After 11x22 I had very low expectations. This was a significant step up for me.
So Cas is back. Yay? (Okay, I did like "I didn't know dogs had breakfast". It's still not badass angel-of-god Cas, but it's better than we got for most of this season.) Except... Lucifer's not dead, y'all. "Amara ripped him from my body." "To where?" "I don't know." I don't know how to feel about this. Before 11x22, I would have been happy. But I will die happy if I never see Lucifer-the-bratty-teenage-son ever again. EVER. AGAIN.
Overall, the Dean/Cas moments felt weirdly forced, but mostly because he didn't show that level of concern and apology to Sam at points where it felt like he probably should have. But then again again, he did basically kill himself trying to save Sam earlier in the season and found out that Sam had kept the amulet all those years, so... it's possible you don't need words after that. ("You love chick flick moments..." SNIFFFLE)
And oh, man, was it just me or was the car conversation between Cas and Dean dripping with hilariously heavy-handed bros-not-baes dialogue, like they felt they had to hammer home a point that "make-Dean-bisexual-so-he-and-Cas-can-kiss" proponents weren't getting. It felt like...
(And as a grumpy old queer activist, let me state for the record, that's not queerbaiting, it's like, the opposite of queerbaiting. Seriously. It's like the eleventeenth time the dialogue has made it clear there's nothing between them romantically.)
I was amazed with the antipathy I felt toward British lady. It was the same instinctive dislike I felt toward Bela Talbot. I'm inclined to believe that I just don't want the fucking British interfering in my American show, which makes no sense, especially since I'm fine with Scottish devils and (more grudgingly) Scottish witches. Oh, sure, it would have been nice if they had laid, I don't know, ANY groundwork for her at ANY time in the season before this, so it didn't feel quite so much like they pulled it out of their asses. But... the reality is that they probably did pull them out of their asses when they got renewed, though, which kind of blows but also isn't entirely their fault seeing how long it took the CW to announce their renewals.
That said, I'm down with the Men of Letters Europe branch. I would be down with European Steins showing up, too. It's more than time for supernatural shit to go global. But I hate the blame on Sam and Dean (I guess technically you could blame the leviathans on them working for Castiel and Crowley, but fuck that noise no). I hate the fact that God calls them his chosen and literally leaves the world in their hands and the next thing that happens is Sam getting blamed for shit. Again. I hated their disdain for hunters, I hated the fact that for 10 seasons they have apparently done jack-fucking-all to fix anything while Dean and Sam went to hell and lost everyone they ever cared about. If you want me to like them, like, at all, you've got your work cut out for you, writers.
But if you want them to be the villains, yeah, okay, I hate them already. Good job on that.
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Date: 2016-05-26 08:05 pm (UTC)So Cas is back. Yay? (Okay, I did like "I didn't know dogs had breakfast". It's still not badass angel-of-god Cas, but it's better than we got for most of this season.) Except... Lucifer's not dead, y'all. "Amara ripped him from my body." "To where?" "I don't know." I don't know how to feel about this. Before 11x22, I would have been happy. But I will die happy if I never see Lucifer-the-bratty-teenage-son ever again. EVER. AGAIN.
Overall, the Dean/Cas moments felt weirdly forced, but mostly because he didn't show that level of concern and apology to Sam at points where it felt like he probably should have. But then again again, he did basically kill himself trying to save Sam earlier in the season and found out that Sam had kept the amulet all those years, so... it's possible you don't need words after that. ("You love chick flick moments..." SNIFFFLE)
And oh, man, was it just me or was the car conversation between Cas and Dean dripping with hilariously heavy-handed bros-not-baes dialogue, like they felt they had to hammer home a point that "make-Dean-bisexual-so-he-and-Cas-can-kiss" proponents weren't getting. It felt like...
(And as a grumpy old queer activist, let me state for the record, that's not queerbaiting, it's like, the opposite of queerbaiting. Seriously. It's like the eleventeenth time the dialogue has made it clear there's nothing between them romantically.)
I was amazed with the antipathy I felt toward British lady. It was the same instinctive dislike I felt toward Bela Talbot. I'm inclined to believe that I just don't want the fucking British interfering in my American show, which makes no sense, especially since I'm fine with Scottish devils and (more grudgingly) Scottish witches. Oh, sure, it would have been nice if they had laid, I don't know, ANY groundwork for her at ANY time in the season before this, so it didn't feel quite so much like they pulled it out of their asses. But... the reality is that they probably did pull them out of their asses when they got renewed, though, which kind of blows but also isn't entirely their fault seeing how long it took the CW to announce their renewals.
That said, I'm down with the Men of Letters Europe branch. I would be down with European Steins showing up, too. It's more than time for supernatural shit to go global. But I hate the blame on Sam and Dean (I guess technically you could blame the leviathans on them working for Castiel and Crowley, but fuck that noise no). I hate the fact that God calls them his chosen and literally leaves the world in their hands and the next thing that happens is Sam getting blamed for shit. Again. I hated their disdain for hunters, I hated the fact that for 10 seasons they have apparently done jack-fucking-all to fix anything while Dean and Sam went to hell and lost everyone they ever cared about. If you want me to like them, like, at all, you've got your work cut out for you, writers.
But if you want them to be the villains, yeah, okay, I hate them already. Good job on that.