Does anyone else feel like Dean just got earased from his own storyline? Is anyone going to remember that Dean already tried to kill Amara. If he had the right weapon Amara would be dead.
All this ending did was basically leave Dean on the sidelines again. With Sam geeting another big damn hero/save the world moment.
For once I’d like Dean be allowed to face his demons instead of being told how weak he is and needs to sit it out and let Sam take care of it.
It’s season 8 all over again
Glad to know I’m not alone. I wish we were wrong.
Well, the moment they went with Lucifer and Casifer and forgot to
mention Dean’s hell or Micheal I started getting S5 flashbacks. The
whole Amara arc is underdeveloped and was probably introduced as a
red-herring, to attract Dean fans and to add another Savior moment in
Sam’s cape. I mean, they have to do a lot worse to top S8 for me, since I
absolutely hated that wretched cheerleader Dean crapfest. But I fully
expect another martyr Sam finale this season.
Yeah, nothing new there. I don’t even get surprised anymore. Perks of being a Dean fan, I suppose.
So, I’m watching Jessica Jones and can’t help but notice the similarities between Jessica and Kilgrave’s relationship and Dean and Amara’s.
I think the first time i thought ‘wait, why does it all seem so familiar?’ was after the scene where Kilgrave comes to the police station so that Jessica woudn’t go to jail for his murder. He wants to express his eternal love for her, explains that everything he’s been doing was for her. Jessica, of course, thinks this is a sick joke, to what Kilgrave answers ‘I am new to love, but i know what it looks like. I do watch television’.
Now, who else do we know who’s learned everything about pretty much everything from the internet and television? Amara. Who, probably, did not even know what love was before that. So, she stuffs herself up with all those romantic stories that have ever been written and thinks ‘hey, i’m feeling something towards Dean, but i’m not really sure what it is exactly, but i’ve seen all those romantic stories about star-crossed
lovers, and me and Dean fit the profile, that means we’re in love’. I know i exaggerated a little, but my point stays the same.
Then the similarities continued. Kilgrave bought Jessica’s old house to make her happy, to make her see that he loves her. Well, isn’t that the same thing, to some extents, that Amara’s been trying to do? She promises Dean ‘no pain, no prayer, just bliss’, only if he gives himself over to her.
Jessica Jones makes it clear that Kilgrave raped Jessica, violated every thought in her brain, made her doubt herself, he even tried to make her think that she felt something for him, which Jessica immediately denied. Amara forces her feelings onto Dean and calls it ‘destiny’ (Kilgrave calls him and Jessica ‘inevitable’), she kisses him against his will, makes him doubt himself, makes him think that he actually might be feeling something for her, which all scares Dean so much, because he doesn’t know what is true anymore.
Maybe, unlike Kilgrave, Amara’s not doing it all to Dean intentionally, but it still doesn’t justify her actions. Unlike Supernatural, Jessica Jones makes it very clear that you can’t blame bad parenting or every bad thing that has ever happened in your life for every shitty thing you do. Maybe nobody ever taught Kilgrave what is right and what is wrong, but he’s still a person who chose to be bad. The same thing with Amara. She learned everything about the world and its people. It didn’t stop her from consuming people’s souls and turning them into monsters. It didn’t stop her from killing innocents just to try to get God’s attention.
What they both don’t understand that free will is everything. That’s why their sick versions of love don’t sit too well with Jessica and Dean.
Jessica Jones does everything to show us that Kilgrave’s a manipulative rapist, whose actions are not to be justified just because he had a bad childhood, while Supernatural has done nothing nearly enough to show that what Amara’s doing is wrong, which, honestly? makes me doubt if it’s ever going to.
totally agree 100%. Amara uses her mind control to make Dean feel bliss and even enough to “return the kiss” much to his disgust afterward. If they take this further, I will be really disturbed.
this this this. can’t believe i didn’t notice this before. the whole entire thing (for both shows) doesn’t sit well in my stomach…
Honestly though, if that had actually been a backdoor pilot for Wayward Daughters that would have been the most fantastic hook ever. Forget about your dumbass monster families in Chicago, this is what we want. Characters who have been thrown together by circumstance and who now have to build a life and a family despite all odds. People who have each been through their own personal hell, whose pasts frequently come back to haunt them not just figuratively but literally.
I want to see what happens next. I want to see whether Alex finds herself thrown off course of the normal life she was building. I want to see if she and Claire find something they can connect over, not just in life-or-death situations but in real life too. I want to see how Jody handles two almost grown girls becoming a part of her family after she lost her real family so violently. I want to see their relationships grow and change even while supernatural threats still lurk around them.
And really, the structure of it is perfect. A new show about the three of them (four if you include Donna) would start out ready made with a foundation of conflict (that lovely driver of stories), and also that core of what make Supernatural so great: family. You have three different characters with three different pasts to explore throughout the run of a show, all of whom are already beloved by the fanbase. Claire’s story is clearly still moving forward as she tried to find her place in the world; Alex has a decision ahead of her, whether she can face the supernatural and what she’s done in order to stay with her new family; Jody has the struggle of raising two troubled girls, while being the sheriff, while also taking the occasional hunt. There are so many plots that could come out of these characters, so much development and conflict and emotional connections between them.
Seriously CW, if you want to cash in on this giant fanbase, Wayward Daughters is the way to go. We’re all waiting for it, we all support it. Just give it to us already.
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