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caranfindel ([personal profile] caranfindel) wrote2016-05-20 01:08 pm

Episode poll 11.22: "We Happy Few"



[Poll #2045287]

Remember, no spoilers in the comments, please!

[identity profile] elwarre.livejournal.com 2016-05-20 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I actually liked this episode overall, though there were things I...did not like. The filming was GREAT. I loved the back and forth (I have no knowledge of filming technicalities or jargon) during the recruitment/plan-making bit, the scenes with Rowena and Clea and then Rowena, Clea, and Sam, the witches all working together, and the lighting at the end while Rowena stares at...something. Beautiful. I haven't been a big fan of God!Chuck, so it's cool with me that Amara half-smote him, and I enjoyed her speech while she did so. I hope they go out into the empty together (I'm unspoiled for anything upcoming, so this is all speculation/longing on my part). She won't be so lonely, he won't be so smarmy, and they can leave the world to its inhabitants.

I did kind of wonder why no one in this show ever properly gangs up on anyone else, though. Like, couldn't the witches and the angels have smote simultaneously, maybe to greater effect?

I found the petty teenager routine to be as dull as it was the first time around with Amara and Crowley, and I'm a bit unnerved that the bunker is apparently a free-for-all now (though maybe that means they'll go back to roadtripping next season??). I wish we'd been allowed to see more of Sam's internal reactions to Lucifer's presence, though as the season's not over I'm kind of hoping for more on that next week? Foolish hope, perhaps?

Also, did they set Donatello up to die? Is he dead? Was he aware of the plan? I'm confused about him.

[identity profile] citrusjava.livejournal.com 2016-05-20 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
If the moc makes you more yorself, that says horrible things about Dean annd i need resolution for s10 even more!


Also - Darkness = end of magic?

[identity profile] gidgetgal9.livejournal.com 2016-05-20 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Kay, so my thought- Dean takes Amara and himself out- Sam wakes up to Dean yelling- 'Rise and Shine Sammy'- this season was all a dream! Yeah, I'm not excited but I guess curious and a little worried about watching this play out. :)

[identity profile] jj1564.livejournal.com 2016-05-20 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I actually liked this episode, but there were some things that annoyed me, especially Sam and Dean being so casual about Lucifer, and Dean wanting Amara killed although Chuck had explained the light/dark thing!

I love your questions, you always make me smile!
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[personal profile] fanspired 2016-05-20 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
So, what did you think of that episode, Caranfindel? Don't hold back, now! :P

> Sam being surprised that Dean couldn't kill Amara, even though he already knew that

My take was not that Sam was surprised Dean coudn't kill her. I thought that what was news to Sam was that Dean had actually physically tried and failed. And that surprised Sam because it actually contradicts the whole "I can't do it because I'm drawn to her" plotline. Seems to me that what the writers were doing here was reminding us of the contradiction and trying to fix it by saying Dean failed because his heart wasn't in it - as opposed to what we actually saw, which was that Dean made a genuine attempt and the angel blade shattered, because it was an angel blade and she was the FRIGGIN" DARKNESS ALREADY! So yeah, I'm gonna cry a big fat bullshit on that and, indeed, the whole "I can't make myself kill her" theme.
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[personal profile] vexed_wench 2016-05-21 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
I really liked this one. I'm just still not loving Luci in Cas.

[identity profile] flawedteacup.livejournal.com 2016-05-21 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
I forgot to thank you for your episode reaction and your polls, which are always a redeeming element of any episode. I'm so annoyed about this episode I can't even.

[identity profile] anactoria.livejournal.com 2016-05-21 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
Wasn't a big fan of this one. The conversation between Chuck and Lucifer could've been great, but the way it was done felt like cutesy fanfic. (Which is fine, in itself, but not what I want to see on the show.) And Sam deciding to take on the MoC offscreen?? Wtf??
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[personal profile] fanspired 2016-05-21 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Ps I see 3 people so far have voted that they liked not a goddam thing, and no one has yet voted "whoa that's harsh". Just an interesting observation in a....you know...observationally interesting way :P

More serious observation, though: 19 people don't know and don't care if Lucifer is really dead. Just how seriously does the show have to fuck up to come to a point where most people don't give a grenade about Lucifer?
Edited 2016-05-21 13:41 (UTC)

[identity profile] ms-anthrophy.livejournal.com 2016-05-21 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think I've disliked an SPN episode this much since Bloodlines.

Lucifer's redemption arc (I guess they sort of went there) is IMNSHO an abomination anyway -it kinda pulls the mat under the character, and when the way they execute the idea... fuck, Supernatural has usually been great at mixing very different moods in a single episode and making it work but... no. Just no.

Seriously, WTF is up with the boys just casually observing Chuck and Luci playing a painfully unfunny sitcom in the bunker? They could've gone for Sam facing his Hell trauma again and Dean being angry and protective, great drama and plenty of feels, but no.

Oh, and I'm probably the only person who gave any attention to Amara's nail polish, but man, that's a fugly color. (Aside from that she was pretty great, tho.)

[identity profile] madebyme-x.livejournal.com 2016-05-22 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
When watching the episode, I assumed Lucifer had been de-vesseled and was back in the cage. But now, I'm not so sure. I guess he could be dead? And I did love that they seemed to superimpose Mark P's face over Misha's - it sure looked like it to me.