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ratherastory) wrote2012-11-12 10:25 am
ratherastory) wrote2012-11-12 10:25 am
Season 8 non-thoughts
I have lots and lots of thoughts about Season 8. The problem is that I'm a little too anxious to post them here or anywhere else, because it feels like all I've seen online lately is people getting more firmly entrenched in a pro-$brother position. As though somehow one brother has to be unconditionally right and the other unconditionally wrong. A lot of it is anti-Sam, which hurts my little Sam!girl heart, but I've seen enough anti-Dean commentary to make my stomach hurty as well. :P In fact, it's making me actively avoid any meta/commentary posts even by people I normally trust, because I can't trust that the comments won't be full of vitriol, and I'm worried that even these lovely, sane people might somehow fall down the same rabbit hole and then I would be sad. (No, it's not rational, whatever.)
I hope I can safely say that it isn't about who's right and who's wrong. Both boys have been very badly damaged/hurt by what happened, and they're each coping in their own way. They're both entitled to their feelings, and they're both right and wrong. That's always been the strength of the show: that every character has their reasons for what they're doing, and while we may disagree with the choices they make (and for the record, mistakes are choices by definition, otherwise they'd be accidents), we can understand where they're coming from and why they're acting the way they are.
Also, it feels like it's frowned upon to not have strong feelings about the season. You're supposed to love it or hate it, but you're not allowed to like some parts and not others. God forbid I enjoy the show but at a lesser level of involvement than I used to feel.
In short, I don't think I can post my thoughts without having to put in several thousand caveats first, and that is sucking the fun out of it.
FML. People, PLEASE don't post comments in here about how Show is "clearly" favouring one brother over another. You are PROVING MY POINT about why I am reluctant to post anything or even click on meta links. Take it to your own journals! Please and thank you.
I hope I can safely say that it isn't about who's right and who's wrong. Both boys have been very badly damaged/hurt by what happened, and they're each coping in their own way. They're both entitled to their feelings, and they're both right and wrong. That's always been the strength of the show: that every character has their reasons for what they're doing, and while we may disagree with the choices they make (and for the record, mistakes are choices by definition, otherwise they'd be accidents), we can understand where they're coming from and why they're acting the way they are.
Also, it feels like it's frowned upon to not have strong feelings about the season. You're supposed to love it or hate it, but you're not allowed to like some parts and not others. God forbid I enjoy the show but at a lesser level of involvement than I used to feel.
In short, I don't think I can post my thoughts without having to put in several thousand caveats first, and that is sucking the fun out of it.
FML. People, PLEASE don't post comments in here about how Show is "clearly" favouring one brother over another. You are PROVING MY POINT about why I am reluctant to post anything or even click on meta links. Take it to your own journals! Please and thank you.
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It's good to see you around too! I know things have gotten bad in your neck of the woods. Glad you're hanging in there.
I never saw the S4 brother wars, but I read SO many awful, awful posts during S5-6-7 from people who I thought were reasonable that this year it's made me pull back a lot, just to protect myself.
I wish I could quit fandom. I think it would free up a lot of time and make my life a lot less stressful. But then I'd miss out on all the good things about fandom too. It's a conundrum. Then again, I'm addicted, can't see how I'd give it up anytime soon.
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I hope the real life stress isn't too stressful. I wonder the same thing, sometimes, whether I might do better to give up on fandom, given that at the moment something more easily gratifying might be nice to have in my life. Especially since I have barely managed to read fic for months. But the good of the company and preoccupation and escape from the rest of life still outweighs the bad, and anyway, like you, I'm an addict.