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rogueslayer452Day 3 - Your favorite season
Season Four
THIS SEASON YOU GUYS. THIS SEASON. ♥
Seriously, from the premiere you knew this season was gonna rock it hardcore. It brought something new and different to the mythological arc of the show, upped the stakes with giving Dean Winchester his own storyline that was separate from his brother's but still both were intertwined in this bigger picture, and gave us new and fascinating characters to play around with (Castiel obviously, Uriel, Zachariah, Chuck, Pamela, etc). To me, it was just so well-constructed and developed in plotting out how to handle the entire season, complete with Kripke keeping the angels reveal under wraps until the premiere had aired, it was new and exciting and I was utterly thrilled by it. Surely it was darker and had more angst, and had the Winchesters at odds end and pitted against each other, but that's something that was a necessity for character growth, since their co-dependency is rather unhealthy anyway and they needed some space sooner or later. There was also much discussion and exploration of angels and Heaven and their involvement, the developments of characters like Castiel and their empathy and compassion for humanity and the roles angels in Heaven are playing at and the complexity of their species as a whole.
I consider the fourth season a great blessing because it had everything we needed in completing the story of what we've been learning over the last three seasons. The beginnings of what needs to happen to wrap everything up, so to speak. It was a serious but fascinating season, even the episode titles were bookends of each other ("Lazarus Rising" and "Lucifer Rising", and everything else in between was of the religious theme that brought me much giddiness, not gonna lie) Season four was also when I started to fully engage myself into the show and the fandom itself because of this magnificent shift. Had the show not gone in this direction, I don't know how long I would have stayed with it to be honest with you.
Did I also mention the brilliance of Castiel, our favorite nerdy angel of the Lord? I mean come on, I cannot imagine the show without him at this point. This season brought the amazingness of him and angelical lore, and the incredible friendship and profound bond between Dean and Castiel and their journeys together, therefore it forever has my heart. ♥ ♥ ♥
TL;DR VERSION: I LOVE SEASON FOUR BECAUSE IT ROCKED HARDCORE TO THE MAX, IT BROUGHT EVERYTHING I LOVE ABOUT A SHOW LIKE THIS TOGETHER IN ONE SEASON. MYSTERY, SUSPENSE, CHARACTER GROWTH AND INTRIGUING ARCS AND THE DARK COMPLEXITY OF CERTAIN SITUATIONS THAT WERE HAPPENING THAT ACTUALLY MADE SENSE WHEN LOOKING AT THE BIGGER PICTURE. THAT IS HOW YOU DO A SEASONAL ARC, DAMMIT. LEARN FROM YOUR SUCCESSES SHOW. SO, YEAH. THERE YA GO.
Day 4 - Your least favorite season
Season Six
This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, honestly. I have been displeased with this current season so far, hell even way before it premiered I had bad vibes about it since I hated the prospect of having a sixth season to begin with anyway.
Pinpointing the exact issue is rather difficult because it's a combination of many things, though I think at its core it is structurally disorganized. They have great themes and ideas like purgatory and the souls and the civil war in Heaven, but everything is just so scattered and all over the place, there's just no sense of direction whatsoever. There's far too many inconsistencies and characterization flaws and retconning and focusing on things that are irrelevant and aren't needed, that it gets to the point where it surpasses being ridiculous to just not really caring anymore, and that's disappointing. Even though the season isn't done yet and there's still some time to see if it'll redeem itself, it just is a huge letdown and disappointment altogether. I honestly believe that placing Sera Gamble in charge was a huge mistake. Making a sixth season in itself was a huge mistake, because they had something amazing going for them, something that could have ended last season, wrapped everything up in a nice little bow like they had originally wanted. But somewhere mid-S5 is where they lost that potential and started dragging their heels, and it's rather sad seeing it go down this path when it could have gone out with an apocalyptic bang.
Runner up: Season three. While it had its fun moments, it was just a filler season that didn't match up to the atmosphere of the show at all.
Rest of the 30 Days of Supernatural Challenge.
Season Four
THIS SEASON YOU GUYS. THIS SEASON. ♥
Seriously, from the premiere you knew this season was gonna rock it hardcore. It brought something new and different to the mythological arc of the show, upped the stakes with giving Dean Winchester his own storyline that was separate from his brother's but still both were intertwined in this bigger picture, and gave us new and fascinating characters to play around with (Castiel obviously, Uriel, Zachariah, Chuck, Pamela, etc). To me, it was just so well-constructed and developed in plotting out how to handle the entire season, complete with Kripke keeping the angels reveal under wraps until the premiere had aired, it was new and exciting and I was utterly thrilled by it. Surely it was darker and had more angst, and had the Winchesters at odds end and pitted against each other, but that's something that was a necessity for character growth, since their co-dependency is rather unhealthy anyway and they needed some space sooner or later. There was also much discussion and exploration of angels and Heaven and their involvement, the developments of characters like Castiel and their empathy and compassion for humanity and the roles angels in Heaven are playing at and the complexity of their species as a whole.
