You remind me of this conversation that had to do with my insta-reaction (my opinions have changed since then, but this is how it felt back then) I had with a fangirl after watching this episode for the first time. Her and I were a little bit frustrated with the seeming redo of the season 4 arc of 'someone close to Dean is on the bad path and Dean knows best but they don't listen and then Dean's all betrayed.' I guess we were just a little bored of the 'Dean knows best' motif, which I'm not saying is completely true (I mean, obviously not. They guy's fucked up!), but Dean seems to get this holier-than-thou attitude that can irk me. Anyways, fangirl and I hypothesized about the finale and we were kind of hoping it'd be like this:
Cas opens purgatory, uses the souls, everything goes well. Then Dean comes in and fucks it up and makes the souls explode everywhere and eat people. Cas is like, Deeeeeeeannnnnn I had it under control!!! And Dean's like ;_____; Whoops, I should have trusted you.
Hahaha, how it did not turn out like that. That's one thing I love about Supernatural. They always, always surprise me. A lot of TV shows have obvious foreshadowing and foreseeable unsurprising plot twists, but SPN always does something that I don't expect.
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Date: 2011-10-28 10:32 pm (UTC)You remind me of this conversation that had to do with my insta-reaction (my opinions have changed since then, but this is how it felt back then) I had with a fangirl after watching this episode for the first time. Her and I were a little bit frustrated with the seeming redo of the season 4 arc of 'someone close to Dean is on the bad path and Dean knows best but they don't listen and then Dean's all betrayed.' I guess we were just a little bored of the 'Dean knows best' motif, which I'm not saying is completely true (I mean, obviously not. They guy's fucked up!), but Dean seems to get this holier-than-thou attitude that can irk me. Anyways, fangirl and I hypothesized about the finale and we were kind of hoping it'd be like this:
Cas opens purgatory, uses the souls, everything goes well. Then Dean comes in and fucks it up and makes the souls explode everywhere and eat people. Cas is like, Deeeeeeeannnnnn I had it under control!!! And Dean's like ;_____; Whoops, I should have trusted you.
Hahaha, how it did not turn out like that. That's one thing I love about Supernatural. They always, always surprise me. A lot of TV shows have obvious foreshadowing and foreseeable unsurprising plot twists, but SPN always does something that I don't expect.