*
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I know several people who've taken the latter path, because they can't handle the day-to-day suffering over the whole year.
I'm not yet at the point where I was with Prison Break, where I just didn't watch S4 at all (thank god).
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What's there to watch for? *sigh*
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I don't know what to think, because I've been holding out hope for two seasons of things getting better, and... they haven't gotten better. The torture has continued, and periodically it gets worse. And I'm utterly hating that. :(
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