I'm not expecting a lot, to be honest. [This way, I'll be surprised if they do something *g*] Anyhow, I think the drinking is but a reflection of everything else that's going on in Dean's life, so I'm not bothered if it stays in the background. I would love for other stuff to be dealt with and that I have a tiny bit of hope that they will in this last stretch of the season.
I have the same hope, but I've been harboring this hope about his drinking problem since S4 and everything seems perfectly poised for it... but for the fact that it's a comedy. *crosses fingers*
Is it even an "arc," though, if it's always on simmer in the background and there's never any change?
Nope. :D It's what the writers do in lieu of thinking about an actual storyline for the character so it has long stopped counting for me. If it ever did.
Which in the case of the drinking is fine to me because I have no faith that it would be used as anything but at least veiled character-bashing. And I flat-out can't take anyone lecturing him on anything anymore. (Lots of "anys" there. *g*) At first the writers have to convince me that the character doing the lecturing actually does it out of concern and not because deep down they look down on Dean. So far the show has managed that once with Castiel. Maybe John and Gabriel, too. And that's pretty much it entirely.
I'm with you on the "advice" he's been getting. Seeing him with Castiel really reaffirmed one aspect of what I love about their relationship: that Castiel really cares for Dean as is, and that caring translates to a wonderfully perceptive manner of responding to him. He's really the only character Dean has ever been able to lean on as is instead of losing something (strength, direction, independence, etc.) in the process.
Seriously, when Emmanuel/Cas said You're not a machine, Dean. You're human. I rewound that scene about 10 times cause I just couldn't get enough of somebody being actually this caring about Dean. No Suck it up, princess speeches here. And also no I'm gonna kill the bitch who did all this to you, which to me never was what Dean needed to hear to help him get over his Hell trauma
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Anyhow, I think the drinking is but a reflection of everything else that's going on in Dean's life, so I'm not bothered if it stays in the background. I would love for other stuff to be dealt with and that I have a tiny bit of hope that they will in this last stretch of the season.
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I have the same hope, but I've been harboring this hope about his drinking problem since S4 and everything seems perfectly poised for it... but for the fact that it's a comedy. *crosses fingers*
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Nope. :D It's what the writers do in lieu of thinking about an actual storyline for the character so it has long stopped counting for me. If it ever did.
Which in the case of the drinking is fine to me because I have no faith that it would be used as anything but at least veiled character-bashing. And I flat-out can't take anyone lecturing him on anything anymore. (Lots of "anys" there. *g*) At first the writers have to convince me that the character doing the lecturing actually does it out of concern and not because deep down they look down on Dean. So far the show has managed that once with Castiel. Maybe John and Gabriel, too. And that's pretty much it entirely.
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I love them so, so much. <333
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Seriously, when Emmanuel/Cas said You're not a machine, Dean. You're human. I rewound that scene about 10 times cause I just couldn't get enough of somebody being actually this caring about Dean. No Suck it up, princess speeches here. And also no I'm gonna kill the bitch who did all this to you, which to me never was what Dean needed to hear to help him get over his Hell trauma ( ... )
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