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Mar. 28th, 2009 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thatotherpervit's your sandbox. it's totally your sandbox.
but fandom poured some sand in there and then played with it for four years. it's kinda grody now. certain admirable souls add fresh sand every now and then but I'm pretty sure some raccoons and neighborhood cats have been pooping in there for years. you could get worms. they could migrate into your eye. trust me on this, I'm a professional.
get out of the sandbox. srsly. you have like. construction equipment and shit over there. you actually do this for a *living*. so if you've gotten the teen!Dean and we're-AU-nope--just-kidding-it's-amnesia tropes out of your system, let's just pretend that never happened.
I'll forgive you, as long as you promise never to do genderswap or hooker!ep or...I don't know, god help us, a crossover where Alec is Dean's lovechild / clone and Manticore is the brainchild of Azazel.
plz to be writing our show, not our fanfic. it's beneath you (and yet, ironically, there are others that have done what you did better)
...no, it doesn't make me cranky at all when they do that. why do you ask?
but fandom poured some sand in there and then played with it for four years. it's kinda grody now. certain admirable souls add fresh sand every now and then but I'm pretty sure some raccoons and neighborhood cats have been pooping in there for years. you could get worms. they could migrate into your eye. trust me on this, I'm a professional.
get out of the sandbox. srsly. you have like. construction equipment and shit over there. you actually do this for a *living*. so if you've gotten the teen!Dean and we're-AU-nope--just-kidding-it's-amnesia tropes out of your system, let's just pretend that never happened.
I'll forgive you, as long as you promise never to do genderswap or hooker!ep or...I don't know, god help us, a crossover where Alec is Dean's lovechild / clone and Manticore is the brainchild of Azazel.
plz to be writing our show, not our fanfic. it's beneath you (and yet, ironically, there are others that have done what you did better)
...no, it doesn't make me cranky at all when they do that. why do you ask?
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Date: 2009-03-29 10:34 pm (UTC)c'mon, show. seriously. you're supposed to be following this GRAND ARC, with oh so HIGH stakes, and yet you continuously get distracted by shiny objects and trying to impress the popular crowd, and as far as i can tell, all you're doing is UNdoing the tension and urgency you claim to have built. either
bring onfight the apocalypse, or get off the pot.and plz to be writing our show, not our fanfic. it's beneath you (and yet, ironically, there are others that have done what you did better)? exactly.
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Date: 2009-03-29 11:29 pm (UTC)I know, dude, I was like a pig in mud at the beginning of the season and still am whenever they WANDER back over to the main arc but other than that, they're making me nuts. don't get me wrong, I don't want *every* ep to be about that, because then I think my head might explode, but it seems like the lighter / more case-related eps between could be...better. somehow. less. schizophrenic in context, you know?
your icon. *happy sigh* that man makes me happy low down in my tummy. yes he does.
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Date: 2009-03-30 12:49 am (UTC)I think you've nailed my frustration with that. They probably can't keep running along the ARC full speed for 20+ episodes, and need a few lighter one offs to balance the angst and pick up new viewers and shit. I'm a sucker for the original MotW formula, and I'm pretty confident that they could bring the humour, and have their AU-flashbacks-that-teach-Dean-a-lesson one offs and hyper-stylized episodes, and still stay on point. It just takes a bit more effort.
Sera et al.: every time you make an episode that does not push the narrative in someway , then you are essentially telling me that the stakes are NOT as immediate as I think "apocalyse" might imply. Either the seals are breaking, Lucifer/Lilith are coming, and they ought to be stopped, or not. You can't be meh on this one.
oh, and the icon?
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Date: 2009-03-30 12:58 am (UTC)it's super hard to remember that these interruptions are totally status quo for tv seasons. it's SO frustrating in the moment. but then - guarantee you - we'll go back and rewatch and it won't seem like these digressions are so huge. it's weird like that. but yeah, right now? ARGH
mel - it's interesting what we presuppose about fanfic vs. canon, huh? because i'm with you, they should knock it off, but WHY are they doing it, you know?
like. is it to piss us off? include us? or because they ARE us? O_O
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Date: 2009-03-30 01:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-30 01:44 am (UTC)btw, you know my favorite thing about that picture? my ABSOLUTE, FAVORITE thing? he is a 40yo man who wears a giant emo skull ring like a 14yo boy who just bought his first spiked collar. \o/ oh Jeff. never stop being who you are.
yeah, and I know we totally had this convo before. they're probably trying to wink at us but it just makes me cranky. *pouts resolutely* they touched my teen!Dean, kar. they touched him in the bad place. (*snickers*)
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Date: 2009-03-30 02:08 am (UTC)or i almost did. sigh he's such a fucker. and totes. even looking back to a year ago, he's gotten MORE punk rock. at FORTY. O_o i bet he's a total nightmare of a boyfriend. haha
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Date: 2009-03-30 02:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-30 01:39 am (UTC)YES!
hahahaha, poor meretrix. I have a little bit of a kink for Jeff smoking, but I like meretrix's lungs where they belong. I suppose I like Jeff's lungs where they belong too, but he's less of my concern, haha
and yes, the new shit is AMAZING. gah. GAH. *FLAIL*
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Date: 2009-03-30 02:09 am (UTC)