See, okay. If you set up at the very beginning of your season that there's an object that will burn in the presence of god which will guide the plot of one character, and then throw that object away midseason without resolving that conflict and never mention it again, and THEN introduce another object that we *do* see burn in the presence of something on level with god, and we're supposed to infer somehow that those two events are not connected in any way, that seems like ridiculously haphazard writing. There are a ton of ways the writers could have gotten the scythe out of Dean's hand, so if it wasn't a callback for a reason, it seems designed to obscure that fact as much as possible for no reason I can think of.
I'm mean, that doesn't rule it out, but that just seems like a whole bunch of threads that they'd be slapping together because they seem cool, without anybody keeping track of whether they ever go anywhere or come from anywhere. For the story to suggest that a character is retroactively omnipotent and then ascribing every inconsistency and dropped story thread to that seems...eh. It doesn't bother me, but it doesn't impress me either.
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Date: 2010-05-16 12:35 pm (UTC)I'm mean, that doesn't rule it out, but that just seems like a whole bunch of threads that they'd be slapping together because they seem cool, without anybody keeping track of whether they ever go anywhere or come from anywhere. For the story to suggest that a character is retroactively omnipotent and then ascribing every inconsistency and dropped story thread to that seems...eh. It doesn't bother me, but it doesn't impress me either.