yaasssss…… I like this idea!!! Show some god damn love for Dean Sam ….you idjit..!

Samgirl, much?

The show was conceived to be about Sam. He was Luke Skywalker on a rite
of passage journey. All the actors who tested for the show tested for
the part of Sam, including Jensen Ackles. Sam was intended to carry the
show for five seasons, and has since gone on to have additional arcs in
which Dean does whatever necessary to save him. Now Dean finally has
an arc of his own, and people are complaining? Yeesh. The “Year of the
Deanmon” was actually the “Three Episodes of the Deanmon,” after the
greatest season finale in show history. It was well past time to give
Dean a full arc, as they have with the MoC. Remember–some of us
actually do watch for *both* characters. And it’s a treat to watch Ackles work his magic.

Obviously more than enough people watch and care for it to be running this long.

We see it differently which is fine. I am all for Dean having the arc but at the same time we should be seeing Dean’s arc through Sam’s eyes. I want to know what is going on in Sam’s head just as I have seen what is going on with Dean when Sam has had the arc. The most ideal story would be if TPTB wrote equal stories for Sam and Dean yet I doubt they can manage that.

Well, for many of us, Dean HAS seemed like he was only there to take care of Sam. That is NOT a storyline.
I have never seen this big narrative that Dean supposedly has had. In the first season for sure, the story was told entirely from Sam’s narrative.
Let’s reverse it and give Sam the very same sidekick role that Dean has had for the majority of the series. i’m betting most of you wouldn’t be happy.
This is the VERY first time that Dean has had the focus. Some of you are acting like it has always been that way, when in fact, it has always been Sam that had most of the focus.

I hope to see way more Sam angst/POV ahead. To me Dean has owned that corner of the market and still does. The little bit of Sam angst we ever get doesn’t compare to Dean’s. I have never viewed Dean as just Sam’s caretaker. Dean has the narrative/story/POV and we get to watch him struggle over what is going on inside himself and with what he feels in regards to Sam.

This is what needs to be written for Sam in the second half of S10. They need to let us see what Sam did while searching for Dean and what he is going through to help rid Dean of the MoC. I want to hear Sam tell Dean how important he is to him and how much he loves his big brother. I know that is wishful thinking and not sure what we will get but I hope we do in some fashion.

Exactly! The episodes that are mostly about the supporting characters are ones I refuse to rewatch. I HATED Bitten and Bloodlines (from past seasons) for that very reason. The eps this season that put the supporting characters front and center, and not having much to do with the brothers, are boring to me. While I like Jody, her ep with Donna didn’t hold the interest for me because it still didn’t have enough about Sam and Dean.

I don’t believe many of us here really care a wit about what you and your professor think. Your comment doesn’t make sense: on one hand you and your professor claim that “nobody watches” SPN, and then you claim they are successful despite your opinion that they have no talent. So which is it? How can you and your snobby professor claim that nobody watches SPN but then turn around and say that J and J are successful actors despite the fact, in your and his opinion, that they have no talent?
And why pray tell does your professor spend so much time talking about something he disdains so much? If your professor is so much better of actor then Jared or Jensen,why is he teaching instead of acting?
By the way, tell him he is dead wrong: SPN has MILLIONS of devoted fans all over the world. Is it a huge mainstream hit? No. But he and you can hardly claim that nobody watches it when millions DO.

It’s really what ruined s9. When it comes down to it, Metatron couldn’t possibly care less about the Winchesters. The most they were to him were tools to get to Cas. They pretty much were 100% disconnected from the main story arc. Which made the angel storyline boring as hell.

Sure there were some huge scene settings, but most of them, especially the angel massacres were meaningless, because they never gave us any reason to care about any of the angels that died. Who even cared what side any of them were on, since the show never bothered to give us a reason to see a difference between any of them.

In s4, the angels were interesting, because they were there to support the Winchester’s storyline, but I just don’t care enough about Castiel, for him to have the main story arc.

I personally woudl have preferred more focus on Crowley and Abbadon as the main bad guys. And to have the final episode be about Dean facing off against Abbadon, and having it be her that ended up killing him, leading to Dean becoming a demon. Because unlike the angels, the demons actually cared about the Winchesters, and felt that the brothers mattered. To the angels, they were nothiing more than Castiel’s pets.