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Jump the Shark, Rapture
Watched "Jump the Shark" the other night, and it makes me wonder. It makes me wonder when they started plotting out that Adam would be Michael's vessel. And what makes me wonder if they were in fact planning it this far out is this:
When the end credits started running, Geo turns to me and asks, "What was the purpose of that episode?"
To which I replied, " . . . "
After puzzling a moment, I said, "Well, they introduced Adam. Other than that . . . to show that Sam has become more and more like John?"
And to give Dean angst, of course. But I didn't say that.
So it makes me wonder if they introduced Adam, knowing what they were going to do with the character later, or if they decided Adam was a convenient out of the corner they'd written themselves into. I'm somewhat inclined to give them credit and say that they at least had a notion of what they were going to do.
Truly, though, there's a lot that I like about the ep, and much of it has to do with Dean. *nods*
The same question could be asked about "The Rapture." Don't get me wrong; I enjoyed this look at what Castiel's vessel is like. And I kinda wish we could have had more of Claire!Castiel. And there were good bits throughout. But it seems that the whole upshot of the ep was Castiel being re-oriented to his primary duties, and Dean discovering about Sam and the demon blood.
So I guess if that's the jumping off point ("We need to do A and B. What's the most interesting way we can do that?"), then the ep served its purpose. And of course we have the ending with Sam in the panic room.
Which brings us to the final stretch of the season.
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This seems like the wisest course of action. Not to disparage Mr. Kripke too much but he does seem to be quickly dwindling into George Lucas territory of BUH-ZUH?!Dom (yes, BuhZuhdom is a word!) when it comes to grasping his own creation. His "Yes, we always indended this or that" is the new "Yes, Greedo was always meant to shoot first!"
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LIES!!!! LIES, I TELL YOU!!!! I was there the first time around! Before it was "A New Hope," even!
Geo heard that Lucas has gone back and tampered with THX1138 the same way he has SW. Aside from ruining any historical value the movie might have, it's now worse for the tampering, apparently.
Why does Mr. Lucas insist on re-writing history?
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