SPN - 8.10

[feliciakw]

It's good to have the show back. I've missed Dean. I've missed Jensen and Jared. I've missed the storytelling.

But.

This ep leaves me dissatisfied and melancholy.

I haven't really liked where they've taken the angel characters since early/mid-S4. (Cas was awesome when he showed up, but things started going downhill somewhere after "Great Pumpkin.") The trend is continuing. Angels, with the exception of Cas, and Alfie, who's now a goner, are apparently never going to be anything more than one more adversary for the guys. Meh.

I'm disappointed with where they left Benny and his storyline. I get why Dean cut off contact with Benny. Still. He's left a friend who is an addict--and a deadly one--to twist in the wind. I know that was their original plan, but still. I hope we see Benny again, and I hope he's not a bad guy.

Glad the Amelia storyline is over, though. I never really felt one way or the other about her until tonight. And tonight, I decided I don't really like her. Why? Because she seduced Sam. She has a husband, and she seduced Sam. I am not down with that.

What I did like about tonight was Dean cutting Sam loose and giving him every opportunity to have "normal," to go back to Amelia. So Sam chose, of his own free will, to stick with the job. No more blaming Dean for it, kthanx.

I liked that in the course of letting Sam go, Dean admitted that he's just tired of the fighting. We all are, dude. We all are.

I liked the apparent truce that has been called. Now if they could just learn to read one another again, maybe we'd get somewhere.

It felt like a very "distant" episode, which makes sense, since they were each dealing with their own problems. But as much as the guys were sitting together drinking beer and watching TV, it still felt distant at the end.

Admittedly, it did get a laugh or two out of me and Geo. When Cas appeared and woke Dean up, Geo loled. I did the same when he appeared next to Sam. Sam, you've never really had that experience, have you, of Cas just suddenly showing up in your personal space. Now you know.

I'm not sure how many people still read these blurbs I write, as it seems that most of my f-list that watched the show don't watch it anymore. So I'm mostly writing this out of habit. And maybe a little nostalgia, seeing as how I've been writing these since S4, and have done pretty much the whole series at one point or another.

And on a final note, Jensen looked really, really, good. Like, really.

Comments

[eavis.livejournal.com]

Okay, just a quick note to say that I concur very heartily with everything you just said. I laughed at the same things you/your husband did, and sighed and cried at all the same places. I hold out a (misguided, no doubt) hope that Alfie's death will be the catalyst for Gabriel making a dramatic come-back on a mission from God and, with Castiel's help, setting things right in heaven. (I did mention the misguided/unlikely part, right?)

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't think there was any room optimism left in the SPN viewership. ;-)

Jensen has said that he's campaigning to get Richard Speight, Jr. back, so who knows. At this point, I rather wish they'd leave the whole angel storyline behind them completely, but I know that's not going to happen. Would love for the guys to have another angelic ally of some sort. Would also love to see RSJ back on the show.

I believe the term we're looking for is either "pie in the sky" or "pipe dream." Would you like pumpkin, French silk, or lemon meringue?

*still loves Fedora!Dean*