Comments | 2_journey: So I finally watched SPN 6.21 and 6.22

2_journey

So I finally watched SPN 6.21 and 6.22

May 27, 2011 23:43

And I have absolutely no idea what to do with those two episodes.

( In which I sincerely hope that purgatory = the goa'uld. Clearly I need sleep. )

speculation, episode reaction: supernatural, stargate

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goldenusagi May 28 2011, 03:53:42 UTC

(I just don't think they will. If Cas is the big bad of next season, I'm pretty sure I'm done with the show.)

Yeah, I just don't want an actual war between Castiel and the boys. But we know how this show is. It's usually "kill the thing!"

2_journey May 28 2011, 04:04:57 UTC

So true! Although they're also pretty good about letting people find redemption, at least if they're family. Or, well, Dean is good at that anyway. Sam drank demon blood, chose a demon over his brother, started the apocalypse, and said yes to Lucifer. But Dean's still there for him. So Sam's a special case because he's *Sam,* but one of the themes that kept cropping up all season was Family (with capital letters and everything).

I really want the show to keep developing that theme next season by having Sam, Dean, and Bobby work together to try to save Cas from himself, but I don't think that will happen. After all, the show made it pretty clear that Dean's definition of family had extended to Lisa and Ben, and yet he seemed perfectly capable of dropping them For Their Own Good. (Although the speech he gave to them after their memories were erased was heartbreaking.)

I just... Am not pleased.

goldenusagi May 28 2011, 04:14:46 UTC

What happened to Team Free Will this season, seriously? I hope Cas gets redeemed.

But also, even if he does, I'm not looking forward to however long God!Cas sticks around. Because if he is hopped up on souls, it's not really him. It was like a switch was flipped, you know? I mean, even Sam with the demon blood was still Sam, just willing to do darker things. Cas is just different.

2_journey May 28 2011, 04:28:43 UTC

Exactly! This Cas is so completely foreign from the character of Cas that they've spent several seasons creating that I honestly don't know how to react to him except with confusion. Team Free Will Cas would never have commanded people to bow down to him, or partner with a demon, or seek to suppland the God he spent an entire season searching for. Overall, I'm just... Confused.

I'm kind of hoping for a Deus Ex Machina solution to the whole OOC Cas in which the real God shows up, smites Cas for his hubris, and reminds him who he really is, the most loyal of all his angels. (As long as he doesn't smite him too hard, of course.)

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