Fandom can be a bad neighborhood. Don't go there alone.

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Sammy!

Fandom can be a bad neighborhood. Don't go there alone.

Well, I read an article (I don't even remember where) where the writer had a wish list for what she hoped would happen with Castiel next season. One - just one - thing she mentioned was that they would expand on his friendship with Sam. Oh my God, the knives that came out in the comments! Why can't Dean have one thing to himself! Why does he have to share everything with that damned brother of his! That brother that drank demon blood and fucked a demon bitch and lied to him! Everyone lies to him and Dean just always has to suck it up and forgive them and go on and it went on for paragraphs of people arguing ... and then I quietly closed the window and backed away from my laptop. People are nuts out there, seriously.

And that's why I stay here. ::nods::

Well, if Dean drives off into the sunset, then no one will have to worry about a Sassy friendship. No one will have to worry about Sam. Because Dean could totally make that choice.

I'm noticing a bit of a weird mini-trend--making Gabriel Cas' younger brother. I have no idea how one of the greatest and most powerful angels, one who's seen the face of God, gets to be Sam's age JUST SO YOU DON'T FEEL CREEPY PAIRING THEM.

Hey, I was wrong! In Out With the Old, Dean's driving a fairly recent small pickup.

That's the one where I was thinking it was Sam's car, since it's what he was driving when he almost feel asleep. And Dean was driving something else when they were split up then, right?

Um ... maybe? I missed most of it because I was watching the Mets game, but the car they drove to Frank's was the pickup with the U-Haul on the back.

That's actually pretty appropriate, given the ep title.

Back to the Daphne thing (groans all around), I think the fascination for me is why, from a narrative point, say that they are married? And then do nothing beyond her two minutes of screen time? To say "married" is to allude to something a lot more complicated than "friends", or "comrades in Gods Army", where the platonic part is implied, sex may be a part of it, but mostly I could see "God set Emmanuelle on my path" and the two of them forging a life together. Still complicated and mysterious in the sense of all that we didn't see. But for it to be "marriage" . . . that involves a lot of emotions that seem rushed in the timespan given. And, again I question the meta: why choose that over the other? Is there a narrative purpose? Is there a narrative purpose that is logical and valid? Is it a shorthand for something I'm too obtuse to see? Because I really don't see Daphne returning in Season 8 (and if she does, with how she was cast aside so easily this season, I might be grumpy).

And that seems to be a pattern with me and Show: they do something with a character that makes me unhappy. So, damage done. Which makes me not want them to try and retcon it or fix it some way, which basically means that I prefer them to sweep their (IMO) mistakes under the rug and pretend they never happened, because addressing them at such a later date would just exacerbate the wrongness of the first instance, and now I am enabling (theoretically, since of course my whims have no bearing on the writing of Show) bad storytelling. This is all subjective, of course.

Yet, I still love it.

I think Dean was driving a Camero or some such.