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[liptonrm]

I was just outside tying up my tomato plant (it's gotten a little top heavy for the pot) only to be creeped out for a moment by its spreading branches. I love plants, but sometimes I find them enormously disturbing, like they're going to latch on to me and drain the essence from my body, or something.

I think I dreamed about Twilight last night,

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[dotfic]

So much word on this. I'm done with RTD and his viewpoints on drama--I broke up with Torchwood at the end of series 2 and am not regretting it.

Some suffering and angst, lots of conflict, is necessary and I even thrive on watching it. Character death, even that sometimes, it can remind you of how high the stakes are. But I guess I come from the Tolkienesque viewpoint of wanting always to have "the turn." SPN 4x21 was so, so painful to watch--I cried afterwards. If the finale hadn't reunited Sam&Dean, the resulting sadness and anxiousness would make the show feel more like a dutiful chore and less the show I feel in love with. Much as I appreciated the Sam&Dean conflict storyline, it was with my very strong assumption that Kripke always, always will bring them back together and that's the show I want to watch.

It's not lesser storytelling to give hope at the end. SPN works for me because it's both emotionally brutal AND hopeful and comforting.

[liptonrm]

It's not lesser storytelling to give hope at the end. SPN works for me because it's both emotionally brutal AND hopeful and comforting.

Yes! THIS! There's this idea that something is only "good" if it is brutal and bleak. Which, frankly, isn't the kind of world I want to live in, let alone watch on TV. As we say around here, "There is good in the world, Mr. Frodo."

I have enough dutiful chores in my life, I don't need more on my television or computer screens. Maybe that makes me cheesy and melodramatic but, strangely enough, I'm okay with that.