Quick Reaction: 12x21 There's Something About Mary

[hells_half_acre]

Alright, so, let's just be honest right out of the gate:

I hated this episode.

But, I have a rule around here, and it's that you HAVE to find the positive in a thing - and the rules apply to me too. So, yeah... yeah... let's see what I can do here.

Comments

[madebyme_x]

I'm with you, I really am. But on the positive side I do like the idea of the boys being trapped inside the bunker (lets forget the reasons why, because well, lets just forget that). I think after seeing the boys carve their names into the desk, make it feel like their home, and now seeing it trying to kill them is interesting and has potential

[hells_half_acre]

Yeah, they better not kill Jody and Donna. Blah, I don't think I'll ever be over Eileen though... she's another Charlie in my books - gone too soon and without given the end she deserved.

I too am growing tired of Crowley - and I love Mark Sheppard - but I feel like it's becoming more and more apparent that they're just trying to keep him around, but don't actually have a storyline for him that's good enough to justify it.

I'm glad we get the next two back to back too. I also hope nothing happens to Mary, but I'm expecting the worst (maybe that way I'll be pleasantly surprised?)

I want to see all the things that you want to see though - I don't feel like it's fair if they take her before they actually get to have a real conversation about the reality of their childhood... like you said, "some family stuff."

We'll see though, even if it's all a disaster, there's always fanfic! The show gives us plenty ideas that we can write canon-divergent AUs from ;)

[kailita]

Wow. That was just...ugh.

Sam and Dean both seemed so passive, even in the fight scenes, because they're not being given the opportunity to make any real CHOICES. That was my problem with the end of season 11 as well. Where is their agency? They're not even driving their own plot. It's a real flaw with the structure of the season as a whole.

Also...I would just like to restate a previous comment where I raised an eyebrow at a random teenage girl being able to put off a hellhound with a freaking cooler, or whatever it was. Stuff like that completely undermines moments like this, where TRAINED HUNTERS like Eileen are being taken out by hellhounds. That sucked.

[hells_half_acre]

Completely agree about Sam and Dean's legacy.

And, while I see your point about the teenager with the cooler, versus the hell hound - I do think that you understood that she would have immediately died had Sam not been there.

But yeah... I understand your view on it too, and can completely agree how it undermines this death.

RAR. But yeah, the passivity is a HUGE problem.

Ugh.

I think I'll just ignore that Eileen ever died, and stick my fingers in my ears and hum really loud. They didn't NEED her death - they could have used Randy's or whoever that guy was that Mary killed. If they're going to treat the death as nearly meaningless anyway (Jared was the only one who put gravity to it) then they should have just introduced a character to be killed - like they did with Dean when he "let" that Hunter get killed by the vampires when he had the MoC.

Anyway, yeah... I'll try to stop ranting now, and go back to humming really loud.