The bigger problem for me was that they didn't show how Sam's world imploded and rained down around him. I don't understand why they wouldn't show why Sam quit hunting and didn't look for Dean. Fans who love Sam just didn't buy it, and fans who don't vilified him ... again. I think that showing that time period would have been far more compelling than seeing his domestic life with Amelia anyway. Gamble did a far better job of showing the balance of Dean's life with Lisa and Ben, than Carver did Sam with Amelia and Riot. He should have taken a lesson from that.
Purgatory had such potential, but you're right, we really didn't much of it. While I wouldn't have minded seeing more of Purgatory, I have no desire to see more of Sam and Amelia. What I saw didn't hold my interest, but it would have been great to have seen what happened between 7.23 and when Sam met Amelia. That would told us what we needed to know about his state of mind. It could have been done in a montage even like when Dean finally died in Mystery Spot, and who wrote that? Oh yeah, Carver.
I agree that both storylines kind of got lost in translation. There were a couple of times that I felt as though the ep plot and flashbacks were supposed to parallel or inform one another, but then it would get dropped. By mid-season hiatus, it seemed like all that had just been to turn the tension up to 11. I know fans who quit watching because it just got to ugly between the boys and they were tired of Sam being vilified. That's sad. I hope tptb don't ratchet up the ugliness between the boys when Sam finds out the truth this season.
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Purgatory had such potential, but you're right, we really didn't much of it. While I wouldn't have minded seeing more of Purgatory, I have no desire to see more of Sam and Amelia. What I saw didn't hold my interest, but it would have been great to have seen what happened between 7.23 and when Sam met Amelia. That would told us what we needed to know about his state of mind. It could have been done in a montage even like when Dean finally died in Mystery Spot, and who wrote that? Oh yeah, Carver.
I agree that both storylines kind of got lost in translation. There were a couple of times that I felt as though the ep plot and flashbacks were supposed to parallel or inform one another, but then it would get dropped. By mid-season hiatus, it seemed like all that had just been to turn the tension up to 11. I know fans who quit watching because it just got to ugly between the boys and they were tired of Sam being vilified. That's sad. I hope tptb don't ratchet up the ugliness between the boys when Sam finds out the truth this season.