SPN 12x09 Mature Thoughts

SPN 12x09 "First Blood" Mature Thoughts

Now after waiting around six weeks (were they 6 weeks?) and tumblr not helping much to overcome the hiatus blues, except for my 2 month old puppy, she helped me a lot. Side note who every gets a puppy, keep in mind they want 100% attention. Yep, not 99% they want it ALL! They are sweet little monsters. Thanks to Lotte I didn't have much time to ponder about the awkwardness of Supernatural. One could say a blessing and curse at the same time.

Back to the topic, “First Blood”.... contrary to the bee hive mind set aka unpopular opinion I wasn't very fond of this episode. IMO it lacked real nail biting tension. Seriously Sam & Dean were locked up in an US GOVERNMENT BLACK OP SECRET PRISON. No lawyer, no court, no warrant, no trial. And everyone acts like it's a normal thing in a so called FREE DEMOCRATIC society! What's wrong with you SJW's? This is utterly fucked up business. Or is it now US accepted common practice, to tolerate secret government prisons? To tolerate government torture? As a German this gives me the creeps, because this is how the academic world defines dictatorships. Which reminds me of President Obama saying “We torture some folks”... or President Obama's infamous “Kill list's aka Disposition Matrix”, hence KILLING people all over the world with out trial. And the only problem the US youth has is their pussy or dick? I hope one day the US get their priorities straight, because believe me, if not the US (Empire) is in big trouble. Saying, this could have been awesome nail biting episode, but nay lets ignore the elephant in the room.

Just FYI according to Wikipedia “Black sites operated by the U.S. government and its surrogates were first officially acknowledged by U.S. President George W. Bush in the fall of 2006. The International Committee of the Red Cross reported details of black site practices to the U.S. government in early 2007, and the contents of that report became public in March 2009.... An important aspect of black site operation is that the legal status of black site detainees is not clearly defined. In practice, inmates in black sites have no rights other than those given by the captors...The U.S. government does not provide information about the operation of black sites, and for a period of time did not provide information about the existence of black sites.”

And further about US government using torture, one UK judge observed 'America's idea of what is torture ... does not appear to coincide with that of most civilized nations'.

In retrospect THIS is what I had in mind when watching the brothers being held in a secret US prison, on US soil.... And how did SPN portrait this scenario? Sam is doing some work out and Dean appears to be a bit fustrated, so yeah it looks like they are very intimidated. Further by letting Mary and Castiel act in a calm and IMO boring fashion. I don't get it, the brothers are being held by the US government in a black site, with out legal trial and Castiel the non-angel is just sitting there counting the days and is not in any way furious how a so called free society can act in such manner? And Mary is literally more interested in getting the vampires killed than to investigate where her son's could be, and how it can be that the US government has the audacity to kidnap her son's and lock them away in Pinochet / Stalin death squad stile. But please buckle up because she is a fast driver, oh please give me a brake! WTF

Geez what kind of storytelling is this? Again it's like the beginning of the 12^th season, SPN starts with a very questionable topic, namely kidnapping and torture and than simply ignores it. Then it's the same here, a very questionable topic is being used as bait and than deliberately ignored. And the viewers are not bothered, not at all. As if such Stalin-isch illegal government actions are absolutely okay and utterly common in the United States of America.

I'm too old for this kind of bull shit.

