I would've enjoyed "A Very Supernatural Christmas" were it not for the amulet scene. I'll admit, I never liked the idea in the first place, that the amulet had something to do with Sam/Dean's relationship with Sam. But the way they wrote it was just...yeah. Still, though, the ending tends to tear me up a bit. So not a completely useless episode, I'll give you that. Besides, I enjoyed the pagan gods.
I also enjoyed "No Rest For The Wicked" but the thing is, the things/episodes I enjoy in season three just pale in comparison to the things I hate.
Well, I definitely see where you're coming from and I do agree. Season four does leave a bad taste in the mouth when you know nothing will come of it, when you know what will follow is the mess that's season five. And oh, don't even get me started on Bobby's speech in "Lucifer Rising". My Bobby love had been waning since season three but "Boo hoo!" really did it in. I can sort of maybe fanwank it to Bobby remembering that he did jackshit to stop Sam from falling in with Ruby when Dean was in hell, and how pitifully the "be good to him" approach worked in "When The Levee Breaks" but even so, that doesn't excuse it. It's like a twisted version of his scene with Dean in AHBL Part 2.
Yeah, season five was one godawful mess. 5x06 (I don't even remember the name of that episode, only that it had the Antichrist in it) and 5x07 ("The Curious Case of Dean Winchester" right?) really did not affect the plot in the least, and while "Changing Channels" got a laugh out of me and it...well I wouldn't say it helped the mythos along but at least it included it. Still, though. I'd much rather -- if they had to make the Trickster Gabriel -- they'd done it in a, oh I don't know, serious way. The commercials and the sitcoms and whatever the fuck were just too much for me. And let's not even talk about 5x09. "Abandon All Hope" had great atmosphere and drama and man Ellen and Jo's deaths had me bawling, but it was forgotten the very next episode, wasn't it? "The Song Remains The Same" gets a sort-of pass by me because they could have Dean and Mary just staring at each other a whole episode and I wouldn't complain, but we also got Michael who wasn't much better than the other dicks-with-wings and some crap about Sam and Dean being descendants of Abel and Cain.
Then there was "Dark Side of the Moon." I'm a Deangirl, and I love love love his scenes with Mary, and man did Sam's rejections of him hurt, but...they give us episodes like this where it's all viewed through Dean's eyes and Sam is fucking douchebag and really, are we supposed to root for their bond at all? (I know I don't.) And then they turn around and beat Dean down into the ground for not being a good enough brother and give him speeches about how everyone's always been hard on Sam. I mean, what the fuck? The only logical explanation I have for this is that they throw that kind of Dean angst at us because it makes for great drama and juicy emo scenes, and it makes us stick around. But when it gets right down to it they'll rub Dean's face in the dirt and give Sam the hero status and ugh, just what the fuck ever. I'm so tired of it.
You know, I gave up after "Swan Song". I'm really bad at quitting when a should, be it a bad show or a bad relationship, but I really did it. And yet...I kept up with season six, what happened and what others had to say about it, and the week before "My Heart Will Go On" aired, I marathoned my way through season six. Luckily, I'd emotionally pulled out of SPN at that point so I could watch it with a sense of detachment and simply be amused by all the shit. But yeah. A long, slow trainwreck sure is the right description of it. I still don't see how some think season six was all perfectly planned out (http://missyjack.livejournal.com/742413.html).
Sorry to rant and ramble at you; I'm mainly a lurker and apparently I have Thoughts about SPN!
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Date: 2011-06-23 06:41 pm (UTC)I also enjoyed "No Rest For The Wicked" but the thing is, the things/episodes I enjoy in season three just pale in comparison to the things I hate.
Well, I definitely see where you're coming from and I do agree. Season four does leave a bad taste in the mouth when you know nothing will come of it, when you know what will follow is the mess that's season five. And oh, don't even get me started on Bobby's speech in "Lucifer Rising". My Bobby love had been waning since season three but "Boo hoo!" really did it in. I can sort of maybe fanwank it to Bobby remembering that he did jackshit to stop Sam from falling in with Ruby when Dean was in hell, and how pitifully the "be good to him" approach worked in "When The Levee Breaks" but even so, that doesn't excuse it. It's like a twisted version of his scene with Dean in AHBL Part 2.
Yeah, season five was one godawful mess. 5x06 (I don't even remember the name of that episode, only that it had the Antichrist in it) and 5x07 ("The Curious Case of Dean Winchester" right?) really did not affect the plot in the least, and while "Changing Channels" got a laugh out of me and it...well I wouldn't say it helped the mythos along but at least it included it. Still, though. I'd much rather -- if they had to make the Trickster Gabriel -- they'd done it in a, oh I don't know, serious way. The commercials and the sitcoms and whatever the fuck were just too much for me. And let's not even talk about 5x09. "Abandon All Hope" had great atmosphere and drama and man Ellen and Jo's deaths had me bawling, but it was forgotten the very next episode, wasn't it? "The Song Remains The Same" gets a sort-of pass by me because they could have Dean and Mary just staring at each other a whole episode and I wouldn't complain, but we also got Michael who wasn't much better than the other dicks-with-wings and some crap about Sam and Dean being descendants of Abel and Cain.
Then there was "Dark Side of the Moon." I'm a Deangirl, and I love love love his scenes with Mary, and man did Sam's rejections of him hurt, but...they give us episodes like this where it's all viewed through Dean's eyes and Sam is fucking douchebag and really, are we supposed to root for their bond at all? (I know I don't.) And then they turn around and beat Dean down into the ground for not being a good enough brother and give him speeches about how everyone's always been hard on Sam. I mean, what the fuck? The only logical explanation I have for this is that they throw that kind of Dean angst at us because it makes for great drama and juicy emo scenes, and it makes us stick around. But when it gets right down to it they'll rub Dean's face in the dirt and give Sam the hero status and ugh, just what the fuck ever. I'm so tired of it.
You know, I gave up after "Swan Song". I'm really bad at quitting when a should, be it a bad show or a bad relationship, but I really did it. And yet...I kept up with season six, what happened and what others had to say about it, and the week before "My Heart Will Go On" aired, I marathoned my way through season six. Luckily, I'd emotionally pulled out of SPN at that point so I could watch it with a sense of detachment and simply be amused by all the shit. But yeah. A long, slow trainwreck sure is the right description of it. I still don't see how some think season six was all perfectly planned out (http://missyjack.livejournal.com/742413.html).
Sorry to rant and ramble at you; I'm mainly a lurker and apparently I have Thoughts about SPN!