So as of episode 11.18, “Hell’s Angel,” Rowena is back in
action (hallelujah). Although honestly, between the reveal and the end of the
episode, I sort of lost my excitement.
It makes sense that Rowena wouldn’t have died because she’s
a powerful witch who has stayed alive for centuries past her natural expiration
date. She evidently has the power to heal Amara and to send messages and listen
in to conversations from far-off distances, so why not have some sort of spell
that keeps her alive—like a (hopefully benign) version of a horcrux. Plenty of
fans predicted this. (Although the actual mechanics of the spell were iffy: did
no one notice that her body just disappeared? How did she get out without being
seen? What if someone was still in the room when she woke up? It was just
all-around too neat of a wrap-up for my taste.) And it doesn’t really seem to
me to make much sense in narrative terms either. As evidenced by the way she
was shuffled around from ally to ally in the episode, she doesn’t really have a
place any more. I don’t know where her character is going.
I was so excited when they introduced the possibility of
Rowena working with Amara; that would give us a way for Rowena to keep growing,
as well as a way to show us more of her power and generally just have her be
more vengeful and interesting. Instead she got scared and ran away back to those
back-stabbing Winchesters and the son SHE HATES. Like, didn’t she know how
powerful Amara was? Wasn’t that the whole point of finding her and nursing her
back to health? She’s just being used as a plot device and it’s like she’s
being punished AGAIN for seeking power and revenge; guys she already died for
that, give her a break!
So now the option of an awe-inspiring girl-power team-up is out,
and Rowena is left in the dark, dangerous cold. What will she do now?
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