So interesting. I've been a little disconnected with SPN these past couple of years in comparison to early seasons, uneven characterization and weirdly meandering stories have played a role in that. I've been seeing this Dean gets the emotional story and Sam carries the plot argument cropping up ever since S2 (I wrote an embarrassingly long meta arguing the opposite of this for S1-S3, which if I did the same for S4-S9, I'm not sure the same argument would stand), but it seems to be really taking off recently. I have to admit that I've even started to become exasperated with the little screen time Sam's head space gets being that it wouldn't be that hard to do. And it would be nice to see Dean starting to realize that he needs to break this cycle of sacrifice everything for Sam (even, ironically, Sam); that sort of maturity/self-realization would be powerful even if Dean never manged to actually stop behaving in the same way.
And in response to someone's comment about the golden era of SPN being S3 and fans beginning to drop out after that. I agree. I think that those early seasons where the brother relationship and the mytharc were developing was a time when the SPN universe was continually opening up. It was exciting and new and full of possibilities and, thus, creativity was high. The show wasn't locking down and pinning giant chunks of the mytharc in place in preparation for the end of the Kripke ear as started to happen in S4. It's inevitable that the world fan's have created will not jive with canon and people lose their shiny love and get grumpy because it's disappointing when reality doesn't live up to expectation (esp. those in fandom bec. we feel strongly about these characters, this story and get very protective).
I find it interesting that Show's general popularity (ratings) have jumped in the past seasons. I can't help but think, "If you like this, your minds would be blown in back in S1/S2."
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And in response to someone's comment about the golden era of SPN being S3 and fans beginning to drop out after that. I agree. I think that those early seasons where the brother relationship and the mytharc were developing was a time when the SPN universe was continually opening up. It was exciting and new and full of possibilities and, thus, creativity was high. The show wasn't locking down and pinning giant chunks of the mytharc in place in preparation for the end of the Kripke ear as started to happen in S4. It's inevitable that the world fan's have created will not jive with canon and people lose their shiny love and get grumpy because it's disappointing when reality doesn't live up to expectation (esp. those in fandom bec. we feel strongly about these characters, this story and get very protective).
I find it interesting that Show's general popularity (ratings) have jumped in the past seasons. I can't help but think, "If you like this, your minds would be blown in back in S1/S2."