I'm going to have to stop reading your recaps. You do them very well, but I still have Issues with season 5, especially towards the end, and it's just making me frustrated all over again! (like this whole adam thing! grrr! I sometimes wonder if the rumors were correct and that the show *was* supposed to take a very different direction at this point, but swerved due to being renewed/personal issues/whatever else the rumor covered).
I don't think the rumours are correct, but I understand your frustration. They way it ended was not for everyone. I believe Kripke when he said he ended it the way he always wanted to, only with less death (which I took to mean that Bobby and Cas would have remained dead in his version).
But yeah, feel free to stop reading :P I wouldn't want you to suffer from PTSD flashbacks! ;)
Oh, I don't doubt the end is what he wanted- the Power and Love and all- but the mechanism may have changed (for one, I suspect they may have being going for a dean vs sam / michael vs lucifier face-off with them both ending up in the cage sort of thing.). I just find it frustrating, not because of necessarily the end points or any plot detail in particular, it's just that...to me, it seemed like the first 18 or so episodes were from Season 5 of one universe and the last four were from Season 5 in an entirely different universe.
Oh, yeah, for sure. I've just been struggling to exactly nail down why it frustrates me since...well...last season.
I wouldn't have been particularly *happy* with that ending. You know me. I hate angst. If I were in charge, it would end with happy rainbows and all their dead friends and loved ones coming back to life for a big group hug...and lots of therapy. (I'm not even kidding about that last one. Or the hug. Or the dead-family reunion. I may be kidding about the happy rainbows.)
But I think they were laying the foundation for it, or something similar. Bringing in adam- maybe even the rings- seemed a bit like a last minute change, you know, like "hey, it's not perfect, but it'll do".
Anyway. I'll stop trying to pin down something that's eluded me for months on your journal ;)
I just think they were working up to the rings since the beginning - you know, second episode was when they got War's ring. But yeah, I know what you are saying. They spent most of the season tearing Dean down, and then the last 4 episodes suddenly coming up with a workable plan. It might have been a little off balance.
Ooh! This is going to be totally random, but anyway, I just thought of a timeline thing for you for season 6. Which is not based on dates as much as it is on geography, but.... it couldn't have been summer or late spring in this last episode, because being as north as they were in scotland? It wouldn't get as dark as it was when they were driving! Aha!
Okay, so maybe that's not super useful. But maybe it'll come in handy?
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But yeah, feel free to stop reading :P I wouldn't want you to suffer from PTSD flashbacks! ;)
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But hey, we're all entitled to our opinions.
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I wouldn't have been particularly *happy* with that ending. You know me. I hate angst. If I were in charge, it would end with happy rainbows and all their dead friends and loved ones coming back to life for a big group hug...and lots of therapy. (I'm not even kidding about that last one. Or the hug. Or the dead-family reunion. I may be kidding about the happy rainbows.)
But I think they were laying the foundation for it, or something similar. Bringing in adam- maybe even the rings- seemed a bit like a last minute change, you know, like "hey, it's not perfect, but it'll do".
Anyway. I'll stop trying to pin down something that's eluded me for months on your journal ;)
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I just think they were working up to the rings since the beginning - you know, second episode was when they got War's ring. But yeah, I know what you are saying. They spent most of the season tearing Dean down, and then the last 4 episodes suddenly coming up with a workable plan. It might have been a little off balance.
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Okay, so maybe that's not super useful. But maybe it'll come in handy?
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