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

[harrigan.livejournal.com]

I think I agree with almost all the longer comments here... My positive reactions after the episode were:

I really like Jensen and Jared and want them to have job security and a work environment that gives them joy (I wish everyone had that!), and a crew that's been together mostly for 9 years gets to continue doing what they love with people they love - that's all good.

I don't have to avoid spoilers and interviews now. That's good.

And *maybe* we'll get more of Sam's POV in season 10?

But mostly - yeah. What you said. (I didn't even like Jared's hair!)

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

I have this vain hope Jared will grow his hair all summer, spend lots of time waterskiing so he gets tanned and sun-blonded, and then we'll pick-up S10 a few months in so he keeps it all. :)

[ramblin_rosie]

Dunno about the water skiing--Lake Travis is scary low right now (they were saying toward the end of March that it would take six weeks of steady rain to get it back to average, and it's been pretty dry since then... we need a hurricane or two), though conditions might be better elsewhere in the Highland Lakes. But I wouldn't mind darker skin and lighter hair on either one of 'em.

[quickreaver.livejournal.com]

MORE FRECKLES FOR JENSEN!

[ramblin_rosie]

ALL THE FRECKLES!
--Good heavens, if JJ freckles like her daddy, half of fandom will be Dead Of Cute....

[debbiel66.livejournal.com]

Wow, this makes me sad. I have been reading Ash's reviews faithfully since I stopped watching (I left off at the hiatus, after Kevin died), wondering if there would be a good jump-back-in moment, where everything we loved about Show was miraculously restored. I guess that this wasn't that moment.

I'm glad I left off at a (relatively) okay point in the season. If they manage to turn it around again in season 10, I can finish up the last half of season 9, knowing that there are better things to come.

Until then... (((hugs))) I sort of feel like I'm at a memorial service for a person I haven't seen for a while, but who I loved....

[harrigan.livejournal.com]

SO nice to see you here!

Ash's is the only review I plan to read. I'm not bitter, just resigned. I'll still watch, but with lowered expectations. You have a great plan - wait till they turn things around and then catch up! I hope that works!

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Hey! It IS nice to see you here. I'm sorry I didn't have anything more positive to report. I have a feeling this was meant to be some sort of reconciliation for the brothers but it fell flat for me because it came some suddenly. They obviously planned it that way - and for that I feel it was "cheap". Like - let's have them at odds for most of the season and then - bam! "near" apologies and all is fine. And perhaps that's how I should be looking at it. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks there's still these gaping issues between them still.

There were some great broments. Lots of touching and cry. But, you know, nothing we haven't seen heaps before. I think I might just be a bit jaded.

I wish I could watch like you. Wait until the end of S10 and go back and watch it all if they properly resolve all this.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Hey honey.

I did like some of it and mostly my "bad" reaction was due to the overall season and it not making my sense for Sam and Dean by the end. I had hoped for some much more.

But yeah. Brother touching was nice.

And the cast and crew do seem really nice and hard working.

I would like to hope for more Sam POV next season but I think my disappointment with this season was because I was continually hoping for too much. With Dean as a demon we can but hope that they see him as a unreliable narrator and we get Sam's pov most of the time. :)) I WILL be hoping. But trying not to. ;)