This post couldn't come at a better time for me. I agree with everything you've said.
I'm in the middle of a longer story that I usually write, and I'm just having trouble finding the passion. The wanting, the yearning. Which is something I love in stories. And I haven't been impressed with the new season, partially because it doesn't seem like they are exploring anything new and yet the are also not dealing with any of the past ptsd-inducing stuff as much as they could. instead of dealing with anything, we get talking dogs and throwaway comments about Kevin being in Branson. We haven't even dealt with the implications of the bunker - as you pointed out. The boys have bucks now. like real money. The could sell one of those cars, hell some of the fixtures or mid-century furniture, and get some cash.
I know I'm being harsh and all these things have been touched on, but we used to get such good writing.
The revolving door of death has sapped all the emotion out of it. We knew Cas wasn't going to die, we knew Charlie wasn't permanently dead. We knew Zeke would take care of it. where's the tension? i would love to see them dealing with that they know they're going to heaven thing. Because for all fandom's talk of them being soulmates, as far as Dean knows, all sam's best memories don't have Dean in them. And who wants to spend eternity in the memories, regardless of how good they were? Heck, does Sam even know Dean didn't leave that horrible cell phone message yet? There is so much left to write about.
"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." - This is what ineed to get back to in my own writing. I'm going to find those tiny moments and make them come out. I want to write post-season 7 stories.
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I'm in the middle of a longer story that I usually write, and I'm just having trouble finding the passion. The wanting, the yearning. Which is something I love in stories. And I haven't been impressed with the new season, partially because it doesn't seem like they are exploring anything new and yet the are also not dealing with any of the past ptsd-inducing stuff as much as they could. instead of dealing with anything, we get talking dogs and throwaway comments about Kevin being in Branson. We haven't even dealt with the implications of the bunker - as you pointed out. The boys have bucks now. like real money. The could sell one of those cars, hell some of the fixtures or mid-century furniture, and get some cash.
I know I'm being harsh and all these things have been touched on, but we used to get such good writing.
The revolving door of death has sapped all the emotion out of it. We knew Cas wasn't going to die, we knew Charlie wasn't permanently dead. We knew Zeke would take care of it. where's the tension? i would love to see them dealing with that they know they're going to heaven thing. Because for all fandom's talk of them being soulmates, as far as Dean knows, all sam's best memories don't have Dean in them. And who wants to spend eternity in the memories, regardless of how good they were? Heck, does Sam even know Dean didn't leave that horrible cell phone message yet? There is so much left to write about.
"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." - This is what ineed to get back to in my own writing. I'm going to find those tiny moments and make them come out. I want to write post-season 7 stories.
Breakfast is burning. Thanks for the insight.