Fast forward, we than get to find out that Sam and Dean had made a 'get out of prison' deal with the reaper Billie. Really? Is that all the SPN writers can offer? IMO a cheap move. But this zero fantasy act leads us to Castiels pep talk. Okay I get it, some viewers thought the angel saying out loud how he thought the 'Winchesters' are important for mankind, was a nice thing. Me, I thought how pathetic. Further what's wrong with this angel. In general angels are metaphysical beings and have absolutely nothing in common with earthly beings. So him not having so called 'wings' and celestial power anymore, is sans logic. Yeh, I know it's SPN cannon, but still it's utter crap, simply because SPN is trying to “sell” the concept of a humanoid celestial being, which is a contradiction and as I said before is utter BS. So, this what ever entity is hanging out in the bunker, not knowing what to do, even try’s to contact the DEMON Crowley for help, but Crowley refuses, and so he just waits. What's wrong with this picture? Correct Castiel is sitting in the middle of the worlds finest library of occult and metaphysical knowledge and does nothing. I mean how stupid can it get, all he would have to do is look for a 'finding or location' spell. But if the spell wouldn't have worked, than he could have contacted some other angels. Let's not forget there are other angel dudes out there. Remember angel radio? Seriously even my puppy Lotte is smarter than this metaphysical entity. And this circumstance leads to the major question, why this pathetic 'O Winchester' speech? Or was the scene only constructed to get rid of Billie the reaper threat and thereby reinforce Castiel's loyalty towards the Winchesters? Like I said a cheap move...

Alas the British MoL.... seriously using a 'satellite' device to locate the brothers? What's this a “Mission Impossible” crossover? What happened with magic and the supernatural per se, not hip enough? Okay the Brit MoL have their agents in high government positions, but isn't this the norm with high potential secret societies, hence no big surprise. Well, not for me. What are these Brit. MoL suppose to be? Because at the moment they appear to be like ordinary desperate headhunters. The torture didn't work, so now they chose the ol' fashion face to face recruitment tactic? Which begs the question why did they torture Sam in the first place? Because it seems they have no difficulty finding other US American hunters. Also the 'clean up' of the government black op team wasn't necessary, actually IMO when using simple logic, eliminating the government agents would cause more trouble than anticipated.

Why? First of all it's not stealth and it raises questions. The black op unite could belong to the US Army, Navy or Air Force intelligence, hence military. Military are hierarchical systems, which means, the companies, units what ever, do not operate on their own, they receive orders and act on their behalf. Therefor eliminating this unite will cause an investigation and evaluation of what had happened. Which means more military people are going to be involved. Further in reality this act will be seen as a terrorist attack on US soil, and as we all know this is a declaration of war and will not be ignored. Therefor SPN portraying the black op unite as a bunch of imbeciles just shows the official US propaganda (yes President Obama repealed the Smith Mundt act), namely downplaying the importance, influence and capability of the US Military and Intelligence agencies.

In general the reason for such 'downplaying' in the media is nothing other than to deceive the public. I mean lets face it, probably a majority here on tumblr doesn't even know that the USA is at war now for over 15 years. And is heavily bombing and invading with out the approval of congress BUT with the help of NATO other countries. So by portraying the military and their black op units as stupidos only fulfills the government agenda, namely to keep the war and militarization of the country out of the masses their consciousness.

About the brothers Sam and Dean. So SPN want's to make me believe that Dean, who was in hell and Purgatory, and Sam who was for centuries locked up together with Lucifer in the cage, who also endured painful supernatural trials which had caused his death and just not long ago was kidnapped and tortured by a psychopathic Brit. MoL. Hence now both are having issues with being locked up and kept in isolation by HUMAN BEINGS? Somehow the relations don't fit. Is SPN trying to tell me that being held by powerful mind bending metaphysical beings such as Alistair and Lucifer isn't that bad in comparison with being held by human beings. Okay... nope not buying that crap. Sorry, IMO it doesn't make sense. Further they had the opportunity to get free. Because lets be realistic, when they were brought to their cell, both were not shackled and only guarded by three not so heavily armed soldiers, so they could have used this 'unsecured' moment for their advantage. Just saying something odd is going on. Because truth is, the brothers are the 'James Bond' of the supernatural, they are trained to survive.

In conclusion this episode lacked common sense and was confusing, because the brothers and their allies were portrait in a fashion which contradicts their usual familiar motivation and behavior. Somehow I can't get rid of the feeling that I'm perceiving an alternative SPN soap opera universe. Where the major protagonist are portrayed in a sweet but mundane fashion and the antagonist are just plainly stupid.