9.23 reaction

[ash48]

I had a huge reaction post written out but decided it was far too negative and started to make me cry so I decided not to post it.

I will say that I didn't mind watching the episode (made all the better because I had zebra363 with me) but in all honesty it left me feeling pretty much nothing. Empty. Blank. Perhaps a bit annoyed, frustrated and sad.

I love these characters too much to see them wasted like this. To have them at odds all season just so we can have "near" apology scenes and confessions of "I lied". :(

For a whole season to mean absolutely nothing. To have gone absolutely no where. *sobs* (and not the good *sobs* - only S8 and S9 have reduced me to tears over loss of the show I fell in love with).

I need more time to process. I'm sure I will shake these blues away and find something salvageable here.

Though I'm thinking until Carver leaves I'll never see the Sam and Dean I grew to love.

I'd say they've already created their spin off. We watched it this season.

(PS: please, if you loved it and want to squee please feel free. I need to know it's worth hanging on to. I need to know that this is just all part of a plan to build this show back to something we recognise. I need to know that they didn't make Sam say important stuff only to have it completely and utterly ignored for a reason. I need to know that this hasn't just become the worst, predictable, most boring, fan servicing pile of... )

Comments

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

I'm with you my dear, I did enjoy the episode but not in the deep and committed way I have done in the past and that was because I think no matter WHAT they had done in one 45 minute slot there was no way to retrieve the rest of this wasted season. I've said elsewhere - this would/could have been awesome if they'd condensed the interesting parts of this season into 11-12 episodes and made this the mid season hiatus finale. Then we'd have had the 2nd half where Sam was trying to rescue/save Dean from the Blade and the demonic transformation in a way that wouldn't leave Dean as a rotting corpse...

I think you and I have gone through the same process of disillusionment this season. Sigh. It makes me very sad.

But I'll still watch next season. I can't leave now.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

It's weird. I was on the edge of my seat watching it because I kept thinking it was going to go somewhere really interesting. And then there were these long Metatron talking scenes and angel scenes and predictable Sam getting knocked out so he can some and "save" Dean (only he didn't) scenes and then by the end the black eyes were the icing on the cake of - oh. They actually did go there. Just as everyone had predicted.

I will watch next season as well because I'm too invested. But I doubt I'll write reactions anymore. There's just nothing to say. Creating a whole season that essentially amounts to nothing for Sam and Dean means there's nothing left to write about. Sadly.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Strangely I can see potential for next season for Sam and Dean, but I'm concerned they will cock it up. If you think about possible scenarios - We have zombie Demon Dean. We have a known 'cure' for demons but no idea what happens if this demon is cued when their host body is already dead. We have Crowley possibly set to use and abuse Dean for his own nefarious purposes, Dean reacting in some way we don't know to the Mark's possession. Cain after all didn't come across as without compassion or humour, and he still had the mark at that stage, though he'd managed somehow to lose the Blade.

There is a lot there they could work with to make something meaty and wonderful. Sadly we know they have left Metatron alive, and they will still have to 'do' something with Cas, so time will be wasted there, no doubt. But still, I have hope. And I definitely have a much stronger hope for some fab fan interpretations over the summer!

[jessm78.livejournal.com]

ITA. With all of it. Glad to know I'm not alone. :)