Tag: for the love of god

To be fair a rather large number of storylines have been short changed this season, usually Dean’s are the really obvious ones but this season has been glaringly obvious about A LOT of storylines. I understand why Jensen gives the excuse of only 42 minutes but part of the responsibility of the writer is to write a story that fits within the medium they are using to tell it. If you are a good writer you use the medium to your advantage not as an excuse. No wonder the finale got so collaborative.

juppschmitz:

hunenka:

dissolving-worlds-deactivated20:

Hi nonny!

While I can’t think of a lot of not-Dean-related storylines that have been cut short, there certainly are. For example the darkness cure. But the problem is the context. Dean has had a lot of abandoned SLs, while Sam’s or Cas’s usually get fleshed out. I mean, have the writers ever jumped the shark with Sam/Cas like they did with Dean in 4×19 or 8×14 etc.? 

Also in s11, the Dean-Amara bond was ignored for quite some time, while Sam had his visions and Cas was possessed by Lucifer.

I’m pretty sure the writers could arrange a better Dean-narrative without neglecting other stories, if they only tried.

There’s no doubt that all characters have
had some abandoned/neglected SLs, but what I find telling is the way those SLs
were abandoned. For example, Jared said at JIBcon that there was a scene cut
from 11×22 that dealt with Sam’s fear of being around Lucifer, so one might say
that Sam gets treated as badly by the writers as Dean does.

But that’s not exactly true. Firstly, we’ve
already seen the “Sam’s Cage trauma” storyline explored many times. Secondly,
even though it got dropped in this particular episode, at least it got an entire scene in the original
script. Dean’s own Hell trauma, on the other hand, apparently didn’t even get a single line in the
script of 11×10. What does that say about the writers’ interest in Dean?

I reckon the editor/director was like “oh God, not MORE of Sam’s hell trauma *rolls eyes* CUT!!!”