Supernatural 8.20
I have been hanging on by my fingernails to Supernatural. I just stopped watching at about 8.14 - couldn't summon the interest. I think I disliked Sam so utterly by that point that it just soured the whole thing. I took a break of about six weeks, during which time I immersed myself in all things Justified/Jacob Pitts-ish, and kept dutifully
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So I had actually moved on to 'Justified'. Am currently consumed there. And after watching such a brilliantly written show, coming back to watch these lazily plotted, lazily scripted episodes - well, it's like eating caviar and then being offered burnt toast.
Only this week wasn't, as least for me. I have no idea if you'll feel the same, hon; it just felt like they weren't being sophomoronic about females, issues, fears - anything. There used to be a gravitas, a sense of threat, to SPN. I can't think of the last ep that had that. This one didn't either, but it had heart.
What they've done with Sam pretty much killed it. I'm a Dean girl through and through, and I agree completely with you about Jensen. Hell, he has sold crap that a lesser actor would have crawled away whimpering over. But I realised this season that I need a Sam I can at least have some sympathy for. Even when I didn't agree with him, or like him much in S4, I had massive sympathy for him; I saw why he did what he did, I thought he was altered and influenced through demon blood, I thought many of his dumb choices were founded in that fact. But S8? Abandoning Dean, and worse in my mind; abandoning Kevin? Dean, okay, he thought he was truly dead, he'd learned not to interfere with that shit, fine. But Kevin was alive and deeeply important and desperately needing help. To turn off his phone was just despicable. Even if he'd left Kevin a message that he couldn't help him... no, he just left him sending increasingly terrified and pitiful messages for help. If Sam was out of commission - and okay, I can accept that, if he really was that traumatised, fine - he *still should have done what he could for Kevin*.
Your liking of 8.20 depends on your liking for Charlie, but - I like. I think she's a terrific character, and I love the chemistry she has with the boys. I love it's taken a couple of encounters to get there. I love BigBrother!Dean.
And your last few paragraphs made me LOL, honestly! Yes, yes, yes.
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