Okay, (kind of) short points 'cause I could go on for hours with regards with this ep.
1. Holy heck I'm glad I wasn't the only one having serious trouble understanding Meg speak. It was so peculiar; yes the actress has gained weight but my god, she sounded stoned when she was in that grocery store.
2. There was so goddamn much squeezed into this episode that I felt cheated as the audience in terms of the fact that they could have put this easily into a two parter or longer. I mentioned to someone on Twitter that if you took a deep breath and recited everything squashed up into that 45mins it read like a cheap fic, which has been done a couple of times before and each time it disappoints. I mean we know that Show can be so kickass in terms of storyline when it wants to be and at times like this it just reeks of sloppy writing.
3. Which brings me to Cas. I think it's widely accepted that yeah, the lil treetoper was brought back due mostly to fan reaction over his dismissive death and that equally as you said, Sara and Co have really no clue what to do with their resident angel and all-around powerful problem solver. And I think so far it's been handled cheaply. I've become a big Cas fan over the years and some part of me feels that if they don't have any idea of what to do with the poor bugger (as much as the shallow part of me wants him to stay on) they should at least give him a proper and thorough chance to redeem himself and have a decent send-off. This business of dumping him in the ward and leaving him to stew inside his own brain is just a slack way to sideline him until he's once again useful.
All in all, for such an anticipated and hypedepisode, all I truly felt was given adequate strength was Sam's suffering.
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1. Holy heck I'm glad I wasn't the only one having serious trouble understanding Meg speak. It was so peculiar; yes the actress has gained weight but my god, she sounded stoned when she was in that grocery store.
2. There was so goddamn much squeezed into this episode that I felt cheated as the audience in terms of the fact that they could have put this easily into a two parter or longer. I mentioned to someone on Twitter that if you took a deep breath and recited everything squashed up into that 45mins it read like a cheap fic, which has been done a couple of times before and each time it disappoints. I mean we know that Show can be so kickass in terms of storyline when it wants to be and at times like this it just reeks of sloppy writing.
3. Which brings me to Cas. I think it's widely accepted that yeah, the lil treetoper was brought back due mostly to fan reaction over his dismissive death and that equally as you said, Sara and Co have really no clue what to do with their resident angel and all-around powerful problem solver. And I think so far it's been handled cheaply. I've become a big Cas fan over the years and some part of me feels that if they don't have any idea of what to do with the poor bugger (as much as the shallow part of me wants him to stay on) they should at least give him a proper and thorough chance to redeem himself and have a decent send-off. This business of dumping him in the ward and leaving him to stew inside his own brain is just a slack way to sideline him until he's once again useful.
All in all, for such an anticipated and hypedepisode, all I truly felt was given adequate strength was Sam's suffering.