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

[celtic-forest.livejournal.com]

"Empty. Blank. Perhaps a bit annoyed, frustrated and sad."

That was my exact reaction too. Sigh. I find myself in the absurd position of actually being glad it's hiatus. Looking forward to not watching really puts this season in perspective - like it's something I was inflicting on myself. Way to go, Carver.

Here's what I can come up with as bright spots:

I think this episode might work better as a re-watch than it does as an initial viewing.

Maybe Dean is a Knight of Hell. That could be interesting. Maybe he'll end up rivaling Crowley to be King of Hell, i.e. take on the Abbadon role, which would explain why they took the actual Abbadon out for no apparent reason.

I thought Sam was particularly pretty to look at this week. I like his hair longer than it is right now, but even so, Jared is looking good.

*hugs*

ETA: Ooh, I just saw this request from riyku. This idea definitely qualifies as another bright spot:
"So who's gonna write me the one where Sam massively goes off the demon blood wagon and starts drinking his brother's blood?"

[maaldas.livejournal.com]

"So who's gonna write me the one where Sam massively goes off the demon blood wagon and starts drinking his brother's blood?"

I think someone has written that story. It's a BigBang story I think because I've read it. The setting is post S4 and instead of getting saved by Cas Dean fell through the cracks of Hell and into the domain of the fallen angels where he gets his power and becomes a demon of chaos. Sam drinks Dean's blood and keeps his power and Dean needs Sam to stay sane and be more like human. But he still loves his brother. Great fic!

[ash48.livejournal.com]

I'm happy for the hiatus I have to say. We need some recovery time from this season.

I feel better about the episode now that it's been a few days. I've chatted about a few of my interpretations and it seems like there are ways of interpreting things that have left me feeling a bit better. Still bored with all the angel stuff and I'm disappointed that we that all again next year. Hopefully the angel wars will be done with (though I doubt it).

Dean as a Knight of Hell is an interesting idea and I look forward to seeing how they handle it. I have no idea how they'll work that with the MoTW stories - unless they resolve it in a couple of episodes. But then what I wonder?

And I saw a fic posted somewhere about that exact thing! I wants it!! I think either Sam using his own blood to cure Dean of becoming demonic himself by drinking off demon blood would be very interesting indeed. Maybe Carver really does want to see these two become the very things they hunt after all.