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Bah, I had a stupidly awful night last night, characterized by a car breaking down several hours from home and not being back until 3AM. And tomorrow I get to spend fourteen hours in a car that had seriously better fucking not break down.
For now, though... SPN. I almost didn't write this, but I have a streak going.
Why yes, I'm kind of mad about Ellen and Jo dying, thank you for asking. Mostly I'm disappointed, the kind of disappointment that doesn't come from unexpected failure, but rather from having one's prior convictions affirmed even while hoping they wouldn't be.
Seriously, the story is at the place where we get it, writers, okay? We fucking get it, the war is a horrible, horrible thing and the people Dean and Sam love and like will die, whether pointlessly or in a moment of incandescent and self-sacrificing heroism. Or, in this case, both. I did not like the twist with the Colt, especially because a really fucking huge qualifier like "Yeah, this gun can kill anything in the world EXCEPT FOR FIVE BEINGS, INCLUDING ME LOL"* seemed like something Castiel should have known--or, if not, Crowley. Before that, I was prepared to accept Ellen and Jo dying, because at least they'd owned their deaths and chosen them (at least within the narrative; the issue with the writing team is something else entirely), but now... Seriously, writers? I mean, fucking seriously?
Yeah, I understand that having the Colt reappear ties up a huge loose end from S3, and I understand that the plot is working its inexorable way to Sam v. Dean/Lucifer v. Michael, and having the Colt work would get in the way, but... isn't this all fairly well established by now? I get that the Colt is Dean's way out, and their way of trying to buck fate, only to be corralled back to destiny again, and I get that this is a lesson that's still (and will forever be) pressed home by the narrative until we get to the end. But still, I can't help feeling sour over the whole thing, because Jo and Ellen dying does nothing except give Dean the emotional impetus he doesn't need in order to find a way to finish things. It reduces their sacrifice to... well, not much more than a way to get the popgun off the mantel in the third act.
There are other ways to do it other than having people die, is all I'm saying. If Mary, John, Jess, Pamela, and Henricksen dying (to name a few, I know I'm forgetting people), and Bobby being paralyzed, haven't done it yet, then maybe you should stop killing people and try something else, writers. And now I'm kind of pissed off, thinking about Dean telling Castiel that saving the world is about saving people, saving families, and Jo and Ellen are dead. Not cool. Not cool at all.
What I liked is hard for me to sift out from the towering pile of NO BAD AND WRONG. But I did like some things.
Castiel doing shots with Ellen was love. It's kind of amazing how one moment he's being stalky and stealthy and badass, and the next knocking back five tequila shots, and then before you know it going all angel again and being absolutely fearless when he's confronted by Lucifer. And even when he realizes he can't de-possess a person anymore, he keeps his calm and gets himself--and the boys--out of a pair of fairly bad situations. Oh, Cas, ILU <3333
* = hm, the four archangels and God?
Now here is where I say that I'm going away for a week! Yes, I'm headed off to see family for Thanksgiving. I will have sporadic computer access, but will likely fall behind anyway... so just in case I can't say it next week, to my fellow Americans, Happy Thanksgiving! And, once again, John and Rodney would like to say:
Rodney is very disappointed some of you elected not to listen to him last year :(
For now, though... SPN. I almost didn't write this, but I have a streak going.
Why yes, I'm kind of mad about Ellen and Jo dying, thank you for asking. Mostly I'm disappointed, the kind of disappointment that doesn't come from unexpected failure, but rather from having one's prior convictions affirmed even while hoping they wouldn't be.
Seriously, the story is at the place where we get it, writers, okay? We fucking get it, the war is a horrible, horrible thing and the people Dean and Sam love and like will die, whether pointlessly or in a moment of incandescent and self-sacrificing heroism. Or, in this case, both. I did not like the twist with the Colt, especially because a really fucking huge qualifier like "Yeah, this gun can kill anything in the world EXCEPT FOR FIVE BEINGS, INCLUDING ME LOL"* seemed like something Castiel should have known--or, if not, Crowley. Before that, I was prepared to accept Ellen and Jo dying, because at least they'd owned their deaths and chosen them (at least within the narrative; the issue with the writing team is something else entirely), but now... Seriously, writers? I mean, fucking seriously?
Yeah, I understand that having the Colt reappear ties up a huge loose end from S3, and I understand that the plot is working its inexorable way to Sam v. Dean/Lucifer v. Michael, and having the Colt work would get in the way, but... isn't this all fairly well established by now? I get that the Colt is Dean's way out, and their way of trying to buck fate, only to be corralled back to destiny again, and I get that this is a lesson that's still (and will forever be) pressed home by the narrative until we get to the end. But still, I can't help feeling sour over the whole thing, because Jo and Ellen dying does nothing except give Dean the emotional impetus he doesn't need in order to find a way to finish things. It reduces their sacrifice to... well, not much more than a way to get the popgun off the mantel in the third act.
There are other ways to do it other than having people die, is all I'm saying. If Mary, John, Jess, Pamela, and Henricksen dying (to name a few, I know I'm forgetting people), and Bobby being paralyzed, haven't done it yet, then maybe you should stop killing people and try something else, writers. And now I'm kind of pissed off, thinking about Dean telling Castiel that saving the world is about saving people, saving families, and Jo and Ellen are dead. Not cool. Not cool at all.
What I liked is hard for me to sift out from the towering pile of NO BAD AND WRONG. But I did like some things.
Castiel doing shots with Ellen was love. It's kind of amazing how one moment he's being stalky and stealthy and badass, and the next knocking back five tequila shots, and then before you know it going all angel again and being absolutely fearless when he's confronted by Lucifer. And even when he realizes he can't de-possess a person anymore, he keeps his calm and gets himself--and the boys--out of a pair of fairly bad situations. Oh, Cas, ILU <3333
* = hm, the four archangels and God?
Now here is where I say that I'm going away for a week! Yes, I'm headed off to see family for Thanksgiving. I will have sporadic computer access, but will likely fall behind anyway... so just in case I can't say it next week, to my fellow Americans, Happy Thanksgiving! And, once again, John and Rodney would like to say:
Rodney is very disappointed some of you elected not to listen to him last year :(