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

[destina.livejournal.com]

Sympathies. I was where you are four years ago. *hug* It gets easier when you are able to watch the show without caring so much. Or at least, it did for me. But I am looking forward to demon!Dean, because I would love to see whether there's a personality shift for Dean now, away from feeling responsible for Sam. Something to put them, finally, on equal footing - or make Sam's feelings about Dean change as well. It could be the healthiest thing that has ever happened to them, ironically.

[maaldas.livejournal.com]

[i]But I am looking forward to demon!Dean, because I would love to see whether there's a personality shift for Dean now, away from feeling responsible for Sam. Something to put them, finally, on equal footing - or make Sam's feelings about Dean change as well. [i/]

Is this the game changer that Carver said it to be? One thing I'm sure and never have a doubt about Dean's personality is that he loves Sam and always feels responsible for him. It's ingrained and like it's been coded into his DNA or something. Now that Dean is a demon, will that change? Or will Dean becomes a special demon because he's turned by the blade? Unlike average demons (including Crowley) who are turned in Hell (getting tortured and be a torturer). Can is able to fall in love.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Thanks hun. I remember seeing a lot of my flist departing the show and wondered if and when it would happen for me. I doubt I could ever really leave - even when it pisses me off so much. Like now. I know that the show has to change and develop different directions but 2 seasons of the brothers at odds with each other and doing stuff to each other just to up the angst factor is getting really hard to bear.

I am looking forward to demon!dean and seeing what direction that takes them in. It could mean we'll see even less brotherness, which will probably spell the end for me. Depends how long that goes on. Who knows how long they can keep Dean a demon for. The show it based on MoTW eps so we'll have to assume there will still be some of that? Or maybe they really are taking this in a completely different direction no and focussing on the drama and not worrying about monsters any more. (dammit...I'm depressing myself even more now...)
xx