I just don't get it *sigh*

[katikat]

According to this post, there are fans (male and female) who complain rather loud about Supernatural being too emotional this season...

I just don't get it. When the writers let the characters evolve, let them react to obstacles in a very human way, fans complain. When the writers try to keep the characters the same, let them behave like machos, fans complain...

One fan even went so far to call the show "cheesy". I just don't get WHY?! The writers let the character go through the whole range of human emotions, from rage to despair. Why can there be rage unleashed and nobody has anything against it, but despair must be restrained? The character can go and shoot someone five times point blank and fans cheer but when the character has to shoot his girlfriend and he cries, the fans go "Boooooo!"

Why does this show have to be just another mindless flick? Why can't it get deeper? Because it doesn't appeal to a larger public? Flash news, it's doesn't appeal to the majority anyway and it didn't before it turned "overly *emo*" as they call it.

One of the fans stated that her friend said that if his brother hugged him like that, he would say "You are so gay" to him... Why is it so bad for two men to hug after the narrowest of misses? They are brothers for pete's sake!

Maybe it's the American mentality or something other that the European won't ever understand... After all, we also consider for example violence something far worse than simple sex...

Comments

[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

That so stupid. There's plenty of action and the fact that it's more personal only makes it better. The touchy-feely stuff? Dean lost Sam, the person he felt he was responsible for his whole life! That calls for a little emotion. Or did they miss that part of the show? Or the part where Dean feels personally responsible for the safety of the whole world, Sammy in particular?

Whoever said that hugging is gay and therefore worng, has obviously missed out on life.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Yes, that was my argument too... and the poster said that it's not about the characters but about the writers and where they'll take the show, that it'll turn people off... But... but... I love where this show is headed. Does that mean I'm retarded or something? XP

[jenshih-blue.livejournal.com]

I agree with everything you're saying here. To be honest I believe it is the American mentality and I'm an American. So many men in this country are raised to believe that being a man means that you can't show emotion, that you can't cry, and that load of bullshit has screwed up 90% of the men in this country. No wonder we have a psychologist or psychiatrist on every corner. Or that our divorce rate is somewhere around 49%.

One of the fans stated that her friend said that if his brother hugged him like that, he would say "You are so gay" to him... Why is it so bad for two men to hug after the narrowest of misses? They are brothers for pete's sake!

This statement is apparently from a young man who has never suffered a devestating loss in his life nor has he lived life.

Why do people think that American women have such a love affair with European men or chick flicks as Dean would call them. We seek out what we can't find in our day to day lives.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Why do people think that American women have such a love affair with European men

That part is frickin' hilarious :D

I must say that for me in the Central Europe, it's really hard to understand some parts of the American mentality. For example here, even PG-13 movies have nudity or sex in them. But once there is violence, it's NC-17 all the way. Or at least 15 and up. We don't take sex so seriously here :D