My recap which I've titled "Why Cas should fuck up everyone's shit and drink a mimosa"
I could not ignore this episode. I had to do my own meta of sorts. I was compelled too. Warning for possible spoilers for 5x18. I haven't really read spoilers, but I've read enough conjecture. So, the spoilers are basically the promo and conjecture.
I don't want to spend too much time on the end of the episode. It was fucked up and wrong and random and not just because of my ship-y was. I liked Lisa. I thought she was spunky and sarcastic like most of the girls Dean went for. I even thought little Ben was badass.
This does not mean I want them to come back out of the blue.
See, I'm always a champion of continuity, but you can't just pick something up like that out of nowhere. IT DOES NOT COMPUTE!
It's not that I'm mad at them for bringing in Lisa. I'm shocked, yes and it's utterly weird and random and there could've been a better way to end that episode. Like Dean takes off and Cas and Sam are like well, shit. If the show is really committed to this Lisa thing, they could've had Dean ask when he actually says yes to Michael. I have a feeling Dean's gonna try and keep more people he loves safe, but really? It just didn't make sense.
So, I get where they were going, but they could've just done it better. DO IT BETTER SHOW.
But here's where I air my grievances that I've been holding my tongue on.
Show, you're reminding my of season five of Angel. Awesome, well-written, funny, EPIC season, but you're underusing. You're so underusing.
And I get it. The show is about the Winchester boys. I love that this show is about the Winchester boys. I would've not been here for five seasons if I didn't love that. Is my love for Cas epic and overpowering? Yes. I admit this. I think he's a fantastic character played by a seriously awesome actor and there is just so much there to play around with. He's falling. He used to be angel. He's going through all the moral gray stuff that he's never had to deal with and he's trying to define who he is and what that means and how that shapes the relationships around him.
Yet, a lot more lately, they're giving him stuff that I feel is just supposed to be comic relief.
I'm not necessarily mad at this. I have hope that they're going to do something in these last few episodes. And Misha has been working with what he's been given. Seriously, the Cas stuff doesn't fall flat or anything. It's still very rich, but come on.
I'm holding out hope that next week, while probably way about Dean, will have Cas finally being like "you dumbass", obviously in smaller words because Dean is just not getting that Cas is on his side and Cas has given up so much for him. While drunken Cas certainly go to the point more (oh Sam, seriously, stupid question and Sam being an abomination.) and was awesome like Cas is always awesome and my shippy heart loved the Dean/Cas scene... I was expecting more. Cas was asking for more and I get that Dean's all broken emo boy, but come on.
And handing Cas a bottle of aspirin and telling him that, as an angel or whatever, he probably needs to take the whole bottle of aspirin? No. I get that it's supposed to show that Dean is so broken that he doesn't care, but you didn't have to do it that way. Let's not making light of drug addiction, okay. It's not cool.
Here's where I get slightly spoiler for the 100th. I'm spoiler free, but I have watched the promo and I read one tiny spoiler that I'm gonna put out of my mind for this. This is sort of conjecture.
In the promo, Cas says that he didn't give up everything so you (Dean) could give into them. I'm hoping this means we're getting Cas standing up for himself and actually saying something along the lines of 'look, asshole, the world doesn't revolve around you and you can't just give up because you're all sad and emo'. He has in the past and they've went on deaf ears and now we're getting to the point where there's (probably) going to be action over words. I hope we're getting more on Cas because I feel like there hasn't been enough.
I have faith. I just have points where that faith runs thin and I worry.
Side note on Sam: You are the King of Too Little, Too Late. Your speech sounds an awful lot like the speech Dean gave you back in SEASON ONE when you wanted to do anything you could to kill the yellow-eyed demon? I don't even find your speech all that whiny because, maybe in the beginning of the season, Dean would've killed to here that.
BUT YOU ARE THE KING OF TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE!
The rest of the episode was really think-y and thought provoking and I love that Paul ( I think his name was Paul?) the friendly bartender was the one with the moral high ground here. Yeah, he drank and he sinned and he admitted that he wasn't a believer, but he was not going to be a hypocrite and start living the clean life. He was going to keep living his life and killing demons. I love Show for making him the moral innocent. I even loved Pastor Gideon, poor guy. And, okay, Shanks was a douche as usual and I'm sure that that fact, plus the fact that he was married to a crazy bitch, made me dislike his character, but he was SO GAY with Paul. SO GAY.
There was a lot to think about here and it was another great episode. This has just been a build up of sorts because I have been tripping over the underuse of Cas for awhile. Like I said, worried, but hopeful and still have faith in Show.
