Supernatural would not be Supernatural without torture!porn. Or awkward exposition. I am zen about it.
I loved some (oh SAM and how much of Mary's return was fronting her PoV and continuity on some of the things I care about) and I was low-key annoyed by some, but my annoyance was mostly not this-episode specific. I just don't see the Brit MoLs working as antagonists - not as the evil genius type that they seem to be set up as. We have to buy that they were incompetent enough - hamstrung by bureaucracy or whatever - to fail to intervene in multiple global crises up to this point. Which puts them on the very short list of organizations not qualified to rag on how the Winchesters have been running things.
I did like the glimpses of nuance we got into Toni as a character and the implicit parallel I thought I saw them drawing between her and Mary. If we get less-heavy handed debate over tactics and more character-driven narrative, I might come around to this plot. Maybe.
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Date: 2016-10-18 06:13 pm (UTC)Supernatural would not be Supernatural without torture!porn. Or awkward exposition. I am zen about it.
I loved some (oh SAM and how much of Mary's return was fronting her PoV and continuity on some of the things I care about) and I was low-key annoyed by some, but my annoyance was mostly not this-episode specific. I just don't see the Brit MoLs working as antagonists - not as the evil genius type that they seem to be set up as. We have to buy that they were incompetent enough - hamstrung by bureaucracy or whatever - to fail to intervene in multiple global crises up to this point. Which puts them on the very short list of organizations not qualified to rag on how the Winchesters have been running things.
I did like the glimpses of nuance we got into Toni as a character and the implicit parallel I thought I saw them drawing between her and Mary. If we get less-heavy handed debate over tactics and more character-driven narrative, I might come around to this plot. Maybe.