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... )

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[greyowl88.livejournal.com]

I got nothing...

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

This! *sigh*

I thought my newly adopted, changed attitude on how to watch the show would carry me through the finale. It didn't. There is just too much that doesn't make sense. To name one little moment that, for some reason, was the last straw that broke the camel's back: When Metatron was called out as a fraud, this angel said: He is a fraud. Not a miracle worker but an angel! - He said that to the crowd of normal people who would love to have an angel from heaven with them doing miracles. But it was acted out as if had announced a demon and people would gasp and feel threatened. That just doesn't make one bit of sense. I know this was just a little thing that could easily be handwaved. But for me it stands for all the incoherency going on, thrown at us, hard and fast. (Unless Metatron is talking.. and talking.. lol).
I'm not feeling much, you know. Just a faint sadness, because there is no denying for me anymore where I stand with this show.

A thought on the side: I noticed that some recent shows like DaVinci's demons (and some others that don't come to mind) have a rather incoherent storyline/character developements. It's all about the sensation spectactle. (Not sure I'm wording this properly). I'm wondering if this is the "new way" of telling TV stories. I know there was a comment like that before suggesting something similar.

I chose the Bobby icon to hide in the good old days. Makes me feel better. ;)

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Hey honey.

Excellent point about Metatron. In fact, that whole scene really really annoyed me. I wrote about it in my review that I didn't post. It also makes no sense that all those homeless people would turn into murders. How did they get to be a bunch of people kicking and hurting that guy? It was such a disturbing scene - for no reason. It did show that humans were as much "sheep" as the angels were that decided not to follow Cas. Maybe there's a comment/theme here but I'm not counting on it. I'm tired of trying to make sense of it all.

Also - I couldn't believe that Sam referred to Gareel as one of their "real friends". That just made absolutely no sense. Since when? I can accept Sam realised that Gadreel can help them and accept him, but to consider him a friend like Cas just made me...O_O.

And yes, a comment was made on the last post about incoherent story telling being the new norm. I'd like to think that was a thing, but to be honest I think it's just missing the mark. They have so much lore now with angels and demons they keep losing the threads.

I DID like Castiel's "I just want to be an angel". There was something very plaintiff and honest about that. Of all the characters I think Cas and Gadreel had the best character arcs. Sam and Dean were just the side show. Used cheaply to make us feel stuff.

It makes me sad to think like that, but this season has been tough going.

[greyowl88.livejournal.com]

Also - I couldn't believe that Sam referred to Gareel as one of their "real friends".

Oh, yes! That one had me grit my teeth for a moment. I couldn't believe it. Straw number two (lol).

Since we have no say in it all we are left to cope with our feelings the best we can. Any other show I would have stopped watching by now but this is my old love and I can't seem to leave, secretly hoping for a miracle.

This season has been tough going indeed.

*hugs*