Jump the Shark, Rapture

[feliciakw]

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.

Comments

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

When the Winchesters are in the Church and the priest is talking about the pictures or stained glass windows and the camera would pan to Dean as the priest was talking about Michael. After the episode aired, there was an interview with Sera Gamble about it and I think she pretty much came out and said yes it was about Dean.

Ah, okay. I don't recall being struck with "Oh, they're talking about Dean!" the first time I saw it, pre-S5. In retrospect, of course, it's obvious. Sera wrote that ep, didn't she? Interesting that she was comparing Dean to Michael even before angels were involved in the mytharc. Serendipity, I think it's called.

I think Dean has always loved and forgiven Sam, so that wasn't a lesson Dean needed to learn.

Love? I'd have to ask Kripke what show he thinks he's writing.

Forgive? That one I'll go along with. Back at the beginning of S5 when all of this was going down, I wrote extensively about Dean's need to forgive Sam. That it would take time, but that he needed to do that. I'd have to re-read my entries, but I think it was that Dean needed to forgive Sam, and Sam had to realize that it was going to take time and he was going to have to earn Dean's trust. They . . . never followed through with that quite to my satisfaction. I mean, I think they touched on it, but I wanted more.

I'm not overly impressed with what Kripke said, because what he (thinks he) wrote and what showed up on the screen are two different things. I'm apparently not watching the show he thinks he's writing. Or things aren't reading to me the way he thinks they are. Or something . . .

*shrug*