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lunabee34I was 100% prepared for this season premiere to suck. I really wasn't all that fond of most of last season and firmly believe that they should have ended the show with season 5.
Well, hallelujah I was wrong!
Watching Cas degenerate was deeply disturbing, his body corrupting as an outward manifestation of his inner corruption. There are a few moments that actually really creeped me out (at the end when he's moving all around weird courtesy of the Leviathan, for example), and it's been a long time since SPN creeped me out as opposed to grossed me out.
The humor was just right to balance out the horror, too. Cas changing the stained glass image of Jesus to himself, him going after a Michelle Bauchman stand-in for advocating policies that lead to poverty and doing it in the name of God, this exchange: "I just pray to God it's true." "We need to come up with a new saying for that."
I continue to like PTSD Sam. I think his journey will be interesting this season.
Death is awesome, as per usual. I love that Dean tries to placate him with pickle chips, and his whole, "We're the boss of you," speech given while staring at the floor literally made me LOL. Death is probably the most intriguing and genuinely scary supernatural being they've had on the show. He's just so Other. He is so much More, so much Not-Human, in a way that even the ultimate big bad, Lucifer, is not.
I am so happy that Crowley is not actually dead. When they killed him last season, I thought they'd made a huge mistake. Mark Sheppard is a scene stealer in everything he's ever been in. I was so relieved at the end of last season when they revealed he's still alive. He's a Ruby figure, the kind of villain this show needs. Totally bad but capable of good, nice sense of humor and flair, and the free will to make inexplicable choices that leave us all on our toes.
As for Cas, I love that he comes to Sam and Dean for help. I love that he's genuinely sorry and that he knows sorry isn't good enough. I love how gentle Bobby is with him. I love how upset Dean is when he thinks Cas is dead. I love how horrified Cas is that the leviathans have taken control of him (and I like the implication there that they were mostly responsible for Cas's behavior as God; I mean, he'd taken a header down the slippery slope last season, sure. But even though he was making wrong decisions, he was still making them to preserve the greater good. When he gobbles up those souls, he changes instantly for the worse. I'd like to think that most of that was not Cas but the influence of the garbage he absorbed). I also don't for one minute think Cas is actually dead. I'm hoping the finale will be a big rescue. Now whether that'll be a rescue that restores him as Cas the angel, leaves him as Cas the human, or kills him in the process of ridding the world of the monsters, who knows?
Your thoughts?
Well, hallelujah I was wrong!
Watching Cas degenerate was deeply disturbing, his body corrupting as an outward manifestation of his inner corruption. There are a few moments that actually really creeped me out (at the end when he's moving all around weird courtesy of the Leviathan, for example), and it's been a long time since SPN creeped me out as opposed to grossed me out.
The humor was just right to balance out the horror, too. Cas changing the stained glass image of Jesus to himself, him going after a Michelle Bauchman stand-in for advocating policies that lead to poverty and doing it in the name of God, this exchange: "I just pray to God it's true." "We need to come up with a new saying for that."
I continue to like PTSD Sam. I think his journey will be interesting this season.
Death is awesome, as per usual. I love that Dean tries to placate him with pickle chips, and his whole, "We're the boss of you," speech given while staring at the floor literally made me LOL. Death is probably the most intriguing and genuinely scary supernatural being they've had on the show. He's just so Other. He is so much More, so much Not-Human, in a way that even the ultimate big bad, Lucifer, is not.
I am so happy that Crowley is not actually dead. When they killed him last season, I thought they'd made a huge mistake. Mark Sheppard is a scene stealer in everything he's ever been in. I was so relieved at the end of last season when they revealed he's still alive. He's a Ruby figure, the kind of villain this show needs. Totally bad but capable of good, nice sense of humor and flair, and the free will to make inexplicable choices that leave us all on our toes.
As for Cas, I love that he comes to Sam and Dean for help. I love that he's genuinely sorry and that he knows sorry isn't good enough. I love how gentle Bobby is with him. I love how upset Dean is when he thinks Cas is dead. I love how horrified Cas is that the leviathans have taken control of him (and I like the implication there that they were mostly responsible for Cas's behavior as God; I mean, he'd taken a header down the slippery slope last season, sure. But even though he was making wrong decisions, he was still making them to preserve the greater good. When he gobbles up those souls, he changes instantly for the worse. I'd like to think that most of that was not Cas but the influence of the garbage he absorbed). I also don't for one minute think Cas is actually dead. I'm hoping the finale will be a big rescue. Now whether that'll be a rescue that restores him as Cas the angel, leaves him as Cas the human, or kills him in the process of ridding the world of the monsters, who knows?
Your thoughts?
