I HATED the virgin sacrifice thing, though. Like, "virgin" is the mystical counter-balance ingredient to "demon"? Foul.
Yeah, that's definitely problematic. It didn't bug me at the time because it's a standard horror movie trope, and SPN is all about horror tropes, so it made sense to me that it would be included. Doesn't mean that SPN shouldn't try to rise above out-dated, sexist tropes, though. :/
lol sekrit spoiler SAM IS AWESOME.
Yes he is! It took a long time for him to grow on me (I was only a Dean girl for all of S1), and even though I liked him well enough in S2, S3 is really what has made me love him. There was nothing wrong with his uncomplicated good nature in the first two seasons (and if the boys were real, he would, TBH, probably be more likable than Dean), but his growing "darkness" in S3 definitely makes him a more engaging character. His journey as he struggles to save Dean and feels guilty for his brother's damnation is fascinating.
It was minimize the loss of life or ~feeeeel okay about themselves. And I really love that the show went there when ~feeeeelings option ended up blowing up in their faces.
But I think that even if they had used the sacrifice spell and killed all of the demons, Lilith still would have come to the town and killed the survivors. I guess we're supposed to assume that she had no clue her henchmen were there in the first place (although I thought Lilith is whom Bela was communicating with), but it still seems unfair to me to blame the boys for Lilith's actions the way Ruby does. But I agree that as an emotional punch in the gut, the ending works quite well.
I think she just asked for the abuse to stop and the demon delivered in the most traumatic way possible because demons are horrible.
Um, wait, SPOILERS, because there was no mention of abuse in this episode!
Though TBH I figured there was more to the story than what we saw and that abuse might have been a factor. I was trying to react as though I were watching in real time, though, and not assume anything.
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Yeah, that's definitely problematic. It didn't bug me at the time because it's a standard horror movie trope, and SPN is all about horror tropes, so it made sense to me that it would be included. Doesn't mean that SPN shouldn't try to rise above out-dated, sexist tropes, though. :/
lol sekrit spoiler SAM IS AWESOME.
Yes he is! It took a long time for him to grow on me (I was only a Dean girl for all of S1), and even though I liked him well enough in S2, S3 is really what has made me love him. There was nothing wrong with his uncomplicated good nature in the first two seasons (and if the boys were real, he would, TBH, probably be more likable than Dean), but his growing "darkness" in S3 definitely makes him a more engaging character. His journey as he struggles to save Dean and feels guilty for his brother's damnation is fascinating.
It was minimize the loss of life or ~feeeeel okay about themselves. And I really love that the show went there when ~feeeeelings option ended up blowing up in their faces.
But I think that even if they had used the sacrifice spell and killed all of the demons, Lilith still would have come to the town and killed the survivors. I guess we're supposed to assume that she had no clue her henchmen were there in the first place (although I thought Lilith is whom Bela was communicating with), but it still seems unfair to me to blame the boys for Lilith's actions the way Ruby does. But I agree that as an emotional punch in the gut, the ending works quite well.
I think she just asked for the abuse to stop and the demon delivered in the most traumatic way possible because demons are horrible.
Um, wait, SPOILERS, because there was no mention of abuse in this episode!
Though TBH I figured there was more to the story than what we saw and that abuse might have been a factor. I was trying to react as though I were watching in real time, though, and not assume anything.