I don't feel you about Amelia, but I loved reading the sections on Sam and Dean's motivations and all the rest was very insightful and non-biased.
Yeah, Amelia is a somewhat polarizing character. I don't think she was endearing at all and I don't think she was supposed to be. But, I did get where she was coming from and how she was as broken as Sam. And as much as I hate to see upset fans and whatnot, I do like that they create characters that make us think; that don't always fall into neat little boxes. Take Ruby, for example. I did spend a great deal of time trying to suss out whether she was on the up and up or just playing Sam. I waffled over her quite a bit. And even though I was 80% certain by the time Lucifer Rising came around that she was bad news and up to something, I was trying still trying work out her end game up to the very end. Now that truly was a long con and not something we had experienced much with demons before. (Sure, Azazel wins for the really long-term, "big picture" end game but there was never any doubt that he was bad news. LOL!)
Amelia was not as developed as all that but she had layers. (Even if they are layers most folks don't ever want to see again!)
It's true that she didn't have much chemistry with Sam but I can't even decide whether that was intentional or not; that it wasn't meant to be intentionally jarring just so we could see the "not rightness" under the idyllic picnic, sunshine, and cake. It could be that I am over thinking and reading too much into it but that's fun, too. I should go back and re-watch the beginning again to see if I can analyze it EVEN MORE ;)
I NEVER seem to tire of thinking about and sometimes finding time to talk about Sam and Dean's motivations. I am not sure that I have ever thought about two fictional characters more than I have thought about these two!!! I am also relieved that it came across as non-biased. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment (and spawn even more thinkie thoughts and, I don't know, a probable re-watch of the first half of the season...LOL!)
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Date: 2013-06-11 01:21 am (UTC)Yeah, Amelia is a somewhat polarizing character. I don't think she was endearing at all and I don't think she was supposed to be. But, I did get where she was coming from and how she was as broken as Sam. And as much as I hate to see upset fans and whatnot, I do like that they create characters that make us think; that don't always fall into neat little boxes. Take Ruby, for example. I did spend a great deal of time trying to suss out whether she was on the up and up or just playing Sam. I waffled over her quite a bit. And even though I was 80% certain by the time Lucifer Rising came around that she was bad news and up to something, I was trying still trying work out her end game up to the very end. Now that truly was a long con and not something we had experienced much with demons before. (Sure, Azazel wins for the really long-term, "big picture" end game but there was never any doubt that he was bad news. LOL!)
Amelia was not as developed as all that but she had layers. (Even if they are layers most folks don't ever want to see again!)
It's true that she didn't have much chemistry with Sam but I can't even decide whether that was intentional or not; that it wasn't meant to be intentionally jarring just so we could see the "not rightness" under the idyllic picnic, sunshine, and cake. It could be that I am over thinking and reading too much into it but that's fun, too. I should go back and re-watch the beginning again to see if I can analyze it EVEN MORE ;)
I NEVER seem to tire of thinking about and sometimes finding time to talk about Sam and Dean's motivations. I am not sure that I have ever thought about two fictional characters more than I have thought about these two!!! I am also relieved that it came across as non-biased. Thanks so much for taking the time to comment (and spawn even more thinkie thoughts and, I don't know, a probable re-watch of the first half of the season...LOL!)