scp-882.tumblr.com/post/124208251488 - Dean; 'Have I Mentioned I’m Heterosexual Today' trope
scp-882.tumblr.com/post/120636897668 - Sam, Dean; sacrifice; 8.23/9.23/10.23
“Sam and Dean know full well what world they are in. They know the players. They understand the lore or know where the find it. There is no excuse for ignorance or for not understanding what it happening and the consequences. The reason they find themselves in trouble is because they make assumptions. They act too quickly and figure they can fix the rest of the mess later which usually means people - other than them - die or get hurt.”
THENsarasarai.tumblr.com/post/91359129584 - Sam’s characterization in S09
“Perhaps worst of all though is what season nine simply failed to touch at all: Sam. For the first half of season nine, Sam barely existed at all. He was a stagnant, stable force blissfully unaware that much of his screentime is actually being utilized by an angel. When Sam returned however, not much really changed. As we saw perhaps clearest at the end of the wonderful “Captives”, he remained a rock, unwilling to forgive and beyond a few fragments and a parallel in Harry, unexplored in his side of the argument. It’s Dean we follow to his room; Dean who we come face to face with, as he listens to classic rock without any of the joy it once brought. Sam just promises Kevin he’ll get over it, and then shuts the door in our face, as if daring us to understand just how he actually felt about yet another party taking Dean’s side in the issue. If the show in seasons past can be said to be divided into Sam the myth arc and Dean the audience eye, season nine finally made good on a longterm hope that Dean would get the former—but without forcing him to give up the latter, leaving Sam with nothing at all.”
scp-882.tumblr.com/post/81768368895 - Supernatural Tears Vol I это божественно
“For weeks now, people have been coming up with hundreds of delightful ways for us to drown in a pool of our own tears and sobbing-induced snot. For your reading pleasure and pain, I have decided to gather some of this material together in one place.”
scp-882.tumblr.com/post/81767995030 - Sam: сharacter and development; 9x17
“Those actions are the best way to act with Dean, when you are Sam, his little brother. Dean wouldn’t accept any other way. And when Dean doesn’t approve, he leaves (5x18)
He also knows that Dean shouldn’t be alone, so he comes back home.”
scp-882.tumblr.com/post/54299599486 - Cas as a comic relief; 8x08
“.. I didn’t like how this episode not only highlighted this fact, but actually tried to use it for comic relief. Something essentially tragic was ridiculed, but in the end the audience was still expected to empathize with Cas during the suicide-talk scene (which, sadly, was never brought up again throughout the rest of the season). For me, 8x08 is a rather good (or bad, depending on your perspective) example for the sometimes erratic writing of Castiel as a character, and the effect he is supposed to have on the audience.”
“He thought he was doing the right thing, he thought he could change things, by running off with the tablet to protect it he had finally found a motivation and a goal to keep fighting (plus, managed to regain free will), and then it all went to shit because of a storyline that I can guarantee you, won’t be nearly as good as it could be.”
scp-882.tumblr.com/post/54299459590 - Misha; TV сontracts
“So when they haven’t yet decided what they want to do with a character, they contract the actor for the entire season and maybe only end up using them for 2-3 sporadic episodes scattered throughout the year with little advanced notice to the actor, meaning the actor can’t actually accept any long-term gigs for that season because they have no idea when the producers will demand their time back on the set and they’ll have to cancel at the last minute (which leaves a very bad taste in the mouths of the people they’re canceling with, even if “they understand” you can’t help it, because it means THEY have to recast at the last minute, too).”
scp-882.tumblr.com/post/54299084234 - fallen!Cas, Cas' identity
“Because after all. “Angel” isn’t just a culture; it’s a species. Cas is a celestial wavelength. Cas can’t become human. He can adapt, sure. He can learn to mimic appropriate behaviour. He could (maybe) learn to fit in (mostly). But he’s never going to fit in all the way. And at this point? We have no set up or development that says Cas would undergo that process smoothly. He still puts far too much stock in his identity as an angel; in how other angels view him; in what would be best for Heaven. When he wanted to do penance, he did so in angelic ways (popping up randomly and healing the baby; by being a faith healer even when he didn’t remember he was an angel).”
scp-882.tumblr.com/post/54298971558 - fallen!Cas, Cas' identity, другая ветка дискуссии
“How seriously the writers would take Cas’s acclimation to human life remains something I’m dubious about; they haven’t proved to me that they would let Cas be a 3D character as a new moral hunter anymore than they’ve proven that they know how to let Cas be a 3D character as an angel. In fact, I trust them more with Cas as an angel, because we still get plots for Cas and motivational explanation that make sense for Cas as an angel.”
