I still love him, more than ever even, but I don't like him. There's been a lot of Dean!girls talking on meme over S7 about how they dislike his current characterization. I've seen a lot of people comment about how they don't feel like writing Dean-centric fic because he's either unsympathetic or uninteresting to them, too.
Of the Dean!girls on my flist who are still active, there's two who are still enthused about his character and current characterization and a half dozen who are pissed off about it and dislike how he's been written for the past year and a half. Meme's even discussed it often enough that the break in characterization seems focused at 6.06 for a lot of people. There might be only ~6 or so angry Dean girls on my flist these days but that's discounting the high volume of others who just moved onto greener pastures or dropped out of fandom entirely but might comment on someone else's post about how Dean with statements expressing their displeasure.
It's just my own experience and all but it isn't one that seems at all unusual to me. I thought it was fairly well established that Dean's characterization had driven away a lot of his fans.
Re: CC Press video interviews--SPOILERS
I still love him, more than ever even, but I don't like him. There's been a lot of Dean!girls talking on meme over S7 about how they dislike his current characterization. I've seen a lot of people comment about how they don't feel like writing Dean-centric fic because he's either unsympathetic or uninteresting to them, too.
Of the Dean!girls on my flist who are still active, there's two who are still enthused about his character and current characterization and a half dozen who are pissed off about it and dislike how he's been written for the past year and a half. Meme's even discussed it often enough that the break in characterization seems focused at 6.06 for a lot of people. There might be only ~6 or so angry Dean girls on my flist these days but that's discounting the high volume of others who just moved onto greener pastures or dropped out of fandom entirely but might comment on someone else's post about how Dean with statements expressing their displeasure.
It's just my own experience and all but it isn't one that seems at all unusual to me. I thought it was fairly well established that Dean's characterization had driven away a lot of his fans.