#i don't feel like i expressed properly my issues with the Sam AU Charlie ending scene but this is what y'all are getting

[canonicallysoulmates]

Supernatural 14.06

I’m surprised by how much this episode annoyed me. I’m surprised it annoyed me at all, cause I wasn’t expecting that I thought at worst this would be a boring episode that would leave me going ‘eh’. And don’t be mistaken, this episode is boring but it didn’t leave me going ‘eh’. But I wish it had.

One of, if not the biggest sin in this episode is that Sam and Dean are apart through out all of it. And their only interaction with one another comes in the form of a 15-20second phone call, that we only hear one side of, at the beginning of the episode when Dean calls to inform Sam that he and Jack are going on a hunt together. 

I guess the writers and EP’s have yet to get it through their skulls this show is better when Sam and Dean are together. 

This episode’s second biggest sin, is that it did two hunts instead of one and it tried to tell both stories from beginning to end at the same time and giving equal attention to both.  What that did is make the episode feel incomplete and disjointed, not helped by the fact that both hunts have different tones to them with Dean & Jack’s being more comedic and Sam & AU!Charlie’s trying to be emotional with what one could call a lesson at the end. Key word: trying. And actually Dean & Jack’s hunt was technically incomplete cause the person they were hunting down got away, probably cause the episode ran out of the time and the writer had to wrap it up. 

There’s no connecting point between the hunts or their tones or their themes so when you go from one hunt to the other it’s like you’ve switched to another episode, it makes the transitions very annoying; all of this also makes it hard to care or get invested in what is happening in the episode. 

The first half was boring and annoying, the second half had the writer put the pedal to the metal and wrap everything up quickly which left me feeling like I was missing a whole chunk of an episode. The ending is the only point where I got a little bit interested and then the shot held for 10secs too long. Jack collapsed in the bunker kitchen in front of Dean and if the episode had ended there that would have been perfect but it ends with Dean on his knees looking around like he doesn’t know what to do, he ain’t calling for help, he ain’t grabbing his phone, he ain’t checking Jack over, he ain’t grabbing the kid and taking him to the bunker infirmary, the most he does is scream ‘Jack! Jack!’. At which point I went back to being annoyed. 

I cannot finish this until I mention how much I fucking hate the end scene between Sam and AU!Charlie. Sam is clearly struggling to make the separation between this Charlie and the one that he knew, several times through the episode AU!Charlie has to remind him that she’s not that Charlie. And there is a scene that I liked until the end ruined it where she very strongly tells Sam that she’s not that Charlie and that it’s her life, cause she has informed him the hunt they’re on is going to be her last which Sam does not like cause she plans to go away. I really liked that scene, I liked seeing AU!Charlie kind of stand up for herself cause it is her life not Sam’s! If she wants to stop hunting it is her choice, it is her right, Sam is not her keeper, he does not get a vote in what she does with her life. She is a grown woman she can make her own choices! 

But that is clearly not the way the writer feels cause instead of writing Sam, who more than anybody should understand what it’s like to hate hunting but having to do it anyways and wanting out, to be understanding and supportive, he had him continuously question her decision and try to persuade AU!Charlie to change her mind.  Ending with him making a comparison between the monster they were hunting who had left their family (or as he put it ‘its people’) and her, telling her ‘don’t leave’ and that basically while painful the job is worth it. 

Here’s my problem with this scene: this isn’t Sam just asking her not to go away and leave them, this is Sam asking her to keep hunting, something that she had already expressed to him that she hates and that she only got into it cause she had to do so to survive in her world. Which makes Sam’s little speech come across as: if you leave hunting you leave your people. That is not how healthy friendships and families work.  

Also to me he just came across as ooc about this, cause again he better than anybody should be able to understand what AU!Charlie’s telling him, he didn’t have a problem with AU!Bobby taking a hunting vacation, and he knows the life isn’t for everyone. 

If he had asked her to think about it, if he had told her that she doesn’t have to keep hunting but to please not separate herself from them, I wouldn’t have a problem with this scene, or if she had told him once again that it is her life, her choice, and stood her ground I wouldn’t have a problem with this scene. Or even if this had been a proper episode and they would have really gone into it and shown me AU!Charlie changing her mind or a scene that could make me understand her changing her mind rather than just Sam’s speech changing it I wouldn’t have a problem with this scene.  

But the way that it was done and written gets on my last fucking nerve. I place full blame on the writer, not on the characters. 

This episode is a huge waste of time; as some of y’all know I was kinda looking forward to it cause it had Dean & Jack interacting but this is not what I wanted or even expected. If somehow by this date you have not seen this episode, know that you can happily skip it and I recommend doing so.