I consider the fourth season a great blessing because it had everything we needed in completing the story of what we've been learning over the last three seasons. The beginnings of what needs to happen to wrap everything up, so to speak. It was a serious but fascinating season, even the episode titles were bookends of each other ("Lazarus Rising" and "Lucifer Rising", and everything else in between was of the religious theme that brought me much giddiness, not gonna lie) Season four was also when I started to fully engage myself into the show and the fandom itself because of this magnificent shift. Had the show not gone in this direction, I don't know how long I would have stayed with it to be honest with you.
Did I also mention the brilliance of Castiel, our favorite nerdy angel of the Lord? I mean come on, I cannot imagine the show without him at this point. This season brought the amazingness of him and angelical lore, and the incredible friendship and profound bond between Dean and Castiel and their journeys together, therefore it forever has my heart. ♥ ♥ ♥
TL;DR VERSION: I LOVE SEASON FOUR BECAUSE IT ROCKED HARDCORE TO THE MAX, IT BROUGHT EVERYTHING I LOVE ABOUT A SHOW LIKE THIS TOGETHER IN ONE SEASON. MYSTERY, SUSPENSE, CHARACTER GROWTH AND INTRIGUING ARCS AND THE DARK COMPLEXITY OF CERTAIN SITUATIONS THAT WERE HAPPENING THAT ACTUALLY MADE SENSE WHEN LOOKING AT THE BIGGER PICTURE. THAT IS HOW YOU DO A SEASONAL ARC, DAMMIT. LEARN FROM YOUR SUCCESSES SHOW. SO, YEAH. THERE YA GO.
Day 4 - Your least favorite season
Season Six
This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, honestly. I have been displeased with this current season so far, hell even way before it premiered I had bad vibes about it since I hated the prospect of having a sixth season to begin with anyway.
Pinpointing the exact issue is rather difficult because it's a combination of many things, though I think at its core it is structurally disorganized. They have great themes and ideas like purgatory and the souls and the civil war in Heaven, but everything is just so scattered and all over the place, there's just no sense of direction whatsoever. There's far too many inconsistencies and characterization flaws and retconning and focusing on things that are irrelevant and aren't needed, that it gets to the point where it surpasses being ridiculous to just not really caring anymore, and that's disappointing. Even though the season isn't done yet and there's still some time to see if it'll redeem itself, it just is a huge letdown and disappointment altogether. I honestly believe that placing Sera Gamble in charge was a huge mistake. Making a sixth season in itself was a huge mistake, because they had something amazing going for them, something that could have ended last season, wrapped everything up in a nice little bow like they had originally wanted. But somewhere mid-S5 is where they lost that potential and started dragging their heels, and it's rather sad seeing it go down this path when it could have gone out with an apocalyptic bang.
Runner up: Season three. While it had its fun moments, it was just a filler season that didn't match up to the atmosphere of the show at all.
Rest of the 30 Days of Supernatural Challenge.
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Date: 2011-01-16 06:02 am (UTC)AND YES, EXACTLY. THERE'S CHARACTERIZATION AWESOMENESS AND SEASONAL ARCS INTERTWINED WITH EACH OTHER, IT JUST FLOWED SMOOTHLY WITH THOSE SEASONS AND IT MADE YOU INTRIGUED WITH HOW THINGS WERE GONNA BE SOLVED AND WHATNOT. THEN IT ALL TURNED INTO A PILE OF "WTF?" AND SUCH A TRAINWRECK. THEY HARDLY KNOW WHERE THEY ARE ANYMORE AND IT SHOWS.
SADLY, I ALSO AGREE. SEEING CASTIEL GET CHARACTER ASSASSINATED IS PAINFUL AND I LOVE HIM TOO MUCH TO SEE HIM GET MISTREATED. :(
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Date: 2011-01-16 06:35 am (UTC)I WOULD HAVE LIKED THE IDEA OF HAVING CASTIEL BECOMING SOMEWHAT HUMAN AND HAVING TO DEAL WITH IT. BEFORE WHEN IT LOOKED LIKE THAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED I DIDN'T LIKE IT, BUT MOSTLY I WAS THINKING THE WORST OF HOW THEY WERE TO HANDLE IT. BUT I THINK IT WOULD HAVE MADE HIM MORE COMPLEX WITH COPING AND FIGURING OUT ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF DOING THINGS. WHICH I FOUND S5!CASTIEL AWESOME AND MORE BADASS WHEN BEING RESOURCEFUL. ALSO ITA ABOUT HIM NEEDING TO BITCHSLAP OR WALL!SLAM DEAN AGAIN THIS SEASON BECAUSE DEAN IS REALLY ACTING LIKE AN ASSHOLE. I HOPE WE CAN GET
AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, THAT WHOLE 6.10 NONSENSE NEVER EXISTED. CASTIEL IS ASEXUAL AND WILL REMAIN THAT WAY -- ALONG WITH HIS ~PROFOUND BOND~ WITH DEAN, OF COURSE.
