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platysseus1. "Wincest".
2. Dean/Castiel slash.
3. The idea that one brother is getting more screentime than the other in any season.
Who had more screentime in Season 2? Hmm... Well, I know a lot of it was focused on Sam and the psychic kids, but as a Dean girl I can't remember ever getting annoyed that Sam was "taking over" the show.
Season 3 had a lot to do with Dean's deal, but... Did he really get more time on screen than Sam? It was a shortened season, so... if Season 2 was Sam's season and Season 3 was Dean's, we bloody well need more Dean-time now.
'Cept we don't, unless that's just how the storyline needs it. Right now there's a lot of Dean-story to cover. Sam practically told us what he was doing over those four months (sans hanging out with Ruby & using the handy-dandy demon killing power; both of which we got to see with our own eyes), so we don't really need to know much more than that. Personally, not just as a Dean fan but as a writer too, I wouldn't like to see more than one episode with just Sam & his adventures. As a writer, I found it difficult enough concentrating on just two of my trilogy characters in one chapter. I too wanted to know what the others were up to, but in that stage of the storyline I had to focus on these two characters to further their development and relationship with each other. There was no other way around it but to give them their own chapter.
And Castiel appears to be in this show just for Dean and his story development for this season. If, like I'd read somewhere, we haven't been getting as much Sam-time so far because it adds to the mystery surrounding his storyline and the fact that he has been hiding what he's doing - not just from Dean, but from us, his fans! - then I consider this a reasonable way to move the plot. If we did get an insight into what Sam was doing during 4x03 it would have taken away from the story we were seeing in 1973. And if Sam had come along for the ride and joined Dean in trying to change history... Well... what kind of episode would we have had? Would Dean have learned anything? Would Sam have felt guilty for already knowing what Dean ended up learning? Would the plot have progressed any further? Would the fans be as satisfied?
Fanfiction is there for you to write the story how you'd like it. If you don't like what Jeremy Carver did with this episode, write your own damn version. I like what he did, so I'm not going to bother trying to make it better. Actually, I found it too cool to mess with.
You know, as much as I hated that Tolkien killed off Boromir - and it took me a good three months to go back to the book again after reading that death scene - in the end I understood why it was necessary, and I was rewarded with other characters' memories of him. Hopefully my readers get that understanding too... *whistles*
And hopefully these silly Sam & Dean fans understand - at the end of the show (not till 2010!) - why Kripke & co separated the brothers on occasion and/or focused more on one brother than the other in certain episodes.
2. Dean/Castiel slash.
3. The idea that one brother is getting more screentime than the other in any season.
Who had more screentime in Season 2? Hmm... Well, I know a lot of it was focused on Sam and the psychic kids, but as a Dean girl I can't remember ever getting annoyed that Sam was "taking over" the show.
Season 3 had a lot to do with Dean's deal, but... Did he really get more time on screen than Sam? It was a shortened season, so... if Season 2 was Sam's season and Season 3 was Dean's, we bloody well need more Dean-time now.
'Cept we don't, unless that's just how the storyline needs it. Right now there's a lot of Dean-story to cover. Sam practically told us what he was doing over those four months (sans hanging out with Ruby & using the handy-dandy demon killing power; both of which we got to see with our own eyes), so we don't really need to know much more than that. Personally, not just as a Dean fan but as a writer too, I wouldn't like to see more than one episode with just Sam & his adventures. As a writer, I found it difficult enough concentrating on just two of my trilogy characters in one chapter. I too wanted to know what the others were up to, but in that stage of the storyline I had to focus on these two characters to further their development and relationship with each other. There was no other way around it but to give them their own chapter.
And Castiel appears to be in this show just for Dean and his story development for this season. If, like I'd read somewhere, we haven't been getting as much Sam-time so far because it adds to the mystery surrounding his storyline and the fact that he has been hiding what he's doing - not just from Dean, but from us, his fans! - then I consider this a reasonable way to move the plot. If we did get an insight into what Sam was doing during 4x03 it would have taken away from the story we were seeing in 1973. And if Sam had come along for the ride and joined Dean in trying to change history... Well... what kind of episode would we have had? Would Dean have learned anything? Would Sam have felt guilty for already knowing what Dean ended up learning? Would the plot have progressed any further? Would the fans be as satisfied?
Fanfiction is there for you to write the story how you'd like it. If you don't like what Jeremy Carver did with this episode, write your own damn version. I like what he did, so I'm not going to bother trying to make it better. Actually, I found it too cool to mess with.
You know, as much as I hated that Tolkien killed off Boromir - and it took me a good three months to go back to the book again after reading that death scene - in the end I understood why it was necessary, and I was rewarded with other characters' memories of him. Hopefully my readers get that understanding too... *whistles*
And hopefully these silly Sam & Dean fans understand - at the end of the show (not till 2010!) - why Kripke & co separated the brothers on occasion and/or focused more on one brother than the other in certain episodes.
