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

[cherry916.livejournal.com]

I hear ya, I always post my episode reviews and welcome discussion. But even my very watered down review, being nice and civil to both characters has resulted in a Sam backlash and people commentating telling me Dean is right and Sam is wrong. Gah, I even got accused of being a Dean hater because I analyzed his character and criticized him a little on his attitude. The saddest thing is, like you said people want to make it a black and white case. One brother is right the other is wrong and that's it. It's always game of whose the bigger assholes this season and I'm sick of it. Like you said, both are right and wrong in their own respects. And like de_nugis pointed out it's mirroring the S4 levels of bad (I was there through it all yikes!) and that was scary,e specially if you were a Sam!girl you were condemned on the spot for even trying to understand him.

Anyway, it's sad you can't even click on a meta/commentary without feeling like you'll get slammed with the wank. I understand what you mean completely.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Yep. I have chosen to remove my hand from the crazy in that regard, and even then I still see it every so often (on Twitter, on Tumblr, on LJ and DW when people don't always cut their entries or warn or whatever). So it's made me a little cautious.