Overall, The Born-Again Identity is not a bad episode, but if I think about the difference between what this episode could have been and what it ended up being, I cannot help but feeling disgruntled.
Yeah that was my problem because it's not like it was a bad episode exactly, but it was so frustrating the way they crammed everything in there when they could have had two amazing episodes to deal with Sam's breakdown and then Castiel's return (with both Dean AND Sam allowed to respond to Cas after what he did). And they do have 24 episodes this season, so I'm not sure why they felt the need to rush it all in one episode instead?
I got into this in my review, but my biggest disappointment was that I wanted the episode to be all about the brothers, I had been waiting all season for the consequences of Sam losing his mind and being sectioned to hit Dean hard and possibly be a breaking-point for him. Instead the moment of the episode where Sam was cured gave us no epic brotherly reunion whatsoever because the focus immediately switched to Castiel struggling, and that was the biggest disappointment of the episode to me when I wanted to see Jensen play Deans' response to having Sam back. If there was ever an ideal time for a brotherly hug!
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Date: 2012-03-30 11:57 am (UTC)Yeah that was my problem because it's not like it was a bad episode exactly, but it was so frustrating the way they crammed everything in there when they could have had two amazing episodes to deal with Sam's breakdown and then Castiel's return (with both Dean AND Sam allowed to respond to Cas after what he did). And they do have 24 episodes this season, so I'm not sure why they felt the need to rush it all in one episode instead?
I got into this in my review, but my biggest disappointment was that I wanted the episode to be all about the brothers, I had been waiting all season for the consequences of Sam losing his mind and being sectioned to hit Dean hard and possibly be a breaking-point for him. Instead the moment of the episode where Sam was cured gave us no epic brotherly reunion whatsoever because the focus immediately switched to Castiel struggling, and that was the biggest disappointment of the episode to me when I wanted to see Jensen play Deans' response to having Sam back. If there was ever an ideal time for a brotherly hug!