I have a weird attitude toward fanfiction. Usually, it's not AUs or non-canon stories that I can't read, but stories that don't get the characterizations right. There's nothing that makes me hit the back button as fast as seeing someone do or say something that I feel is contrary to who the character is. So often this happens more for Dean's characterization, while I can accept or enjoy different characterizations for Sam. I guess this depends from the fact that it's so easy to get Dean wrong and go overboard with him considering the fine line he plays between being brass and loud and at the same time introspective and sensitive. Too many writers take Dean at face value (and yes, it happens with Sam too but in a way Sam being the 'straight' character it's easier not giving him lines or out of character attitudes) and I fear that the show has the same problem as well (see the out of character Dean in Fallen Idol for example).
But I agree with you on one thing: I want the main answers coming from the show because especially lately I see the fic stuck in a certain characterization of the boys that I don't share anymore and that I think the show challenged plently in season four.
I don't read fanfiction for show that satisfy me or for show I'm not fannish about, but then I watch so little television and I'm so boringly mono-fannish that I can't be used as comparison. <3333333
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I have a weird attitude toward fanfiction. Usually, it's not AUs or non-canon stories that I can't read, but stories that don't get the characterizations right. There's nothing that makes me hit the back button as fast as seeing someone do or say something that I feel is contrary to who the character is. So often this happens more for Dean's characterization, while I can accept or enjoy different characterizations for Sam. I guess this depends from the fact that it's so easy to get Dean wrong and go overboard with him considering the fine line he plays between being brass and loud and at the same time introspective and sensitive. Too many writers take Dean at face value (and yes, it happens with Sam too but in a way Sam being the 'straight' character it's easier not giving him lines or out of character attitudes) and I fear that the show has the same problem as well (see the out of character Dean in Fallen Idol for example).
But I agree with you on one thing: I want the main answers coming from the show because especially lately I see the fic stuck in a certain characterization of the boys that I don't share anymore and that I think the show challenged plently in season four.
I don't read fanfiction for show that satisfy me or for show I'm not fannish about, but then I watch so little television and I'm so boringly mono-fannish that I can't be used as comparison.
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