Hopes for S6

[feliciakw]

I've been thinking about this for a few days, and Geo and I just talked about what he thought of the season (story) finale. He says he's very interested in how they're going to get themselves out of the corner they've painted themselves into (which is a completely different story). But here's what I'd like to see next season:

The past five seasons have been Sam's story. It's always been Sam's story, even when Jensen came in and was more awesome and charismatic than I think anyone expected. The conflict between Good (capital G) and Evil (capital E) has always centered around Sam. That story is over now.

What I'd like to see next season is a storyline that centers around Dean. That might include Lisa and Ben in some way. And it might well have to be a much shorter story (if they don't get picked up for S7 or the guys don't want to renew their contracts). I also know that might sound like kind of a selfish request, because Dean was admittedly the better fleshed out of the two characters. We knew more about Dean and his inner workings and saw more of his inner struggles, I think, than we saw of Sam. But as I said, the story, the mytharc, has always been Sam's. I think it could be interesting if we had something that was Dean's.

/babbling

Comments

[leelust.livejournal.com]

Well, considering depression about one certain show i got right now i have to say i'd love for you to be right but Sera is well-known as avid samgirl and they already promissed us Dean's story and... well, you know how things turned out :(

because Dean was admittedly the better fleshed out of the two characters. We knew more about Dean and his inner workings and saw more of his inner struggles, I think, than we saw of Sam.
But was it because of the writing or because of the actor's skills? In fact i think we know a lot about sam too its just his inner struggle wasn't shown that deep and impressive as Dean's one but again wasn't it because of one actor's *not-skill*? I think writing-wise they fleshed out characters equally (which doesn't mean they did a good job on both). Just saying...
Oh, and i need to PM you about something but a little later. I hope it's ok.

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

I think regarding Dean being the better fleshed out character, it's a combination of both the acting and the writing. The acting sort of informed the writing. What I mean is, the writers write a script. Then the actor acts the script. And the actor might not present it the way the writer had in mind. But they need to work with what the actor has given them. So in that regard, the actors sort of direct not so much what is written, but how it's presented. Does that make sense?

And the guys have even mentioned that as they became more comfortable playing the characters and started owning the characters, the writers started writing more to their acting styles. So do I think Jensen's being a better actor led to the character being better fleshed out? Yeah, I do. I don't think anyone quite expected Jensen to be as charismatic and as good as he is, and that he'd give them so much to use and to play with with Dean.

I see what you're saying in regards to Sam. And I do agree that from a pure talent POV, Jensen is the better actor, and that a lot of Sam's inner workings were presented. But I don't think they were examined as deeply. I do think Jared has improved a lot over the course of the series (no doubt because he was acting opposite Jensen), so I really don't blame the acting quite as much as what the writers gave us (or didn't explore) in that regard.

Does that make sense?

And you know? I'm really not that worried about Sera being a Sam!girl writer. She's written some pretty awesome stuff. She wrote "The Kids Are Alright," for example, which was a very Dean-centric ep. According to the wiki, she wrote "Crossroad Blues" and DaLDoM (which had that awesome scene for Jensen) and "Jus in Bello."

So I know Sera can give Dean good, solid, juicy stuff. Sam might be "hers" (and Dean is Ben Edlund's), but I don't think she's purposely shortchanged Dean in her stories. (If anything, it drives me nuts when Ben dumbs Dean down for the purpose of exposition.)

But regardless, the 5-year mytharc has always been Sam's. (In fact, when they told us Dean would have to be the one to "finish it," I thought that was kind of weird and problematic, because it felt like it would take the resolution of the mytharc away from Sam. So I'm not really surprised that they backpedaled on that point. They've been writing themselves into corners for years.

I hope that made sense.

And yes, feel free to PM me.