9.01, or, Carver does it again

[brightly_lit]

Just saw 9.01 and loved it. And wow, my previous two posts sure did get jossed a lot, occasionally more or less word for word .... Ah, well; I always seem to find my way to the same wavelength with the writers. Consider this a blanket warning that any of my future fics (now that I'm keeping up with the show in real time) may end up spoily.

So apparently Sam really DOES only want death. And is his request for assurance from Death that he STAY DEAD the whole reason he didn't look for Dean when he "thought he was dead"--Sam assumed that Dean must feel the same way he does and want to stay dead? Makes sense. (I heard Carver said they would continue to go into that issue in the show, yay!) "Sacrifice" was magnificent, and 9.01 was all I would have hoped for out of a follow-up. Hurt!Sam and hurt!Cas and hurt!Dean, oh my! And feels, all the feels! *drooooool*

Loves me some Tahmoh! And ooh, as hurt!Dean scenes go, his angel beatdown was imo one of the BEST. EVER. I may even get to see 9.02 next week on something bigger than a teeny screen!!

Comments

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

The thing is, h/c can be SO GOOD; I guess where my problem comes in is when there's nothing to deepen it, or no significant emotional aspect, or anything going on except, as you mention, just a list of symptoms. But I need the emotional aspect to be intense and heavy. I guess I feel about it the same way I feel about PWP: there's only so many things one can insert/lick/kiss/suck on another person, so if there's nothing but physical description, I'm just like, "Yeah, and?" I need more than some vague hint that Sam's upset about Dean's hurt, too; I need it HEAVY, or for it to work on multiple levels, or for it to elucidate something about the brothers' relationship. I thought I would love the h/c, but too often I've tried to read it and come out of it feeling like nothing really happened except Dean suffered, which, you know, sad face.

[kalliel]

Oh man, I so feel you. In the end, it's hard for me to entirely understand how H/C without those aspects is even a thing because, in the end those are all the...point of it, right? Right? Well, apparently not, but still, you'd think it would be, 100% of the time. XD

This is, of course, not to say I haven't also trawled fanfiction.net, opened up a bunch of tabs, and read only the relevant H/C parts of very.. hrm, ff.net-y fics until I was well and glutted. And then gone back and returned to my normal reading habits back home on LJ. XP Which, if I were interested in porn, would probably be my relationship to PWP, too. PWP as a primary reading genre, or that kind of H/C as a genre, are not for me!