"You know me. I'm not leaving my brother alone out there."

[bree_black]

I apologize for the delay in this post, and also for not having read anyone else's reactions yet. I waited for two reasons. First, I wanted to do a rewatch. Second, I wanted to let some of my thoughts settle before I posted. Early in the season I have a tendency to speak too soon, and say stuff I didn't mean.

Pretty much all positive below.

Comments

[rachel_martin64]

Sera Gamble delivered. All the plot threads were addressed and wrapped up. I thought the finale was fantastic. What a cliff-hanger! A super-powered Castiel as the new God and new big bad, what a fantastic set up for Season 7!

I think the show missed the most obvious and amazing plot possibility, though. It should have been Death reporting that Sam's soul wasn't in the cage. It should have turned out that Castiel had been holding onto Sam's soul all along to power his "war machine." Then Dean would have had a believable reason to get furious with Castiel.

Because, seriously, Dean's motivation for getting mad and staying mad at Castiel is just so weak. Yes, Castiel is working with Crowley. Um, I seem to remember Dean working with Crowley in Season 5. I remember being irritated that it was okay for Dean to trust Crowley but not okay for Sam to trust Ruby.

Castiel in Season 6, like Sam in Season 4, has good reasons for his actions, and I wish that the scriptwriters could have come up with better dialog between them and Dean, allowing Sam and Castiel to explain themselves in a reasonable manner to Dean, and allowing Dean to explain why he doesn't concur.

I think the show did a great job of showing everyone abandoning Castiel so that when he did acquire all that power no one would have any emotional claim over him.

I'd like the scriptwriters to explain why Sam, Dean and Bobby shouldn't accept Cas immediately as the new God. Why are they automatically going to oppose him?

Sam is totally re-integrated, he remembers hell, and.... it's a big so what? What appears to be a quite sane and functional Sam shows up in the last scene. I don't get it. Are we going to find out that everyone was wrong about the consequences of Sam remembering Hell? That there aren't any consequences? That's kind of a big anti-climatic let-down, so I hope that gets addressed in Season 7.