SPN 5x22 reaction
May. 13th, 2010 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelWarning: This is mostly not squee. If you are in happy flailing space, it might be better if you didn't click the cut. (Also, I envy you for that.)
So, okay. The things I liked:
* The Impala tidbits.
* Things that reinforced the basic equations of Sam + Dean = Family, and Sam + Dean + Impala = Home.
* Cas molotoving Michael. (Ass-butt. Oh, Cas.) And Lucifer's reaction.
* Dean not wanting Sam to be alone.
... 'kay then. The things I hated:
* The whining about fans. and endings. WHINE MOAR KRIPKE.
* The fact that the episode was framed with Impala stories to a point that exceeded its story value. (Did I ever rant on the knife in AHBL? Or was I saving that for the fic?) Except for the Psychic Impala moment when ... um ... the awesomeness of the Impala blinded Lucifer enough for Sam to realize that Dean was his brother? *headtilt* ... it served no purpose to the story.
* Sam drinking the five gallons of demon blood or wtfever and NOT NEEDING TO PEE.
* The last ten minutes omgwtf. Okay, I'm sure it was set up to be the series finale, before the show got renewed, but it was too ... endingy. Not in a good way. In a show-not-tell way. I can't explain; it just felt, you know, exposition-heavy. And there is no way in fucking hell (or even out of hell) that Dean would just settle for a normal life just like that.
* The last ten seconds, double omgwtf. Yes, the show needed a thread leading to a Next Season, but did it need that one? Really?
Things I am kind of meh about:
* Bobby dying (I TOLD YOU HE WOULD DIE) and then getting resurrected by magic angel juice.
* Dean getting beaten to a bloody pulp. I wasn't even thinking "ow", or "how many concussions does that make?". I was just marveling at how ... idiotic the prosthetics looked.
* The speechifying between Michael and Lucifer. That was so totally supposed to mimic Sam and Dean, except for how it wasn't Dean, and also that parallel got old a long time ago.
* ... I don't know. I'm just generally in NOT THE FUCK CARING mode about spn; it lost my interest a long time ago. Three years ago, I would have been flailing and going "oh sam oh dean oh BOYS *flail*" and generally getting all emotional. But this show is not the show I fell in love with. The Sam and Dean ... they kind of sort of are the Sam and Dean I fell in love with, except not, and they've died too many times for me to care any more.
What's left for next season? They've done the apocalypse, sorta. Lucifer may or may not be back (which actually kind of makes a certain amount of sense, at least as a possibility -- it was a fairly fast escape in normal time, but hell time goes at a different speed, so it was ... what, four months is forty years? so a day is about four months?), Dean is going to go after God and not see Bobby again?
(This is, to some extent, the same problem Buffy ran into. When the Big Bad gets bigger and badder each season, it gets to a point of extreme ridiculousness.)
Sigh. I love my show, I do, but I am so seriously thinking about writing the AHBL fic and considering that my personal canon. Two seasons -- and okay, Cas can come play too, I'll figure out some way of including him, and hey, that might even get me unstuck on the freaking fic -- and Sam and Dean say fuck-that to destinies and ride off into the sunset on the Impala, and I pretend the rest of it never happened.
Yeah. Sounds good to me.
So, okay. The things I liked:
* The Impala tidbits.
* Things that reinforced the basic equations of Sam + Dean = Family, and Sam + Dean + Impala = Home.
* Cas molotoving Michael. (Ass-butt. Oh, Cas.) And Lucifer's reaction.
* Dean not wanting Sam to be alone.
... 'kay then. The things I hated:
* The whining about fans. and endings. WHINE MOAR KRIPKE.
* The fact that the episode was framed with Impala stories to a point that exceeded its story value. (Did I ever rant on the knife in AHBL? Or was I saving that for the fic?) Except for the Psychic Impala moment when ... um ... the awesomeness of the Impala blinded Lucifer enough for Sam to realize that Dean was his brother? *headtilt* ... it served no purpose to the story.
* Sam drinking the five gallons of demon blood or wtfever and NOT NEEDING TO PEE.
* The last ten minutes omgwtf. Okay, I'm sure it was set up to be the series finale, before the show got renewed, but it was too ... endingy. Not in a good way. In a show-not-tell way. I can't explain; it just felt, you know, exposition-heavy. And there is no way in fucking hell (or even out of hell) that Dean would just settle for a normal life just like that.
* The last ten seconds, double omgwtf. Yes, the show needed a thread leading to a Next Season, but did it need that one? Really?
Things I am kind of meh about:
* Bobby dying (I TOLD YOU HE WOULD DIE) and then getting resurrected by magic angel juice.
* Dean getting beaten to a bloody pulp. I wasn't even thinking "ow", or "how many concussions does that make?". I was just marveling at how ... idiotic the prosthetics looked.
* The speechifying between Michael and Lucifer. That was so totally supposed to mimic Sam and Dean, except for how it wasn't Dean, and also that parallel got old a long time ago.
* ... I don't know. I'm just generally in NOT THE FUCK CARING mode about spn; it lost my interest a long time ago. Three years ago, I would have been flailing and going "oh sam oh dean oh BOYS *flail*" and generally getting all emotional. But this show is not the show I fell in love with. The Sam and Dean ... they kind of sort of are the Sam and Dean I fell in love with, except not, and they've died too many times for me to care any more.
What's left for next season? They've done the apocalypse, sorta. Lucifer may or may not be back (which actually kind of makes a certain amount of sense, at least as a possibility -- it was a fairly fast escape in normal time, but hell time goes at a different speed, so it was ... what, four months is forty years? so a day is about four months?), Dean is going to go after God and not see Bobby again?
(This is, to some extent, the same problem Buffy ran into. When the Big Bad gets bigger and badder each season, it gets to a point of extreme ridiculousness.)
Sigh. I love my show, I do, but I am so seriously thinking about writing the AHBL fic and considering that my personal canon. Two seasons -- and okay, Cas can come play too, I'll figure out some way of including him, and hey, that might even get me unstuck on the freaking fic -- and Sam and Dean say fuck-that to destinies and ride off into the sunset on the Impala, and I pretend the rest of it never happened.
Yeah. Sounds good to me.
