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

[ayane42.livejournal.com]

i remember this kind of thing happening the beginning of season 6 with the whole soulless Sam. then it fell off after the big reveal.

i'm thinking there's something we still don't know about Sam and Dean.

but i can dig the vitriol about this. it's like politics!! one of the people on my friends list is all i'm never watching Spn again!! grrr! with such anger and hatred. i can dig that person is upset, but like you said, what these boys have been through....

and then there's the writers. they have something planned for the whole season and they are telling it a chapter at a time. its like watching a WIP!!

i like talking about it. i talk to my husband (who doesn't watch it, lol) and he just nods and hmmms.

Sam has a reason for not looking for Dean and Dean has a reason for trusting and calling Benny a friend. I am excited to find out what they are.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I'm excited to find out about those reasons too! :)