12.12 reaction

[ash48]

I know I shouldn't post this reaction because I really didn't like that episode but I feel the need to work out my thoughts so I'll put it here.

Please don't click and read if you loved it (and I know many did - I'm against the stride with this one *g*). I just feel like I'm getting closer and closer to being completely done.

Comments

[amypond45]

I'm probably being totally naive here, but I'm wondering if Mary thinks she can find and destroy Lucifer's love child as a way to make up for not being there for Sam & Dean when they needed her. Did she really give the colt to Mr. Ketch? I had to rewatch that scene to be sure, but it seems like they left that point deliberately vague. Maybe she read the Carver Edlund novels on-line (obviously she knew Dean was in Hell so she has to know all about everything that happened to them by now) and found out that the colt was real, then made the MoLUK find it for her. Maybe she's playing them, or at least using them, to redeem herself with her sons by "doing something useful".

None of which explains why she was willing to put them in so much danger. As a mother, I cannot imagine working with people who kidnapped and tortured my kid, no matter how useful they might be. But of course if she thinks of them as a means to an end, the way Sam and Dean think of Crowley from time to time...

I guess I'm just curious to see how they'll explain what seems to be inexcusable behavior. They must be aware that most of us find Mary's behavior despicable.

[amberdreams]

I'm hoping they aren't trying to make her more like her father than the woman she appeared to be becoming from the snippets of her life we'd seen up till now. Samuel Campbell was willing to sacrifice family as a means to an end, particularly when they were essentially family he didn't know. "What exactly are you to me?" he asked Dean at one point - these were his grandsons but he was dead before they were even conceived and never knew them like he knew Mary.

[ash48]

I'm keen to see them explain it also - and I really hope they do. We never got a great deal of information about her family (other than them being pretty awful) and we had no sympathy for them at all. I jut hope they don't chose this direction for Mary. It didn't start that way but she returned from the dead like they did - so many there is some continuity there.

All your ideas are possibilities and, as usual, I think we can come up with some great resolutions. :) Often though we (well, me anyway) are disappointed and our ideas turn out to be more interesting than theirs.

They must be aware that most of us find Mary's behavior despicable.

You'd hope so. I just hope it's not there to purely create drama with no real thought of her character. It will be disappointing if it's just so she can sacrifice herself for her sons in the finale...

We'll see!