Ruby meta
I harp on this an annoying amount, I'm sure, but WHAT IS RUBY'S ENDGAME???
Seriously. I saw a couple of reactions where people were all, "HA! I KNEW SHE WAS AN EVIL BITCH AND I HATE HER HATE HATE HATE HER!" And possibly I am just the dumbest person ever to dumb, but...why? So we finally found out what exactly she talked Sam into doing. And getting addicted to demon's blood? Yeah, that's Not Good. BUT. We knew it was going to be something bad. We knew Sam didn't want to do it before and now he is. Now we just know what the "it" is. Am I just not getting it? Now we know what it is, but that doesn't make it better or worse. And--maybe I'm just a horrible person--but drinking demon's blood isn't the worst thing, in that he's not hurting anyone besides himself (and Ruby, kinda). Like if it had turned out that he had to kill innocent people or something everyone couple of weeks, then I would be more willing to hate Ruby.
And, to go back to my first sentence, WHY does Ruby want Sam to do this? I don't think she's doing this for Sam out of the kindness of her heart, but if she's just a demon who hates Lilith and wants her taken out, I'm still sorta down with her manipulating Sam to get that. It doesn't make her a good person, but I can totally understand her motivation. I can imagine her as one of those "red tape" demons, just doing whatever demons do, but she hates Lilith and when she finds out about Dean Winchester and all that--a chance to take Lilith down. She grabs it. I like it. It fits. And it means she can stick around during season 5--maybe she'll have to since maybe Sam will need to be weaned off the blood.
If she has another plan after Lilith is gone, like raising Sam up to be the new King of the Demons with Ruby behind the throne as puppetmaster...well, I'm still cool with how she's played her game so far, and of course she'll need to be killed off after they kill Lilith, but that's a satisfactory end, too. Still feels organic to the show, still a good, three-dimensional character.
If she's working with Lilith somehow...I'll be kind of annoyed. There's twist endings and stuff, but I will feel like I've been conned, not tricked. Ruby's ambiguous, absolutely, but more on the "she has her own agenda" front, not the "she's been a henchdemon of the Lilith all along" front. There's just been too much of her hating Lilith and being against Lilith. Even though, duh, she has to get the Winchesters' trust by saying she's against Lilith...still, no. As viewers, we should have gotten more hints about that, if that's the case. IMAO.
If she's putting Azazel's master plan into play...that's been her goal all along...that will be a trick, not a con, and I will love it. I mean. She's one of Azazel's demon kids, like Meg or something? I mean, remember back in season 3? She told Sam to look into what happened to his mother's friends. And we found out that Azazel considered Mary a favorite. She has this knife that can kill demons and Azazel was after a gun that could do the same. I don't know. I could totally buy that and I would love it.
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I'm so annoyed with myself. Last week, I had a thought about the episode, something like, "I think Sam's getting addicted to using these powers, like how an undercover DEA agent might get addicted to drugs" but did I post it? NO. And now no one will believe me that I did have that thought before this episode aired and the Addiction Anvil bashed us all over the head. CURSES! ;P
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I guess there are also two brothers on this show? And angels? Yeah. ;) I will have more thoughts later, maybe. That was an awesome episode.
ETA: Yeah, just gotta comment on some funny, funny lines from the episode. Castiel's deadpan, "Uriel is the funniest angel" and Dean's reaction...oh, man. And Sam being all, "YOU. MIRACLE. NOW." also cracked me up.
Seriously. I saw a couple of reactions where people were all, "HA! I KNEW SHE WAS AN EVIL BITCH AND I HATE HER HATE HATE HATE HER!" And possibly I am just the dumbest person ever to dumb, but...why? So we finally found out what exactly she talked Sam into doing. And getting addicted to demon's blood? Yeah, that's Not Good. BUT. We knew it was going to be something bad. We knew Sam didn't want to do it before and now he is. Now we just know what the "it" is. Am I just not getting it? Now we know what it is, but that doesn't make it better or worse. And--maybe I'm just a horrible person--but drinking demon's blood isn't the worst thing, in that he's not hurting anyone besides himself (and Ruby, kinda). Like if it had turned out that he had to kill innocent people or something everyone couple of weeks, then I would be more willing to hate Ruby.
And, to go back to my first sentence, WHY does Ruby want Sam to do this? I don't think she's doing this for Sam out of the kindness of her heart, but if she's just a demon who hates Lilith and wants her taken out, I'm still sorta down with her manipulating Sam to get that. It doesn't make her a good person, but I can totally understand her motivation. I can imagine her as one of those "red tape" demons, just doing whatever demons do, but she hates Lilith and when she finds out about Dean Winchester and all that--a chance to take Lilith down. She grabs it. I like it. It fits. And it means she can stick around during season 5--maybe she'll have to since maybe Sam will need to be weaned off the blood.
If she has another plan after Lilith is gone, like raising Sam up to be the new King of the Demons with Ruby behind the throne as puppetmaster...well, I'm still cool with how she's played her game so far, and of course she'll need to be killed off after they kill Lilith, but that's a satisfactory end, too. Still feels organic to the show, still a good, three-dimensional character.
If she's working with Lilith somehow...I'll be kind of annoyed. There's twist endings and stuff, but I will feel like I've been conned, not tricked. Ruby's ambiguous, absolutely, but more on the "she has her own agenda" front, not the "she's been a henchdemon of the Lilith all along" front. There's just been too much of her hating Lilith and being against Lilith. Even though, duh, she has to get the Winchesters' trust by saying she's against Lilith...still, no. As viewers, we should have gotten more hints about that, if that's the case. IMAO.
If she's putting Azazel's master plan into play...that's been her goal all along...that will be a trick, not a con, and I will love it. I mean. She's one of Azazel's demon kids, like Meg or something? I mean, remember back in season 3? She told Sam to look into what happened to his mother's friends. And we found out that Azazel considered Mary a favorite. She has this knife that can kill demons and Azazel was after a gun that could do the same. I don't know. I could totally buy that and I would love it.
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I'm so annoyed with myself. Last week, I had a thought about the episode, something like, "I think Sam's getting addicted to using these powers, like how an undercover DEA agent might get addicted to drugs" but did I post it? NO. And now no one will believe me that I did have that thought before this episode aired and the Addiction Anvil bashed us all over the head. CURSES! ;P
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I guess there are also two brothers on this show? And angels? Yeah. ;) I will have more thoughts later, maybe. That was an awesome episode.
ETA: Yeah, just gotta comment on some funny, funny lines from the episode. Castiel's deadpan, "Uriel is the funniest angel" and Dean's reaction...oh, man. And Sam being all, "YOU. MIRACLE. NOW." also cracked me up.