I can't say I entirely understand how the characters got there - unless I mentally edit out huge portions of season eight and view it as a continuation of their previous development Yeah, basically the writers ignored what they have done with Sam and Dean in the first half of the season and returned them to their late S7 dynamic, not unlike they did with Dean and Castiel. LARP and The Real Girl kind of builds a bridge between the two halves where the character dynamic is concerned, but technically it is not enough to just explain their early season differences away.
How could they not see how cheap that is? Yeah, I don't know either. I always feel totally estranged from what's happening on my screen, when the writers suddenly inject this kind of overdrawn pathos into scenes between Dean and Castiel. It works for Sam and Dean, because there is a rich texture that carries those scenes, which is just not there for Dean and Castiel, and hence it all falls flat.
A parallel that has two characters 'being' Sam and Dean is far less offensive than Castiel just nicking Sam's spot You know, I have no particular feelings about 'Megstiel' other than a slight befuddlement about why the writers have to add this kind of 'romantic/sexual' subplots for Castiel, like his (never to be mentioned again) wife in 7x17 or his sudden sexual attraction to Meg. It doesn't really add any interesting layers to the character for me. But then I read your analysis of Castiel and Meg as mirrors to Sam and Dean and I instantly got the appeal of that perspective. I wished the writers had your brain!
I'm pretty sure this is going to upset me. Yeah, me too. I actually was pretty enamoured with Crowley for a while, but in S8 he just has become this one-dimensional character, whose actions make no sense and who only seems to be the big antagonist of the season because he is popular in fandom. The writers really have no sense for when a storyline/character has run its natural course.
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Yeah, basically the writers ignored what they have done with Sam and Dean in the first half of the season and returned them to their late S7 dynamic, not unlike they did with Dean and Castiel. LARP and The Real Girl kind of builds a bridge between the two halves where the character dynamic is concerned, but technically it is not enough to just explain their early season differences away.
How could they not see how cheap that is?
Yeah, I don't know either. I always feel totally estranged from what's happening on my screen, when the writers suddenly inject this kind of overdrawn pathos into scenes between Dean and Castiel. It works for Sam and Dean, because there is a rich texture that carries those scenes, which is just not there for Dean and Castiel, and hence it all falls flat.
A parallel that has two characters 'being' Sam and Dean is far less offensive than Castiel just nicking Sam's spot
You know, I have no particular feelings about 'Megstiel' other than a slight befuddlement about why the writers have to add this kind of 'romantic/sexual' subplots for Castiel, like his (never to be mentioned again) wife in 7x17 or his sudden sexual attraction to Meg. It doesn't really add any interesting layers to the character for me. But then I read your analysis of Castiel and Meg as mirrors to Sam and Dean and I instantly got the appeal of that perspective. I wished the writers had your brain!
I'm pretty sure this is going to upset me.
Yeah, me too. I actually was pretty enamoured with Crowley for a while, but in S8 he just has become this one-dimensional character, whose actions make no sense and who only seems to be the big antagonist of the season because he is popular in fandom. The writers really have no sense for when a storyline/character has run its natural course.