I ALSO AGREE THOUGH, WHY CAN'T THERE BE NEUTRALIZED CHARACTERS WHERE THEY JUST DON'T WANT/NEED ANY KIND OF SEXUAL GRATIFICATION WHATSOEVER? I PREFER THE INNOCENCE RATHER THAT BUTCHERING CHARACTERIZATION JUST FOR THE SHITS AND GIGGLES. JUST SAYING.
TO SUMMARIZE, I HATE WHEN MY FAVE CHARACTERS GET DESTROYED.
IT'S SOMETHING I HAVE SEEN IN MY OTHER FANDOMS I'VE HAD BEFORE AND I HATE IT. ABSOLUTELY HATE IT WHEN THEY COMPLETELY DESTROYED AND BUTCHER MY FAVORITE CHARACTERS. :( :( :(
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Date: 2011-01-16 07:36 am (UTC)GOD YES. I TOTALLY AGREE ABOUT HIS INNOCENCE BALANCING OUT HIS BAMFERY AND THAT BEING THE REASON WHY WE LOVE HIM SO DEARLY. I LOVE HIM BEING SO BADASS WHILE BEING SOCIALLY AWKWARD, IT'S ADORABLE. MESSING THAT UP IS SUCH BLASPHEMY EVEN IF JUST FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES. IT'S CHARACTER BASTARDIZATION AND ASSASSINATION, TBH. JUST, NO. KEEP HIM JUST THE WAY HE IS PLEASE.
OH, I FEEL YOU. EVEN THOUGH I'VE SEEN THIS HAPPEN MANY TIMES IT STILL HURTS. PARTICULARLY WITH LONGER-RUNNING SHOWS THEY TEND TO LOSE SIGHT ON MANY THINGS, WHY I DON'T KNOW. WHICH IS WHY THE SHOW SHOULD HAVE ENDED LAST SEASON (WITH BETTER HANDLING ON THE OUTCOME OF EVERYTHING) AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THEY FELT THE NEED TO EXPAND THE SHOW WHEN THERE HAD ALREADY BEEN A FIVE-YEAR PLAN. IDGI
SAM AND DEAN SHOULD HAVE DIED TOGETHER. AND CAS COULD HAVE TAKEN THEM UPSTAIRS.
D'AWWWW, I THINK THAT WOULD BE A PERFECT ENDING TO BE HONEST. BITTERSWEET, BUT A GREAT WAY OF GOING OUT. ♥ ♥ ♥
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Date: 2011-01-16 07:41 am (UTC)I ALSO FEEL CHEATED BECAUSE WE ONLY HAD LIKE WHAT, TWO EPISODES WITH CASTIEL DEALING WITH BEING SOMETHING-CLOSE-TO-HUMAN WHEN THEY COULD HAVE DONE SO MUCH MORE WITH IT. AT FIRST I ADMIT TO NOT WANTING THAT TO HAPPEN, BUT LOOKING BACK IT REALLY WOULD HAVE BEEN FASCINATING TO SEE HOW HE COPED WITH NOT BEING ABLE TO DO THE THINGS HE USED TO DO BEFORE. THERE WERE SO MANY POSSIBILITIES TO HEAD IN THAT DIRECTION. IT PISSES ME OFF THEY HARDLY EXPLORED THOSE OPTIONS, OR POSSIBLY DONE IT EARLIER SO THEY COULD. ESP IF THEY WEREN'T GONNA DEAL WITH CASTIEL'S MISSION TO FIND GOD AS THEY HAD PROMISED. (THAT STILL PISSES ME OFF, A WASTED OPPORTUNITY RIGHT THERE).
ALSO. 6X10 DID NOT EXIST. AND IF IT DID. ...THAT WASN'T CAS. THAT WAS A FUCKING SHAPESHIFTER LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU.
OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND.
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Date: 2011-01-16 08:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-16 07:22 am (UTC)FUCKING WOOOORRRRDDDD, BB.
I MEAN I HAVE SEEN SO MUCH AMAZING CONCEPTS FROM FANDOM THAT CAN ACTUALLY WORK WITH THE CONTINUITY OF THE SHOW ITSELF. I EVEN STAND BY THE OPINION THAT THERE ARE BETTER WRITERS IN FANDOM THAN THERE ARE ON THE SHOW. SERA GAMBLE JUST FAIIILLLSSS SO HARD.
ALSO, DOES THIS SHOW HAVE A SERIES BIBLE? IT HARDLY SEEMS SO WITH BEING SO INCONSISTENT ALL THE TIME. :/