Wednesday’s Watching Supernatural 11.21 “All in the Family”

“Holy Crap!”
Rowena and Sam sidelined!
Metatron and Kevin banished!
Sensing Nonsense?

WHAT DID I WATCH?

THE SCRIPT

The script called for a chat with God and a rescue for Lucifer/Cas.
What happened were dramatic changes to canon and more wiping the slate clean.

THE SIDE LINED AND THE BANISHED

ROWENA
Rowena knows where the Darkness is. Simple plot solution: find Rowena.

KEVIN

Apparently, a Prophet of the Lord was needed, and Chuck is tied up at the moment as a meat suit for God (the Writers)
… BUT, wait, “What about Kevin?” Isn’t he in the Veil? Couldn’t we resurrect him?

 If Chuck/God, the Writers, could resurrect Lucifer from the brink of death,
Kevin could have been rescued from the Veil and restored to life.
The Writers elected not to.

 Instead, Kevin’s soul ascends to heaven.
Oh, it is possible that he could return, or visit like Bobby, but his removal has a finality about it.
Heaven is full of past extinguished characters. A choice was made. Kevin is Banished.

Why Donatello?

Rowena, or Kevin, could have fulfilled the job of finding Amara but from out of left field,
or make that “Redfield,” comes Donatello Redfield, Keith Szarabajka.
He replaces Kevin as the Prophet of the Lord. Apparently, Crowley “missed a few” in his prophet roundup in season 8!

Will Kevin be coming back? Will Rowena get a paycheck?
“No. Thus spake the Lord!”

LOOSE LIPS METATRON BANISHED

Metatron, Curtis Armstrong, perishes a hero in a snarl of Darkness’ smoke, but the key word is perishes.
Please note that God, the writers, elected to NOT rescue everyone until after Metatron perished.
Contrivances such as Lucifer being  “temporarily grounded” made a “zap out of there” impossible.
Choices were made. 
“So Metatron took one for the team.”  We will sorely miss you “Angel nearest the Door” and Scribe of God.

SIDELINED SAM

Sam always maintained a spiritual strength. He prayed to God in the season opening.
Lucifer took his faith and used it to deceive Sam in a horrible, devious way.
Sam, the quiet, steadfast, deeper thinker, fanboyed:

The whole deep conversation that should have taken place between God and the Winchester Brothers
                   was primarily a dialogue between God and Dean. OK.                          
Dean is certainly capable of asking a few hard questions.

That’s not what was strange.
What was strange was how the writers sidelined Sam to not only NOT having a say, but babbling.

There were extremely few lines to indicate the huge emotional upheaval Sam experienced when rescuing his torturer.
Only Sam’s facials revealed his conflict.

“It’s okay, Sam. You go.”

Sam couldn’t even take Metatron’s call on the phone.
Distracted driver, Dean, took the call, but better that than give Sam a line???

 “BEHOLD THE FACE OF GOD”

Chuck is a meta convention for the VOICE OF THE WRITERS but God eating donuts, Chinese food, popcorn,
and lusting for bacon was unduly weird and unwitty.
 Especially given the canon that Angels are incapable of tasting anything but molecules,
and have no need for sleeping and showers, this seemed odd. 
(Do we really care if Eric Kripke and writing crew have food cravings, and sing in the shower? Probably not.)

Worst roommate ever!

PORN?

SENSES

AMARA SENSES…God

DEAN SENSES…Amara

AMARA SENSES… Dean
Amara SENSES Dean calling her and she appears in the forest.
But, Amara can “SENSE” a difference in Dean.

Amara: Something’s different. You’ve spoken with God. You’ve seen him. You betrayed me.

She SENSES that he has been with God? Wow! That’s pretty impressive “SENSING.”

Although gifted with hologrammatic imagery and the ablility to hear Dean call,
Amara is reduced to a “Bossy sister” who lusts for Dean.
She totally invades Dean’s mind just like Chuck invades Dean’s space.
Later, Amara and God play tug of war with Dean’s Baby.

DONATELLO SENSES

How conveniently all this contrived “SENSING” works out.