That is such a terrible fic. I thought that maybe there would be longing looks and both of them pretending to just be friends, and Dean angsting. But the fact that it's being written like he's not already in some affair, even when it was just acknowledged emotions, put me off. I skimmed this last chapter just to get the hightlights, and I think I'm done. But it might be a train wreck that I'll continue to skim.
I'm waiting for someone to translate season 6-7 Dean & Castiel into a human AU, and how that might play. I think it'd still have to have supernatural elements to cover the personality changes/possessions.
I bet you could do a United States of Terra fusion with Castiel's various states of mind/being represented as the alters of someone suffering DID.
I also imagine that not many have touched that as a jumping point for fic is that it essentially revolves around Dean and Cas being broken up and trying to kill each other. C'mon folks, drama!
Could also go a sci-fi route. Cas tried to save the world by hacking into computers, got a God-complex, did bad shit in the name of making the world a better place, but by the time he realized how far he'd gone, the computer hacks into
him! Evil AI's!
No idea how true this is, but losing Edlund would be a shame.
I wonder if Sera will still write for the show at all this season.
Apparently it's the other two Bens who are leaving the show.
That looks like even more of a detectable change than Gamble. Sadly I can predict some people's response--happy to get a Destiel shipper out of the writers room. Also, he's cracky and they'll be glad to see his tone gone.
I like Edlund. I see Sera's absence as more an overall tone shift, but Ben leaving that we won't get any more of *those* episodes. I find it hard to project his general influence, but he certainly has a distinctive voice.
Oh, excellent! They had too many Bens as it was. Balance redressed.
I'm glad, too. I got the impression (right or wrong) that fandom frightened Acker and Blacker, and then they only wrote the one episode. Not a great fit, probably.
Edlund, on the other hand, is a treasure.
I guess I won't miss them - they wrote the one episode I haven't seen, which hasn't been rerun as far as i can tell.
I didn't mind The Mentalists, but it's definitely not a favorite.
Ben Blacker tweeted that the Edlund rumor wasn't true.
