I re-watched the Dean/Benny stuff and the Dean/Sam stuff this morning. Honestly, when Sam was explaining about Benny staying behind in Purgatory, my eyes started pricking with tears.
I've seen a lot of complaints about continuity issues with this ep, and in a way I agree, but they didn't really phase me, because I could come up with plausible (to me) reasoning. And guess what. You get to read my outlines.
"Since when are reapers corporal?" Reaper is also renegade and free-lance.
"Death would never allow it." Death is only concerned with the natural order, people dying when they're supposed to. Even reapers don't know where a soul is going when they die. They just escort them there.
"It took Cas and Crowley a whole season and a special ritual to open Purgatory." That was before it was opened for Eve. And before an entire legion of leviathans escaped. It makes sense to me that the seal would be weakened from repetitive use.
"Crowley didn't know that coyotes could get through? C'mon." Well, circumstances have changed since he tried to get into Purgatory. As mentioned, the seals aren't as tight as before. Have coyotes been taking to Purgatory a long time? Or is this a new area of service?
"So Dean got the rack, but Hell is a series of cells?" Holding cells. I didn't take it as that was the Hell torture. The torture chamber is elsewhere.
"So Dean is totally okay with Sam leaving Benny behind? Suuuure he is." Of course he's not. But he was well aware of Benny's state of mind, and how Benny was feeling about being topside. And he knew Benny's personality when it came to protecting those to whom he's I don't think Dean was surprised at all with the outcome. But he's obviously hopeful that there will be a chance to get him out again.
And honestly, of everything we know about Benny, he actually is the one person who has never abandoned Dean. Mary left Dean, not by her own choice, but for a child that young, motive isn't always a comfort, I wouldn't think. Sam left Dean, without a word when he went to Flagstaff, and then to go to Stanford, and then multiple times over the course of the series. (We won't even mention the Ruby debacle.) As soon as John got wind of YED, he took off, is where we begin the series. To go after the demon by himself, without putting Dean--and Sam--in danger, sure, but still. Taking off with no forwarding address. Then we have Cassie, who dumped him when he let himself be vulnerable with her. And Castiel, who chose to team up with Crowley rather than seek Dean's wisdom and advice. Even Lisa, who took him in and loved him, came to a point where she had to protect herself and her son from Dean's unexplained behavior. So really, Benny actually is the only one who never turned on him. So, yeah.
Was it a stellar episode to rival the classic eps of old? No, not really. And I can see how a viewer might see it as diminishing everything Dean went through at the beginning. (I kind of agree.) But the ep entertained me, and right now, that's what I need.
I might write a navel-gazing, introspective post about my current relationship with "fandom," but I think after SPN, that's it for me. I love Jensen, and I think I'll always love Jensen. But I've gone full-time at my job, I should have transferred out of my current position, they should have hired my replacement by now, and the stuff I need to get done for the opening of the theater is not getting done, and I want to weep. I just don't have the patience for fandom's circular drama and complaints. I get what they're saying, and I agree to an extent, but I'm just not in a place to want to engage the negativity. You know?
Okay, I'll stop unloading on you. I've got to get back to work anyway.
But what the frell is with having to wait until April 24 for the next ep?!?
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I've seen a lot of complaints about continuity issues with this ep, and in a way I agree, but they didn't really phase me, because I could come up with plausible (to me) reasoning. And guess what. You get to read my outlines.
"Since when are reapers corporal?" Reaper is also renegade and free-lance.
"Death would never allow it." Death is only concerned with the natural order, people dying when they're supposed to. Even reapers don't know where a soul is going when they die. They just escort them there.
"It took Cas and Crowley a whole season and a special ritual to open Purgatory." That was before it was opened for Eve. And before an entire legion of leviathans escaped. It makes sense to me that the seal would be weakened from repetitive use.
"Crowley didn't know that coyotes could get through? C'mon." Well, circumstances have changed since he tried to get into Purgatory. As mentioned, the seals aren't as tight as before. Have coyotes been taking to Purgatory a long time? Or is this a new area of service?
"So Dean got the rack, but Hell is a series of cells?" Holding cells. I didn't take it as that was the Hell torture. The torture chamber is elsewhere.
"So Dean is totally okay with Sam leaving Benny behind? Suuuure he is." Of course he's not. But he was well aware of Benny's state of mind, and how Benny was feeling about being topside. And he knew Benny's personality when it came to protecting those to whom he's I don't think Dean was surprised at all with the outcome. But he's obviously hopeful that there will be a chance to get him out again.
And honestly, of everything we know about Benny, he actually is the one person who has never abandoned Dean. Mary left Dean, not by her own choice, but for a child that young, motive isn't always a comfort, I wouldn't think. Sam left Dean, without a word when he went to Flagstaff, and then to go to Stanford, and then multiple times over the course of the series. (We won't even mention the Ruby debacle.) As soon as John got wind of YED, he took off, is where we begin the series. To go after the demon by himself, without putting Dean--and Sam--in danger, sure, but still. Taking off with no forwarding address. Then we have Cassie, who dumped him when he let himself be vulnerable with her. And Castiel, who chose to team up with Crowley rather than seek Dean's wisdom and advice. Even Lisa, who took him in and loved him, came to a point where she had to protect herself and her son from Dean's unexplained behavior. So really, Benny actually is the only one who never turned on him. So, yeah.
Was it a stellar episode to rival the classic eps of old? No, not really. And I can see how a viewer might see it as diminishing everything Dean went through at the beginning. (I kind of agree.) But the ep entertained me, and right now, that's what I need.
I might write a navel-gazing, introspective post about my current relationship with "fandom," but I think after SPN, that's it for me. I love Jensen, and I think I'll always love Jensen. But I've gone full-time at my job, I should have transferred out of my current position, they should have hired my replacement by now, and the stuff I need to get done for the opening of the theater is not getting done, and I want to weep. I just don't have the patience for fandom's circular drama and complaints. I get what they're saying, and I agree to an extent, but I'm just not in a place to want to engage the negativity. You know?
Okay, I'll stop unloading on you. I've got to get back to work anyway.
But what the frell is with having to wait until April 24 for the next ep?!?