And, on a purely shallow level, Cas was amazing here. All his lines were so great and he was so funny and the ENOCHIAN JOKE! Oh he's too precious for this Earth.
Wow, look at that, an actual post from me. Hi everyone!
I don't want to spend too much time on the end of the episode. It was fucked up and wrong and random and not just because of my ship-y was. I liked Lisa. I thought she was spunky and sarcastic like most of the girls Dean went for. I even thought little Ben was badass.
This does not mean I want them to come back out of the blue.
See, I'm always a champion of continuity, but you can't just pick something up like that out of nowhere. IT DOES NOT COMPUTE!
It's not that I'm mad at them for bringing in Lisa. I'm shocked, yes and it's utterly weird and random and there could've been a better way to end that episode. Like Dean takes off and Cas and Sam are like well, shit. If the show is really committed to this Lisa thing, they could've had Dean ask when he actually says yes to Michael. I have a feeling Dean's gonna try and keep more people he loves safe, but really? It just didn't make sense.
So, I get where they were going, but they could've just done it better. DO IT BETTER SHOW.
But here's where I air my grievances that I've been holding my tongue on.
Show, you're reminding my of season five of Angel. Awesome, well-written, funny, EPIC season, but you're underusing. You're so underusing.
And I get it. The show is about the Winchester boys. I love that this show is about the Winchester boys. I would've not been here for five seasons if I didn't love that. Is my love for Cas epic and overpowering? Yes. I admit this. I think he's a fantastic character played by a seriously awesome actor and there is just so much there to play around with. He's falling. He used to be angel. He's going through all the moral gray stuff that he's never had to deal with and he's trying to define who he is and what that means and how that shapes the relationships around him.
Yet, a lot more lately, they're giving him stuff that I feel is just supposed to be comic relief.
I'm not necessarily mad at this. I have hope that they're going to do something in these last few episodes. And Misha has been working with what he's been given. Seriously, the Cas stuff doesn't fall flat or anything. It's still very rich, but come on.
I'm holding out hope that next week, while probably way about Dean, will have Cas finally being like "you dumbass", obviously in smaller words because Dean is just not getting that Cas is on his side and Cas has given up so much for him. While drunken Cas certainly go to the point more (oh Sam, seriously, stupid question and Sam being an abomination.) and was awesome like Cas is always awesome and my shippy heart loved the Dean/Cas scene... I was expecting more. Cas was asking for more and I get that Dean's all broken emo boy, but come on.
And handing Cas a bottle of aspirin and telling him that, as an angel or whatever, he probably needs to take the whole bottle of aspirin? No. I get that it's supposed to show that Dean is so broken that he doesn't care, but you didn't have to do it that way. Let's not making light of drug addiction, okay. It's not cool.
Here's where I get slightly spoiler for the 100th. I'm spoiler free, but I have watched the promo and I read one tiny spoiler that I'm gonna put out of my mind for this. This is sort of conjecture.
In the promo, Cas says that he didn't give up everything so you (Dean) could give into them. I'm hoping this means we're getting Cas standing up for himself and actually saying something along the lines of 'look, asshole, the world doesn't revolve around you and you can't just give up because you're all sad and emo'. He has in the past and they've went on deaf ears and now we're getting to the point where there's (probably) going to be action over words. I hope we're getting more on Cas because I feel like there hasn't been enough.
I have faith. I just have points where that faith runs thin and I worry.
Side note on Sam: You are the King of Too Little, Too Late. Your speech sounds an awful lot like the speech Dean gave you back in SEASON ONE when you wanted to do anything you could to kill the yellow-eyed demon? I don't even find your speech all that whiny because, maybe in the beginning of the season, Dean would've killed to here that.
BUT YOU ARE THE KING OF TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE!
The rest of the episode was really think-y and thought provoking and I love that Paul ( I think his name was Paul?) the friendly bartender was the one with the moral high ground here. Yeah, he drank and he sinned and he admitted that he wasn't a believer, but he was not going to be a hypocrite and start living the clean life. He was going to keep living his life and killing demons. I love Show for making him the moral innocent. I even loved Pastor Gideon, poor guy. And, okay, Shanks was a douche as usual and I'm sure that that fact, plus the fact that he was married to a crazy bitch, made me dislike his character, but he was SO GAY with Paul. SO GAY.
There was a lot to think about here and it was another great episode. This has just been a build up of sorts because I have been tripping over the underuse of Cas for awhile. Like I said, worried, but hopeful and still have faith in Show.
And, on a purely shallow level, Cas was amazing here. All his lines were so great and he was so funny and the ENOCHIAN JOKE! Oh he's too precious for this Earth.
Wow, look at that, an actual post from me. Hi everyone!