SPN 6:05: Live Free or Twihard

[oselle]

That sucked. No pun intended. I mean it really sucked. It's not even worth doing my usual blabbity-blah because it just sucked.

You may be thinking that I thought it sucked because we now know beyond any doubt that Sam not only doesn't care about Dean but will actively put him in harm's way, even to the point of being killed. Actually, it's even worse than that, he's willing to use Dean as some sort of...science experiment. He's a paranormal Dr. Mengele. Okay so, point taken: Dean means nothing to Sam except for however Sam can exploit him to satisfy whatever sick curiosity. Got it.

What sucks is that I know that none of this will matter. It will never receive a satisfactory explanation or resolution, Sam will be unjustifiably exonerated, Dean will apologize for... something, and Sera Gamble will give an interview talking about how cool it all is. THAT, my friends, is what sucks.

ETA: Oh, and what was that "maybe your brother has some Campbell in him after all" crap? Shut the fuck up, gramps. Where were you when the apocalypse was going down, big shot? Hiding out at your compound with the rest of your sociopath douchebag militia?

Comments

[mangokulfi.livejournal.com]

I guess for me, I gave up on the brotherly bond in season 5 so I like that there are other characters that are interacting with the brothers, especially Dean. I wish we were getting more Castiel but I do buy the Dean/Lisa/Ben that they have set up so I'm along for the ride there too. I suspect that we will get more Cas once Lisa is out of the picture.

I do feel though that this season lacks a certain energy (except for last week) but I think that's partially because I'm still getting a sense that the scripts are too big and end up being reworked in the editing room so the pacing is kind of wonky.

I hate to admit it but I am reluctantly intrigued with what is going on with Sam even though I am expecting a huge whitewash to come out of it. As long as they don't turn it around on to Dean at some point, I think I will be relatively happy.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Dean/Lisa/Ben turned out not to be the embarrassing soap opera that I thought it would be, but that's the best I can say about it and it's faint praise indeed. It certainly doesn't mean that I want to see more of that story. If they want to bring them back together at the end of the series that'll be fine with me but I don't need to know any more about Dean's family life. I don't mind other characters interacting with the brothers but this show has never functioned well for me as an ensemble so I like "other characters" to stay firmly in the background.

I've also given up on the brotherly "bond" but not on the brothers themselves, since the two main characters have always been what the show's about. Now it looks like one of them has at last completed the final leg of his journey to becoming an absolute, irredeemable son-of-a-bitch and I would LOVE to be intrigued by that, I know I'm SUPPOSED to be intrigued by that, but I can't be. I have no capacity to be intrigued by whatever's going on with Sam. Whitewash it, handwave it, sweep it under the rug and forget about it -- you know that's what will happen, so there's just no point in letting myself get caught up in "where Sera Gamble's going with this." She's not going anywhere.

[coronasunrise.livejournal.com]

Would you have liked the episode better if you were not convinced they are going to hand-wave Sam's behavior away?

[oselle.livejournal.com]

I don't know. They've really taken Sam past the point of no return this time and all prior experience suggests that they like hitting that point and then slapping some quick fix on it. It's like when they totally destroyed Dean in "Head of A Pin" and then promised that the next episode would give him a real "shot in the arm," which turned out to be a stupid, shallow speech from heaven's douchebaggiest angel. If this team had ever given me an evidence that they know how to clean up their messes, I might have liked the episode, but they haven't done so to date.