I felt like it HAD to be implicit, right? You don't just go to purgatory and barely survive and lose your bff there and not be in emotional agony all the time afterward. Just 'cos he's gettin' real good at pushin' it down don't mean it ain't always there. (I felt like the "It's a horror show up there" line alluded to that nicely.)
But, you know ... it's television. If they want the viewer to know he's suffering, they kinda have to tell you explicitly and not just have him blustering around all the time acting like he's a-okay. This is literally rule no. 1 of writing scripts (as I learned in film school from my incredibly high script-writing teacher who came onto me on my birthday): you can't say "Dean is sad," you have to put in the stage directions something the viewer can see: "Dean cries," "Dean puts his head in his hands," "DEAN (grimly) I'M SO SAD SAM I NEED A HUG, DAMNIT." Even the occasional moment-alone-putting-his-face-in-his-hands-with-wet-eyes would have gone a long way.
As for its ramping up to something ... yeah, you'd think so, wouldn't you? But then it changes gears and suddenly it's the Sam show again and Dean's post-purgatory issues are ... what, back-burnered? SEEMS PRETTY IMPORTANT SINCE DEAN IS FREAKIN' MELTING DOWN, and here we are back at all my problems with that season again. If the idea is that Dean's mental breakdown is being neglected, they need to show him hurting more than often than they show him being an asshole, methinks. But whatever; I look back on that season and mainly feel confusion.
tl;dr: I take from Dean's recent traumatic experiences and his remarkably shitty behavior that it must result from inner turmoil/suffering, but THEY NEVER DONE COME RIGHT OUT 'N' SAID SO.
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Date: 2013-10-24 04:03 am (UTC)But, you know ... it's television. If they want the viewer to know he's suffering, they kinda have to tell you explicitly and not just have him blustering around all the time acting like he's a-okay. This is literally rule no. 1 of writing scripts (as I learned in film school from my incredibly high script-writing teacher who came onto me on my birthday): you can't say "Dean is sad," you have to put in the stage directions something the viewer can see: "Dean cries," "Dean puts his head in his hands," "DEAN (grimly) I'M SO SAD SAM I NEED A HUG, DAMNIT." Even the occasional moment-alone-putting-his-face-in-his-hands-with-wet-eyes would have gone a long way.
As for its ramping up to something ... yeah, you'd think so, wouldn't you? But then it changes gears and suddenly it's the Sam show again and Dean's post-purgatory issues are ... what, back-burnered? SEEMS PRETTY IMPORTANT SINCE DEAN IS FREAKIN' MELTING DOWN, and here we are back at all my problems with that season again. If the idea is that Dean's mental breakdown is being neglected, they need to show him hurting more than often than they show him being an asshole, methinks. But whatever; I look back on that season and mainly feel confusion.
tl;dr: I take from Dean's recent traumatic experiences and his remarkably shitty behavior that it must result from inner turmoil/suffering, but THEY NEVER DONE COME RIGHT OUT 'N' SAID SO.