30 Days of Supernatural: Day Two

[rogueslayer452]

Day 02: Your least favorite character

Anna Milton

Just, ugh. I hated everything about this character from the moment she was introduced. She just had no point or purpose whatsoever, she just stood there and did nothing and was just annoying to the max. Her storyline was lame and sucked so hard that I practically pretend it never existed in the first place (I mean, grace in a tree? Seriously Kripke, seriously?) and the actress herself was just so painful to watch, such cardboard acting it was embarrassing. I've disliked characters before, but never on this kind of level of outright irrational rage that I have with her. I mean seriously, every time she appeared on the screen I wanted to punch her in the face, with her being incredibly self-righteous and acting like some special little snowflake when in reality she was incredibly irrelevant and amounted to nothing whatsoever to the show. So yeah, I'm glad they killed her off as brutally as they did. Good riddance.

ALSO? BITCH KILLED URIEL. URIEL WAS FAR MORE INTERESTING OF A CHARACTER THAN HER STUPID ASS, BECAUSE AT LEAST HE HAD PERSONALITY AND WAS PRODUCTIVE AND SHIT, OH AND THE ACTOR COULD ACTUALLY ACT AND NOT BE SO DAMN WOODEN WITH EVERYTHING. UGH WHY SHOW, WHY GET RID OF FANTASTIC CHARACTERS ONLY TO KEEP THE STUPIDLY WEAKEST ONES? FFS GET YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT SHOW, JFC. >:/

Runners up: Lisa, who is to a lesser extent because I liked her before they meaninglessly brought her back to fuck everything up with her character. For that I blame the writers. -__- Ruby v2.0 because that was such a disappointment and letdown from how awesome she had been in the third season. Also Grandfather Campbell, because he's a sketchy douchebag who needs to get his story straight. In fact, most of the Campbells really I just don't like in general. I also have to say Sam Winchester in these later seasons. I don't hate him, but I don't love him either. I'm mainly just indifferent towards Sam these days, which might get me burned at the stake for saying so in this fandom, but that's just how I feel.


Rest of the 30 Days of Supernatural Challenge.

In slightly more upbeat news, upcoming episode spoilers are happy-making. \O/ I love that Jim Beaver is kinda like the Gossip Girl of the entire SPN fandom. He just likes revealing all sorts of stuff, and thinking he might not get in trouble for it. ;p COME TALK WITH ME ABOUT THIS BBS, LET US SPECULATE AND MAKE CRACK THEORIES ON THIS!

Comments

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Oh that's right, I had forgotten about that. Huh. Either way though, the way the treated Lisa is just insulting to her character in general because she was fine all by herself, dammit.

Lisa was just a one off character that got dragged into it because they couldn't think of anyone else. Which you think would be the cue for someone to say, "Hey, maybe this domestic angle isn't going to work after all," but no, they just had to force it.

Pretty much this. I never understood why Dean needed to be domesticated in the first place. Separating himself from the hunting life, settling down to be on his own, definitely more plausible and realistic to his character than immediately thinking about dumping all of his problems and issues onto Lisa and Ben. There are ways of getting out of the hunting gig without going that route.

And Lisa is all over the place in S6. She's not characterized consistently.

Who hasn't been inconsistent this season?

I'm also unconvinced about the unnecessary time jump. At first I thought perhaps it would have benefited the entire "Sam being guilty" that might happen after spending an entire year soulless and more down in Lucifer's cage, however there are so many plot holes concerning that alone it's like....did they even think this through? Furthermore, Dean wouldn't have been rusty with his hunting skills that easily after just a year, esp after admitting to still researching and hunting and keeping things in check in private. Come on, get real show. Nobody buys that shit. -__-

I kept waiting for her to DO something, though, instead of just showing up and asking what was going on. She could have, y'know, HELPED in S4. Though as far as angels not having emotions, clearly Anna is an unreliable narrator. SHE'S messed up, and is convinced that the only way to feel is to be human.

That annoyed me so much, the fact she just appeared to either ask something or repeated information we already knew and then leave. Couldn't they have at least tried to make her somewhat interesting, even if we didn't like her there could have been something for her to do that was helpful to the plot. But nothing, the show was hardly trying to bother with expanding on the character after that travesty of "Heaven and Hell" Despite me disliking her, would it have killed them to at least make an effort in that department? idk AND ANGELS DO HAVE EMOTIONS DAMMIT, IT IS EVIDENT THROUGHOUT THE SHOW THEREFORE ANNA'S OPINION IS INVALID AND UNTRUSTWORTHY.

lol, the Grace in the bottle was such a joke. That entire episode was laughably painful, really. Also think about it, the bottle/tree never had an explanation after that, so it must not be important. It was just for her stupid storyline only. Which is fine by me, makes it easier to forget it ever existed in canon if it's never brought up again, lol.

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I never understood why Dean needed to be domesticated in the first place.

It would have been less insulting if it had been more plausible. But seriously? A ready made family just waiting to take you in? And I'll totally agree that a Home is something Dean has always wanted. But it's completely at odds with who he is. Which is one thing that makes him such a great and fascinating character. And now I see people that say Dean's angst at leaving his 'family' is natural and that of course we're going to get a lot of references to Lisa throughout S6. But that still doesn't change the fact that it made no sense to put him there to begin with. And I hate the fact that everyone lied to Dean (even by omission) about Sam being back. Cas and Bobby, I call OOC. SAM is the only one who is IC, since he doesn't have soul and doesn't care at all.

