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

[stripytights.livejournal.com]

I'm torn on it. On the one hand I have this terrible, fragile hope that maybe it'll get better next season, but on the other hand I feel like I've been hoping for that for a long time and not getting it. But I'll be back, I know I will.

There were moments and elements that I liked. I liked that some attempt was made at a rapprochement - not that it was a good one but I feel like starting off next season with an assurance that Sam won't give up on Dean combined with the demon eyes is a better place than some ways it could have gone.

On the actual episode front - acting wise, I really felt that nobody brought it at all. It's kind of sad that the one person I wanted to see more of was the redheaded angel denouncing Metatron. As for the structure it was dire. So. Much. Talking. I livestreamed it with a friend who doesn't watch SPN at all and only knows it through me and she was puzzled at the sheer quantity of Metatron and how boring he was, which pretty much says it all.

I think there are salvageable things there, and that they'll be more apparent on a rewatch. I also think there's a set up for a potentially much more interesting core-idea in s10. But I'm an eternal and irritating optimist.

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

But I'm an eternal and irritating optimist.

Me too, punkin, ME TOO.

[stripytights.livejournal.com]

High five on that!

Eternal optimism is the way forward.

[maaldas.livejournal.com]

Optimistic because imagine the awesome fanfiction that will grace random after we now learn that DemonDean is indeed canon.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Zebra and I couldn't believe how much talking Metatron did! It makes me wonder if Carver actually thought he was an interesting character. Or maybe the very point was to make his SO annoying and boring that when he's finally killed off we'll all be able to cheer!!

And I have held on and held on. I've stayed positive and sincerely believed that it would all mean something in the end. I'm wondering how much longer I can keep hoping for that. I think if I have to all through S10 it might just kill me.

But yeah. I prefer to be optimistic and hearing all the good things about the episode have made me feel a bit better about it.

[stripytights.livejournal.com]

So much talking and pontificating. Metatron could have been interesting - maybe if he'd had a different actor. And a different script. Also a different storyline. Or was the Metatron from His Dark Materials. Nope, still not seeing it.

I really hope that on a rewatch, the episode feels better for you - and that season 10 brings good things - personally I'm so so hopeful for more Sam next season. One thing I can definitely offer as a positive is that I am willing to bet some amazing fanworks spawn off this episode.

[locknkey.livejournal.com]

Yay optimism! I can use a dose. :)

[stripytights.livejournal.com]

I have plenty to share!