It was awesome to see Death, though I think SPN's version of Lucifer is very dull and I'm not at all happy to see him back.
Yeah, "Dean has been in reactive mode" is a good way to put it. Dean used to be the shiniest thing on the show, and now he's in the background behind Sam and whatever-Misha's-playing-this-week. :(
It's like the writers have run out of steam and don't have anything new to say about him, which is terrible because Dean is freaking awesome and it's painful to see him wasted like this. Even their attempt last season, with Lisa and Ben, was poorly developed and felt like an obligatory afterthought rather than a real storyline with any dramatic stakes.
And what is at stake with Dean now? The only open question seems to be "at what point will the depression and alcoholism cause him to give up entirely?" Such a sad change from early seasons where there was so much going on with him.
And *sign* the waste of Dean/Cas is criminal.
I did try watching the first two eps of Vampire Diaries but um... unless is changes dramatically and in pretty much every way, I don't think it's for me. :(
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Date: 2011-09-26 03:34 am (UTC)Yeah, "Dean has been in reactive mode" is a good way to put it. Dean used to be the shiniest thing on the show, and now he's in the background behind Sam and whatever-Misha's-playing-this-week. :(
It's like the writers have run out of steam and don't have anything new to say about him, which is terrible because Dean is freaking awesome and it's painful to see him wasted like this. Even their attempt last season, with Lisa and Ben, was poorly developed and felt like an obligatory afterthought rather than a real storyline with any dramatic stakes.
And what is at stake with Dean now? The only open question seems to be "at what point will the depression and alcoholism cause him to give up entirely?" Such a sad change from early seasons where there was so much going on with him.
And *sign* the waste of Dean/Cas is criminal.
I did try watching the first two eps of Vampire Diaries but um... unless is changes dramatically and in pretty much every way, I don't think it's for me. :(