Supernatural 4x22
And that? Was season four, kiddos. I really wish that I wasn't here to say it, I
I think my roommate best surmised my feelings about season four with the following statement: "What the fuck happened to, "Saving people, hunting things. The family business?" Because after the past two seasons, I think what Dean really should have said was, "Watch our lives spiral into a depressing well of darkness, from which we have no hope of survival? And, oh yeah, sometimes we might save people, but chances are, they won't really need saving."
I know that there have been a lot of people who've adopted the sentiment that, if you don't like the show week after week, then you should stop watching it (and then, logically, stop posting about how much you don't like it on the internet). But the thing is, I don't want to stop watching SPN. This is the show I mainlined back in July of '06, watching the first season in just three days with crappy little YouTube posts. I've missed maybe two episodes since I started watching live in season two, and I'm sorry, but I just don't want to give that up, even if the show that's on today isn't the same show that I fell in love with.
Perhaps I'm just a Sam!girl who's upset that her baby isn't in the spotlight anymore, but honestly, I don't think that's it. Because Sam was in the spotlight tonight; as Ruby said, "It had to be you, Sam." All along, it had to be Sam, but that's not the point. If SPN's storyline was a fic that I was writing right now, I would have CTRL+A BACKSPACE'd a long time ago and started over.
I think that everything started changing at the beginning of season three. I'm not sure how much of season three was affected by the writer's strike, because I know that there were several story lines which were supposedly pushed to this season, but honestly, I don't think that made much of a difference. And if this was Kripke's plan from Day 1, then I have to give him props in that department. And in a way, it was interesting to see how everything came around full circle; why Azazel started building his army of Psy-Kids in the first place, where Lilith was before last season, why it had to be Sam and what he was really chosen for.
However, I simply can't ignore the other giant plot holes that were skipped over in order for this story to come around like it has. And what I really can't forgive is that way that the entire show jumped the shark and threw in angels and God himself, whether or not he's really there. And now, presumably, Lucifer is going to pop out of his strange laffy-taffy hole at the beginning of next season, and I can honestly say that I'm not gripping the edge of my seat in anticipation like I usually am at the end of each season.
SPN used to be a show about two brothers who were fighting evil monsters as they tried to find their father. Some shitty things happened to them that they didn't really understand, but at the end of the day, they were just two regular guys. They were heroes. We came to find out that Sam was a little different, and sure, that was suspenseful, but it wasn't EPIC like the show has made it in the intervening years. And there certainly wasn't an issue with GOD and SATAN and their armies battling it out for the APOCALYPSE. I mean, this is the kind of stuff that happened on Buffy, and it was as cheesy and unrealistic there as it is now.
I said it last year, and I'll say it again: HELL/HEAVEN ARE CONCEPTS THAT THE HUMAN MIND CANNOT EVER FAITHFULLY VISUALIZE. Sure, everyone can have their own conceptions of what those places might be, just like they might wonder what angels and demons really are, but those ideas are not universal. And for SPN to make a perception like that canonized in the show's plotline seems, to me, to be the ultimate departure from what this show set out to do, which was to create a horror movie every week. I'm sorry, but the last few weeks haven't scared me at all.
I'm not saying that I know what I would have done instead, and I'm also not saying that I hated it, because I didn't, not really. Truthfully, this episode was a satisfying end to the questions and issues raised this season, but the problem I have is that those problems are not what I think this show should be about. It shouldn't be about angels, it should be about finding supernatural creatures and saving people's lives. Not about fighting with demons and draining their blood but about discovering what it means to be free, family ties and obligations. And yes, there can be a destiny aspect, but not in the sense that some random guy out there is writing the WINCHESTER GOSPEL.
If this is what Azazel was planning all along, he should have just stolen Sammy as an infant from his mother, raised him as a demon, and used him to break Lilith free and release Lucifer ages ago. Someone else--possibly even John--might've been used to break the first seal, and there you have it. There's parts that are just plainly illogical, and other parts that just seem unnecessary, and even the fact that SAM HAD ALL-BLACK EYES FOR, LIKE, A WHOLE MINUTE couldn't save the episode, especially when Ruby was like, "Whoops, all your powers are gone. UR BAD." (Because, WTF? Does that mean he doesn't have powers again? Sorry, I think that I done fell into one of them plot holes.)
Season four, you were ... well, you were. Bring on season five, ya'll. But seriously, I'm holding my applause for the bitter, bitter end. I'm just thrilled that Sam didn't turn out to actually be Lucifer's vessel, because seriously. YOU CANNOT CONCEPTUALIZE SATAN. OR ANGELS. AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Ahem. :D Live long and prosper!
