Rewatch S7: Of Grave Importance (7x19)

[hells_half_acre]

Okay, back again! I meant to have this up earlier, but I slept in - so it's another day where I'm having lunch for dinner and dinner at midnight. I'll do better on the weekend.

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[percysowner]

Bobby: "Give them a moment, they've got a little slower since I left."
- They have, and it annoys the crap out of me. We should be beyond this at this point.

For the record, I actually think this ties into the line about this stuff tastes the same all over. I assumed they ARE getting a little slower since Bobby left because more and more of the Leviathan High Fructose Corn Syrup is getting into the food supply, especially fast food places. Now restaurants wouldn't dump the old special sauce until it was finished and shipments may go out to different regions at different times, so since Sam and Dean move so much, sometimes they are getting Dick's make them stupid additive and sometimes not. So they really ARE getting slower because of the Leviathans, but it's not hitting them as much as some people because they aren't getting a daily dose.

I do wish they hadn't moved Bobby's story over to revenge. It annoyed the heck out of me that Mary could stay sane for 22 years, and Molly, although unintentionally hurting people was basically sane during her 10 years (?) as a ghost and most of the ghosts we saw in this episode were sane and Bobby, who knew something about the whole ghosts and why they go bad couldn't even hold it together for more than a few months.

[hells_half_acre]

or the record, I actually think this ties into the line about this stuff tastes the same all over. I assumed they ARE getting a little slower since Bobby left because more and more of the Leviathan High Fructose Corn Syrup is getting into the food supply, especially fast food places.

Oh man! See, okay, they should have TOLD us this - that way there would be an explanation as to why Dean and Sam aren't making any progress whatsoever on connecting the puzzle-pieces with Roman enterprises. It just really annoys me that Dean got all obsessed about finding out what's happening in Wisconsin, but now that Frank's dead - he and Sam don't even seem to be looking into it at all either. There's seems to be this stupid mentality of "let's see what he's planning and then fix it" rather than "let's thwart his plans so that they never get implemented."

the ghosts we saw in this episode were sane and Bobby, who knew something about the whole ghosts and why they go bad couldn't even hold it together for more than a few months.

This is why I think it would have been better if that energy-sucking thing that Van Ness did had a KNOWN consequence of speeding up the deterioration process. It would have been as simple as having Victoria tell us...

Annie: "So, when he does that, what happens? Just poof?"
Victoria: "Forever. And that's if you're lucky. If he stops have way, you end up like them..." *motions over to some crazy deteriorated ghosts*

See, easy problem to solve, if you wanted to accelerate Bobby's decent into vengeful spirit-ness.

That being said, I still think they just should have let Bobby's mission stay "To help the boys" and then once they had the plan to take down Dick, Bobby could have crossed himself over like Molly did. Preferably after doing something great for them that he could have only done as a ghost, therefore justifying his decision to stay. :P

[liliaeth]

Maybe it's because Bobby knew that he devolved sooner?

Also, Molly was only active once a year, so that could have been part of what kept her sane for a longer period of time.

As for Mary, she mostly seemed to be dormant, until the poltergeist became active.