Well, I'm not wailing and beating at my chest. ;) I pretty much knew the story I was watching was over with the end of season 5 and lowered my expectations accordingly, even if I knew I wouldn't be able to disengage completely and there's low-level annoyance at the direction they chose to take and at the failure to explore the more interesting possibilities of that direction.
The angel storyline could have maybe been interesting if they had gone the Eldritch Abomination route, the Other, the ultimate aliens. They hint at it ("my true form is the size of the Chrysler Building," and "multi-dimensional wavelength of celestial intent" and "I have six heads, one of them is a lion") but it's played for laughs. They could have done it with Robo!Sam too and with Eve. And this could have been explored as part of the reason why Dean is so immediately willing to put Castiel down. Instead it's all about Castiel's angst. (Man, if I wanted "I'm not a real boy, woe it's me" wangst I'd be watching re-runs of Buffy and Angel, you know? Been there, done that.)
A lot of us signed up for the Sam and Dean show, for the tight humanistic focus. This season can be fanwanked to be about what it means to be human, what it means to be a monster, what's the difference - but it's the kind of thing where I have to fanwank *hard* because the season has been all over the place.
It's true that shows evolve - I'm okay with that. I'm not in the angel-hating camp, I'm in the "whatever, I don't care" camp. So that's my reaction upon learning that this season's action plot - for which we've been waiting for 20 episodes, WTF - is about off-screen angel shennanigans. I don't care. The show could have made me care, but they haven't. So I'm stuck in not caring.
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Date: 2011-05-10 11:48 pm (UTC)The angel storyline could have maybe been interesting if they had gone the Eldritch Abomination route, the Other, the ultimate aliens. They hint at it ("my true form is the size of the Chrysler Building," and "multi-dimensional wavelength of celestial intent" and "I have six heads, one of them is a lion") but it's played for laughs. They could have done it with Robo!Sam too and with Eve. And this could have been explored as part of the reason why Dean is so immediately willing to put Castiel down. Instead it's all about Castiel's angst. (Man, if I wanted "I'm not a real boy, woe it's me" wangst I'd be watching re-runs of Buffy and Angel, you know? Been there, done that.)
A lot of us signed up for the Sam and Dean show, for the tight humanistic focus. This season can be fanwanked to be about what it means to be human, what it means to be a monster, what's the difference - but it's the kind of thing where I have to fanwank *hard* because the season has been all over the place.
It's true that shows evolve - I'm okay with that. I'm not in the angel-hating camp, I'm in the "whatever, I don't care" camp. So that's my reaction upon learning that this season's action plot - for which we've been waiting for 20 episodes, WTF - is about off-screen angel shennanigans. I don't care. The show could have made me care, but they haven't. So I'm stuck in not caring.
There's always Game of Thrones. ;)