These first two episodes were easily ten times better than the entire last season. Episode 2 alone has single-handedly made me love SPN like it's season 1 all over again. I feel like one half of an old married couple that's been distant and feuding for a long time, only to have finally made up and found the motherfucking passion again.
They've given us action, motion (almost too much, too fast at a few points, but that's about my only complaint), swathes and swathes of potential plot, character development, mending of relationships that have been strained and broken for too long-- GUH. Watching these two episodes, I actually had the lucid thought that the writers were literally listening to the two big things that a lot of the fans (myself included) wanted: bring back the brothers that we started with, and fix Dean and Cas (I admit my shipper bias). It's like Christmas in goddamn October, I tell you!
Is Cas dead? I really don't think so. That was one of the points at which I felt it moved too fast: Godstiel-->Death-->Cas's breakdown-->ritual-->monsters gone-->Dean and Cas reconcile (kind of)-->OH WAIT LEVIATHAN-->trenchcoat in the water-->"rest in peace" in the space of one episode and a little bit? (And that was all Dean felt about it? After that conversation, that was really his entire reaction to Cas being apparently dead? C'mon, Ackles, emote a little!) We know there's a head honcho Leviathan still off-screen somewhere. If he's not wearing Cas, I'll eat my hat.
I agree entirely with what you said in your 7x01 post, about Dean and Sam failing to develop. It was frustrating the hell out of me, the whole "no really I'm fine" thing over and over again for seasons on end, so when Bobby laid down that verbal bitchslap to Dean in the kitchen-- YES. I would have liked even a second of hesitation out of Dean, a flinch... but no, of course not, Dean. The fact that we had that belated flinch come out in the voicemail at the end of 7x02 had me sighing in relief. It's about time. And I adored that the writers finally linked Dean's and Sam's experiences in Hell together, to explicitly show both the audience and the characters that those mutual experiences mean there's now no reason for Dean and Sam to keep lying to each other and trying to pretend that they're fine. They both know what kind of shit goes down in Hell, and what that does to a person. They don't have to keep that wall up between them any more (pun intended).
Now if the show can just stop horrifying me with the fridge logic of Adam's fate, then I'll be all the way over the moon. *chinhands*
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Date: 2011-10-03 05:01 am (UTC)They've given us action, motion (almost too much, too fast at a few points, but that's about my only complaint), swathes and swathes of potential plot, character development, mending of relationships that have been strained and broken for too long-- GUH. Watching these two episodes, I actually had the lucid thought that the writers were literally listening to the two big things that a lot of the fans (myself included) wanted: bring back the brothers that we started with, and fix Dean and Cas (I admit my shipper bias). It's like Christmas in goddamn October, I tell you!
Is Cas dead? I really don't think so. That was one of the points at which I felt it moved too fast: Godstiel-->Death-->Cas's breakdown-->ritual-->monsters gone-->Dean and Cas reconcile (kind of)-->OH WAIT LEVIATHAN-->trenchcoat in the water-->"rest in peace" in the space of one episode and a little bit? (And that was all Dean felt about it? After that conversation, that was really his entire reaction to Cas being apparently dead? C'mon, Ackles, emote a little!) We know there's a head honcho Leviathan still off-screen somewhere. If he's not wearing Cas, I'll eat my hat.
I agree entirely with what you said in your 7x01 post, about Dean and Sam failing to develop. It was frustrating the hell out of me, the whole "no really I'm fine" thing over and over again for seasons on end, so when Bobby laid down that verbal bitchslap to Dean in the kitchen-- YES. I would have liked even a second of hesitation out of Dean, a flinch... but no, of course not, Dean. The fact that we had that belated flinch come out in the voicemail at the end of 7x02 had me sighing in relief. It's about time. And I adored that the writers finally linked Dean's and Sam's experiences in Hell together, to explicitly show both the audience and the characters that those mutual experiences mean there's now no reason for Dean and Sam to keep lying to each other and trying to pretend that they're fine. They both know what kind of shit goes down in Hell, and what that does to a person. They don't have to keep that wall up between them any more (pun intended).
Now if the show can just stop horrifying me with the fridge logic of Adam's fate, then I'll be all the way over the moon. *chinhands*