I'm wavering on my feelings for this. I liked it. I liked an old fashioned ghost story, burn the artifacts case. I did like Sam actually speaking to people and having a shown POV.
I also had some problems with the story itself. I wish they hadn't used child molestation as a theme. They wanted to have the ghost be somewhat sympathetic, so they ended up discounting the charges. They flat out state that those men were lying or wrong about the uncle, but IRL, it was their kids making the charges and I'm less than happy that a really important real life issue got handled badly. I just wish SPN would steer away from social issues.
I also had minor problems with the Donna other sheriff story. Women get to decide they aren't interested in a certain man for whatever reason and shouldn't be told that they should give him a chance because he seems like a nice guy. And yes, they get to do it for shallow reasons as well as "good ones".
Dean's monitoring of Sam's praying was in character and managed to annoy me. Sam's not asking Dean to believe, he's doing what he needs to find comfort and try to find answers. Reason 1672 why I wish they left God as an actual being out of the world of Supernatural.
All in all this was a pretty good MOTW with some problems, IMHO,
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Date: 2015-11-19 01:32 pm (UTC)I also had some problems with the story itself. I wish they hadn't used child molestation as a theme. They wanted to have the ghost be somewhat sympathetic, so they ended up discounting the charges. They flat out state that those men were lying or wrong about the uncle, but IRL, it was their kids making the charges and I'm less than happy that a really important real life issue got handled badly. I just wish SPN would steer away from social issues.
I also had minor problems with the Donna other sheriff story. Women get to decide they aren't interested in a certain man for whatever reason and shouldn't be told that they should give him a chance because he seems like a nice guy. And yes, they get to do it for shallow reasons as well as "good ones".
Dean's monitoring of Sam's praying was in character and managed to annoy me. Sam's not asking Dean to believe, he's doing what he needs to find comfort and try to find answers. Reason 1672 why I wish they left God as an actual being out of the world of Supernatural.
All in all this was a pretty good MOTW with some problems, IMHO,