This has not been the greatest week. Rainy, nail-breaking, sick and crappy, lying on the couch. On the other hand, it's been Supernatural for days up in here, and 1/4 of the way into Season 8, my raging crush on Dean Winchester continues unabated. Not looking forward to the part where either he or Sam is forced to gank Benny (not spoiled on that, I've just watched TV before). But I am looking forward to more Purgatory flashbacks to see what happened to Castiel--because those are the scenes with Castiel in them.
Purgatory itself? Other than that incredibly sweet visual effect of the Leviathans smash-landing in the clearing, I'm not that intrigued. Ah, but Sam's flashbacks with Amelia? Sorry. I would have a difficult time being less intrigued. And it's not that I don't want to see the guys happy with girlfriends or whatnot; I just specifically do not like Amelia. Like, the first few times we saw her she spent the whole time putting words in Sam's mouth and insulting him. And not in a funny 'oh the jolly misunderstandings, but we can't resist this chemistry' kinda way. She's just ragging on him, being all judge-y and caustic...and I know it's because she's in pain and she's been hurt and they're starting to open up to each other and share their loss and it's gonna be lurve and whatnot, but I'm not invested in her pain. I just don't care. I mean, it's a bummer and all, but she hasn't given me anything about herself to like, any reason to hang on through the awkward, bitchy phase. We stick with Dean and Sam through their bad times, we stuck with Cas through his terrible decisions, because we know them, and we care. We want to see them get past it. Amelia, though... I know that, obviously, Sam is going to fall in love with her, and he's gonna hate to leave... but that's just it. Sam says he "had" someone. Did they break up? Did she die? Did she tell him he had to choose between her and Dean? I think Sam left her and "Dog" in bed at the beginning of the season or something? Honestly, though, I just don't care.
Please, please, Season 8, stop cutting away from actual Supernatural to
spend time to following the uninteresting tale of How Sam Fell in Love
With a Wet Blanket. In the last episode, when Sam looked at...I don't know, some other random object that filled him with soooo much wistful nostalgia...I literally groaned out loud because OMG, please not another chapter of the totally entertaining story of how Sam was nice to this grouch who turned out to be okay or whatever. We already know it's over, so without some spark of interesting or fun personality, without something to like about Amelia, we have no reason at all to get invested.
In general I think the flashback technique just isn't doing much for me. The things happening in them aren't intriguing enough to make me all excited about finding out more. I wanna find Cas, and...yeah, that's about it. I can't fault them for trying it out, though, because if LOST taught us anything, it's that PURGATORY = FLASHBACKS.
