Jensen and Jared are great actors so the scenes they get are acted beautifully, perfectly. Sometimes, I’m still left in awe.
But that’s it. SPN is done. I really hope Jensen and Jared are truly done too, ready to move on. Either season 13 or just Season 14 with only 13 episodes to complete 300.
And I think they are. I love them a lot but I don’t think SPN is a priority now. And it isn’t a bad thing. There’s nothing left on this show to prioritize. It is good paying job, a lot of memories and history attached to it. But they must be reaching that end point.
It is so blatant in how they still think of Sam and Dean but how it doesn’t match to what has been presented on the show. Their Sam and Dean is my Sam and Dean, not the once we see on SPN now. These watered down caricatures of what once used to be such dynamic, raw, flawed but amazing characters. And it is not on Jensen and Jared because they are still acting the shit out of these characters but I don’t think they are very invested with what the writers and tptb want to do with these characters, how they want to use them for other purposes, reduce them to this parody like state that it is in today. There is no growth, no consistency, no passion. Every writer’s Sam and Dean is different. They all write their stories and force fit it together in this mess. Sam and Dean are just stuck in the same place they were years before, only now they have been reduced to this flat character status. Sam is just so … Passive. About his own existence. He says such heavy dialogues but his actions are so empty or not even written in. He’s tortured, raped, abused, tortured more and there’s just no real emotional trauma or result of it, everything else is more important. Everything that isn’t related to Sam. Sam can only be felt for through others. He has no story of his own to tell anymore. Because it is like he doesn’t face any of it, doesn’t experience it. Yeah, OK. He internalized it, dealt with it off camera. Um, but he is the lead. His experiences aren’t inferior to these new characters introduced in every season, every episode. Sam, being so empathetic, doesn’t seem to actually process anything that happens to him because it all just happens ‘off camera’, more side characters to deal with, angels to be betrayed by, devil Spawn’s to be raised. Sam is there but he is just not HERE. He isn’t in the story anymore, he is in everyone’s story acting as a soundboard, a reflection glass.
Dean is unrecognizable from what was once the best character on TV for me. One of the most complex and interesting characters, so dynamic and humorous, a dick and a man with a huge heart and fucked up mind. Now he’s just a prop for the writer of the week to remould and reshape into whatever they need to further their story and narrative. Stories for Dean aren’t written, Dean is written into stories, fitted even where he doesn’t fit. Forcefully. Its ugly. He is just a stranger now. I can’t actually associate this Dean with ‘Dean Winchester’ anymore. So confusing, impulsive, immature, mindlessly immature unlike before, when it was endearing in a way. Now its annoying and every writer writes a new dean for every episode. An intelligent, smart, strong man, just like his brother. But now intentionally dumbed down and butchered to elevate other side characters.I fell in love with Sam and Dean. These characters on SPN today aren’t those. They are just strangers. Well acted characters in a bad story, bad narrative, bad plot. Nonsensical. Pathetic.
They are just there. Their only purpose is to be there for all other characters. Hopping from one side character’s story to another. That’s all they do. Their bond, which was the foundation of the SPN world and everything around it is barely just a lip service. Used when convenient. Not really what the show is about. Hasn’t been for seasons.
I don’t believe that J2 don’t see that. They’re just sticking to their own version of Sam and Dean that they love to talk in Cons. Jensen’s Dean has been written off the show, Jared’s Sam is barely there, all important parts have been stripped away from the show and exist only in Jared’s mind and heart.
It’s a good job, brings in good money, gives job to other hundreds of people. But apart from that, J2 clearly have other important things in there life now that they’re ready to commit to. They can’t prioritize a TV show forever. The next stage of there life is almost there. I just hope they can take away some authenticity from the show’s last moment, which will remind them of the show and characters that once was, that they loved and still do but for the most part, the show or the characters don’t exist anymore, mostly buried in the past.
I guess they’re trying to create something that can exist out of Sam and Dean after they have butchered them to such extents for every side character to ever show up. I guess the others are ready to move on to just like J2. Only, they’d like to move on to something new that can have them secure financially after the end. Hope this spin off works out, just so Jensen and Jared totally move on and move out, they’re already halfway there. I’m ready for them to be free, whenever they feel is the right time.