scp-882.tumblr.com/post/54298910959 - trust issue, параллели с S06 и линией Сэма в S08 + разрешение, которое требуется в финале
“The thing that’s missing for me, the thing I need them to do, is for Cas to come to Dean and go, this is my play, and for Dean, for once, to back it. .. This I think lays the foundation for a much slower, much more mature reconciliation between them. It’s not going to be Cas verbally returning Dean’s feelings. It’s going to be Cas making a judgment call and trusting Dean to respect it, and Dean in turn trusting Cas to do the right thing.”
scp-882.tumblr.com/post/54298815973 - trust issue, параллели с S06
scp-882.tumblr.com/post/54298726177 - манипуляции Метатрона
scp-882.tumblr.com/post/54298672402 - Cas-haters, проблемы и причины
“He shows up 3 seasons late with Starbucks to become a prominent secondary character right away - of course a lot of people didn’t like that. A lot of people will never like that. He will never be an original spn character and to both fandom and some of the crew that were on board since the start this taints him inherently. He will never be part of the ~real~ spn experience which is two brothers and their back-up who were there since the dawn of spndom because people naturally do not like change regardless of whether it progresses the thing or not.”al protagonists for people to be comfortable with. Everyone else had a different kind of relationship you could put a name to, one that was distinctly not the type Our Boys have, whose relationship is special and sacred and should never be replicated even in part regardless of health or happiness no how dare you?? And people will always have an intense knee-jerk reaction to this, because they think the addition of a similar relationship somehow subtracts from the original one.”
scp-882.tumblr.com/post/54298609000 - Cas' identity
scp-882.tumblr.com/post/54298582255 - destiel, Cas' identity, причины безынициативности
scp-882.tumblr.com/post/54298474368 - screenwriting, на примере спн
“I think the problem isn’t “our show’s not that good,” I think the problem is that you don’t know how it works. A show like Supernatural is a complex thing, and that’s no surprise. Consider that this is one crew of people who are making what amounts to a dozen or more feature-length films a year, that the modern audience expects to be of feature-film quality, and on the budget of a moderate-sized version of ONE such film.”
“Everything is constantly informing everything else. Nothing is accidental, but almost everything is pliable, though it’s a flesh wrapped around an immovable skeleton. And every single person in there not only knows what they’re doing, they love their work and they are incredibly, incredibly good at it and know not only how it works, but why. They’re professionals every bit as much as the people who fix your car or do surgery on your knees. And all of it, every single step is done with the Uber-A plot of keeping the maximum number of viewers glued to the TV at all times and attracting more.”
scp-882.tumblr.com/post/54298333083 - screenwriting (по следам мартовских фандомных волнений после 8.17)
scp-882.tumblr.com/post/54298199965 - screenwriting, ошибки Сэры, причины "перезагрузки" персонажей + тактические задачи S08
“The shape that Kripke had chosen to tell with his five season story was that of the Martyred Hero. In this story shape, the hero appears ordinary but finds themselves to be of extraordinary destiny. They journey, suffer, and eventually lose everything, but in the process also save everything for everyone else. .. And then it was over. While you could continue the story itself – any story can have an “and next…” added if you’re creative enough – the tale of the Martyred Hero had already concluded. The arc was drawn. Someone who was adept with such shapes would have recognized that, but she just kept extending the line, and instead of a balanced flow, you wind up with an unstable nose-dive into space.”
spn - meta recs
scp-882.tumblr.com/post/124208251488 - Dean; 'Have I Mentioned I’m Heterosexual Today' trope
scp-882.tumblr.com/post/120636897668 - Sam, Dean; sacrifice; 8.23/9.23/10.23
“Sam and Dean know full well what world they are in. They know the players. They understand the lore or know where the find it. There is no excuse for ignorance or for not understanding what it happening and the consequences. The reason they find themselves in trouble is because they make assumptions. They act too quickly and figure they can fix the rest of the mess later which usually means people - other than them - die or get hurt.”
THEN
scp-882.tumblr.com/post/120636897668 - Sam, Dean; sacrifice; 8.23/9.23/10.23
“Sam and Dean know full well what world they are in. They know the players. They understand the lore or know where the find it. There is no excuse for ignorance or for not understanding what it happening and the consequences. The reason they find themselves in trouble is because they make assumptions. They act too quickly and figure they can fix the rest of the mess later which usually means people - other than them - die or get hurt.”
THEN