Episode poll 12.14: "The Raid"

[caranfindel]

[Poll #2064088]

No spoilers in the comments, please!

ETA... Y'all, I'm sorry I didn't close an italics tag in the poll and now all your comments look like you're a lot more enthused than you actually are.

Comments

[z-publicizes.livejournal.com]

I suppose, if the show wanted to annoy me even more, they could make the final conflict/resolution about quibbling over the BMoL's precise means instead of the full implications of their ends. Reveal that they've been assassinating humans and have that be where the Winchesters draw the line.

I know this could never happen on the show, but I have been entertaining the premise: what if that wannabe Jack Bauer dude from 12x09 actually managed to track/put Sam and Dean - and by extension the BMoL - under surveillance and the US intelligence services are about to blow the roof off everybody's operation?The big bad hell our heroes unleash this season turns out to be the US government and the lengths they (and the American public in a monsters-are-real frenzy) would be willing to go to in the name of, er, securing our metaphysical borders. Which would mean a dystopian hellscape brought on not by monsters but by the people who fear them.

[fanspired]

That would be a a good way to go for a series finale :)

I think the fundamental problem with the show's season arcs is that they're clearly planned in two halves: they run with one plot for the first part of the season, then they adjust their plans for the second half once they've got some viewer feedback on the early episodes. This can make for some really awkward disjoints when the feedback on their original plans is negative.

[z-publicizes.livejournal.com]

The two halves structural problem makes a lot of sense. Oh, network television, how frustrating it can be...