Not much to add. I'd defend Dean but... yeah, he pissed me off this episode too because he STILL STILL DOESN'T GET CAS. I think he did start to come round, but he's not there yet.
Tracy said a simple thing in her review that made me feel a little better about Dean though actually - she said the 'no one cares you're broken' and later Dean saying, somewhat frustratedly 'you don't wanna throw yourself into the jaws of death, that's fine...' was Dean mistaking Cas' 'I don't want to fight' as COWARDESS. Which, as we all know because it's PAINFULLY OBVIOUS, is not true. It wasn't until Cas confessed about being 'bad luck' that Dean started to understand Cas was being SELFLESS in his not fighting, because he thought he'd make things worse. Dean finally saw how Cas had descended to a bitter lack of self-worth and THAT was what was driving him. Something Dean finally recognised and understood, because as he says they are ALL 'cursed,' Dean understands that feeling of not being good enough.
But yeah. Dean's a dick. I'm sorry about that. I still hope for better and think, with Cas and Dean being TOGETHER now, there is scope for Dean to grow next season... but I've been thinking that sicne S04 so...
One other thing:
Weird though, that they seemed so certain that he'll just move on.
I thought the idea was that they DIDN'T know Bobby would move on? They didn't in fact know WHAT would happen to him, just that whatever it was was better than him sticking around to turn vengeful. That's what the ghost Mrs. Robinson says in the ghost episode - if burning her bones means that's it, there's nothing for her after, then she was ok with nothing? That's my assumption.
As to the finale being underwhelming - eh. I touch on this in my review. Basically, I never expect finales to WOW. They are just another episode that happens to come at the end of a season. It continued the story, that's all that mattered to me. I was prepared for an easy fix with the levithan plot, considering it had been so underwhleming all season. It was hardly going to get new and fresh right at the end.
INIAS :( i asked misha if he was still alive at A8 (or rather I BEGGED him 'please please please tell me he isn't dead please!') But Misha doesn't know, of course. He is alive in my mind. there may even be fic...
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Date: 2012-06-03 11:32 am (UTC)Tracy said a simple thing in her review that made me feel a little better about Dean though actually - she said the 'no one cares you're broken' and later Dean saying, somewhat frustratedly 'you don't wanna throw yourself into the jaws of death, that's fine...' was Dean mistaking Cas' 'I don't want to fight' as COWARDESS. Which, as we all know because it's PAINFULLY OBVIOUS, is not true. It wasn't until Cas confessed about being 'bad luck' that Dean started to understand Cas was being SELFLESS in his not fighting, because he thought he'd make things worse. Dean finally saw how Cas had descended to a bitter lack of self-worth and THAT was what was driving him. Something Dean finally recognised and understood, because as he says they are ALL 'cursed,' Dean understands that feeling of not being good enough.
But yeah. Dean's a dick. I'm sorry about that. I still hope for better and think, with Cas and Dean being TOGETHER now, there is scope for Dean to grow next season... but I've been thinking that sicne S04 so...
One other thing:
Weird though, that they seemed so certain that he'll just move on.
I thought the idea was that they DIDN'T know Bobby would move on? They didn't in fact know WHAT would happen to him, just that whatever it was was better than him sticking around to turn vengeful. That's what the ghost Mrs. Robinson says in the ghost episode - if burning her bones means that's it, there's nothing for her after, then she was ok with nothing? That's my assumption.
As to the finale being underwhelming - eh. I touch on this in my review. Basically, I never expect finales to WOW. They are just another episode that happens to come at the end of a season. It continued the story, that's all that mattered to me. I was prepared for an easy fix with the levithan plot, considering it had been so underwhleming all season. It was hardly going to get new and fresh right at the end.
INIAS :( i asked misha if he was still alive at A8 (or rather I BEGGED him 'please please please tell me he isn't dead please!') But Misha doesn't know, of course. He is alive in my mind. there may even be fic...