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Doll face sent this wonderful observation that I didn't even realize.
''In response to your thing about Castiel - I feel ya. You can argue and debate till you’re blue in the face but it won’t make a difference. The stans only hear what they wanna hear. S1,2,3 remain my favourite seasons of the show and probably 3 of the most successful seasons overall. It was the brothers against the world. All this repetitive angel BS wasn’t a factor. It was dark and twisty and the SL was consistent. It didn’t need Castiel to be what it was and never has done.''
I agree with this but it reminds me of something Jared said in the earlier panels. He said, although he was humble enough to take any job. He wanted to do something that was not campy. She is right. The tone and texture of SPN was gritty and real. There was feeling of ''This has happened somewhere. We just don't know about it''. I am also forgiving of the fourth and fifth season because those stories were congruent with the previous seasons. The story was still focused on the brothers. They were the front and center of the story. And the big bad story was intertwined with their story. It was not like the stories that came after season 5, that had nothing to do with them.
Plus, despite the inclusion of humor in the story, there was no moment that made you scrunch your forehead and go ''what the???''. The humor, on many occasions, made sense. That is why, once upon a time, people were crazy about the shifter. Every time this creature appeared on screen, something interesting happened. From St. Louis to the Monster Movie episode, to Changing Channels. Even if it was funny, that was fine, because the shifter was a buffer. You could blame the meagre amount of silliness on him and the silliness was not insulting to a viewer. Other than the oversensitive stans, most people thoroughly enjoyed the episodes.
Then the Gamble era ended, and even the humor got pathetic. Dean's humor, especially, has gotten ludicrous over the years. Dean is a lot of funny things, but he is clumsy and stupid. Eating pie messily, getting out of the wrestling ring clumsily , it was all too much. Jensen, himself, said that Scooby Dooby Doo line he had to say was mortifying. I remember watching that scene with the dumb ascot [whhyyy???] and cringing. Remember when Dean was the gritty bad boy with a good heart? Yeah, well he died after Scoobynatural. This joke that we have on the scene now, isn't that Dean. This one doesn't use holy water and silver to test a person. He uses baked goods. Dean Winchester is now a silly cartoon.
Even his British attire for Michael makes no sense. Although the choice was Jensen's because he is a fan of Peaky Blinders, if I was in charge of wardrobe, I would have said no. I would have given him a black turtleneck, black jeans, and a long, glossy, ankle length black leather jacket that made from a leather that allowed the jacket to be manipulated by a gust of wind. That fucking stupid hat, I tell you. The point is everyone is too busy playing and none were taking their jobs seriously. So they didn't correct Jensen and why should they if he is doing all the thinking for them.
Sam's character was completely butchered in S8. Sam's fans must have been gritting their teeth throughout that season because of the character assassination. I did a full post only on that. Sam went from flawed to downright selfish and mean in that season and I hypothesized that someone in the writers room, just hated him. I stand by that hypothesis until something more substantial comes along. Though they stopped giving him any story. After S8, everything that happened, seemed to center around Dean with Sam picking up the pieces. Unfortunately for whoever hates Jared, they cant switch off Jensen and Jared's chemistry. And that's a good thing because at least kept the show watchable.
The gritty left with the inclusion of the bunker. I understand why they used the bunker storyline. New sets each week were probably expensive. One fixed set almost every week, has a lesser dent on the budget. But it was the bunker that made the whole show start to appear campy. I remember Angel had a similar looking set and that was a campy show. I miss the dingy motel rooms, creepy cemetery, the salvage yard and everything else that made Supernatural old school American. The BMOLs with their accent, and the dystopian AU world were nothing like the picture that Sam and Dean helped paint many years ago. When Dean was blasted into the future, where Samifer made an appearance, it was only for one day, not the whole season.
I didn't have an issue with the Castiel that Kripke had written, even though the first three seasons were indeed real and gritty and not campy at all. I just saw him as a guest character like Rufus, Bobby, Hendrickson, Ellen etc. I didn't think there was anything special about the character. And I would have tolerated him if the actor playing him didn't get to big for his britches. However, that character and the caricature he was replaced with, are two distinct characters. First of all, Misha unfortunately bled into the character. I have never known a more inadequate man.
So the masculinity and quiet wisdom that the character was supposed to exude was replaced by a colossal wimp who cant fight anyone properly and who has no ancient knowledge to share with the leads. Cas only appeared on screen randomly and left randomly. There was no guarantee of him appearing to help the boys because ''he didn't serve them''. And that was fine. Now he doesn't leave their side, just hanging around like a skin tag. The character was kept on board way past his expiry date. Keeping him on board meant that the angel storyline had to be lengthened just to accommodate him. Now this useless, pointless character is going to be in the last ever episode. I can feel it. It was be a sad end but at least, it will be over. They wont be able to butcher Sam and Dean's characters anymore.
