I just kept thinking - you know, we could have lost the damn wedding episode and made this a two parter.
Oh god yes! There was so much meat in there it would have been great to have been given a more time to chew and digest it all. The girl's story line was interesting and relevant. Even the nature of supernatural insanity could have been explored more
Also, as an angel, Castiel can travel in time and hold multiple timelines in his head - so you'd think the whole 'is it real?' thing would be less of a problem for him.
This is one of the biggest issues I have with having a fully functioning angel around. Even now he could just zap himself out the hospital. Probably zap Lucifer out of existence, go and find Dick Roman zap him and all the leviathans back into purgatory. Oh and maybe solve the world hunger problems while he's at it. Of course they can't do that so they have to find ways of keeping him out of the picture. But in this case it makes little sense. Lucifer certainly won't have the same effect he had on Sam. If nothing else they'll probably bore each other to death. (And dear god I hope the Leviathan issue isn't solved with Cas swooping in to save the day. He needs to redeem himself on that front too, so no doubt he will be involved in solving that problem. I just hope they're careful in the way they do it).
I'm just so proud of Meg.
Meg is awesome and one of the few long standing characters. I felt her worth and her story line were wasted (and diminished) in this episode. Shame.
I kept waiting for this story to be about Sam and Dean, and how they were going to deal with this ... but it never was. So I think there was a lot of good in this story, but they tried to strike an epic note with it, when something more intimate might have been more effective.
Oh yes. Well put. And probably the exact reason why I struggled with some of it. This could have been a fabulous Sam and Dean story. I was imagining if there was one thing left that could finally break Dean it would be Sam ending up like he did in this episode. I get that Dean had to hang on for Sam's sake but even that wasn't really explored.
AND in amongst all of that...ghost!bobby made an appearance. So we still have that to play out sometime in the future...:)
Thanks for such awesome thinky on this episode. xx
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Oh god yes! There was so much meat in there it would have been great to have been given a more time to chew and digest it all. The girl's story line was interesting and relevant. Even the nature of supernatural insanity could have been explored more
Also, as an angel, Castiel can travel in time and hold multiple timelines in his head - so you'd think the whole 'is it real?' thing would be less of a problem for him.
This is one of the biggest issues I have with having a fully functioning angel around. Even now he could just zap himself out the hospital. Probably zap Lucifer out of existence, go and find Dick Roman zap him and all the leviathans back into purgatory. Oh and maybe solve the world hunger problems while he's at it. Of course they can't do that so they have to find ways of keeping him out of the picture. But in this case it makes little sense. Lucifer certainly won't have the same effect he had on Sam. If nothing else they'll probably bore each other to death. (And dear god I hope the Leviathan issue isn't solved with Cas swooping in to save the day. He needs to redeem himself on that front too, so no doubt he will be involved in solving that problem. I just hope they're careful in the way they do it).
I'm just so proud of Meg.
Meg is awesome and one of the few long standing characters. I felt her worth and her story line were wasted (and diminished) in this episode. Shame.
I kept waiting for this story to be about Sam and Dean, and how they were going to deal with this ... but it never was. So I think there was a lot of good in this story, but they tried to strike an epic note with it, when something more intimate might have been more effective.
Oh yes. Well put. And probably the exact reason why I struggled with some of it. This could have been a fabulous Sam and Dean story. I was imagining if there was one thing left that could finally break Dean it would be Sam ending up like he did in this episode. I get that Dean had to hang on for Sam's sake but even that wasn't really explored.
AND in amongst all of that...ghost!bobby made an appearance. So we still have that to play out sometime in the future...:)
Thanks for such awesome thinky on this episode.
xx