Please note - this is not a reaction to the last two eps shown a couple of days ago but the one before. I am behind.
Finally, show is back. Just in time.
I couldn't get into the past few eps. I have been having trouble ever since the beginning of Season 15 to be honest, which made it hard for me to even sit down to watch show when it came back. When I did, there were scenes where I teared up, but most of the lines seemed dumb and the acting felt fake. The part of me that is still the old me explains this perfectly. Of course it is because Chuck is forcing the story. Nothing seems true to the real brothers. They go and kill innocent monsters in Give Me Shelter (WTF!) and Dean gets obsessed with killing Chuck to the point of not caring if Jack dies and pointing a gun at Sam - all because Chuck is manipulating him. I still hate it. It seems like a waste of our precious few last eps. I hate watching Dean being someone he is not. Way to ruin show for me.
In Despair I wept as Cas said goodbye. The lines again felt forced, and it was totally weird that they didn't even hug at the end. Did they think that would be too awkward after the L word? Come on. Dean and Cas have hugged before for less. Despite all that, I felt that he was saying goodbye to us - not just to Dean - so I wept despite the awful fake sounding lines and seemingly bad acting.
This ep was good though. Well, how they dealt with Chuck was lacking in finesse. The mysterious plot revelation could have been so much more exciting, but I finally got Dean back. He looked good again<3 and I felt the urge to get screencaps again (but I watched on CW with a large screen instead of using a file and the small photoshop capture screen so don’t have any)
I haven't watched the final two? eps yet. I don't want to rush it. I would actually have been happy with this as the last ep, and don't see what else could happen, except another showdown with Chuck and an epilogue? but two more eps I can look forward to for a while sounds good to me. I know people are probably reacting right about now and really don’t want to read anything. I’m plugging my ears and singing to myself so I don’t hear what is going on around me. I’m sorry for not reacting to your posts but I may go back and do that later.
I don’t know what to expect of my reaction. I may be so overwhelmed I have to write something, or too overwhelmed that I want to keep my feelings to myself until I am ready for a rewatch and one day finish what I set out to do in 2013 (when I started writing at supernutjapan.livejournal.com). By that time, there may be no one here to actually read what I have written or see any gifs I feel like making, just like there was no one at the very beginning of the journey.
I'm sorry, I am in a terribly melancholic mood.