{"id":46,"date":"2008-11-16T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T00:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/2008\/11\/16\/why-are-they-all-jerks\/"},"modified":"2011-06-03T23:59:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T07:59:16","slug":"why-are-they-all-jerks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/2008\/11\/16\/why-are-they-all-jerks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are they all jerks?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>What is the deal with TV nowadays?\u00a0 Does “edgy” mean jerks to TV executives?\u00a0 What I’m specifically talking about is the show Supernatural<\/em>.\u00a0 For three seasons Sam and Dean Winchester have been fighting demons and all forms of evil, essentially all by themselves.\u00a0 We’ve seen and heard all about demons and Hell, with not a single indication of any forces of good.\u00a0 It’s been the humans all by their lonesome, making stupid deals with their enemies in an endlessly annoying circle.<\/p>\n

This season the forces of “good” finally show up.\u00a0 An angel swoops down and saves Dean from Hell.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Because the demon Lilith is breaking the seals that will release Lucifer on the Earth, and the angels are losing.\u00a0 For some reason, they think Dean, the guy who sold his soul to bring his brother back to life, will be the key to stopping her.\u00a0 Yeah, cause he’s made such spectacularly great decisions so far.<\/p>\n

So, do the forces of good do anything actually do anything to help the brothers?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 The angel that saves Dean, Castiel, and his buddy Uriel, are complete and total jerks.\u00a0 They talk about the coming apocalypse, and act more like the demons, not caring one speck for human life.\u00a0 In “It’s the Great Pumpkin Sam Winchester”, the angels answer to stopping the witch from raising Samhain is to blow up the town.\u00a0 Yeah, that’s a real responsible course of action.\u00a0 Kill ’em all and let god sort ’em out?\u00a0 In the latest episode, there is a girl that can hear the angels talking, so what do Castiel and Uriel want to do?\u00a0 Kill her.\u00a0 I thought that was the human\/demon way to do things.<\/p>\n

Actually, “jerk” is too tame of a word.\u00a0 They are pricks.\u00a0 They don’t care about the people they are supposed to protect.\u00a0 Uriel can’t want to cause some destruction, or rip Sam’s heart out it seems.\u00a0 You sit there and watch these guys and wonder what the hell they are doing here.\u00a0 They aren’t helping.\u00a0 They are no different than the demons that Sam and Dean have been fighting for the last 3 years.<\/p>\n

I was really hoping that the too long in coming appearance of good would help save the series from it’s “evil always wins”, but now I don’t want good to win either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the deal with TV nowadays?\u00a0 Does “edgy” mean jerks to TV executives?\u00a0 What I’m specifically talking about is the show Supernatural.\u00a0 For three seasons Sam and Dean Winchester have been fighting demons and all forms of evil, essentially Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[125],"tags":[251,96],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv","tag-season-4","tag-supernatural"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/files\/2008\/11\/supernatural_titlecard.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1dnXu-K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5687,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/5687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/fangirl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}