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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On another hand I feel like Carver's done a terrific job displaying the ugly side of that whole machismo manly play with supernatural and look into the abyss that Gamble an Kripke both romanticised and he's done it without resorting to THE MOST CRAZY LEVEL OF TRAUMA THEY WILL NEVER RECOVER FROM

Excellent point. I suspect I will look back on the Carver era and see what he's doing here. These "heroes" can't be left untainted. I think the lack of romanticism is what makes it difficult to watch. Personally, I love the darker side and I really liked the set up of the season. What Dean did to Sam was really dark and I had hope that would be explored. And maybe it has. Dean is now a demon. A result of the darkness we've seen from him all season. There may be some poetry in all after all.

It's just hard to watch and enjoy when there's so little "joy" in the show any more. Perhaps the whole point though. There should be no joy in killing and death.

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(omg sorry for never replying - mail decided Livejournal is really spam which actually explains so much)

Like - to be honest I think we look back at Kripke with a bit of nostalgia. When he was in charge fandom in general was so ready to rake him over the coals for ~*no Dean Mytharc*~ and general consensus was that Swan Song was the worst finale EVER, etc. etc.

And likewise Sera Gamble wasn't exactly treated well either. I really liked the cohesiveness of S6 and the dialing back of S7 (as opposed to more Apocalypses) and even though I can't stand the "worst trauma ever" she was so fond of I liked that the big bads weren't necessarily angels and demons.

I guess to me nothing Dean has done this seasaon is new or OOC. He's always had these traits but the narrative has justified them as "good" up until S9. Likewise Sam is um. He's there. I think. I think he's there.

On the plus side anything with Mark Sheppard is good? Yay!