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brightly_lit) wrote2016-10-25 10:50 pm
brightly_lit) wrote2016-10-25 10:50 pm
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Dear Brother
We're watching an awesome anime at anime night with s_c's brother lately called Dear Brother that takes being a high-school freshman in a "sorority" and makes it the! most! dramatic! thing! that ever! happened!!! Which I love. As long as a show is good, then by god, make it as dramatic as you possibly can. Aaaaand, since I was a high-school freshman once, I can attest (as I'd wager most/all of you could, too!) that being a high-school freshman girl really DOES feel that dramatic, so it's kind of ... extra realistic, in that way.
I voted today. Man, voting is so cool. I was disappointed recently to see that my favorite rock star said, or at least used to say, that voting doesn't matter, but damn, if fandom hasn't shown me how much it does. I may not be able to make our show win an online poll or the cover of a magazine ... but I know my fandom can do it, which is all of us doing our part, all of us together, voting. (And I know some of you have individually had a significant impact on certain voting situations where one is allowed to vote as often as one wants!) I say, if you think voting doesn't matter, look at all these people in the highest current and former positions in government, carefully deciding and then announcing their choice. They believe their vote matters. And their vote has exactly the same weight as yours. I fucking love voting, doing my part, learning what's going on in my community and being part of deciding how we go forward. All these people who take democracy for granted. It's not for granted, dammit! It's a precious right. Exercise it.
I think I'm the only person I've seen who liked 12.2 as much as they liked 12.1? I thought it was great. YASSS, Rick Springfield--sexy AND such impressive acting! More of him, please! Sexy sexy Jared in the sexy sexy sex scene. Of course the consent issue is cruel, but I am a bit surprised that a fandom that so loves their dubcon and noncon in fic is so bothered by it in show. Toni is over-the-top evil, which is kind of tiresome (I preferred her now-dead cohort in 12.1--a more interesting character by far), and yeah, Dean could've been happier to see Sam, but I suppose the number of times he's been dragged into a room to see his brother tied up and bloody has worn down his sense of surprise, maybe, and he kind of already had a lot going on what with mom being back in the picture and all. I LOVE LOVE LOVE how they're dealing with both boys so desperately needing a mother, Sam's adorable eagerness just to begin to get to know her in that scene at the end, arrrrghhh. THERE'S SO MUCH FIC THERE, in mother and children getting to know each other as adults, having missed all the time in between, but I haven't been able to find a fic in it to write just yet. I want to see where show goes with it first, I guess, hoping they'll do it right and get out of it all that can be got. Mary really is the only thing that could heal either of those boys now, and god, how I want to see that happen! YAY SHOW!!
I voted today. Man, voting is so cool. I was disappointed recently to see that my favorite rock star said, or at least used to say, that voting doesn't matter, but damn, if fandom hasn't shown me how much it does. I may not be able to make our show win an online poll or the cover of a magazine ... but I know my fandom can do it, which is all of us doing our part, all of us together, voting. (And I know some of you have individually had a significant impact on certain voting situations where one is allowed to vote as often as one wants!) I say, if you think voting doesn't matter, look at all these people in the highest current and former positions in government, carefully deciding and then announcing their choice. They believe their vote matters. And their vote has exactly the same weight as yours. I fucking love voting, doing my part, learning what's going on in my community and being part of deciding how we go forward. All these people who take democracy for granted. It's not for granted, dammit! It's a precious right. Exercise it.
I think I'm the only person I've seen who liked 12.2 as much as they liked 12.1? I thought it was great. YASSS, Rick Springfield--sexy AND such impressive acting! More of him, please! Sexy sexy Jared in the sexy sexy sex scene. Of course the consent issue is cruel, but I am a bit surprised that a fandom that so loves their dubcon and noncon in fic is so bothered by it in show. Toni is over-the-top evil, which is kind of tiresome (I preferred her now-dead cohort in 12.1--a more interesting character by far), and yeah, Dean could've been happier to see Sam, but I suppose the number of times he's been dragged into a room to see his brother tied up and bloody has worn down his sense of surprise, maybe, and he kind of already had a lot going on what with mom being back in the picture and all. I LOVE LOVE LOVE how they're dealing with both boys so desperately needing a mother, Sam's adorable eagerness just to begin to get to know her in that scene at the end, arrrrghhh. THERE'S SO MUCH FIC THERE, in mother and children getting to know each other as adults, having missed all the time in between, but I haven't been able to find a fic in it to write just yet. I want to see where show goes with it first, I guess, hoping they'll do it right and get out of it all that can be got. Mary really is the only thing that could heal either of those boys now, and god, how I want to see that happen! YAY SHOW!!
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Regarding backlash to the sex thing - that sort of moral, judgmental reaction to content being included in a show frustrates me. It's so familiar. I grew up with it (and I'll imagine you did, too), with particular shows or movies being off-limits because a character swears or has premarital sex or rebels against her father without getting the comeuppance she deserves. I'm done with that nonsense, yo.
Someone else argued that the inclusion of the scene wasn't the problem, but that including something like that just for shock factor might be. Which makes me wonder what the point of those heavier elements might be. Maybe they're setting Sam up to further question his perception of reality (which would make all kinds of sense, seeing as Mary's now in the picture and Dean's suddenly not dead)? Or maybe they're setting up more consent issues regarding Lucifer and possession? Lucifer can't possibly have lost interest in his perfect vessel, right? I dunno. On this one I'm willing to see where the show goes with it.
but I suppose the number of times he's been dragged into a room to see his brother tied up and bloody has worn down his sense of surprise, maybe, and he kind of already had a lot going on what with mom being back in the picture and all.
YES, to all of this. Don't get me wrong - I will read a million h/c fics in which Dean frantically searches for kidnapped Sam and then showers him with love and concern once he's found. I eat that shit up. But I'm kind of glad the show doesn't keep rehashing the exact same scene over and over. This situation is a little different then, say, that time Gordon kidnapped Sam. Dean's got a lot going on, and he's got the extra worry of possibly losing Mary again. I'm glad they let him react differently - it felt appropriate to the storyline to me.
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But I'm kind of glad the show doesn't keep rehashing the exact same scene over and over.
I am, too, although a little more horror on Dean's face, just a look, would have gone a long way. I mean, if they were going to spend days upon days inventively torturing Sam, far beyond what we've almost ever seen depicted in canon, it simply seems odd to me that his loved ones would react like it's all in a day--his obsessed brother, and his mother, coming upon her baby son in this condition?? Maaaan, I'd have liked to see Sam get a bit more love showered upon him by his family. But I'd always like to see that.
His feelings about Mary make for the best and yet most troubling explanation for me, inasmuch as Mary may to Dean be "as important as Sam, but female, motherly, recently deceased, and therefore theoretically 'fragile'"--not to mention that losing her the first time destroyed his life (and, arguably, psyche), so he really couldn't bear to lose her again. Eh, regardless, it was still an excellent episode, and I can't wait to see where they're taking it! I'm already enjoying Dabb as showrunner more than I ever enjoyed Carver's reign.
Nice to chat you, lady!