More thoughts, because the finale has been doing that lately.

[rogueslayer452]

It seems like the entire fandom is in a general consensus regarding what happened in the finale, which isn't surprising and it makes me glad that everyone is on the same page, but it has me worried, since we know Kripke and Co. pay attention to what fans are saying. What will their reactions be once seeing how we generally feel about it? How will this affect the show next season? Will they realize they fucked up, made mistakes, attempt to fix it, a.k.a. Kripke deciding to come back to fix his baby before it all falls apart?


I just keep wondering though, had they not announced there was to be a sixth season would have the finale been constructed better than it was? Had this season been organized better concerning the Apocalypse had they known it was probably going to be their last, allowing Kripke to give us that big bang of an ending to everything that he always wanted? Somehow I feel like the CW pushing for another season really kind of ruined what could have went down here, because the finale read like a series finale and yet, we know it isn't, and it kind of feels unsatisfactory and anticlimactic with how they handled things. We had such a heavy mythological arc build-up since S4 which all leads to this finale, you'd think they would have had something of substance concerning everything connected to the big showdown, which we didn't get. I just think had they not announced them getting another season (leaving that for the upfronts post-finale) I think we would have had a better more constructed season than it seemed. Because they had something going for it in the beginning, but somewhere in the middle is where it all started falling apart, and I think that's when the announcements and rumors about a sixth season being confirmed.

So yeah. Those are my thoughts. It just saddens me that I feel this way after what should have been an explosive finale, but like I've mentioned before it was all rushed to finish all of this off when, if they were to wrap it all up, it should have been two freaking hours or extended to the sixth season rather than just starting over. It feels wrong, especially with everything they've all been through and how much none of it was properly explained or resolved. I mean when you think about it, S1 and S2 was way better at wrapping everything up with that particular arc than what happened here, and that's just disappointing on so many levels.


I'm not ready to really write a proper review yet, since I'm still in this confused and baffled haze where coherency just isn't working right now. My mind is filled with mixed feelings over everything that I don't know how or what to feel, but I've been reading other people's thoughts and further opinions so I'm glad I'm not alone in this department. *hugs everyone* I'll probably get over this like, you know, in a week or something.

But um, good news? Heroes has been officially canceled. Long overdue, but still. \O/ At least the actors can go elsewhere getting jobs that will respect them and not waste their talents. Now can somebody explain to me why the fuck Smallville still exists and is getting a tenth season? O_o

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[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

I don't know, quite honestly. I'm just still very indifferent towards everything right now just as a whole. It's like while I was watching it I wasn't particularly bothered and I sort of liked it, but afterward the more I thought about what happened the more flaws and holes I saw in it because it was incredibly anticlimactic. While S4's finale also had an anticlimactic feel to it I found that finale to be more exciting than this one, because this was supposed to have been the BIG DAMN APOCALYPTIC FINALE to wrap everything up.

While the emotional points between the brothers was great, I found the whole ordeal with Sam to be kind of predictable. I don't know, I just was never that invested with his story that much this season. I understood the direction of redemption and all of that, but I think I feel cheated that we never went anywhere regarding Dean's journey. Again, it's how they've handled the emotional points with the brothers, which sometimes is kind of overdone. Not that it's not touching to see those flashbacks and the story unfold between them, but it's one of the show's flaws at times to really overdo the angst between them. I just, I don't know. I felt like there should have been something more.

I think my biggest disappointment isn't with the brother stuff, but it's with the handling of everything else. What about Lucifer and Michael? The fucked up dysfunctional angel family in Heaven issues? Castiel's storyline and his personal journey (which is what I feel more upset about how they handled that)? Bobby's storyline? The entire mytharc altogether? Everything was completely rushed that I'm not that interested with the boys and their issues right now, but rather how all of that supporting stuff, which I became more interested in as the season went on, was just pushed to the side and never gave a proper way of explanation.

This entire season just felt all over the place, really. The finale didn't help matters either. I get that it's about the brothers and always has been, but when you've come so far into the show having many different elements to balance off of, shouldn't you find a way to at least deal with all of that equally?

Just, yeah. I'm very mixed about everything.

[thandie.livejournal.com]

Oh my, you are writing exactly what I was writing until a day before the finale. We share the same opinion, really.
I also think that the various arcs were handled so poorly that it was almost insulting. The angels were used only a few times, and it was all so rushed that I didn't even have time to process.

Castiel's arc was reduced to nothing, and I've been pissed of ALL season, all year about this, believe me. I still am if I think about the whole season, but I think it wasn't the finale that failed in this. It was the whole season...at that point Castiel couldn't possibly have a big role on the finale, because he didn't have one in the whole thing! :/

As for D/S, it was all TOO angsty, to the point that I stopped caring about that completely. I even started hating Sam so much because he obviously stole time to my ship, and because he had become, AGAIN, the chosen boy. And Dean had lost his own Michael arc, and that SUCKED.
It was cheesy even how it was handled in the finale, but I already wrote in a post what I think of the montage, and I'm pretty sure it was meant to be over the top and cheesy, because it's the POV that makes it that way.
Because of that I could accept that part. ;)

This said, for once they handled the S/D relationship in a way that wasn't overly angsty IMO. The talks weren't too long, they weren't hollow like before, and it was more a matter of glances between them. And I could almost see a sparkle of chemistry between the J2 that had been missing for a year almost...I guess that's what made focus more on them, and accept that Castiel and Bobby had to fall in the second row for the finale.

My point is, they should have done differently all the season, and it's the season 5 that sucks as a whole. The finale instead was one of the best episodes this season had, so I enjoyed it a bit more.

Sorry for being so wordy, I've been thinking about this a lot. ;)