This broke my heart. It broke mine, too, when I wrote it. But that's what I felt after I watched the episode and man, I just don't understand why the writers don't start to build anything close to a reconciliation arc at this point. It's midseason already and there should have been a turn in the brothers' arc. That's how it always has been. :(
It's too bad really as the first episodes this season were good. They really were. It looked like the writers had a plan, a good plan, a working plan - and then it all stopped. And I am at an absolute loss as to why! You see, I don't think the show is actually stretched thin. The material the writers could have worked with this season is amazingly rich - from the brothers' reconciliation, over Sam's redemption, to Lucifer and the apocalypse, to the angels/God arc - but they barely even touched any of that. And you know what the funniest part is, you can't really compare it to the standalone structure of S1, because S1 actually was nothing like this season. It did actually have a strong, continuous arc with in depth character exploration, strong direction and consistency. It's the shallowness, the sudden urge to sacrifice character continuity and plot consistency to (questionable at best) comedy that really upsets me the most. They let their characters and their plot down in the worst possible way. :(
So yeah, I hear ya! I am so frustrated with this season, I've never felt this way about Supernatural in the last 4 years that I was devoted to this show.
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It broke mine, too, when I wrote it. But that's what I felt after I watched the episode and man, I just don't understand why the writers don't start to build anything close to a reconciliation arc at this point. It's midseason already and there should have been a turn in the brothers' arc. That's how it always has been. :(
It's too bad really as the first episodes this season were good.
They really were. It looked like the writers had a plan, a good plan, a working plan - and then it all stopped. And I am at an absolute loss as to why! You see, I don't think the show is actually stretched thin. The material the writers could have worked with this season is amazingly rich - from the brothers' reconciliation, over Sam's redemption, to Lucifer and the apocalypse, to the angels/God arc - but they barely even touched any of that. And you know what the funniest part is, you can't really compare it to the standalone structure of S1, because S1 actually was nothing like this season. It did actually have a strong, continuous arc with in depth character exploration, strong direction and consistency. It's the shallowness, the sudden urge to sacrifice character continuity and plot consistency to (questionable at best) comedy that really upsets me the most. They let their characters and their plot down in the worst possible way. :(
So yeah, I hear ya! I am so frustrated with this season, I've never felt this way about Supernatural in the last 4 years that I was devoted to this show.