Uncomfortably Annoyed
I'm finally starting to catch up with Supernatural, meaning that I watched one of the three episodes I've missed because I had a group meeting that lasted 2 and half hours afterward. For the most part I liked Dark Side of the Moon. I found the idea of the boys dieing and going to heaven more than once interesting and I squeed when I saw Ash. Seriously, he was awesome. However I had issues not so much with the episode itself but certain things that were explored in it.
I feel like we're still treading the same ground we wore a frakkin' rut into over five years. Yes, Dean has abandonment issues. I get it, stop beating me over the head with it. I'm sick of hearing "Dean, everyone leaves you." First of all, Mary didn't leave she was gutted by a demon. John sacrificed his life for Dean which was so awful that Dean failed to deal with it for half a season and then he goes out and does the same thing for his brother. Yes, Sam left but he had to because he never would have grown as a person staying with his family. Even Dean didn't start to grow into a full adult until he began breaking off from John and doing his own hunts. If Sam stayed I don't think he would have been allowed on his own hunts for years and John or Dean would continue to be in charge of him. Maybe he could have done it better but they were both young and at that age where you're stupidly convinced you're right and know better and that irrational anger is so close to the surface. They both should know better now and Sam should not have to keep apologizing for it. Now you could make a good argument that everyone dies because of Sam but the show ignores that piece of angst.
Sam's memories were pathetic. Dean has this beautiful scene with his mother and Sam has a dingy room with a dog, a shack in the middle of a dark road. Really?! You're telling me this kid has no other good memories? I don't see Sam leaving for Stanford as being the best of the best, worthy of heaven memory for Sam. The Thanksgiving, maybe but all together it all felt like a way to drive up angst and conflict between the boys by once again going back to the board for the same thing we've been exploring since season one.
Sam loves his family, we've seen that. He went cuckoo for cocoa puffs after Dean died, that should be a testament to how much Dean meant to him but all that is swept under the rug in favor of 'Oh noes Sam left me and was happy about it'.
It pisses me off. I feel like they're doing this partly because they know the fangirls love Dean angst but it's lazy on the part of the writers. It's time for them to move on. And's let get over the whole 'Sam did awful, horrible things and we need to keep bringing it up to make him feel bad' deal. He slept with a demon and drank demon blood but it's not like he turned into Angelus while he was doing it. What he did was bad but lets keep in mind that he tried to sell his soul and get himself killed via a suicidal attack on Lilith-obviously the boy wasn't in the right head space to be making any kind of rational decision. And the whole starting the apocalypse thing-they were trying to kill Lilith for two seasons and it didn't become the wrong thing to do till the very end so how the hell was he supposed to know it would be a mistake. I don't know what kind of scale they're using but I always thought selling you soul was pretty much the be all end all of sins but I guess in the SPN world tapping demon ass is worst.
I'm at the point where I almost endorse the boys separating in the hope of forcing some personal growth except I'm afraid we would never see Sam again. Dean's a stronger character than this. The writers need to let him get over himself and they need to let Sam stop being a doormat/sidekick. This isn't the Dean Show, guest starring Castiel. And if they can't do that then they just need to let them become Lucifer/Michael because at least that will lead to something different.
In summary, I miss my show or I miss the excitement I used to have for my show.
PS- I wanted to smack Dean for dropping the necklace at the end, that was just cruel. Seriously, if they make Dean any more emo, I going to cut someone.
I feel like we're still treading the same ground we wore a frakkin' rut into over five years. Yes, Dean has abandonment issues. I get it, stop beating me over the head with it. I'm sick of hearing "Dean, everyone leaves you." First of all, Mary didn't leave she was gutted by a demon. John sacrificed his life for Dean which was so awful that Dean failed to deal with it for half a season and then he goes out and does the same thing for his brother. Yes, Sam left but he had to because he never would have grown as a person staying with his family. Even Dean didn't start to grow into a full adult until he began breaking off from John and doing his own hunts. If Sam stayed I don't think he would have been allowed on his own hunts for years and John or Dean would continue to be in charge of him. Maybe he could have done it better but they were both young and at that age where you're stupidly convinced you're right and know better and that irrational anger is so close to the surface. They both should know better now and Sam should not have to keep apologizing for it. Now you could make a good argument that everyone dies because of Sam but the show ignores that piece of angst.
Sam's memories were pathetic. Dean has this beautiful scene with his mother and Sam has a dingy room with a dog, a shack in the middle of a dark road. Really?! You're telling me this kid has no other good memories? I don't see Sam leaving for Stanford as being the best of the best, worthy of heaven memory for Sam. The Thanksgiving, maybe but all together it all felt like a way to drive up angst and conflict between the boys by once again going back to the board for the same thing we've been exploring since season one.
Sam loves his family, we've seen that. He went cuckoo for cocoa puffs after Dean died, that should be a testament to how much Dean meant to him but all that is swept under the rug in favor of 'Oh noes Sam left me and was happy about it'.
It pisses me off. I feel like they're doing this partly because they know the fangirls love Dean angst but it's lazy on the part of the writers. It's time for them to move on. And's let get over the whole 'Sam did awful, horrible things and we need to keep bringing it up to make him feel bad' deal. He slept with a demon and drank demon blood but it's not like he turned into Angelus while he was doing it. What he did was bad but lets keep in mind that he tried to sell his soul and get himself killed via a suicidal attack on Lilith-obviously the boy wasn't in the right head space to be making any kind of rational decision. And the whole starting the apocalypse thing-they were trying to kill Lilith for two seasons and it didn't become the wrong thing to do till the very end so how the hell was he supposed to know it would be a mistake. I don't know what kind of scale they're using but I always thought selling you soul was pretty much the be all end all of sins but I guess in the SPN world tapping demon ass is worst.
I'm at the point where I almost endorse the boys separating in the hope of forcing some personal growth except I'm afraid we would never see Sam again. Dean's a stronger character than this. The writers need to let him get over himself and they need to let Sam stop being a doormat/sidekick. This isn't the Dean Show, guest starring Castiel. And if they can't do that then they just need to let them become Lucifer/Michael because at least that will lead to something different.
In summary, I miss my show or I miss the excitement I used to have for my show.
PS- I wanted to smack Dean for dropping the necklace at the end, that was just cruel. Seriously, if they make Dean any more emo, I going to cut someone.