SPN Mid Season Finale 11x09: My Thoughts and Spoilers
No one’s gonna read this, so why the hell not. I need to get the angry-sad-dust-bunnies out of my head after tonight’s episode. It will calm me. Spoilers for SPN 11x09, but since no one is reading this…
So… what the serious hell just happened? I’m not a television writer, and I know how hard writing is. But this episode wasn’t very satisfying at all. I’ll give it a rewatch in the morning and see if I feel the same, but let the rant begin…
1. Dean and Amara:
The Amara-Dean pairing has not been earned. And no, I’m not a butthurt Destiel fan or a diehard Wincest fan. I would love for Dean and Amara to be linked, but the only connection I feel between them is the one Amara/the writers keeps telling Dean he’s feeling. We don’t get any real hints as to why he feels this way and their talk in this episode leaves a lot to be desired. They’re connected by the Mark of Cain and… what else? Know what might have been interesting other than the calm Dean feels when he’s with her? Anything!
Amara: We’re connected by the mark, Dean.
Dean: Yeah, you keep saying that. What the hell is that even supposed to mean?
Amara: When you still had the mark, I was trapped, but all that you felt… all that you did… I felt it too. A little of me made its way inside you, and a part of you still feels me. Now, I want to feel you inside me.
Then, they make out or bone because there’s nothing wrong with Dean boning a beautiful woman, even if she’s The Darkness.
2. Castiel
So… When we last saw Cas, he was fresh from delivering the news of Amara’s heritage to Sam and Dean. Then, he drives off to where again? Even if I rewatch Our Little World to find out, he’s not in the mid season finale, the episode that is supposed to excite us for January? Why couldn’t Castiel have led those angels against Amara, failed, and been saved by Dean or taken by Amara as yet another cliffhanger? I know Misha has been busy doing great things abroad, so maybe that’s why he wasn’t in this episode? But, I’m ranting so reasonability be damned!
3. Sam and Lucifer
I was mostly satisfied with this sequence because it’s not often that Jared Padalecki isn’t on his game and he was definitely doing some good work this episode. That tear at the end wasn’t even on the best side of the camera, so I believe that he was really feeling the scene. Mark Pellegrino was awesome, as I expected him to be. Powerful revelation about the visions too (even the one with his dad in it?… pretty harsh. And so then maybe the torture scenes Sam saw in his head were not from Sam’s time there in the past, but visions of the future?).
I figured that Sam would either be trapped in the cage, possessed by Lucifer, or made Soulless since Amara eats souls and Soulless Sam was a great hunter anyway.
No hint of Michael at all. Why can’t they summon him in a temporary cage and ask him if he knows anything about The Darkness?
And what is Lucifer going to do in Sam’s body exactly? We can only assume he’s not lying about giving Sam the visions (I guess), but was that his only plan -getting Sam into the cage with him? Was it an either or plan -possess Sam OR get Sam in the cage? Will he torture Sam until he agrees to let Lucifer possess him? Good storyline, but they won’t do it because…?
4. Billie
Okay, so this episode had nothing to do with her or Death, but she’s been introduced and forgotten. I know, it’s only episode 9 of 22, so she could and probably will be addressed. And I hope that she will be the key to getting Sam out of the cage (Death could reach into the cage with no problem and get Sam’s soul out, maybe reapers can too. Or maybe someone can become the new freakin’ Death already! Yeah, make that a season finale cliffhanger. Castiel graduates from angel to Angel of Death because reasons! Then, I can stop reading things about him being useless and having no purpose)
5. Rowena and Crowley
Crowley doesn’t want to kill her or the Winchesters or Castiel, so why can’t Rowena use the Book of the Damned against him and take over Hell to create a better conflict than last season’s “You were a terrible mother” back and forth? The fact that he continues to call her mother is upsetting after Season 10′s badass moment of tossing her out of Hell after talking to Dean about family. But he’s called her mother since then, and it irked me then too because it showed a character change that I hoped wouldn’t be short-lived. But he follows her off to wherever while Sam gets pulled into the cage. I know, maybe he might do something to her in the next episode or two. Well, I doubt it. Ruth Connell is beloved and I think the writers might be a little gun-shy about killing off another major female character after Charlie. If they actually do anything to her, I’ll be shocked.
And what happened to the Mega-Coven? Still nothing? No takers at all, even without the Book of the Damned? Maybe things happen because of stuff and she reaches out to a young woman who is convinced to join her coven -Claire Novak because I think Kathryn Newton is supposed to show up this season too. (I’ll be shocked if she doesn’t make an appearance next year.)
Anyway…
This episode wasn’t really bad. There were some lines that I didn’t like, but I could be alone in that. I found them awkward or just plain unnecessary. Examples will be added after rewatching or maybe the disappointment will be drained away by then.
I don’t know…
