Thought I'd comment here - picking up from the comment on the other post.
The thing I love most about all that you've written, is the amount of hope it's given me for the future of the show. It almost feels like there's real purpose and direction and even, dare I say, insight by Carver. I really hadn't thought deeper than "ok, Dean as a demon will be hot and give Jensen a chance to flex his acting chops and ooh... black eyes". But with this reading it's so God damn perfect and fitting that finally Dean's accumulation of "sins" have resulted in something meaningful. I also wonder if Dean's very nature has contributed to this - in terms of the guilt he carries and his refusal to repent (the most horrific line out of Dean's mouth this season was "And I'd do it again
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It almost feels like there's real purpose and direction and even, dare I say, insight by Carver.
I hope you can enjoy the show too!
For me this season, to an even greater extent than last season, has just been....I don't want to say vindication, because it's not like "I am right and other people are wrong, I WIN, HA!" but maybe...validation? In terms of, I have been seeing this stuff and either feeling alienated by fandom at large because it wasn't getting noticed, or just flat-out being told that I wasn't seeing what I thought I was seeing. So for things to move for this much time along what I found to have been a very predictable trajectory is reassuring to me. And I feel like Carver is very insightful, because he saw the patterns that I think a lot of people didn't (since it's highly unlikely he and I are having the exact same show-related hallucination and seeing something that truly isn't there).
I also wonder if Dean's very nature has contributed to this - in terms of the guilt he carries and his refusal to repent (the most
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The thing I love most about all that you've written, is the amount of hope it's given me for the future of the show. It almost feels like there's real purpose and direction and even, dare I say, insight by Carver. I really hadn't thought deeper than "ok, Dean as a demon will be hot and give Jensen a chance to flex his acting chops and ooh... black eyes". But with this reading it's so God damn perfect and fitting that finally Dean's accumulation of "sins" have resulted in something meaningful. I also wonder if Dean's very nature has contributed to this - in terms of the guilt he carries and his refusal to repent (the most horrific line out of Dean's mouth this season was "And I'd do it again ( ... )
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I hope you can enjoy the show too!
For me this season, to an even greater extent than last season, has just been....I don't want to say vindication, because it's not like "I am right and other people are wrong, I WIN, HA!" but maybe...validation? In terms of, I have been seeing this stuff and either feeling alienated by fandom at large because it wasn't getting noticed, or just flat-out being told that I wasn't seeing what I thought I was seeing. So for things to move for this much time along what I found to have been a very predictable trajectory is reassuring to me. And I feel like Carver is very insightful, because he saw the patterns that I think a lot of people didn't (since it's highly unlikely he and I are having the exact same show-related hallucination and seeing something that truly isn't there).
I also wonder if Dean's very nature has contributed to this - in terms of the guilt he carries and his refusal to repent (the most ( ... )
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