Rate 12.23 - All Along the Watchtower

Sooo . . . I guess this means we don't have to worry about the Winchesters being sidelined for other characters next year, right?

Copy-pasted from the 12.22 thread.

I liked it better because at least it had no cheap emotional manipulation surrounding Mary Winchester and the boys were in the middle of the action together. Now saying I liked it better doesn't mean I thought it was great, I just disliked it less than Part 1. I still hate that Rowena and Crowley are gone. Of course, Castiel's death won't stick and by some miracle, Lucifer will spare Mary's life.

I can't decide which ep I liked the least (more sounds too positive). I can't decide if A)this is Dabb's style for season finale's or B)He actually listened to all the criticism for S12 and decided to dump the whole season and start over. A) is what he did in S11 so I am afraid that when he can't figure how to get out of the mess he made he just dumps it all. I'm hoping for B) because that means he realizes no fans no show, no brothers no show and hopefully that means he realizes that he needs to keep the brothers in character.

That having been said I am satisfied that the Brits, Lucifer, Mary are gone. Hopefully for good. The Nephilim was kind of creepy looking.

Well I said I would be extremely upset if Rowena died and she did and what a load of crap her death was. I have not seen any tweets from her after the one asking who was watching the final – I think it absolutely stinks that she was killed off like that – what an absolute insult to the actress. I am very disappointed that Jensen and Jared obviously signed off on this. I know that they hated the death of Charlie (I had begun to dislike her as she was such a Mary Sue in the end) so I had no problem personally with her death so why after that have they still been promoting the finale. I feel insulted in a way that Jared is busy promoting the AKF second round whilst we are all trying to get over the stupid unecessary deaths on our show – it seems totally the wrong time, but maybe on the otherhand it is the right time. I'm afraid the two episodes have sort of morphed into the one so not sure of the timing of what and where. I really thought the Dean speech about how Sam was ready was – excuse me but what the fck – it reminded me of the warehouse scene where Bobby was saying how wonderful Sam was and again it was – where on earth is this coming from and what and why is this being said. I don't believe that Jared is demanding that he be given all this adoration for his character but sometimes it is hard not to think surely they – the mysterious they – can see how over the top the writing is – and then Dean compounds this nonsense with all his talk about Sam with Mary – and on and on. I actually do like Sam, especially now, I don't mind that he gets kills more than Dean at the moment but I cannot stand all the hyperbole about Sam and I can't see why we are being hit in the face with it, it is not relevant to anything? I am going to miss Mark Shepherd but I would not be at all surprised if he asked out, he is a quality actor and will not be out of work, and I believe Cas will be back but back to Rowena – nasty nasty Dabb, I hope you get sacked and don't get any more