Season 8 non-thoughts

[ratherastory]

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.

Comments

[strgazr04.livejournal.com]

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.

You summed up exactly how I feel with this. I'm enjoying the show and I still look forward to it each week but it's almost like I wanna watch it while peeking from behind my fingers, you know? And it's not even because anything about SPN scares me at all lol. It's just so....hurty. I think if this was a dvd set where I could move through the storyline to understand the bigger picture, it would be easier. Right now we are left in the dark, and purposely so I think. Carver did keep saying it was all about perception so idk. Sam keeps saying he told Dean why he didn't look for him, but he really hasn't. Until they realize this and actually hash things out (without being possessed at the time mind you), they will never come back to the middle. I can't see it never being resolved though. I mean, there would be no show if they didn't. However, who knows if it'll be resolved the way we want or to the degree we want. We don't write the show after all. But I can't give up on it yet. Somehow I just understand that the withdrawal from the show would hurt more than seeing those boys fight lol.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I just understand that the withdrawal from the show would hurt more than seeing those boys fight.

This, exactly. /o\