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caspock · 2 years

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one of the supernatural narrative things that is unfortunately as fascinating as it is frustrating is the constant dampening of any rupturing consequences to narrative events that SHOULD be rupturing. they flatten so many things so that the premise can sustain itself for as long as it does. narrative itself as a villain we meet again

#i don't think this applies to the first five seasons honestly at all but like as it progresses #i think the only way it can sustain itself as a quasi-procedural is by this massive flattening #i.e. they want cas to remain a background support character but not too power thus the entirety of s9-10 is an exercise in flattening him #but not allowing those consequences to flesh themselves out in any meaningful way #i.e. they don't let dean or sam learn from literally any of their mistakes #i know this has been talked about a lot before but i am avoiding work #sometimes i think about how they gave dean the mark and never really made him do anything that bad #or like. any deflated freak sam plots after s6 :/#and this may just be the casgirl in me but i do think cas kind of gets punished the most by the narrative #because HE was the most rupturing force in s4-5. the narrative has to flatten and diminish him any chance it has #in a very different way from dean not being allowed to grow from his mistakes and sam not being allowed to react to the plot #okay tag essay done for now #caspock.txt

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