#maccasass

You know, I used to be really enthusiastic about Carver’s work in s8, it was a really refreshing and promising season. I still like Carver potentially, there’s things that I think he’s interested in as a showrunner for Supernatural that I’d like to see, even though I realize they’re not happening right now and that is a let-down. What I’m starting to believe is that the more we go on, the more it becomes clear that perhaps the biggest problem with Carver’s era is lack of commitment. In stories, directions, themes, developments. Up high they like to joke that they make it up as they go; I’m not saying you need a strict plan, it’s good to be able to adapt your story as you go and let the current steer you - what they could use is a lot more of sticking to your own decisions. More seeing what they set up through to the end, in the sense of a place where a theme or development has had its significative effects and you can move on to new narrative objectives taking the previous achievements for granted. Instead they drop major plot points, major B plots, major pieces of character development. They set up a story, drag it out, change course mid-journey, they forget about it conveniently like they couldn’t be bothered to deal with the conequences of that story. They go back and forth between development and lack thereof, they write five different versions of the same characters depending on who’s writing that week, they can’t seem to agree on what they’re doing, there’s a lot of set up and very little payoff because you can never count on an achievement not to be undone in next week’s episode, or in the next season. And so forth. It’s like they can’t decide neither on a bigger path to follow, nor on a pattern of smaller developments to actualize that will make sense organically. The result is, unsurprisingly, a story that feels progressively more and more like a conglomerate of disconnected themes and plots, going for quantity over quality to the point that the quantity itself is detrimental to the quality. That’s not to say there aren’t things I’m still appreciating, but these are major issues that are making it hard for me to enjoy it like I used to, and it’s getting worse as we go on and get new material that still has those same issues. Sorry about the negativity on the first day of the year.

I go back & forth a lot mentally on whether to use that or “angry queer noises” but the blogging version usually wins out.

I could potentially get behind the show EXPLICITLY painting Cas as having unrequited romantic feelings for Dean - if he were to die immediately on/after the revelation :p That way I wouldn’t have to suffer a full storyline with such a plot!

thanks so much!

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