Initial reaction 15.18: "Despair"

[caranfindel]

First, let me thank those of you who posted such thoughtful, intelligent comments last week. I hate that I couldn’t jump in there with you. I love that you did it without me.

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Ok, said it was only two comments, but actually...

[mangacat201]

Alright, *cracks knuckles* so what bothers me most about this last leg of the journey, is, tbh - pace. I know this is only the writer's fault up to a certain point (it is entirely their fault though) but as much as I understand gathering the most encompassing and towering forces of the universe to oppose the Winchesters in their final battle for glory looks like the way to go for a dramatic, high stakes finish, with the boys prevailing in some true and tried Hail Mary Winchester fashion, BUT... it is also gathering the most encompassing and towering, ALLMIGHTY forces of the universe and then... putting them in idle for a season. Cause the pace they're doing it is screwing up my sense of urgency like a bad b**** mofo (and I have spend the last three weeks watching and then rewatching the Untamed, where in true Asian equilibrium they all but stop to serve tea in the middle of a fucking battle for the known world and I should be all trained up I SHOULD, but they have tension in their long lingering looks for barely emoting and they surf on swords so they get a pass). I mean, not that I actually want the boys' to lose and all, but WHAT'S THE FUCKING HOLD UP??
It's ok if you pitch all the vast forces of the universe - God, the Darkness, Death, the Empty etc etc. - against the boys, but please, if they're going not to get instantly squashed like the fricking ants they are to these entities, give those antagonists a sufficient reason to hold off from just snapping them out of existence. Chuck, I get, he's just a sadist who wants to watch them bleed out slowly. The Empty just wants to be left alone, ok sure, Death though, why the fuck is she fighting them Darth-Vader style, is it because she can't actually interfere actively, TELL us what are the RULES?
And of course the Winchesters can't do anything but run around impotently and do things that are not going to make a difference and are not going to matter, but instead of mounting the tension and making me care about all those beloved people coming back before their send off, I just sit there and feel... nothing.
Except like, there's two episodes left and I ask myself, what are they going to do with that much time, which is decidedly not the kind of despair I should be feeling right now. Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm just burnt out on all the real world drama going on right now, but I sat through 35 mins of this episode, and I couldn't bring myself to care and I resent that by a magnitude of 1000.

Do I know what to do with that? Nope, I don't. The momentum has stalled and I have no confidence in the writers of the last remaining episodes to get it back. Do I think they still have a chance though? Always, hope springs eternal.