I couldn't agree more with everything you say in this post. (I've been saying similar things myself about S8 to present.) No human being could actually go through all they've gone through and still function, and the weight of all the baggage they're carrying around is beginning to get in the way of furthering the story/character growth instead of helping it along.
It's so true that there are plenty of beautiful stories to be told in healing, in subtler experiences and feelings, in growing and getting better. It seems like the writers think that wouldn't make "good tv," but since the fans are so much more invested in the characters than in shock value, I disagree with that sentiment. Once upon a time, a sharp comment from John about "touching up his car" was cause for a lot of feeling/interesting character development and interactions, whereas now, another apocalypse barely fazes them. I so wish they would get back in touch with these characters' humanity.
You bring up an interesting point about both the writers and the characters not really *feeling* what's happening to them, which as you say, causes it to lose all meaning. This is certainly not a problem they had in the earlier seasons--rather, reacting what's happened to them is what drove the plot and the characters back then. Sometimes I get the feeling the writers feel like SPN is a ship so big it's out of their control, which ain't good--they need to hire writers and/or a showrunner who can handle something as massive, with as passionate a fanbase, as this show.
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It's so true that there are plenty of beautiful stories to be told in healing, in subtler experiences and feelings, in growing and getting better. It seems like the writers think that wouldn't make "good tv," but since the fans are so much more invested in the characters than in shock value, I disagree with that sentiment. Once upon a time, a sharp comment from John about "touching up his car" was cause for a lot of feeling/interesting character development and interactions, whereas now, another apocalypse barely fazes them. I so wish they would get back in touch with these characters' humanity.
You bring up an interesting point about both the writers and the characters not really *feeling* what's happening to them, which as you say, causes it to lose all meaning. This is certainly not a problem they had in the earlier seasons--rather, reacting what's happened to them is what drove the plot and the characters back then. Sometimes I get the feeling the writers feel like SPN is a ship so big it's out of their control, which ain't good--they need to hire writers and/or a showrunner who can handle something as massive, with as passionate a fanbase, as this show.