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

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

You and I specifically have been on very different terms with the show for a very long time, and it got to the point where your comments and the way our conversations developed depressed me. It got to the point where I didn't want to come read my own journal. You and I were arguing in circles about things we won't change our minds about. I've often wondered why you're still watching the show because it seems to make you miserable. You've said that the only reason you're still watching is for Jensen. You're not watching for the stories, the character interactions, anything having to do with the writing or directing, and you've made it very clear that you loathe Sam with a white-hot passion. All of that is your prerogative, and there are forums out there where people agree with you. But when you write that the show "can go f*** itself," that sounds like hatred to me, expressed in hateful language. I don't want that in my journal.

If stipulating that negatives need to be countered with positives translates into a prohibition from commenting, that means that a reader has nothing positive or constructive to say. There are plenty of other places on the 'Net where viewers can go to tear down the show or a given character. There's a reason I don't visit those forums, and I've never wanted my LJ to become a place of endless complaining.

I didn't say that no one reads. I said that I don't know how many people still read. A lot of my f-list don't seem to watch the show anymore. Several of them, I know why they're not watching or commenting, due to being more busy with RL than with LJ (newly wed, new job, new mom, etc.). But I've never known how many lurkers I have because I don't have my LJ set up to track who comes to read it, and lurkers, by definition, don't comment. Heck, even I've lost interest in a lot of deep, probing discussion of the show, which is why my "long and ramblies" are no longer running commentaries but just impressions and highlights.

To ask the question, "Hey, is anyone still out there reading?" isn't the same as declaring, "Woe is me. No one reads anymore." Some people have popped in to make their presence known, and that's great. :-) Either way, it's my choice whether or not to continue. It's just nice to know if anyone is still reading or interested in my opinion. Those that are have said so. That's all.