(I can now imagine Sam at the end of 5.22, appearing outside Lisa's. *watches* "Huh. There's Dean." *shrugs* "I should go kill something.")

I think Dean ending up on his own after 5.22 would have made SO much more sense. But then we wouldn't have had ANY conflict when Sam came back, and apparently manufactured angst is better than genuine angst. Really, if Dean had been alone and had gone back on the road with Sam, maybe we would have had more of hilarious Robo Sam and less "Something is wrong with Sam" Sam.

There are ways of getting out of the hunting gig without going that route.

Exactly. Non-hunter does not automatically mean suburbia. Look and Bobby. Look at Ellen.

Furthermore, Dean wouldn't have been rusty with his hunting skills that easily after just a year

YES. Was SAM that rusty after FOUR YEARS of being at college?

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I can now imagine Sam at the end of 5.22, appearing outside Lisa's. *watches* "Huh. There's Dean." *shrugs* "I should go kill something."

I laughed at this, because that is precisely how it must have been in that scene. He's so nonchalant about it, hehe.

I think Dean ending up on his own after 5.22 would have made SO much more sense. But then we wouldn't have had ANY conflict when Sam came back

I'm not entirely sure. Just dismiss the domesticated aspect and perhaps change things around to where Sam just didn't let anyone know he had been back, there could have been plenty of conflict and questions and mysterious lead-up instead of the confusing state of things the premiere had setup. I think that would have been more plausible than what occurred, to be honest, and would have kept the audience interested.

Exactly. Non-hunter does not automatically mean suburbia. Look and Bobby. Look at Ellen.

I'm wondering why that wasn't brought up at all, and Bobby's words were like "oh but you got out of the life!" Yeah, but living a complete and utter lie Bobby. That's not how to live it. At least with Ellen's case she stayed partially with the hunting but didn't do it herself, she had a steady job. I think the show is really thinking APPLE PIE LIFE ALL IS WELL instead of realistic approaches, even if this was supposedly a misjudgment and lesson learned on Dean's part (I think?) it doesn't compute how he would go from being damaged to thinking intruding on another person's normal life was okay. Dean Winchester would never do that, even if fucked up in the head after everything.

YES. Was SAM that rusty after FOUR YEARS of being at college?

THANK YOU.

Perhaps some do the argument of "BUT THEY ARE ~~DIFFERENT~~" but that is rather a bullshit excuse. There really is no other explanation other than the sloppiness of the show and how they lack consistency in their own character history.

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Just dismiss the domesticated aspect and perhaps change things around to where Sam just didn't let anyone know he had been back, there could have been plenty of conflict and questions and mysterious lead-up

Well, that would have been conflict that made sense! We can't have things making sense! But I really think they got fixated on the old Dean life/new Dean life conflict, which was dumb and pointless. Also, I would have LOVED for NO ONE to know that Sam was back. That he didn't care to contact anyone in his new soulless state.

"oh but you got out of the life!" Yeah, but living a complete and utter lie Bobby.

Also, Bobby can "get out" any time he wants. No one's forcing Bobby to hunt. Nor does he have a personal vendetta that needs avenging (YED) or an Apocalypse to stop.

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Also, I would have LOVED for NO ONE to know that Sam was back. That he didn't care to contact anyone in his new soulless state.

It definitely would have made more sense than the mess we were given, that's for sure.

Also, Bobby can "get out" any time he wants. No one's forcing Bobby to hunt. Nor does he have a personal vendetta that needs avenging (YED) or an Apocalypse to stop.

OMG, you are so right about that. Granted I'm sure he's sticking around because of all the help he offers as we've seen in "Weekend At Bobby's" and that he probably is the safety net for many other hunters due to all of his resources, however that doesn't mean he couldn't just pack up and move elsewhere and start his life over. Or perhaps he feels obligated to continue in that life because there's nothing else left due to his wife and that's been something he has to continue living in, idk.

It's an interesting kind of mentality some hunters have. Some feel the need for vengeance and others feel like they need redemption for something, while others just hunt because they like it. I wish we could get more details on hunters and why they hunt, because it seems rather bleak and depressing with all the trust issues and whatnot.

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I'm sure Bobby is a resource and net for other hunters. But from his attitude in 6.01 or 6.02, he made it sound like a horrible horrible life that Dean was so lucky to escape from or something. Not that being a hunter isn't horrible, if you know what I mean. But clearly, everyone gets into the life for a different reason, and then stays with it (if they don't get killed) because they choose to. For whatever reason. I just hate that Bobby basically took it upon himself to make Dean's decisions for him. He knew Dean would come running back to Sam, so he didn't tell him about Sam. It's just so hypocritical. Also, it irks me that there's this notion that traditional family is the only thing worth having. Bobby's wife is dead, so he will keep hunting. But Dean "has something" so he deserves to get out. YOU CAN GET OUT AND BE ON YOUR OWN. IT'S NOT "FAMILY MAN" OR "HUNTER." THERE ARE A TON OF SINGLE PEOPLE WHO AREN'T HUNTERS IN THE WORLD.