Question Season 8

[metallidean_grl]

I am currently in Season 8 of my current rewatch.  I've had a hankering to watch SPN lately so I've been viewing a couple episodes a night.  Last night I watched 'Goodbye Stranger' and 'Freaks and Geeks

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[casey28]

It's the same thing with angels, so many times we see them using angel blades or doing a physical fight as if they were humans, instead of them using their powers. It's an unfortunate tendency of the later seasons to play down Crowley's powers (even though they're still very much there) and go the easy route (angel blade kill).

About only an angel being able to kill an angel, if they really thought that, then why did they torture Alistair for info in 4.16? They didn't believe it was an angel doing it. I don't take that line literally.

I don't remember that scene in Freaks and Geeks. I don't like that ep so I haven't seen it in a long time (and yes, Krissy is annoying).

[metallidean_grl]

Yes, the writers did tend to go the easy route when it came to how to kill someone. Maybe it's more dramatic that way. Instead of easy route, I call it the lazy route. Instead of coming up with something a little more inventive, they come up with the easy way-kill them with the angel blade. They always have one around somewhere.

That's true about Alistair. I hadn't thought of that. So, even in that episode they contradicted themselves.

Alas, someone else who dislikes kris as much as I do. UGH! Every time her mouth opened I cringed, especially in the episode they introduced her.

[casey28]

Yes, it's the lazy route. And it's faster and cheaper for them to set up a shot using the angel blade instead of doing the powers thing with flinging someone around. But I'd much rather see demons use their powers.

Yes. And it's like when Lucifer said that Sam was "gone" when he possessed him. Sam wasn't literally gone, he just meant that Sam wasn't in control anymore. And I think back then that angel blades were only being used by angels, so it was a way of Uriel emphasizing that he was just about to use one.

I cringed, too. She's waaaaay too annoying.

[laughtersmelody]

I never watched all of Season 8, but just from your description, the blade does sound like an odd choice for someone like Crowley. I wonder if maybe they preferred the more visual aspect of it from a television standpoint.

And that transition does sound terrible too. It's possible that was an editing issue, rather than an issue of the writing itself. It seems like, sometimes, key things get left on the cutting room floor, so to speak, as they are trying to trim the episode down.

[metallidean_grl]

Yea, it could be they used it for a more visual aspect, or dramatic aspect. Stabbing someone with the blade is more dramatic than someone flicking his fingers. I just always found it odd, though. Crowley didn't need the blade to kill demons or others, but they had him use it anyway.

It could have been an editing issue. it's just weird, Dean leaves in the day to go talk to the patient, but next we see him it's the next day and he's just now talking to her. So what happened to those 8-10 hours in between. Was weird to me.

[captainyoga]

YES. Krissy bugged me so much too. think the premise of the character was great but how the character was played wasn't. Claire eventually grew on me but I never really hated her. The other one that bugged was also Season 8 I think, that one gal, the whatsername Sam shacked up with while Dean was in Purgatory. That whole storyline was pretty meh. I get why they did it but still, meh.

Also agree about the angel blade. I think they were going for WOW, but I agree, the subtlety of flicking some fingers and causing death was way more wow than stabbing.

And now I think I have a hankering for some spn. Been missing me some Dean!

[metallidean_grl]

Amelia, Sam's affair. Yea, she also bugged me. I'm not sure why Show wanted to go with that direction. I think if they did it, another actress might have been better. They way she was introduced just didn't sit right with me and I never really liked her. She was mean and rude to our Sammy. You can't do that without making some frenemies. I might have liked that SL with a different actress and introduction.

As for Claire. I can understand her having a chip on her shoulder. But the way the actress played that chip just turned me off. Especially when she was living with Jody and Jody was helping her, loving herm but she still couldn't have a little empathy. That turned me off completely.

I've been missing Dean a lot recently. Not sure why. He's just IT for me, you know?

[captainyoga]

Dean is my one and only! I've never fallen so hard.

[metallidean_grl]

Oh, I'm with you there. I've had other "crushes" on TV characters, but Dean????? Dean takes the pie, and my whole soul and heart along with it. Never before has a character so captured my whole being like Dean. And no other character will ever again. It's magic.