12.16 reaction

[ash48]

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Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Yes, I also thought that the werewolf's comment was significant about what was to come. After all, we already saw that the vampire attacks brought the Alpha Vamp out of hiding.

I do agree that the episode wasn't that engaging, largely because the actress playing Claire doesn't seem capable of carrying an episode and she's not written in a particularly interesting way either. However, I did like several things about the episode, Mick's ambivalence, for one.

I don't know as it predicts a future turn from the BMoL largely because his main mission has been to get U.S. hunters on their side, and working against them is certainly not going to do that. On the other hand, I do think this episode was meant to develop him as a character for this season and I think did so fairly effectively. His regret about his lost team, for one. Too often people are slaughtered on SPN with not a glance back or any indication they are ever remembered.

The other thing I liked was the acknowledgement of passing time -- on the show and with the Winchesters. The parental roles were part of it, in the sense that it offered a generational view of things. Claire is not much younger than Sam was at the start of the series. And I thought that scene where Claire emphasizes his age was paralleled with the scene where Dean threatens Mick and acknowledges that he used to be just the same but he's lived a life and he sees things differently now. I think that view from Dean has been pretty inconsistent, where it's always been part of Sam's view. But it was nice to have it spelled out straight from the horse's mouth.