So ya know...

[ash48]

I'm not going to be writing up a reaction or review of 10.12. In fact, it's unlikely I'll be writing them any more. I feel I only want to complain these days and that's not fair on anyone (though I'm thinking of writing up some general stuff - mostly to help me try and work why I'm feeling just over it all).

I am still curious about what every one thought so I'll still do the polls (if you're all still happy to fill them out *g*).

[Poll #1998102]

Comments

[fanspired]

The thing that still pisses me off about the show post season 5 is the number of times we've seen potentially interesting story development abandoned, presumably because it didn't sit well with the target demographic. I still think s7 was trying to adress important points about loss, identity, perception, reality and mental illness, but in the end all that was abandoned in favour of a lame dungeons and dragons denouement. Similarly s9 started telling a story about violated consent, denied personal autonomy and gaslighting but that was abandoned too. In the early part of the season it seemed clear to me that Ezekiel was going to turn out to be an outright villain. The subplot of the pilot episode clearly implied that he needed Sam's vessel to survive, and that he was healing himself by feeding off of Sam's soul. If they'd had the courage of their convictions they could have had a great story that really demonstrated the consequences of Dean's actions and forced him to confront the reality that what he did was not heroism but violation: if Metatron's spell had the effect of returning all the angels to Earth, Sam's possessor might easily have turned out to be Lucifer. But, instead, he turns out to be the poor misguided dupe, Gadreel, and Sam absolves him of having had any harmful intent. What a lost opportunity.