Quick and Dirty Rewatch of Season 12 Thoughts

[borgmama1of5]

This Saturday I finally had time to start my rewatch of season 12 on the dvds.

I started around 4 pm Saturday...and finished up at 4:30 am Monday morning...while I did take a sleep break Saturday night, on Sunday I didn't want to stop and watched 13 episodes straight...and I'm going to call off work today (and after I get some sleep I have to do

Comments

[raloria]

I wanted to like the BMOL storyline, but it was such a slow reveal as to what their goal was that I grew frustrated with it. Then Ketch remained such a mystery, which was equally frustrating. Actually, I would have been more impressed by the BMOL if they hadn't had so many flaws - you initially allow an unhinged person torture an American hunter even though you knew she wasn't stable? And for all their organization, cool toys, and knowledge, they were still wrong about things - like where the Alpha Vamp was. *sigh* I don't know...they should have been more impressive and scary, but the longer the season went the more chinks showed up in their armor. Which made me wonder why Mary and Sam were so willing to join up with them.

Totally agree that the Lucifer/Crowley storyline was just a rehash that we've seen before. They really did run out of things to have Crowley do, which is why I'm okay with him dying at the end. IMO Crowley ceased to be interesting after Season 8 when he had some of his humanity replaced by Sam. He's been kinda weak and wishy washy ever since. Gone was the badass, scary Crowley of past seasons.

About the prison-break ep....I think why it felt different is because there was no supernatural element involved (outside of Billie breaking them out). It was basically the boys running from regular human soldiers. Which, yes, was impressive, but nothing supernatural was involved.

[borgmama1of5]

The BMoL story made no sense! They should have hooked Sam initially like they got Mary, showing how efficient they were--they were torturing Sam for information that didn't exist...in fact their intel was very strange--they were really on top of some things like where the vamp nests were, and able to follow what was going on with Magda, and they knew about the secret 'area 94' where Sam and Dean were being held--but they didn't know there wasn't a 'hunter hierarchy' in the US?

One other hint that was dropped and then never followed up on was in the episode where Claire is turned into a werewolf. The werewolf who turned her talked about how his pack was doing their own thing not hurting anyone and hunters with weapons like nothing ever before came and wiped out the pack. That would have been a great twist to explore how the BMoL way was unnecessarily inhumane!