Rigoletto? S12E11 insta reaction

[amberdreams]

Spoilers, obvs.

Insta reaction consists largely of a big WTF? I now have a ton of questions, some of which I have never bothered about before, so thanks Show.

List of questions arising:

1. Donna e mobile - was that a deliberate choice for Ramiel to whistle? Woman is fickle? Was that a message about Mary's duplicity here? And who'd have guessed ancient demons would be fans of Verdi, huh.


2. Why are mutilated cattle a sign of demons? Do they go round compulsively slashing cows for shits and giggles in their spare time? In that case, why is there never a trail of bleeding cattle littered around every time Crowley shows up?


3. The Colt glows gold now? And Ramiel's had it all this time? Where did Crowley get it from?


4. Slow motion walking? WTH?


5. What was that chopping back and forth about? After the second or third time I started feeling it was only there because they didn't have enough story to fill the 45 minutes without the endless repetition. Frankly, by halfway through it had stopped being amusing and was downright annoying.


6. Crowley has Lucifer in an ordinary-ooking cage in his living room when previously Lucifer couldn't be contained in Hell except in the special and inaccessible, super-duper, extra secure Cage. So how's Crowley keeping the Devil in there now?


7. Having had the BMoL land her in it, why on earth would Mary be stupid enough to a) hand over the Colt and b) even think about working with them again? In fact, why did she even meet up with Arthur at all. I'd have left him hanging in the wind after that debacle.

Apart from this rather long list of puzzlement my comments are -

• Nooooo, poor Wally!


• Loved the use of the Pilot danger piano chord when they talked about Azazel and Yellow Eyed demons.


• I never for one second thought Cas was going to die.


• The constant jumping about reduced the impact of Crowley saving Cas, and took all the tension out of those scenes.


• Castiel's little declaration of love was totally lost too, with all the messing about.


• I kinda liked Ramiel, he was cool and quite scary - it would have been fun to keep him around a bit longer/


• Sam turning the Lance on Ramiel was badass.


• Most of the best fighting etc was too dark to appreciate properly.


• I hope next week's is better than this one.


• I hope the rest of the season is better than this one.

Yup, in conclusion - I guess they were going for something different but I don't think it worked. It certainly didn't work for me.