Have I said how much I love that "Booger" Presley as the new Big Bad in Heaven?

I KNOW! I mean, Armstrong is doing a fine job, but I saw Revenge of the Nerds roughly 1000x when I was a kid, and he will always, always be Booger.

That...was fucking good. I was just all "SAM!" and "DEAN!" and "BOYS!" in that final scene. Just like a 14 y.o. girl, I swear, but they did such a good job!

And Cas has lost his grace, and the angels falling. Oh, my.

And it was so sad to see Bobby's junkyard all deserted. I had a sad...

Also, was that...screwdriver thing that killed Naomi made of angel-killing blade alloy? Because otherwise, how would it kill her? Also, the actress who plays Abaddon looks like Ashley Judd, but evil. I like her.

Those are my thoughts.

I have to admit I'm still a little bummed that Metatron isn't a Transformer.

Ha!

Well, the screwdriver thing was able to bore into angels, so it must be able to affect them on a fundamental level. Though I assume that everything we're seeing of the angels in Heaven is just symbolic representations, because big amorphous areas of glowing light wouldn't be as relatable to viewers.

Is it weird if I link to stuff I wrote other places? It feels weird. But I just finished writing a recap that may or may not get used on their front page, and I...feels! Rewatching this to write about it--it's the 30 minute point (ad-free time) where everything just starts to really hurt--Mark Sheppard earns all the pay, and the ball doesn't stop rolling until "Angels. They're falling."

I feel battered.

Anyway, I'm done with linking to my art or other writing, after so: [link] -- it's just...the pictures are so pretty. They done good here. Nine familiar faces in this ep. That's a lot.

Brenda,

Seriously.

So I have been thinking about the Supernatural finale and I am dissatisfied. I really liked the moments with Sam & Dean quite a lot, but from a plotting perspective, I am not overall thrilled. I'm not thrilled with the season's pacing and specifically the pacing of the recent 2-3 episodes.

Someone, argue with me against this.

What was wrong with the pacing? I feel this was one of the strongest finales since 5--it's got some stiff competition, but I'd place it in my top 5 if not 3. The unremitting emotional stakes and how sincerely invested everyone was in everything they did--they managed to sustain that very well.

Crowley was better than I've seen Sheppard do in forever, Amanda Tapping was also very convincing. Castiel was kind of the weakest link, but I barely mean that. Just him, at the end, after all of his lines were done, that was also really well done. But he didn't get as rich an emotional dump as everyone else.

As far as plotting goes, what bothers you?

I think I would have preferred more plot preparation for the finale in previous episodes. It felt like this should have been a two-part finale. I wanted to see Metatron fight the angels. I saw his power grab coming, but I would have liked to see what changed his mind from staying out of the fray in the bookstore to wanting universal domination.

I think I would have preferred this finale to provide a few more clues as to what Metatron was after leading into next season. Now, I'm like: well, WTF now?

I'm not totally sure about the status of the demons if none of them came to Crowley's rescue.

Yes, I liked Crowley. I thought he was written a bit too sympathetically though, but the acting was great.

I didn't interpet him as wanting universal domination. It was a simple gesture of tit for tat, was what I thought--he held everyone ultimately complicit in denying him heaven, so now he wants to throw them all out. The reveal worked for me at the right speed, since I thought he was shady last week. Cas is cut off from any information--he knows what Naomi told him, and she tortured him, and this cuddly guy in a cardigan who calls himself a mere pencil pusher seems to have good motives.

Mm, right.

Metatron doesn't even have to be in season 9 for me. He's kicked everyone out of his playhouse--I imagine he'll be running up and down the halls screaming. When he's bored *and there are millions of stories new to him) maybe he'll come back.

Or he could be embarking on the domination of which you speak, but if they go there, they will need to talk me into it. He's a sneaky creepy guy, and I see him being a problem, but not a big bad (inasmuch as that even applies to SPN finales). I don't feel there's anything else I need to know about Metatron--he fled the archangels' influence and hid on earth (clearly unchallenging) and likes stories enough to make people immortal for giving them to him. Oh, and he holds a grudge.

As for the demons--he threw out a half-assed yell for help. If the strongest demon in existence is the one who acts on it, I don't know if anyone else even heard. Normally these blood calls have more blood, a bowl, and a conversation. He was a drowning man yelling for help, and someone who was probably looking for him anyway (and was effective holding a microphone) is who shows up.

She may have beaten them all into submission in the time he was corralled. They may all be on her side now. Or dead, or just following the last orders he gave them--steer clear of Winchesters. Any one of those explanations work for me, which means it will turn out to be something else.