Supernatural Season 6x20: The Man Who Would Be King: PicSpam + Review
Okay, so despite my Flu and being rushed around today, I still couldn't wait to watch this episode. Before I got the dl, as per usual, I took a little sneak-peek at what people were saying about it, and it's almost like Marmite. Some people liked it a LOT, some people didn't get the hype.
Me, myself? I am just happy a) Cas isn't EVIL evil, like all the way evil, like I feared the writers would kill his character with being and b) that I actually enjoyed it despite my reservations at it being a Cas-central episode. It still had oodles of the boys than I expected so I'm happy.
Let's get this show on the road, then, huh? ^_-
Okay, first of all: what do I think of Castiel. I think this is important for you guys to know what / think about him, before reviewing an episode featured on him, right? ^_^;
I love him. I've had the good fortune, after a very shaky start with this series (as I watched it all out of order!) to have seen Castiel's character at least from the beginning thanks to buying boxsets of S3 and S4 together on a whim after I finished the first two seasons. As such, I have seen the derpy angel-baby from the start of S4 up until now, virtually without much interferance and opinion of other people influencing my own.
I really genuinely love his character, so when I first heard that he was gonna be a) in cahoots with Crowley and b) possibly the new evil, I was pissed. Okay, so I've been a little pissed as I've progressed through S6 but that's because I watched it as I started.
So, I had S1/2 on the go at the same time I was following what y'all were watching in the States. As such, I saw clear differences between how the show first started out and how it is now. So, maybe I really get it better, how the brotherly bond was 'broken' or 'lost'.
However, Castiel is also close to my heart, too and just because I don't talk about him as much, don't mean he's not important to me. So, yes, I had expectations of this episode, too, but I wasn't gonna cry and wail if it turned out bad. After all, I'm also with a few of us who are probably denying S6 altogether and fixing up the end at S5 like good ol' Kripke intended. :P
I liked the montage of S5 a lot. How Cas talked about the boys, what they meant to him, how they changed his way of thinking. The way he described them could be viewed as awe on a page, maybe, but when it's spoken aloud, I think you can really tell he admires them, but also that he respects them for who they are, what they do - as best he can anyway.
Castiel sitting all solitary among snow and blooming flowers was very idiyllic for me. Yes, I blinked and did a bit of a double-take when he looked directly at the camera, too. Damn, Misha. Just -
HA. So it was youuuuuu who brought Sam back. I liked that, and the little extension of Soulless!Sam outside the house and Cas watching him and reflecting on how it went wrong. How he was trying to do a good thing, but...
Gratitious pretty!Dean shot #1 - I loved loved how Dean was the one with the most doubts about Sam and Bobby's suspicions. But I was also expecting that and sort of wincing for my man on-screen, too. 'Cause thanks to stupid dramatic irony, we all know that he was just setting himself up for a fall, later.
I also loved how Cas knew and that he felt bad because Dean was trying so hard to believe in the good of him when really, he was doing almost exactly what Sam and Bobby were thinking and betraying them.
All of the watcher!Cas bits and the hunters' scenes, I loved.
From the voiceovers, and him explaining how he felt as he listened, what he really thought...that insight into Castiel, his mind, I found it very interesting and because it was so rare and different, highly enjoyable. ^_^
BAMF!CAS
No other words are needed here.
Castiel VS Rapheal - The Story
LOVE that his favoured Heaven is so simple, that the Angels were all rallying around him with praise he was just brushing off, how Rapheal is a meeeean and naaaasty SOB and how the war in Heaven started.
I really felt for Cas here, he was just trying to show his brothers and sisters a way to live only to get some power-crazed moron on his own turf trying to take over. V.V;
OFC he could have asked Dean for help, he ain't stupid. But, Dean, honey, he's also not selfish. He couldn't just ask. And,okay, choices. He had to make one, didn't he? I know Dean would have understood and known that. I think that's one of my complaints about the ep. The fact Dean just wasn't portrayed Dean!like at times. But we'll come back to that...
BAM! - The Revelation of Cas' 'Betrayal'
I can't even call it a real betrayal, hence the apostrophes. And whatever I'll say - and I will! - about Dean not being quite Dean in this episode, and whoever agrees with that? You can NOT fault Jensen's acting in it, at all. Whether he agreed with it or no, believed all Dean was feeling or not, and we don't really know...this man...oh, god. He NEVER fails to amaze me. Only a truly great actor could portray emotion like that and so well, you wanna believe him even though your inner Dean!girl is yelling at Edlund for the fuckery. Jensen Ackles, I love you. You, sir, are a true artist.
Okay, so this reveal. I liked how Sam was putting two and two together for five, suspecting Cas and I felt so bad that I couldn't really defend him in my mind, because honestly? I would suspect him, too. He didn't exactly help his case with how he was acting and Dean was right: if he believed so much in what he was doing? Why hide it?
Gratitious pretty!Dean shot #2 - hehe, move along, move along, I'll be happy to stare for you. ^_^
"Then I'm sorry, too."
Okay, here it is. The Rant. The Big UGH. The place I yell at the laptop screen at the episode because this scene? I SHOULD HAVE LOVED IT. I would have loved it, I know, and it would have rounded off an otherwise pretty darn good episode for me, but...
LIKE A BROTHER!LINE
FTW. Okay, so I heard of it in reviews I saw before I downloaded and thought WTF but I am not so easily influenced that I would go OTT with my dislike of it. No, Edlund. Just no.
Cas is Dean's friend. Maybe he can be called his family to some extent. But like a brother? Like, his brother Sam? Remember him? Deal made, went to Hell for, would die to keep safe over and over again and never ever EVER even bat one of those extremely long and pretty eyelashes?
NO.
I have no doubts their bond runs deep and is VERY strong - it's profound and Heavenly, I know this. But, it is not on that level. For you to make Dean use that line? Even Jensen's fantastic deliverance didn't lessen my squick. V.V;
The overlapping!voiceover at the end, the imploring to God, the uncertainty, his need to find out if he is doing the right thing...it was said so calmly and imploringly, increasing in agitation until his pain is palpable on-screen. Very moving end and I just wanted to hug him tight when he bowed his head down in defeat. T-T;
Now, what will you do, Cas? You're outed and everyone is against you that you supposedly did all this for? Where do you go from here, bb?
PS. Crowley~ Love their dynamic and some great lines. Sex appeal!Cas ftw!
Hope you enjoyed! :D
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