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ramblin_rosie) wrote2010-12-23 05:39 am
ramblin_rosie) wrote2010-12-23 05:39 am
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Oh, the places my brain goes...
... when work has gotten boring in the wee hours...
I've just figured out why, despite my fannish creative output leaning almost entirely to the SPN side lately and not being active in NCIS fandom at all, I'm enjoying NCIS so much more this season.
It's not much of a secret that I'm not thrilled with what Sera Gamble has done with SPN Season 6 to date. It remains to be seen whether half a season of Soulless!Sam is the waste of good story it seems to be now--honestly, it's against the Geneva Convention for True!Sam's return to have taken this long--or whether the second half will reveal plotlines that couldn't have been covered had Sam come back in one piece. It's also not much of a secret that I think the show's theology is lousy and that I watch only because I love Sam, Dean, Bobby, and Cas as characters (the actors aren't bad, either) and am holding out hope for some kind of eucatastrophe; there's a reason most of my fic goes AU, and I know I'm not alone in giving into the impulse to whisk the boys off to the relative safety of Atlantis, where they can be brothers and make friends and fight enemies that die and stay dead when you shoot them enough times.
But I was thinking just now about the major character arcs of NCIS Season 8 to date and how a major theme of the show right now is reconciliation, especially between fathers (and father figures) and their children. "You do what you have to for family," says Mike Franks, and that has echoed through the entire season--not every ep, sure, but many of them, and it's been long established that Team Gibbs is itself a kind of family for all its members. And I think seeing that aspect of NCIS only worsens my opinion of the "trust no one" theme of SPN Season 6. Up to now, even when they've been completely at odds and beating each other senseless, Sam and Dean have still had that agape that binds them together at a soul-deep level. It hurts too much to watch Dean having to live without it while riding herd on a Sam that's not capable of more than storge.
(This is also why I can't get into SGU: there's precious little teamwork and almost no hope that any sense of family will develop. SG-1 is a family. SGA-1 is a family. There isn't even a Destiny-1 to speak of!)
I am holding out hope for the rest of SPN Season 6, now that Sammy's back. But don't expect much canon-compliant fic from me in the forseeable future unless it's from Season 5.
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hoodie_time friends, I do have wish-list fic in progress, but it's on hold for RL stuff at the moment, so I don't know for sure if I'll get it posted by Christmas Day. Sorry.
I've just figured out why, despite my fannish creative output leaning almost entirely to the SPN side lately and not being active in NCIS fandom at all, I'm enjoying NCIS so much more this season.
It's not much of a secret that I'm not thrilled with what Sera Gamble has done with SPN Season 6 to date. It remains to be seen whether half a season of Soulless!Sam is the waste of good story it seems to be now--honestly, it's against the Geneva Convention for True!Sam's return to have taken this long--or whether the second half will reveal plotlines that couldn't have been covered had Sam come back in one piece. It's also not much of a secret that I think the show's theology is lousy and that I watch only because I love Sam, Dean, Bobby, and Cas as characters (the actors aren't bad, either) and am holding out hope for some kind of eucatastrophe; there's a reason most of my fic goes AU, and I know I'm not alone in giving into the impulse to whisk the boys off to the relative safety of Atlantis, where they can be brothers and make friends and fight enemies that die and stay dead when you shoot them enough times.
But I was thinking just now about the major character arcs of NCIS Season 8 to date and how a major theme of the show right now is reconciliation, especially between fathers (and father figures) and their children. "You do what you have to for family," says Mike Franks, and that has echoed through the entire season--not every ep, sure, but many of them, and it's been long established that Team Gibbs is itself a kind of family for all its members. And I think seeing that aspect of NCIS only worsens my opinion of the "trust no one" theme of SPN Season 6. Up to now, even when they've been completely at odds and beating each other senseless, Sam and Dean have still had that agape that binds them together at a soul-deep level. It hurts too much to watch Dean having to live without it while riding herd on a Sam that's not capable of more than storge.
(This is also why I can't get into SGU: there's precious little teamwork and almost no hope that any sense of family will develop. SG-1 is a family. SGA-1 is a family. There isn't even a Destiny-1 to speak of!)
I am holding out hope for the rest of SPN Season 6, now that Sammy's back. But don't expect much canon-compliant fic from me in the forseeable future unless it's from Season 5.
BTW,
hoodie_time friends, I do have wish-list fic in progress, but it's on hold for RL stuff at the moment, so I don't know for sure if I'll get it posted by Christmas Day. Sorry.