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⌈ Secret Post #2427 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Dean hasn't had a storyline in years, to be honest.

[(Anonymous)]

da

Eh, S5 wasn't that long ago. And even if Dean was written out of the plot completely by the end of the season, he had a storyline for at least 3/4s of that year. S4 was the crowning glory of Dean having a storyline though. S4 was a good season. :D

But I think "storyline" isn't necessarily what's at stake here? Dean hasn't had his own plot in years, it's true, but he tends to have more interaction with side characters. And Dean's emotions are almost always better handled, I think. More delicately, maybe? I mean, compare Dean's eps in S8 to Sam's. They had pretty equal representation last season, IMO, but Dean's episodes were almost always much better written. Poor Sam had to deal with clunkers like the second trial which should have been an amazing opportunity for emotional exploration and development but which fell flat as a lead balloon.

IMO, that's why people tend to think it's "Dean's story" even if it's really both of them. Sam's eps tend to be more forgettable* and so people default to remembering Dean centric stuff more often, ergo Dean's the only one telling a story.


* Caveat here being that Sam's eps recently have been more forgettable. Sam's had amazing eps in the past: Mystery Spot, Heart, Metamorphosis, plus a bunch of others! But I can't think of any really great ones he's had over the past two seasons and his emotional storyline isn't treated as dynamically as Dean's. Look at Dean and Benny vs. Sam and Amelia, for instance. I liked Amelia and liked her with Sam but those scenes were far more bland than the Purgatory ones just by the nature of "Purgatory" vs. "Domestic Bliss" when the show is Supernatural.

[(Anonymous)]

My problem is that all of Dean's storylines are dropped. Sam gets mytharcs and emotional arcs that have startings and endings. Dean has mytharcs and emotional arcs that are abruptly dropped so he can go be a caretaker to Sam. I mean, I actually love Sam and his storylines. I just wish Dean could get one for once. One that actually has meat on its bones.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's the Dean Show now. Even if storylines might be about Sam, they're usually about how Dean is coping with the Sam storyline more than how Sam is affected by the storyline. That's just me.

[(Anonymous)]

da

But that gets into a circular argument, doesn't it? Is it really the Dean Show if Dean does nothing but react to what's going on with Sam?

Personally, I want more of Sam's reactions and more of Dean doing stuff that's related first and foremost to Dean himself, not Sam or Castiel. S7 and S8 both had more Sam POV than S4-S6 imo and it's a step in the right direction. Now they just need to give Dean something to do and then maybe take the novel approach of showing Sam's reaction to it.