Unforgiven

[amberdreams]

I was trying to work out what didn’t grab me about this episode and failing but I’ve read a couple of other commentaries now and think I can sum it up…kinda.

 

There was plenty that I liked – first and foremost being Jared’s performance, I thought he was excellent. He played the two versions of himself with a great deal of aplomb – and subtlety.

I think one of the problems I have with this whole story line is I am finding it hard to swallow why Death would link together Sam’s memories of his time as RoboSam with his innocent soul’s memories of Hell? It doesn’t make any sense for him to do that. So the whole premise that Sam remembering what he did when he had no soul – which would inevitably bring our real Sam angst aplenty – triggering a collapse of the Great Wall of Sam – well to me that just seems like sloppy rushed writing. It’s as if they thought – we need to make some holes in that wall to max out Sam’s Hell storyline, so if we roll it together with the RoboSam one, that kills two birds with one stone.

And Dean’s whole push to stop Sam remembering RoboSam is just obviously never going to work, so it makes him look stupid for trying.

Someone elsewhere was saying that perhaps Death meant for the wall to break and quickly...and now at least I am hoping it was indeed planned, and part of the overarching storyline, and not just lack of forethought by the writers.

Other oddments
– how come after Sam was arrested, and therefore their FBI cover was blown, the cops don’t nab Dean for impersonating an FBI guy?

- Also, Sam was arrested in the daytime, he’s in the cell for a while then Mrs Sheriff visits him and it seems to be night, she lets him out and then Dean comes in to their room (knowing somehow that Sam is a fugitive) and its daytime again, yet it seems only enough time has passed for Dean to interview Crazy eye’s friend. So where did the night go?
– RoboSam’s assumption that the Arachni’s poison means those men are doomed – flawed logic or what? You didn’t get the sense he was lying to get Gramps out of there, so the writers want us to believe he was pretty stupid? And why not behead the men, why shoot them? IDK.
– That was one ginormous shed the Sheriff had - more like a warehouse!

I also had trouble with the ending (and they did it to me last week, too). I didn't like that glimpse of Sam's Hell - because I don't think it was very well done - especially if you compare it to the brief sequence of Dean on the meathooks, and I assume that was because it is too expensive for them to spend lots on CGI. In which case, better to leave it to our imaginations which could probably come up with far worse.  I actually felt it trivialised Sam's experience...

Don't think I didn't enjoy this episode, I did! But it didn't Wow me like some of the others have done.

 

Comments

[anastdean.livejournal.com]

Honestly I don't expect them to use expensive effects, if so they would have made a realy dragon for last week's episode. on a sidenote the Winc boys get prettier every week. All I care about.

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Ah the prettiness is certainly undisputed! And maybe my general disatisfaction with this particular episode merely reflects my pining for more Dean close-ups.... ;-)