Season 15, man.
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amberdreamsThe thing is – the Winchester brothers were ordinary.
Ordinary kids who were born and brought up into tragedy and learned to deal with it. Ordinary men who lived and died in extraordinary times, and were brought back, over and over, because they were expected to do extraordinary things.
Their pain was real. Their growth and hard-earned wisdom was real. They learned the hard way that they could only rely on each other, that just about every friend they made either betrayed them or died. Their losses were real, their grief was deep and lasting.
They are the heroes of their own story because they turned the ordinary into extraordinary, and because the cost is visible.
No writer should be able to turn around and take that away.
Ordinary kids who were born and brought up into tragedy and learned to deal with it. Ordinary men who lived and died in extraordinary times, and were brought back, over and over, because they were expected to do extraordinary things.
Their pain was real. Their growth and hard-earned wisdom was real. They learned the hard way that they could only rely on each other, that just about every friend they made either betrayed them or died. Their losses were real, their grief was deep and lasting.
They are the heroes of their own story because they turned the ordinary into extraordinary, and because the cost is visible.
No writer should be able to turn around and take that away.
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Date: 2020-01-24 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-01-24 03:27 pm (UTC)This week's episode was marketed as a light hearted comedy one but it left a very bitter taste for me. Basically at the end of the last episode Chuck/God apparently took away the Winchester's hero status which meant (har har) suddenly Dean had cavities and was lactose intolerant while Sam kept tripping over things and caught a cold. The episode implied Sam's never had a cold before (stupid) and Dean's never been to the dentist (possible I suppose). But the worst thing about this was the message that came across loud and clear that any competence they'd previously had was Chuck's gift and because they'd been unrealistic heroes in Chuck's story.
If they'd kept it to some kind of bad luck curse like Bad Day at Bad Rock, it could have been amusing, but they didn't. So Sam failed to charm and a character called out his puppy dog eyes, Garth was the badass who saved them from being beaten to a pulp, there were monsters cage fighting each other who got literally blown up by Garth even though they hadn't actually killed any humans and Jensen got to do a black and white Fred Astaire dance as a supposed Dean dreams sequence.
I could go on and on, but it's just too depressing.
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Date: 2020-01-24 07:48 pm (UTC)I've only seen.... 4, I think? episodes of this season, not in order, but for the past couple of years they've really put canon in the blender, with no regard for what comes out, and Dabb is definitely the worst show runner IMO.
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Date: 2020-01-24 08:23 pm (UTC)I feel like Supernatural has already died and I'm just watching a bunch of people poke the bloated corpse with an electric cattle prod to make its limbs twitch.
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Date: 2020-01-24 09:18 pm (UTC)As for THIS: the writers just grabbed a handful of tropes and fan service and threw it all up in the air to see where it would land. So well put, and I can actually see them doing that ON PURPOSE in the writer's room. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that they made an active decision to focus on fan service for the last season. Boooooo, Dabb, booooo.
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Date: 2020-01-25 02:05 am (UTC)GOOD metaphor!
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Date: 2020-01-25 10:13 am (UTC)