as previously mentioned the entire demon cure thing is firmly filed under Nope in my brain but sometimes i can’t help thinking about it and GOD.
all else aside, the torture and bodily violation shit aside, sam was going to SHOOT HIM when they were done. when crowley was human again, sam was going to put a bullet in his head. that was the plan.
sam would have done that KNOWING that crowley would go directly to Hell, again, to spend another few hundred years being horrifically tortured, again, until he became a demon, again.
even by this show’s baseline ethical standards, that is profoundly fucked up
^ Yup. Personally I was willing to accept the cure if they had actually developed his character, followed through on the thing they wrote. Had him try to deal with all his mistakes, developed a genuine friendship with Dean, a begrudging truce with Cas and oh, the angst of him being unable to ever win over Sam. To have to deal with constant reminders of who he was, what he did, as he tries to pick himself up and be a better person. It could have made for some great tv, but no. They killed him off instead; the boring, lazy, hack tactic.
Remember how fun Crowleys character used to be? Easily one of the most cunning and artful characters in the entire show, and they do him like that?! Idgits. I can’t remember who I saw say this, but someone said that writing is fundamentally about making decisions, and following through on the consequences of those decisions, but so many writers on this show, well, they didn’t so much drop the ball as they did douse it in petrol and then fire it into the fucking Sun.
