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[ash48]

I am considering (considering) opening a topic for discussion on whether destiel will become canon in the show sometime soon.

What do you think?

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[growyourwings.livejournal.com]

I seem to be agreeing with you a lot on here --> "By the same token, you also find what you're looking for. If you're looking for homoerotic subtext, you'll find it even where none was intended. Your perception is your own reality. (Funnily, that's been the Season Eight's theme. Hmm!)"

I find the whole discussion interesting just because of perception. In my profession I have to present information in multiple ways because people just see things differently and that's just the way it is. But despite me knowing this as a truism, I still struggle because I just don't *see* this D/C (or maybe I don't *feel* it?). Again, as I said somewhere else in this discussion (which I'm enjoying), ships are personal preferences and there is no wrong ship.

I'm thinking about the whole fan-service/queer-baiting debate. While I could see I guess that perhaps they *are* going too far with that. I also think it's all in fun with the *wink, wink, nudge, nudge* aspect to it. I also can respect and see why some/many(?) would think enough is enough if they really aren't going anywhere with it. I grew up with brothers, no sisters. All my best friends were guys as I was growing up. And this was just they way they acted. I never thought anything of it. Although (to perhaps contradict myself) I admit that recently (like with the Cas shopping for groceries segment) I think the writers water down characters for pure fanservice moments. And it detracts from the strength of those characters (again, my opinion only.)

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

I felt a lot of fanservicing going on the last episode, all 'round. It was kinda ham-fisted, to be perfectly honest. I've always been a huge proponent of the writers telling the story they want to tell. Maybe that's why I get a little disgruntled when fans try to push an agenda, any agenda.

I work as a professional creative, though, so I understand it when a client wants me to paint something a certain way. They're paying my check. But do we, as a vast fandom, have the right to insist characters are played the way we want them to be? Especially when it's hardly a consensus?

I haven't liked everything about the show, by any stretch, but I respect the show runner's right to guide the project the way he/she decides.

[growyourwings.livejournal.com]

I agree. It's sometimes fun to have a show acknowledge something fandom wants. But in the long run (as I think we've seen in recent years on this show), it dilutes the story. I think it was Kripke who once said that he tried to stay away from a lot of online fan conversations because he didn't want it to unduly influence his storytelling (but perhaps I've misremembered and it was some other writer/showrunner who said that.)

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

I think it's INCREDIBLY important to filter what you take in, on-line. Surround yourself with people you trust, not anonymous masses of internet opinions.

The viewership speaks by watching or NOT watching a show. Sending as ass-ton of feathers to the home office of a show, in the hopes of getting a meatier storyline for your favorite character, is not the way to go about it.

At the end of the day, you have to stay genuine to what you've created, and yourself. It's that simple.