OKAY HOLD THE PHONE, LET ME ALSO EXPLAIN TO U A THING
DID WE ALL KIND OF FORGET THE FACT THAT THE SHOW STARTED WITH TWO BROTHERS ON THE ROAD, HELPING PEOPLE AS THEY WENT ALONG? THE OLD SCHOOL EPISODE IS SOMETHING WE’VE BEEN MISSING EVER SINCE THE ANGELS CAME IN SEASON 4, AND BASICALLY TURNED THE FOCUS AWAY FROM SAVING PEOPLE AND KILLING MONSTERS, AND INSTEAD TURNED TO CLEANING UP HEAVEN’S MESSES, WHICH, QUITE FRANKLY, IS NOT THE WINCHESTERS’ BUSINESS.
SECONDLY, GARTH IS AKIN TO BOBBY TO THE WINCHESTERS, SO DON’T YOU GO RANTING ABOUT WHY THEY SHOULDN’T BE WORRYING ABOUT SOMEONE SO CLOSE TO THEM. THIRD, MEN OF LETTERS IS A BIG PART OF WINCHESTER HISTORY, SO YES, IT’S A LITTLE SOMETHING CALLED BACKSTORY, SOMETHING I AM MORE THAN HAPPY TO SEE IN THIS SHOW.
SO DON’T GO BITCHING ABOUT THE SHOW GOING BACK TO THE SHOW WAS ORIGINALLY ALL ABOUT. I’M GLAD TO SEE THEY’VE FINALLY REALIZED THE WAY THAT THE ANGELS HAVE MONOPOLIZED THE SHOW, AND FINALLY TURNING BACK TO THE MAIN FOCUS: THE WINCHESTERS.
DUDE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH YOUR BLOG BUT I COULDN'T REBLOG THIS SHIT AND THAT'S A LITTLE ANNOYING, I HOPE YOU DIDN'T CODE THAT DARK MAGIC ON PURPOSE, CAUSE THAT'S FUCKIN' RUDE TO REBLOG OTHER PEOPLE AND NOT ALLOW THEM TO DO THE SAME.
BUT LET ME EXPLAIN TO YOU A THING, and Imma do it with capslock off.
I am aware of how the show started (because unlike Adam Glass, I have watched all of seasons 1-5). I am aware of Dean and Sam driving around, saving people and hunting things. I like watching them do that, and have no problem with them hunting and saving people, woven into the myth arc. However, cleaning up Heaven's messes IS saving people, or did you fail to notice that they saved THE WHOLE FUCKING WORLD a couple of three times, there's a lot of people in the world, probably like over 15 people.
Saying they're not saving people when they're stopping the Apocalypse/Angel Fuckery is like saying a doctor who found a cure for cancer in a Lab isn't saving people because he isn't in an ER or operating room, wrist deep in someone's chest cavity.
[And, you know, the boys ARE archangels vessels, through no fault of their own, of course, but that kind of makes Heaven's shenanigans their business, cause they're connected to it whether they want to or not.]
I don't have a problem with a good old-fashioned hunt/MOW episode, I have a problem with them being done at the expense of the larger story arc. I have a problem with the way some people clutch at the past of the show, viewing it with a crippling nostalgia, at the expense of neglecting the present of the show and the characters within. You cannot go back to what the show was "originally about" without sabotaging all the characters, character development, story development that you've built up over the years.
I didn't rant about a Garth episode, I am cool with Garth (I said as much). Nor did I suggest the boys shouldn't be concerned about their friends. I am just rolling my eyes at Adam Glass's limited imagination, his ignoring the BIG GIANT PLOT of all the angels falling to Earth. I mean, it's not JUST Adam Glass, they fumbled this storyline right out of the gate by having all the angels assimilate seamlessly on Earth right in 9x01 (it should have been fucking chaos). Glass is just a malignant little part of a larger problem with show.
You can do a Garth episode, MOW episodes, Men of Letters episodes, and weave them into the Angel Fall arc, so that they have relevance to the larger arc (much like Changing Channels did). It really wouldn't be that hard.
Hey, if Supernatural wanted to go back to what they were in season 1, that's their business, BUT THEN THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE HAD ALL OF THE ANGELS FALL TO EARTH. That's not how you go about composing a story that didn't deal with Cleaning Up Heaven's Messes, as you say. You don't slam a five pound jar of pickles on the kitchen floor, then declare that you're going to organize your sock drawer and look at old photo albums, and nobody is to mention fucking pickles and if anyone does they don't understand what this house is about, and we should all just pretend we live in the house as it was before it was filled with rotting pickles (and that peanut butter and pickles sandwich you were gonna make for all of us, the whole reason you picked up that pickle jar in the first place, is not happening, it was only in our imagination, no stop pointing out the bread that already has peanut butter on it, that's only our interpretation of what we thought that sandwich is gonna be, you were gonna put jelly on, peanut butter only goes with jelly that's what's normal, and never mind that you throw out every jar of jelly that enters the house before anyone can even get a taste, because jelly only matters if it's for peanut butter's benefit, and this metaphor has gotten completely out of control and I'm stopping it now). That's not how you narrative, not to mention a waste of pickles.
It's any show's responsibility to follow through on the plots that THEY THEMSELVES put forth. I mean, they broke Heaven, filled Earth with angry, desperate, ridiculously powerful supernatural creatures who don't have the best opinion of humanity, and how did they follow up on that? LET'S TURN DEAN INTO A DOG!!
(Hey, I've got no issue with humor episodes, they can be some of the best, but you have to know when to place them. And right at the start of the season when people are expecting some follow-up on the Major Event from last season? Not the best time. Not to mention that episode was a lemon all around, it sucked out loud, but it's early placement didn't help matters.)
If they finally realized the Angels had monopolized the show, they probably shouldn't have had them FALL TO EARTH (I mean, this season's title card is LITERALLY ANGEL WINGS). They can't just ignore that because they feel like it, or writing is hard, or fucking whatever.