real people who've been through everything they've been through realistically couldn't function nearly as well as Sam and Dean still do, it hinders creating a believable emotional reality between the boys in their relationship (upon which the WHOLE SHOW used to be based!)
Yeah... I don't believe the relationship would necessarily break down, but even just the early "Dean being tortured for 40 years" - ... how is he not... how is he... at all functioning? Ever? Perhaps angel heal more than the physical to some extent, that could explain most of it...
S1 managed to concoct a great deal of genuine emotional drama out of a couple of longstanding issues, and now the list is at least fifty items long and counting.
That's reather believable to me... and even more since both of them are so invested in putting their needs aside in order to please the other.
But I agree that writing-wise, it's a huge mass of unresolved things, and ignoring them sucks and also is less interesting and emotionally satisfying to me.
Plus, they DID talk stuff out way back when!
Yeah... and I agree that "I'm your brother" is not enough...
I feel like the writers and the audience would be far better off if the writers allowed Sam and Dean to work out some of their old issues so they could get into new ones
I very much agree.
On the plus side, they're trying out a few new writers this season. Maybe some fresh blood will help ...? We can hope.
I do hope! That Cas ep wasn't bad, though Dean was kinda - WTF.
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I don't believe the relationship would necessarily break down, but even just the early "Dean being tortured for 40 years" - ... how is he not... how is he... at all functioning? Ever? Perhaps angel heal more than the physical to some extent, that could explain most of it...
S1 managed to concoct a great deal of genuine emotional drama out of a couple of longstanding issues, and now the list is at least fifty items long and counting.
That's reather believable to me... and even more since both of them are so invested in putting their needs aside in order to please the other.
But I agree that writing-wise, it's a huge mass of unresolved things, and ignoring them sucks and also is less interesting and emotionally satisfying to me.
Plus, they DID talk stuff out way back when!
Yeah... and I agree that "I'm your brother" is not enough...
I feel like the writers and the audience would be far better off if the writers allowed Sam and Dean to work out some of their old issues so they could get into new ones
I very much agree.
On the plus side, they're trying out a few new writers this season. Maybe some fresh blood will help ...? We can hope.
I do hope! That Cas ep wasn't bad, though Dean was kinda - WTF.