It's the common thing that comes up on my flist whenever discussions of Dean come up, it isn't just at meme. And there's overall been so much less Dean-centric fanworks that it's hard for me to understand how anyone could think the interest in his character is the same as it was in S4 or even S5.
Dean went back to torturing. He wiped Lisa and Ben's memories after abandoning them and refusing to take their calls. He killed Amy for killing for the sake of her child and then in the very next episode let a couple of mass murdering witches off with mere couple's therapy. He went on a revenge based quest when he'd never before been a character focused on revenge. His primary plot last season was an unresolved one focusing on alcoholism. None of this is sympathetic to me.
My fic is all still Dean-centric but it's not set in the current seasons. Current!Dean leaves me cold. I still love him but I long for his characterization to change, preferably in a way that doesn't just handwave what's happened before.
Re: CC Press video interviews--SPOILERS
It's the common thing that comes up on my flist whenever discussions of Dean come up, it isn't just at meme. And there's overall been so much less Dean-centric fanworks that it's hard for me to understand how anyone could think the interest in his character is the same as it was in S4 or even S5.
Dean went back to torturing. He wiped Lisa and Ben's memories after abandoning them and refusing to take their calls. He killed Amy for killing for the sake of her child and then in the very next episode let a couple of mass murdering witches off with mere couple's therapy. He went on a revenge based quest when he'd never before been a character focused on revenge. His primary plot last season was an unresolved one focusing on alcoholism. None of this is sympathetic to me.
My fic is all still Dean-centric but it's not set in the current seasons. Current!Dean leaves me cold. I still love him but I long for his characterization to change, preferably in a way that doesn't just handwave what's happened before.