WE'RE BACK! With more quarantined reactions... but tonight, I DID have a glass of wine, because drinking alone is fine if everyone else is doing it. :P
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Cool thing--Rachel Miner! And they kept that a total secret, no one breathed a word about it, so it was very happy-making to see her, even if her inclusion as personification of The Empty was pretty random--I mean, actual Meg would be in the empty too, and she could have just been her...but I was just tickled to see Rachel. One 'bring-the-actor-back-for-a-final-time' that I didn't mind.
Amusing thing--the characters of AU Sam and Dean and how J2 played them.I especially appreciated how Jensen portrayed AU Dean. However, as to why they were there and what happened to them...well, I'll talk about that in a minute.
As far as the rest of the episode--you've already expressed my frustration with the abandonment of canon re: Jo/Anael and Ruby--and Ruby would really give up the Occultum's location on just Castiel's half-given word that he'll get her out of the empty? No way. I expected her to make him physically take her with when he left.
It was clearly 'bring-the-actors-back-for-a-final-time-and-it-doesn't-have-to-make-any-sense' writing. Sigh.
And the whole Garden issue...another sigh...
Obviously the point of the last couple episodes had been to make sure Team Free Will 2.0 is solidly together for the finale so that the ending will really hurt when some of them don't survive. (Pretty sure Cas is a goner. And one of the brothers, but which one??? Because that will hurt the most...)
And then there's sending the AU Sam and Dean off to Brazil. WTF??? They are just going to leave another Sam and Dean floating around our Earth when it all ends?!?!? When resolving Dark!Kaia's storyline was a big deal last week, we are left with these 2 dudes just hanging out in South America? Not to mention, how are they supposed to get there? No ID, no money, no supplies--they might be good in their universe but here? When our Sam had to give the AU hunters all kinds of tutorials??? Which also leads me to ask someone to explain where the heck did Dean's rationale of needing fake them in the bunker in case Chuck looks in on them come from??? How many times have they left the bunker in the last few episodes??? It makes no sense!
Oh. Looks at who wrote the episode.
The only thing I can think of is that somehow having a second set of Winchesters comes into play in the final confrontation with Chuck? That one or both of those Winchesters die instead of ours? Maybe? Because otherwise I don't see any reason for them to be in this episode other than to let J2 play around. Which, to be honest, 'just because the writers want to' seems to be the reason for 75% of this season...
Sigh.
But Rachel's appearance was cool and AU boys were funny, and Jack has his soul back...
It occurred to me that with AU Sam and Dean, they can kill off OUR Sam and Dean and leave someone to continue the hunt. Or they could totally forget about them because this episode was a MESS canonically, so what's one more glitch in canon?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're going to choose the latter - and treat them like Jesse, who they also stashed in the Southern Hemisphere never to be thought of again.
I think AU!Sam and Dean are going the way of Jesse-the-Antichrist. They are now in the Southern Hemisphere, never to be thought of or brought up again.
I don't like speculating on the end. So I'll leave you to your own thoughts there!
I agree that Rachel's appearance was really the only acceptable "bring the actor back because we want to see them" addition that I'll accept about the episode - the rest of them were too hamfisted in.
Cool thing--Rachel Miner! And they kept that a total secret, no one breathed a word about it, so it was very happy-making to see her, even if her inclusion as personification of The Empty was pretty random--I mean, actual Meg would be in the empty too, and she could have just been her...but I was just tickled to see Rachel. One 'bring-the-actor-back-for-a-final-time' that I didn't mind.
Amusing thing--the characters of AU Sam and Dean and how J2 played them.I especially appreciated how Jensen portrayed AU Dean. However, as to why they were there and what happened to them...well, I'll talk about that in a minute.
As far as the rest of the episode--you've already expressed my frustration with the abandonment of canon re: Jo/Anael and Ruby--and Ruby would really give up the Occultum's location on just Castiel's half-given word that he'll get her out of the empty? No way. I expected her to make him physically take her with when he left.
It was clearly 'bring-the-actors-back-for-a-final-time-and-it-doesn't-have-to-make-any-sense' writing. Sigh.
And the whole Garden issue...another sigh...
Obviously the point of the last couple episodes had been to make sure Team Free Will 2.0 is solidly together for the finale so that the ending will really hurt when some of them don't survive. (Pretty sure Cas is a goner. And one of the brothers, but which one??? Because that will hurt the most...)
And then there's sending the AU Sam and Dean off to Brazil. WTF??? They are just going to leave another Sam and Dean floating around our Earth when it all ends?!?!? When resolving Dark!Kaia's storyline was a big deal last week, we are left with these 2 dudes just hanging out in South America? Not to mention, how are they supposed to get there? No ID, no money, no supplies--they might be good in their universe but here? When our Sam had to give the AU hunters all kinds of tutorials??? Which also leads me to ask someone to explain where the heck did Dean's rationale of needing fake them in the bunker in case Chuck looks in on them come from??? How many times have they left the bunker in the last few episodes??? It makes no sense!
Oh. Looks at who wrote the episode.
The only thing I can think of is that somehow having a second set of Winchesters comes into play in the final confrontation with Chuck? That one or both of those Winchesters die instead of ours? Maybe? Because otherwise I don't see any reason for them to be in this episode other than to let J2 play around. Which, to be honest, 'just because the writers want to' seems to be the reason for 75% of this season...
Sigh.
But Rachel's appearance was cool and AU boys were funny, and Jack has his soul back...
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I don't like speculating on the end. So I'll leave you to your own thoughts there!
I agree that Rachel's appearance was really the only acceptable "bring the actor back because we want to see them" addition that I'll accept about the episode - the rest of them were too hamfisted in.
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