Normally I get a little nervous when someone I started following from a certain fandom and that I really like reading switches gears, until I quickly remember that I like reading other things on her LJ too. ;) Plus, WRT Supernatural, I get it because I'm really not happy right now. But, still, I'm pleased that you retain your Jensen love - and the icon is so much word! LOL!
Random question: have you noticed that in S6 the only person who really cared about Sam and his destiny was Dean? Castiel, Lisa, Bobby...everyone had more important things to think about than Sam.
This is an interesting and very true fact of the season, and it kind of goes hand in hand with the claim I've seen put out there before that Sam in general is only relevant because Dean cares and props up the character, thus, making him relevant. Take Dean out of the equation, and Sam is unimportant and fades away.
Which I think is true, but also speaks to the schizophrenia in the showrunners' favoritism, the writing and the plotting, when you stop to remember how much Kripke and Gamble often try and push the notion that Sam is the only hero and lead on this show via a lot of telling, and very little showing, and how they really can't make that statement fly on screen at all without Dean, which thus negates the very idea they were trying to sell about the world revolving around Sam.
It also in large part proves the point that Jensen specifically, and other actors too, often act against the writing and the showrunners' intent - I think Jensen has been doing that since season one, which is why "Dean" is so popular and relevant to the series, and how no one else could now or ever have played "Dean".
But think about the scene when Lisa is dumping Dean (*sob*) and telling him he'll never be happy as long as Sam is the focus of his life. I believe Sera's intent with that line was to give Dean a good reason to no longer be with this woman, and to make her sound like a bitch. The problem for Sera, however, is that too many fans feel this statement is true, but worse, Cindy Sampson didn't deliver the line as if Lisa was a shrew, but instead couched it in genuine concern from Lisa for Dean, which sold the line as a truism. An example of acting against the writing and the showrunning.
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Date: 2011-01-09 03:07 pm (UTC)Random question: have you noticed that in S6 the only person who really cared about Sam and his destiny was Dean? Castiel, Lisa, Bobby...everyone had more important things to think about than Sam.
This is an interesting and very true fact of the season, and it kind of goes hand in hand with the claim I've seen put out there before that Sam in general is only relevant because Dean cares and props up the character, thus, making him relevant. Take Dean out of the equation, and Sam is unimportant and fades away.
Which I think is true, but also speaks to the schizophrenia in the showrunners' favoritism, the writing and the plotting, when you stop to remember how much Kripke and Gamble often try and push the notion that Sam is the only hero and lead on this show via a lot of telling, and very little showing, and how they really can't make that statement fly on screen at all without Dean, which thus negates the very idea they were trying to sell about the world revolving around Sam.
It also in large part proves the point that Jensen specifically, and other actors too, often act against the writing and the showrunners' intent - I think Jensen has been doing that since season one, which is why "Dean" is so popular and relevant to the series, and how no one else could now or ever have played "Dean".
But think about the scene when Lisa is dumping Dean (*sob*) and telling him he'll never be happy as long as Sam is the focus of his life. I believe Sera's intent with that line was to give Dean a good reason to no longer be with this woman, and to make her sound like a bitch. The problem for Sera, however, is that too many fans feel this statement is true, but worse, Cindy Sampson didn't deliver the line as if Lisa was a shrew, but instead couched it in genuine concern from Lisa for Dean, which sold the line as a truism. An example of acting against the writing and the showrunning.