Rewatch S14: Moriah (14x20)

[hells_half_acre]

1 week late by tradition! But still January, so I'm counting it as a win.

I finally bring you the final episode of my S14 rewatch - a whole year after I initially intended to be finished.

The new goal will be to get the clothing catalog updated by the end of February... we'll see how well I do at that. Once the clothing catalog is updated, I'll

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[borgmama1of5]

A large part of me wishes it had ended here, where we could imagine them getting out of there alive--and yes, I know that's what 'Angel' did--but season 15 really messed me up. (And I will doubtless talk about that in my responses to your reviews of that season.)

Jack not killing his grandparents (and tricky show for making us think he did there) shows me that he wasn't evil--just a confused (and very powerful) kid, and Dean really screwed up handling him. But Dean's whole reaction to Cas and Jack after the accident with Mary felt off to me, like the overreaction was created by the writers to give us interfamily drama. Because God (and everything else) trying to kill them wasn't enough. Sigh.

Jack kneeling before Dean to accept his fate immediately took me to Sam doing the same when Death told Dean he had to kill his brother. And both times Dean said screw you to what he was supposed to do, knowing it was going to cost him.

And that is why he is a hero IMO. And Sam too.

I marvel at how Rob Benedict is the biggest teddy bear kind of guy on the planet and yet he is SCARY as hell in this role!!!

[hells_half_acre]

Agreed agreed, and we'll inevitably go over it when I get to S15 rewatches.

But yeah, the drama between Dean and Cas (and Dean's mishandling of Jack) was very out of character to me. I think Jensen tried to make it work to the best of his ability, but there's only so much you can do with bad writing. We didn't need interfamily drama on top of the big bad.

I just had a rewrite idea that maybe I'll stick in S15 rewatches when I get to them - but basically you could do this whole thing over again with bringing Chuck in sooner, and making the conversation/events occur due to HIS ideas rather than Dean's.

Good point about Jack kneeling being reminiscent of Sam doing the same - and Dean's reaction FINALLY being consistent with his character... and again, the reason he's one of the heroes.

With very few exceptions, they've always done amazing casting on this show - and Rob Benedict is definitely a case where they cast for one specific type, but were able to take advantage of his full skill set years later.

[borgmama1of5]

Will be looking forward to your ideas for a rewrite--you have good ones!

BTW did you bother to watch Walker? I did a rewrite on the pilot because it bugged me LOL!

[hells_half_acre]

Haha, no, I haven't seen it. I may in the future, we'll see. I don't have a TV and it's pandemic times, so yeah... watching current television is a challenge.

I'm also not much of a family-drama fan - though I wish Jared the best. I think I'm going to be bowing out of serialized TV for the foreseeable future.

Currently, I've fallen into the BTS rabbit-hole and they have a weekly 30-40 minute low-stakes reality show that is extremely entertaining, so that'll probably be my only weekly show for the next little bit.