This episode was...I don't know. A lot of it I liked, but pretty much everything with Tessa I didn't. All the lore changes you mentioned aside, I really didn't like that she was brought back just to die, or the shift in her character. I mean, given the Veil situation (and I am glad it got mentioned again, even under circumstances I'm less than thrilled about), it makes sense. But that doesn't mean I have to like it.
Okay, negatives out of the way, pretty much everything else I enjoyed. The main highlight was the seemingly endless variety of '1000% done with your shit, Metatron' faces Gadreel managed to pull out.
I'm pretty sure the little girl angel's parents are either vessels themselves or dead. Maybe one of each, depending on if one or both of her parents are vessel lines. It was interesting that this episode had a couple plot points/whatever that dealt with vessels. Even if it wasn't for protecting/doing anything with them, it was still nice to see them acknowledged. Between her and the way they tracked Josiah...
Agents Spears and Aguilera was brilliant. All the stuff with Cas this episode was pretty brilliant, honestly.
Metatron being a total dork was kind of funny, to be fair. And Gadreel playing off him was amazing and wonderful and you're right that he acts a lot like s4 Cas, though I don't think I'd've noticed if it wasn't pointed out.
I think someone else in the comments mentioned it, but I'm pretty sure that the narrative Metatron is crafting does require him to start with a small army then make it large, which is why he's courting Bowling Angel.
Random tangent--my brain went in a weird 'Metatron-in-Claire-Novak' direction when he offered to get a new face. Which is weird and horrible and wrong and would go very bad very quickly but...part of me thinks it would be interesting, and raise old plot points that I'd like to see revisited. Especially when this episode at least vaguely dealt with vessels.
I don't think that Metatron is trying to stop the faction fighting, so much as get it under control/all under his banner. Which probably was how Michael kept things stable in Heaven before the aborted apocalypse? IDK.
To add to your positivity about Fiddler, I was very pleased that the musical that was actually playing was Jesus Christ Superstar, which I'm sure has Meaning, but I love that show so it made me happy.
Totally with you on adoring Gadreel still, BTW.
I have to admit, I was expecting something totally different and implausible behind that door, based on the fairly widespread theory that Metatron has Gabriel as his prisoner that started cropping up after Meta Fiction that I am particularly attached to...but what they did find was much more appropriate/sense-making/let's-not-add-more-plots-right-now so it worked, even if the part of me that adores Gabriel is still disappointed lol I'm a dork.
That 'I don't see an angel in your eyes' was definitely cool and something to think about.
You have a point about Dean putting the dick in dictator but, with regard to a regular angel blade working on Metatron, I'm not sure it would. Metatron has seriously leveled up, in that even holy fire can't contain him anymore, so I'm not sure an angel blade would work. Maybe an archangel blade, since those seem to be different (though we get that bit of information from Kali, rather than a source with more direct angelic knowledge), but even then, holy fire contained Gabriel, so...the First Blade may actually be necessary there.
Also, I finally started to buy Metatron as a clever villain here. His PR plan with the suicide bombers to win support away from Castiel, horrible as it was to watch, was kind of brilliant, since Cas has gone off the rails enough in the past that it's believable and, with a few well-timed revelations...
I was SO PLEASED when Gadreel showed up and even Sam seemed willing to at least hear him out and then Dean did something horrible and actually kind of expected but it made me sad. Oh, well, even if no one else cares, you and I will be sad if/when he dies, at least? Poor Gadreel...if only he'd found sympathy from someone who knew everything about him and wasn't Metatron...
Basically, except for everything directly involving Tessa, I liked this episode. We'll see how next week goes...
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Date: 2014-05-15 02:26 am (UTC)Okay, negatives out of the way, pretty much everything else I enjoyed. The main highlight was the seemingly endless variety of '1000% done with your shit, Metatron' faces Gadreel managed to pull out.
I'm pretty sure the little girl angel's parents are either vessels themselves or dead. Maybe one of each, depending on if one or both of her parents are vessel lines. It was interesting that this episode had a couple plot points/whatever that dealt with vessels. Even if it wasn't for protecting/doing anything with them, it was still nice to see them acknowledged. Between her and the way they tracked Josiah...
Agents Spears and Aguilera was brilliant. All the stuff with Cas this episode was pretty brilliant, honestly.
Metatron being a total dork was kind of funny, to be fair. And Gadreel playing off him was amazing and wonderful and you're right that he acts a lot like s4 Cas, though I don't think I'd've noticed if it wasn't pointed out.
I think someone else in the comments mentioned it, but I'm pretty sure that the narrative Metatron is crafting does require him to start with a small army then make it large, which is why he's courting Bowling Angel.
Random tangent--my brain went in a weird 'Metatron-in-Claire-Novak' direction when he offered to get a new face. Which is weird and horrible and wrong and would go very bad very quickly but...part of me thinks it would be interesting, and raise old plot points that I'd like to see revisited. Especially when this episode at least vaguely dealt with vessels.
I don't think that Metatron is trying to stop the faction fighting, so much as get it under control/all under his banner. Which probably was how Michael kept things stable in Heaven before the aborted apocalypse? IDK.
To add to your positivity about Fiddler, I was very pleased that the musical that was actually playing was Jesus Christ Superstar, which I'm sure has Meaning, but I love that show so it made me happy.
Totally with you on adoring Gadreel still, BTW.
I have to admit, I was expecting something totally different and implausible behind that door, based on the fairly widespread theory that Metatron has Gabriel as his prisoner that started cropping up after Meta Fiction that I am particularly attached to...but what they did find was much more appropriate/sense-making/let's-not-add-more-plots-right-now so it worked, even if the part of me that adores Gabriel is still disappointed lol I'm a dork.
That 'I don't see an angel in your eyes' was definitely cool and something to think about.
You have a point about Dean putting the dick in dictator but, with regard to a regular angel blade working on Metatron, I'm not sure it would. Metatron has seriously leveled up, in that even holy fire can't contain him anymore, so I'm not sure an angel blade would work. Maybe an archangel blade, since those seem to be different (though we get that bit of information from Kali, rather than a source with more direct angelic knowledge), but even then, holy fire contained Gabriel, so...the First Blade may actually be necessary there.
Also, I finally started to buy Metatron as a clever villain here. His PR plan with the suicide bombers to win support away from Castiel, horrible as it was to watch, was kind of brilliant, since Cas has gone off the rails enough in the past that it's believable and, with a few well-timed revelations...
I was SO PLEASED when Gadreel showed up and even Sam seemed willing to at least hear him out and then Dean did something horrible and actually kind of expected but it made me sad. Oh, well, even if no one else cares, you and I will be sad if/when he dies, at least? Poor Gadreel...if only he'd found sympathy from someone who knew everything about him and wasn't Metatron...
Basically, except for everything directly involving Tessa, I liked this episode. We'll see how next week goes...