My eyes are HAZING OVER but the comment threads look really interesting.
Ok, let me offer my ~immensely interesting and unique perspective~ as a long-term Spn watcher.
1. I did think the show was very solid between s1 and the end of s2. But my favourite season is s4, because
2. While I find Dean fascinating, s4 grabbed me by the ears and made me a TOTAL CASTIEL FAN.
3. On balance I would MUCH RATHER watch an entire show built around Castiel than one built around Dean and Sam's cesty angsty love, because it seems to me that the writers are too interested in the kwik-fix approach and romanticise that relationship to the point where I feel angry on Dean's behalf more than I should need to.
4. It makes me laugh when fans assume that Sam is the most relatable character on the show. Why, 'cause he's the more obviously selfish of the brothers, and because he went to college and likes salad and the show's writers appear not to understand how ugly he can be as a character just as a human being (in case someone is gonna pop up about the demon stuff)? [/bitchy] I mean, to be perfectly honest I didn't give much of a shit about anyone on that level until CAS happened. I'm rooting for the freako alien angel, okay?
5. So basically it IS possible to have been a fan since the beginning who enjoyed most of what the first 3 seasons had to offer AND also rate Castiel and the related storyline higher.
6. S5 has been horribly uneven so far. Step the fuck away from the crack and TWOP, writers. Thanks.
7. I'm a non-White ESL fan from a majority POC Asian country, so maybe I'm a little more detached when it comes to the Americana... possibly.
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Ok, let me offer my ~immensely interesting and unique perspective~ as a long-term Spn watcher.
1. I did think the show was very solid between s1 and the end of s2. But my favourite season is s4, because
2. While I find Dean fascinating, s4 grabbed me by the ears and made me a TOTAL CASTIEL FAN.
3. On balance I would MUCH RATHER watch an entire show built around Castiel than one built around Dean and Sam's cesty angsty love, because it seems to me that the writers are too interested in the kwik-fix approach and romanticise that relationship to the point where I feel angry on Dean's behalf more than I should need to.
4. It makes me laugh when fans assume that Sam is the most relatable character on the show. Why, 'cause he's the more obviously selfish of the brothers, and because he went to college and likes salad and the show's writers appear not to understand how ugly he can be as a character just as a human being (in case someone is gonna pop up about the demon stuff)? [/bitchy] I mean, to be perfectly honest I didn't give much of a shit about anyone on that level until CAS happened. I'm rooting for the freako alien angel, okay?
5. So basically it IS possible to have been a fan since the beginning who enjoyed most of what the first 3 seasons had to offer AND also rate Castiel and the related storyline higher.
6. S5 has been horribly uneven so far. Step the fuck away from the crack and TWOP, writers. Thanks.
7. I'm a non-White ESL fan from a majority POC Asian country, so maybe I'm a little more detached when it comes to the Americana... possibly.