I'd been feeling a little detached from SPN lately, but this episode has actually made me pretty excited for the finale. I'm not going to get my hopes up too high, but I don't have any particularly strong predictions about how it might play out, and I'm intrigued to see where they go from here.
For a lot of Castiel's time on the show he's either been doing what he thought heaven wanted him to do, or what he thought Sam and Dean wanted him to do. This season... I actually find it pretty cool that Sam and Dean were the ones who sold him on free will, but because he's taken their input to heart, he's making his own decisions to go against what Sam and Dean would want (while still caring for and protecting them! TY, TPTB, for not making him just face heel turn). He's way more interesting to me when he has conviction rather than doubt (of course, as the narration demonstrated, he always has at least a little of both, but that scene where Dean gave him a last chance and he didn't take it - that was some pretty strong conviction right there). I feel like the character has come into his own. Which is why I'm really hoping TPTB don't punish him for that, and the lesson he learns from the finale episodes isn't that you should cow to your friends rather than making independant decisions. Relying on other people to make decisions would be a step backwards for his characterisation.
(If you'd told me last week that this week I would be genuinely invested in Castiel's character development I probably would have scoffed at you. >__>)
For a lot of Castiel's time on the show he's either been doing what he thought heaven wanted him to do, or what he thought Sam and Dean wanted him to do. This season... I actually find it pretty cool that Sam and Dean were the ones who sold him on free will, but because he's taken their input to heart, he's making his own decisions to go against what Sam and Dean would want (while still caring for and protecting them! TY, TPTB, for not making him just face heel turn). He's way more interesting to me when he has conviction rather than doubt (of course, as the narration demonstrated, he always has at least a little of both, but that scene where Dean gave him a last chance and he didn't take it - that was some pretty strong conviction right there). I feel like the character has come into his own. Which is why I'm really hoping TPTB don't punish him for that, and the lesson he learns from the finale episodes isn't that you should cow to your friends rather than making independant decisions. Relying on other people to make decisions would be a step backwards for his characterisation.
(If you'd told me last week that this week I would be genuinely invested in Castiel's character development I probably would have scoffed at you. >__>)
Reply
Leave a comment