Fucking LJ ate my comment TWO times now and I'm just about done with this shit, but I want to say what I wanna say, so fuck you LJ. Sorry. Anyway, I cried my way through those last ten minutes like Sam Winchester cries his way through sex. And while I give Sam/Rowena shippers their take, to me theirs was just a very deep and subtly developed oddball male/female friendship, which, setting the will-they-won't-they dynamic aside (definitely there if you look at it a certain way, but also not), we see those kinds of friendships depicted seldom enough as it is. And I mourn this one deeply and dearly, not only because of what it'll do to Sam, but also because of all the untapped potential in all those throwaway lines. Imagine if Sam actually had started apprenticing under Rowena as a witch, the nerdiness and the witty mentoring and him being eager to learn, but also to self-possessed in light of his life's experiences to do all the basic ground work and listen to teacher and the debates they would have had while Dean sits there sharpening his machete and rolling his eyes. I mean, it did creep up on us, but somewhere along the line Rowena became Sam's best friend the way Cas used to be billed as Dean's and it makes me just even more devastated to think about it now. Anyway, how awesome was it that Rowena - and I believe it was knowing exactly what to say on her part but also her true belief - didn't want to save the world because of people or things, but because of her principles and her determination to live and die by the rules of her own game. I mean, she's as close to a human immortal as we've got and we never really explored that for all the hedonism and self-serving attitude that she clearly displayed well into her alliance with the Winchesters, she also must have seen some shit through the centuries and has had plenty to time to ruminate on how Sam was the one destined to kill her and what it meant that he was a friend by that time. Philosophically speaking. It actually makes her one of the most compelling characters they've come up with in her multidimensionality that doesn't get appreciated enough.
Alright, not going into all the stuff that bugged me in this episode (killing off interesting bad guys, killing off uninteresting bad guys, ignoring all kinds of show history, artificial drama about Cas, my inability to follow and puzzle out any of Dean's character motivations, redemption arcs that end in the emotional equivalent of being rained on with iron confetti...) I want to limit myself to one comment this time. I hope it gets better from here. Please.
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Date: 2019-10-26 03:43 pm (UTC)Anyway, I cried my way through those last ten minutes like Sam Winchester cries his way through sex. And while I give Sam/Rowena shippers their take, to me theirs was just a very deep and subtly developed oddball male/female friendship, which, setting the will-they-won't-they dynamic aside (definitely there if you look at it a certain way, but also not), we see those kinds of friendships depicted seldom enough as it is. And I mourn this one deeply and dearly, not only because of what it'll do to Sam, but also because of all the untapped potential in all those throwaway lines. Imagine if Sam actually had started apprenticing under Rowena as a witch, the nerdiness and the witty mentoring and him being eager to learn, but also to self-possessed in light of his life's experiences to do all the basic ground work and listen to teacher and the debates they would have had while Dean sits there sharpening his machete and rolling his eyes. I mean, it did creep up on us, but somewhere along the line Rowena became Sam's best friend the way Cas used to be billed as Dean's and it makes me just even more devastated to think about it now.
Anyway, how awesome was it that Rowena - and I believe it was knowing exactly what to say on her part but also her true belief - didn't want to save the world because of people or things, but because of her principles and her determination to live and die by the rules of her own game. I mean, she's as close to a human immortal as we've got and we never really explored that for all the hedonism and self-serving attitude that she clearly displayed well into her alliance with the Winchesters, she also must have seen some shit through the centuries and has had plenty to time to ruminate on how Sam was the one destined to kill her and what it meant that he was a friend by that time. Philosophically speaking. It actually makes her one of the most compelling characters they've come up with in her multidimensionality that doesn't get appreciated enough.
Alright, not going into all the stuff that bugged me in this episode (killing off interesting bad guys, killing off uninteresting bad guys, ignoring all kinds of show history, artificial drama about Cas, my inability to follow and puzzle out any of Dean's character motivations, redemption arcs that end in the emotional equivalent of being rained on with iron confetti...) I want to limit myself to one comment this time. I hope it gets better from here. Please.