The fields we know

[louiselux]

I'm reading The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany. I swear if he uses the phrase 'the fields we know' one more time I'm going to start gnawing at the book cover or wring its neck or something equally unspeakable. Perhaps I got up too early...

In other news I have so much to write that I actually don't know where to start. Maybe I should just start with Gojyo and move on from there.

In other other news, I finally finished S2 of Supernatural. I have a lot of trouble liking the writers of this show, but I can nearly forgive them because of the giant ball of emo that is Dean Winchester, and his completely beautiful and desperate love for his brother.

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[louiselux.livejournal.com]

t regularly does things that make me want to hit the entire creative team repeatedly over the head with a very solid clue bat.

Oh god, so much yes to that!!

That said, I love how Jensen Ackles plays Dean - so on the edge all the time- and how Jared is getting so much better at showing Sam to be so confused and resentful and also young. I really do get the sense of the age difference between them, even though it's not huge.

[rheasilvia.livejournal.com]

I really do get the sense of the age difference between them, even though it's not huge.

Oh, yes. And I think that a large part of that is not so much a question of age, but of the role Dean and Sam played in the Winchester family dynamics before Sam went off to Stanford. In many ways, Dean was more a parent to Sam than a brother; Dean was the one on whose shoulders Dad loaded an enormous amount of responsibility at a very early age, both for himself *and* Sam; and Sam seems to have always been and stayed in the position of the one who is looked after and taken care of, protected and - in some measure - sheltered. The child of the family, in other words.

Now, that dynamic doesn't work anymore and they're slowly learning to break through the old patterns and define new roles for themselves - and to see the other one in terms that have nothing to do with those old roles.

In Sam's case, yes, I also have the impression that he's growing up at the same time - because there are many occasions where I had the impression he truly hadn't ever seen Dean as a multi-faceted person before, plagued by doubts and fears and insecurities, and nowhere near as simple and shallow as the facade he puts up.

And now I have gushed at you about this for long enough - but you can probably see why I like the series in spite of its many undeniable faults. :-)