I think my roommate best surmised my feelings about season four with the following statement: "What the fuck happened to, "Saving people, hunting things. The family business?" Because after the past two seasons, I think what Dean really should have said was, "Watch our lives spiral into a depressing well of darkness, from which we have no hope of survival? And, oh yeah, sometimes we might save people, but chances are, they won't really need saving."
I know that there have been a lot of people who've adopted the sentiment that, if you don't like the show week after week, then you should stop watching it (and then, logically, stop posting about how much you don't like it on the internet). But the thing is, I don't want to stop watching SPN. This is the show I mainlined back in July of '06, watching the first season in just three days with crappy little YouTube posts. I've missed maybe two episodes since I started watching live in season two, and I'm sorry, but I just don't want to give that up, even if the show that's on today isn't the same show that I fell in love with.
Perhaps I'm just a Sam!girl who's upset that her baby isn't in the spotlight anymore, but honestly, I don't think that's it. Because Sam was in the spotlight tonight; as Ruby said, "It had to be you, Sam." All along, it had to be Sam, but that's not the point. If SPN's storyline was a fic that I was writing right now, I would have CTRL+A BACKSPACE'd a long time ago and started over.
I think that everything started changing at the beginning of season three. I'm not sure how much of season three was affected by the writer's strike, because I know that there were several story lines which were supposedly pushed to this season, but honestly, I don't think that made much of a difference. And if this was Kripke's plan from Day 1, then I have to give him props in that department. And in a way, it was interesting to see how everything came around full circle; why Azazel started building his army of Psy-Kids in the first place, where Lilith was before last season, why it had to be Sam and what he was really chosen for.
However, I simply can't ignore the other giant plot holes that were skipped over in order for this story to come around like it has. And what I really can't forgive is that way that the entire show jumped the shark and threw in angels and God himself, whether or not he's really there. And now, presumably, Lucifer is going to pop out of his strange laffy-taffy hole at the beginning of next season, and I can honestly say that I'm not gripping the edge of my seat in anticipation like I usually am at the end of each season.
SPN used to be a show about two brothers who were fighting evil monsters as they tried to find their father. Some shitty things happened to them that they didn't really understand, but at the end of the day, they were just two regular guys. They were heroes. We came to find out that Sam was a little different, and sure, that was suspenseful, but it wasn't EPIC like the show has made it in the intervening years. And there certainly wasn't an issue with GOD and SATAN and their armies battling it out for the APOCALYPSE. I mean, this is the kind of stuff that happened on Buffy, and it was as cheesy and unrealistic there as it is now.
I said it last year, and I'll say it again: HELL/HEAVEN ARE CONCEPTS THAT THE HUMAN MIND CANNOT EVER FAITHFULLY VISUALIZE. Sure, everyone can have their own conceptions of what those places might be, just like they might wonder what angels and demons really are, but those ideas are not universal. And for SPN to make a perception like that canonized in the show's plotline seems, to me, to be the ultimate departure from what this show set out to do, which was to create a horror movie every week. I'm sorry, but the last few weeks haven't scared me at all.
I'm not saying that I know what I would have done instead, and I'm also not saying that I hated it, because I didn't, not really. Truthfully, this episode was a satisfying end to the questions and issues raised this season, but the problem I have is that those problems are not what I think this show should be about. It shouldn't be about angels, it should be about finding supernatural creatures and saving people's lives. Not about fighting with demons and draining their blood but about discovering what it means to be free, family ties and obligations. And yes, there can be a destiny aspect, but not in the sense that some random guy out there is writing the WINCHESTER GOSPEL.
If this is what Azazel was planning all along, he should have just stolen Sammy as an infant from his mother, raised him as a demon, and used him to break Lilith free and release Lucifer ages ago. Someone else--possibly even John--might've been used to break the first seal, and there you have it. There's parts that are just plainly illogical, and other parts that just seem unnecessary, and even the fact that SAM HAD ALL-BLACK EYES FOR, LIKE, A WHOLE MINUTE couldn't save the episode, especially when Ruby was like, "Whoops, all your powers are gone. UR BAD." (Because, WTF? Does that mean he doesn't have powers again? Sorry, I think that I done fell into one of them plot holes.)
Season four, you were ... well, you were. Bring on season five, ya'll. But seriously, I'm holding my applause for the bitter, bitter end. I'm just thrilled that Sam didn't turn out to actually be Lucifer's vessel, because seriously. YOU CANNOT CONCEPTUALIZE SATAN. OR ANGELS. AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
Ahem. :D Live long and prosper!