I wouldn't even mind Dean not being cast as the 'hero' any longer, I've never looked for perfection in characters and I've always loved the layers and the gray areas of the Winchester story, but I do need to watch characters that I like, this bitter, cruel and twisted person is someone I can't watch any longer, because from the show's history, I know NONE of it will mean anything or lead anywhere, it's plain nasty for the sake of a dramatic argument and even those no longer have any forward momentum, two episodes later and it's like whiplash how everything is the same again and again, and again.
Somewhere along the line things are being done, some of them awful, some of them understandable but the characters are neither relating to nor learning from any of it, there's no connection any longer to many of these things. Sam being without a soul for instance, I mean where in the holy hell of deepest hell was that ever Sam's fault and why oh why could Dean think it was? Pissed me off so much, where did that come from? And then it's dropped, totally, why use a line like that with absolutely no purpose whatsoever?
It's a great piece and thank you for laying it all out, there has to be character growth and change, but Dean's turned along a path I can't follow, there's no sorrow or compassion for anyone but himself just lately, and while that again is understandable for what the character has gone through, the wallowing in guilt isn't engaging at all and the conversations he has with Sam these days are just too damned cruel.
There's a huge part of me wishes the show had ended after series 5, I struggled through many things they did 6 and 7, but 8.01 destroyed my love and the more I watch the more memories of the characters I loved get trashed, so I'm basically going though the motions of habit now, emotionally the Winchesters have already left the building.
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I wouldn't even mind Dean not being cast as the 'hero' any longer, I've never looked for perfection in characters and I've always loved the layers and the gray areas of the Winchester story, but I do need to watch characters that I like, this bitter, cruel and twisted person is someone I can't watch any longer, because from the show's history, I know NONE of it will mean anything or lead anywhere, it's plain nasty for the sake of a dramatic argument and even those no longer have any forward momentum, two episodes later and it's like whiplash how everything is the same again and again, and again.
Somewhere along the line things are being done, some of them awful, some of them understandable but the characters are neither relating to nor learning from any of it, there's no connection any longer to many of these things. Sam being without a soul for instance, I mean where in the holy hell of deepest hell was that ever Sam's fault and why oh why could Dean think it was? Pissed me off so much, where did that come from? And then it's dropped, totally, why use a line like that with absolutely no purpose whatsoever?
It's a great piece and thank you for laying it all out, there has to be character growth and change, but Dean's turned along a path I can't follow, there's no sorrow or compassion for anyone but himself just lately, and while that again is understandable for what the character has gone through, the wallowing in guilt isn't engaging at all and the conversations he has with Sam these days are just too damned cruel.
There's a huge part of me wishes the show had ended after series 5, I struggled through many things they did 6 and 7, but 8.01 destroyed my love and the more I watch the more memories of the characters I loved get trashed, so I'm basically going though the motions of habit now, emotionally the Winchesters have already left the building.