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feliciakwThis is another ep (or combo of eps, as the case may be) that has had umpteen bajillion things written about it, and I'm sure I couldn't really say anything that hasn't already been said. It's a great season-ender and breaks my heart every freakin' time.
I do, however, think that fitting this part of the mytharc with what we got in S5 is very problematic because it brings up some questions that are kind of funky. Was YED's goal ultimately to free Lucifer, or did he have his own agenda in choosing the leader of the demon army? Did he know that Sam was to be Lucifer's vessel, and was that why he was setting up Sam as the leader? If so, why go through all the rigmarole of the psy!kids?
And here's the kicker: Jake had a sister. Were Jake and his sister equally capable as Sam and Dean to be the vessels for Lucifer and Michael? Did Ava have a sibling? Andy had a twin; would Anson have been Lucifer's vessel, while Andy would have been Michael's? What about Max Miller? No sibling was mentioned with him.
Was Dean's deal a fortuitous opportunity for Lilith, Ruby, et. al.? What would have happened to the grand scheme had Dean not made the deal? Had the demons been working on him from the start, feeding his self-doubt as an ace up the sleeve should anything go wrong and Sam wasn't the winner?
How does the power vacuum left by YED's death fit into all of this?
Am I over-thinking this?
This then brings us to the fact that Kripke's original plan did no contain angels. At this point in the series, I'm of the understanding that he said he would not be including angels in his mytharc. So. What this means is that his original plan could not have included the showdown between Lucifer and Michael because the angels v. demons part of the mytharc was not the intent. So while the original intent might well have been to have Sam turn evil and then redeem himself by sacrificing himself to save the world, the whole Apocalypse thing as we got it? Not part of the original plan.
And I'll get into that a little more when we get into S3.
I'm trying to figure out exactly when things started to fall apart or get hinky with the mytharc. At this point, I strongly suspect that it was with the writer's strike in S3. That strike cut their season short by 6 eps, and had they had those 6 eps to work with, I kind of wonder what we would have gotten that they had to truncate or re-write or omit completely.
Anyway, it's at this point--with Sam's death and Dean's deal, and Sam lying about what YED showed him--that things start to really unravel.
I do, however, think that fitting this part of the mytharc with what we got in S5 is very problematic because it brings up some questions that are kind of funky. Was YED's goal ultimately to free Lucifer, or did he have his own agenda in choosing the leader of the demon army? Did he know that Sam was to be Lucifer's vessel, and was that why he was setting up Sam as the leader? If so, why go through all the rigmarole of the psy!kids?
And here's the kicker: Jake had a sister. Were Jake and his sister equally capable as Sam and Dean to be the vessels for Lucifer and Michael? Did Ava have a sibling? Andy had a twin; would Anson have been Lucifer's vessel, while Andy would have been Michael's? What about Max Miller? No sibling was mentioned with him.
Was Dean's deal a fortuitous opportunity for Lilith, Ruby, et. al.? What would have happened to the grand scheme had Dean not made the deal? Had the demons been working on him from the start, feeding his self-doubt as an ace up the sleeve should anything go wrong and Sam wasn't the winner?
How does the power vacuum left by YED's death fit into all of this?
Am I over-thinking this?
This then brings us to the fact that Kripke's original plan did no contain angels. At this point in the series, I'm of the understanding that he said he would not be including angels in his mytharc. So. What this means is that his original plan could not have included the showdown between Lucifer and Michael because the angels v. demons part of the mytharc was not the intent. So while the original intent might well have been to have Sam turn evil and then redeem himself by sacrificing himself to save the world, the whole Apocalypse thing as we got it? Not part of the original plan.
And I'll get into that a little more when we get into S3.
I'm trying to figure out exactly when things started to fall apart or get hinky with the mytharc. At this point, I strongly suspect that it was with the writer's strike in S3. That strike cut their season short by 6 eps, and had they had those 6 eps to work with, I kind of wonder what we would have gotten that they had to truncate or re-write or omit completely.
Anyway, it's at this point--with Sam's death and Dean's deal, and Sam lying about what YED showed him--that things start to really unravel.
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Date: 2010-07-13 05:05 pm (UTC)It was such a great set up to the 3rd Season. It ended the major story arc they'd had going, yet left the viewers with a new one of how to deal with Dean's deal. Just awesome TV! See they had it in them to make awesomeness. They just overshot their vision this past Season. I still wuv them, though (Them being the writers/producers etc.) :-)!
p.s. Pardon my over posting, I am all alone at work today and... *sniff* lonely.