SPN 6.21 & 6.22 - and pondering Season 6
Late opinion is late. I've been letting this sit, trying to weed out insta-fan reaction from deeper, story-telling opinions. I haven't had a lot to say here about Season 6 because as I watched it seemed extremely disjointed and as if too many stories were being told. I figured I wouldn't really know how all the balls in the air would fall until
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I was hoping that Castiel was going to fall and become human. New wardrobe! No more "too powerful" issues! Exploration of what it means to be human! A new challenge for Misha to play. Becoming God was not my first choice but now that they've gone there, killing him off would make me cranky.
But I feel like it was kept so that it could be 'revealed' as a betrayal.
THIS. So much of what got shoehorned in needed to be set up earlier. When we saw Sam under the streetlight? I want to have seen him start to walk off, pause to look through a translucent Castiel, and then continue on. Since we had so much Domestic!Dean in the beginning, seeing those scenes, where Castiel & Crowley are invisibly watching Dean needed to be there. Not that we would hear what was said but even a soft-focus of something happening in the background while we listened to some music that Dean was listening to on his MP3 player while raking, for instance. *Something.*
Can you imagine what it could have been like if the season opened with Sam hunting alphas for Crowley? Like he KNEW he was working for Crowley, but he didn't care, because he's soulless and he likes killing things. And of course Crowley is all too happy to take advantage of the soulless, relentless hunter. Then cue angsty reunion with Dean.
YES! What an awesome idea! That would have been AMAZING. I'm sure people would have whined that "Sam and demons" had been done but in this case, it would show us just how wrong Sam is upon his return. We know that *Sam* would not do this. It's an awesome idea and I wish they'd gone this route.
Why were the monsters building armies? Did I miss something? They apparently didn't need armies to open Purgatory and get Mom out.
You missed that, too? Maybe we both blinked at the same time. *sigh*
I hated, hated the other actress for the Mother.
I hated the whole idea of the character as written. Maybe the other actress is good; I have no idea because I had a closed mind once I watched the Virgin roaming the countryside without shoes and preying on men. Bored now.
Samantha Smith is gorgeous, too, but she was given a real role and power. Imagine if, in addition to all these monsters behaving in atypical ways, they'd encountered the "new" monster experiments during the early season the way they did at the end: new mistakes that die on their own followed by "successful" monsters that succumb to iron in this town are immune two episodes later. That would add a nice sense of peril that has been lost in knowing that salt/iron repels ghosts, silver kills shape shifters, the knife kills demons, etc.
And it keeps the focus on the Winchesters. How do they adapt to fighting chimeras? How do they deal with having to hunt their own mother?
Things don't lead to one another. Even things that are distractions from the main storyline don't conclude themselves, they're just left hanging.
AGREED.
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