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<\/a><\/p>\n\nI don’t care about Maggie, I don’t ever want to see randos running around the bunker in camo ever again. I cannot STAND gunfights in Supernatural<\/i>. Gunfights became a regular feature only under this new regime and I resent the hell out of it. I am AGAINST it. It’s totally against the spirit of the show.<\/p>\n
That being said: <\/p>\n
I think the device of this ep was beautiful – and beautiful in a way I haven’t felt in 3 or 4 years. The symbolic weight of the device was in place – and the resurrecting of an old character worked in the way it has in the past – not in a pandering way like Charlie\/Mom\/Bobby – but in a way that deepens our understanding of this character’s purpose and meaning to Sam and Dean. I haven’t felt this in a long long time with this show. AND nothing was sacrificed. You still got your story, you still had a plot-line … you moved your Arc forward … but it had that deeper THING going on – emotions, basically – it was interested in WHAT IS GOING ON WITH SAM AND DEAN. (The fact that I don’t feel that anymore mostly is such a bummer. It’s why I watch the damn show. Monsters shmonsters.) <\/p>\n
The “resolution” to the episode’s arc – with its Babadook echoes – was haunting and very well done (not to mention an accurate representation of what it feels sometimes living with a mental illness – it actually gave me a little chill, thinking, “Wow. Yeah. That’s what it’s like. Ouch.”) The resolution had that OTHER LAYER going on, so it works on the surface literal level, just in terms of plot – but it also works on that deeper metaphorical level, where all the good stuff happens (or, used to happen). The episode, and these elements, were sensitive to all the resonances in these characters, their relationships, their past, etc. <\/p>\n
I was sincerely moved by much of it. <\/p>\n
Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I don’t care about Maggie, I don’t ever want to see randos running around the bunker in camo ever again. I cannot STAND gunfights in Supernatural. Gunfights became a regular feature only under this new regime and I resent the … Continue reading