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First off, something that has hardly anything to do with the ep, but I would like to start a petition to cast Whoopi Goldberg as God, should God ever be found. I want this so much that I am willing to write an actual letter to Kripke&Co in support of this position. If I knew how to start a fandom campaign I would do that as well. But since I do not have Kripke's address nor do I have any real idea how to compel fandom to do my will I will state it here and now, for the record.
WHOOPI FOR GOD! Pass it along.
My two favorite parts of tonight's episode were the musical montage at the very beginning to Skynyrd's Simple Man and Dean giving Castiel the pep talk about looking for missing fathers.
Also, I'm beginning to think that I am broadcasting signals straight into the writers' heads because who's been saying that Sam was Lucifer's vessel since, well, since forever (or at least somewhere around mid-season four)? Hi! Hello there! Over here! *waves* I'm really starting to understand how![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hiyacynth felt when she was writing Mockingbird and 'Born Under A Bad Sign' came on the air.
Except for how BUaBS is kind of awesome and tonight's episode was, to me, practically the epitome of every issue I have with Show wrapped up into one steaming package. The pacing was off, Jess was actually Lucifer in disguise, black men are antagonists, and women's daddy issues turn them into prostitutes while men's daddy issues turn them into hunters/angels. *facepalms xinfinity*
Plus, what a way to waste Adrianne Palicki and Jess. I am deeply disappointed in you, Show, deeply, deeply disappointed.
So, instead of talking about all of the things that didn't work for me in this episode let's talk about what I would have done differently. There are definitely things I would have kept, like the montage. All of the stuff with Sam and Lindsay was good and I liked the bit at the beginning with Jess, though I wouldn't have ruined it by making it all be Lucifer. Seriously, using some guy's dead wife/fiancee/girlfriend once is interesting, using it twice is lazy. Instead of having the hunters try to feed Sam demon blood I would have had him ambushed by demons and taunted with the blood. Then I would have had Sam start to exorcise one of them with his mind (since, duh, Sam never needed the demon blood anyway) and deliberately choose not to go down that path again. I did like the bit where Sam had to admit to the non-possessed hunters that he'd started the Apocalypse so I'd work that whole scene to keep that in there, but, yeah.
Over with Dean and Castiel I would change nearly everything. I'd keep the bit where Castiel was all "You're the only one who will help me" 'cause that was fun but the search for Raphael would be completely different. Instead of being the guy who killed Castiel he'd be an angel who's gone so crazy that even the other angels don't want to go near him, that his danger is in his unpredictability. But he's the closest thing to a reputable source that Castiel can find. So then you get to keep Raphael's whole spiel about waiting for the Father and watching the world go to Hell because I did like that. It also means you can keep the suggestion that it was Lucifer who raised Castiel rather than God, because stuff like that is always fun.
I would not have had Dean take Castiel to a brothel. The closest I would've come is to have Dean take Castiel to a bar to pick up chicks and then discover him having a deep and meaningful conversation with a woman. But Dean would still have to save him because Castiel does come off as creepy and I can see Castiel being all "Oh yes, I do understand why you go home at night and read fanfiction until you pass out from exhaustion because you just can't deal with your life" and the woman being all "OMG I didn't say anything about fanfic! Are you stalking me YOU FREAK!" *cue shenanigans*
*takes deep breath* Wow, I feel better already. It's like I always say, I always react badly to something that is really close to being awesome but doesn't quite make it. Plus, I don't think Show has ever given me such an extreme case of episode whiplash. It's one thing to go from the sublime to the ridiculous, it's another thing entirely to go from last week to this.
ETA: I recognize and would like to acknowledge that my issues with tonight's episode may have much more to do about the absolutely shitty week I've been having than anything have to do with Show itself. I'm just in one of those moods where I'm more apt to turn molehills into mountains, if you know what I mean. I'm just really, really tired, you guys.
However, next week looks crackaliciously wonderful. Show always does know how to push all of my favorite story buttons.
In conclusion: WHOOPI FOR GOD! Because the universe deserves nothing less.
