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ratherastory) wrote2010-08-22 05:26 am
ratherastory) wrote2010-08-22 05:26 am
Fandom perplexes me
I shouldn't read LJ during the wee hours of the morning.
I stumbled across a comment about Season 5, to the effect of the poster "missing" SPN, which she (I assume) hasn't watched lately. The end of the comment was "I miss not hating Sam."
...
I don't get it.
It's poor form to start a conversation at 5:00 am in someone else's LJ which has the potential to turn into a not-very-nice debate, so instead I'm going to vent here.
What show are people watching that they can hate either of the brothers? It's obviously not the same show I've been watching all year. Clearly they or I live in some parallel universe where the show is not the same.
Yes, everyone has made spectacularly shitty decisions: Sam, Dean (Castiel and Bobby and Ellen and Jo and... well, all of them at some point or another). But that's what being human is all about.
I hurt for these boys every time they show up. They're so screwed up and they're both trying so, so hard to make things right, and sometimes they try so hard that they go cross-eyed from being too close to the situation and they fuck things up even more. I yell at my TV, cry for them, cringe for them, and very often find myself clutching the nearest cat for comfort.
But never, not ONCE, not even when Sam was choking Dean, or when Dean was telling Sam that he'd never be able to forgive him, did I hate either of the boys.
All that happened was that I got my heart broken. And, as messed up as that is, that's why I love the show and keep coming back.
I don't get it.
I stumbled across a comment about Season 5, to the effect of the poster "missing" SPN, which she (I assume) hasn't watched lately. The end of the comment was "I miss not hating Sam."
...
I don't get it.
It's poor form to start a conversation at 5:00 am in someone else's LJ which has the potential to turn into a not-very-nice debate, so instead I'm going to vent here.
What show are people watching that they can hate either of the brothers? It's obviously not the same show I've been watching all year. Clearly they or I live in some parallel universe where the show is not the same.
Yes, everyone has made spectacularly shitty decisions: Sam, Dean (Castiel and Bobby and Ellen and Jo and... well, all of them at some point or another). But that's what being human is all about.
I hurt for these boys every time they show up. They're so screwed up and they're both trying so, so hard to make things right, and sometimes they try so hard that they go cross-eyed from being too close to the situation and they fuck things up even more. I yell at my TV, cry for them, cringe for them, and very often find myself clutching the nearest cat for comfort.
But never, not ONCE, not even when Sam was choking Dean, or when Dean was telling Sam that he'd never be able to forgive him, did I hate either of the boys.
All that happened was that I got my heart broken. And, as messed up as that is, that's why I love the show and keep coming back.
I don't get it.
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I know! This baffles me so much!
When I first started watching the show, I was not Sam's number one fan. At the time, I was far more invested in his relationship with Dean than Sam seemed to be. :) But that was years ago, and so much has happened now, and every single thing either of them do is out of love for each other -- even when objectively, it shouldn't be. Even when to the other one, it doesn't look like it.
I mean, there's an entire war between Heaven and Hell being fought and won in seasons 4 and 5 because of how much these two guys love each other
How can anybody hate either of them? Especially when they're both hurting so much all the damn time?
I <3 <3 <3 them both. And while there are some things that happened to them that I've hated in the past two years, and some things they've done that broke my heart, that all just kind of makes me love them both even more.