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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[cordelia-gray.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! SO DISAPPOINTING.

And I can't help but think of Abbadon, Ruby, etc., you know? I think this show's rep for killing off it's female characters is a little exaggerated, but I can't shake the feeling that if Metatron had been in a female vessel she'd have gotten stabbed. IDK.

And yeah, I'm with you on the Sam & Dean conflict. I don't mind it if it's *going somewhere*, if it leads to growth and change and communication and all that. But if it's not going anywhere, if it's just recursive, why bother? If they're stuck with each other and stuck with their patterns, why not let them at least be happy together?

I guess that's my biggest problem with the whole season: none of it seemed to matter. Dean tricks Sam into getting possessed, and Sam is furious, but by the end of the season it's forgotten, and he's 'friends' with the angel who possessed him. Dean decides to take on the Mark to kill Abbadon, who is supposedly the biggest, scariest thing out there, and yet she poses no real challenge or danger that we're ever shown. There's a big deal about Cas getting an angel army, but then they take it away again two episodes later, so why even bother? And in the finale, Sam could have been replaced with a sexy lamp, and Dean was basically the redshirt.

I feel like the story has totally gotten away from them.