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
Free music is much like free porn, in a way. ;-)
First off, something that has hardly anything to do with the ep, but I would like to start a petition to cast Whoopi Goldberg as God, should God ever be found. I want this so much that I am willing to write an actual letter to Kripke&Co in support of this position. If I knew how to start a fandom campaign I would do that as well. But since I do not have Kripke's address nor do I have any real idea how to compel fandom to do my will I will state it here and now, for the record.
WHOOPI FOR GOD! Pass it along.
My two favorite parts of tonight's episode were the musical montage at the very beginning to Skynyrd's Simple Man and Dean giving Castiel the pep talk about looking for missing fathers.
Also, I'm beginning to think that I am broadcasting signals straight into the writers' heads because who's been saying that Sam was Lucifer's vessel since, well, since forever (or at least somewhere around mid-season four)? Hi! Hello there! Over here! *waves* I'm really starting to understand how
hiyacynth felt when she was writing Mockingbird and 'Born Under A Bad Sign' came on the air.Except for how BUaBS is kind of awesome and tonight's episode was, to me, practically the epitome of every issue I have with Show wrapped up into one steaming package. The pacing was off, Jess was actually Lucifer in disguise, black men are antagonists, and women's daddy issues turn them into prostitutes while men's daddy issues turn them into hunters/angels. *facepalms xinfinity*
Plus, what a way to waste Adrianne Palicki and Jess. I am deeply disappointed in you, Show, deeply, deeply disappointed.
So, instead of talking about all of the things that didn't work for me in this episode let's talk about what I would have done differently. There are definitely things I would have kept, like the montage. All of the stuff with Sam and Lindsay was good and I liked the bit at the beginning with Jess, though I wouldn't have ruined it by making it all be Lucifer. Seriously, using some guy's dead wife/fiancee/girlfriend once is interesting, using it twice is lazy. Instead of having the hunters try to feed Sam demon blood I would have had him ambushed by demons and taunted with the blood. Then I would have had Sam start to exorcise one of them with his mind (since, duh, Sam never needed the demon blood anyway) and deliberately choose not to go down that path again. I did like the bit where Sam had to admit to the non-possessed hunters that he'd started the Apocalypse so I'd work that whole scene to keep that in there, but, yeah.
Over with Dean and Castiel I would change nearly everything. I'd keep the bit where Castiel was all "You're the only one who will help me" 'cause that was fun but the search for Raphael would be completely different. Instead of being the guy who killed Castiel he'd be an angel who's gone so crazy that even the other angels don't want to go near him, that his danger is in his unpredictability. But he's the closest thing to a reputable source that Castiel can find. So then you get to keep Raphael's whole spiel about waiting for the Father and watching the world go to Hell because I did like that. It also means you can keep the suggestion that it was Lucifer who raised Castiel rather than God, because stuff like that is always fun.
I would not have had Dean take Castiel to a brothel. The closest I would've come is to have Dean take Castiel to a bar to pick up chicks and then discover him having a deep and meaningful conversation with a woman. But Dean would still have to save him because Castiel does come off as creepy and I can see Castiel being all "Oh yes, I do understand why you go home at night and read fanfiction until you pass out from exhaustion because you just can't deal with your life" and the woman being all "OMG I didn't say anything about fanfic! Are you stalking me YOU FREAK!" *cue shenanigans*
*takes deep breath* Wow, I feel better already. It's like I always say, I always react badly to something that is really close to being awesome but doesn't quite make it. Plus, I don't think Show has ever given me such an extreme case of episode whiplash. It's one thing to go from the sublime to the ridiculous, it's another thing entirely to go from last week to this.
ETA: I recognize and would like to acknowledge that my issues with tonight's episode may have much more to do about the absolutely shitty week I've been having than anything have to do with Show itself. I'm just in one of those moods where I'm more apt to turn molehills into mountains, if you know what I mean. I'm just really, really tired, you guys.
However, next week looks crackaliciously wonderful. Show always does know how to push all of my favorite story buttons.
In conclusion: WHOOPI FOR GOD! Because the universe deserves nothing less.
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
Free music is much like free porn, in a way. ;-)
