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[katikat]

Point: Angels are just as bad as demons, just fighting for a different side. Go figure.

I'm not sure if I still like the show as much as I used to. I mean, it's still great and really intense. But I fell for the show because of its "Family above everything" motto. I loved the horror, the bleakness - as long as it was balanced with Sam and Dean being brothers. Them against the big bad world? Awesome. Them against the big bad world AND each other? Not so much. I'm sick of shows/movies/books that set brother against brother because obviously, people love it - well, I don't. I want Sam and Dean to be what they were not... this. I never understood the "tension" writers reportedly produce by letting people who used to be close at each other's throats. Yes, because it's so much fun when a person that I would die for stabs me in the back.

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[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

On one hand I hear you - I loved the SamandDeanness from the getgo. On another, from the beginning Sam was consistently shown as being blind-sided by his own need for revenge, much like John, and much as it pains me, from a writer's point of view it was inevitable that it will drive them apart. I can only hope that season 5 will have them together again, because I can't see the show working for a season with them apart. And judging by the previews, the row will be epic.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

I understand that from writer's point, it's an interesting thing to do. On the other hand, every show/movie/book that has brothers apparently finds it necessary to have them at each other's throats. And time after time after time, it does get quite boring. SPN was the one show that was different in that. Oh well... :(

[keire-ke.livejournal.com]

Huh, had a thought. While yeah, this is painful to watch and all, but Sam and Dean are nowhere near over. Wherever they go from where they stand, they will go with the other in mind. Sam's hate for Lilith is about Dean, which makes is so tenacious and Dean has always been about Sam. In a way they are still on the same side. :) I think they will reconcile, in the end. They love each other too much to allow even the Apocalypse to drive them apart for long.