I know my word is tainted, because I'm one of those cursed shippers, but I think there's story to having Sam stuff drawn out, and much less about Cas. So having him just not around for a few eps and then popping back to say hi is teasing. Whereas I know we'll see Sam right away, and even if they're not together, we'll get story.
Oh, it will hurt if they're not together, but stuff will be happening onscreen.
Adam? I don't care about so much. An offhand word will do just fine, since I don't need to see him again.
I have no idea how to work Castiel the superpowered angel into next season. Doesn't mean I don't want to see him again. I will be keeping an eye out for the spoiler of his appearance, though not the mechanics. I just feel the disappearance was way abrupt, and Dean's reaction pretty on the nose. But Cas does have only two intermittent years with Dean and millenia as an angel--it's not surprising. It's just frustrating.
Oh, hey, it's list-making time, isn't it?
Man, I can't even think of a list of lists I'd like to make. Other than the afore-mentioned pain-filled best
5
of each season.
I wonder where my spreadsheet is. I haven't looked at it in forever.
I am craving a list. I'm formulating some items for my personal punch list.
Offhand my early S6 wishlist involves:
- Dean properly fucked up by no Sam
- Dean/Lisa not working like clockwork
- Ben not being hurt in any way by either of the above
- SAMMY! (I'm not sure how I want this to work out, other than him needing a big old hug) (Okay, him not being Lucifer. But I really don't think he is, so no use wasting a wish--he just shouldn't be evil)
- Castiel saying something else to Dean
Dean properly fucked
The start of this item threw me off.
one of those cursed shippers
Not in any way cursed. Just a different POV. I don't hate because I don't share.
In addition to ita's list,
1. No fridging of Lisa and/or Ben
2. Sam being, or becoming, fully human. Not just not-evil, but all the go-juice drained and gone. Learning, maybe, to be human again.
3. More interaction and engagement with the people the brothers encounter. They saved them, let them experience the good side of why.
4. Good resolution--or establishment of contact--with Castiel, both brothers. I liked the friendship I saw beginning between him and Sam, as well as the obvious attachment to Dean.
5. Intermittent contact with Bobby
6. Contact with Rufus
7. A visit, preferrably, or a call, with Missouri
8. Increasing check-ins with other hunters, rebuilding the network and a better communications/referrals system.
9. Check-ins with Kathleen Hudak (The Benders) and Diana Ballard (The Usual suspects), clueing them in to local hunter contacts. Also a check-in (just a phone call would do in each of these cases--the character needn't even appear onscreen) with Jerry Panowski (Phantom Traveler). It would thrill me beyond belief to hear Dean on the phone with Andrea and Lucas, or Michael and Asher, or either of them talking to Kat, Charlie, Sari and her mom.
10. Depending on how it's handled, periodic check-ins with Lisa and Ben, maybe building to something more permanent.
11. Lindsay? Sarah? Rebecca? Someone for Sam to connect to, start to build a friendship that might lead to something more, when he's ready.
Hey, it's a wish list. No need to be economical! Not like I'm likely to get anything, let alone everything, on it.
Yeah. The Lucifer story needs to be friggin OVER. And I don't see how Sam comes back evil without undoing all the character growth. I'd actually be Ok with this being Not-Sam in Sam's body. Because that gives Dean an excuse for bring Sam back.
Adam? I don't care about so much. An offhand word will do just fine, since I don't need to see him again.
Right there with you on this. He's already had two more appearances than I needed to see. Show, please to be concentrating on characters about whom I mind the idea of disappearing into the void with Lucifer and Michael until the end of time.
Adam doesn't need a lot of--or any, really--screen time for me. But I want resolution for him. If Sam escapes the cage, so should Adam, even if he's Francisco Franco and we're told he's in heaven with his mom. I just don't want him forgotten about.
As you can see from my list, I'd like S6 to tie up a lot of loose ends. A single-line phone call or a throwaway line in a scene would handle most of it. But it needs handled, IMO.
Hah Beverly my list duplicates some of yours but I'll post anyway.
- I wish for streetlamp Sam to be our Sammy. I hope if they don’t have him reunite with Dean right away that there is the appropriate angst about that. I hope he goes and finds Bobby in the meantime. Someone should.
- If Sam does come back as ‘something else’, then hopefully Jared is given something meaty to work with. Jared has done some interesting things with his possessions.
- I hope Lisa is a complex and fleshed out character. I want to see her struggle with Dean and the dynamic he brings to her household. I want to see him struggle.
- I enjoy Dean’s interaction with kids. I want to see some kid stuff of a humorous ilk. Dean floundering as a parental unit would be awesome.
- I want to see Cas become disillusioned with life in heaven, perhaps ostracized and kicked out. I like the comic relief Cas brings to the table. I want more Cas interacting with humans and boggling at earthling ways. I want Ben and Cas to meet.
- I want Dean to find himself unable to ignore hunting. I want the impala to still have her trunk of deadly weapons and for her to be ready to go into action at a moment’s notice.
- I want the excessive drinking to resolve itself in some painfully angsty way. It is an issue for both boys.
- I emphatically do not want Lisa and Ben to die.
- I want our boys reunited and in a way that both of them are happy to be with the other, not in ‘the world is better off’ kind of way. If that’s not reasonable, then I still want them together. Together does not have to look the same as it has looked on and off for the last 5 years. I’m okay with show giving us a new paradigm of Sam and Dean together.
- I want the apocalypse storyline over and done.
- I would prefer for the MOW to not be demon possessions and for the killing of possessed humans to stop.
