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Episode 10.09 left me feeling...
Ambivalent.
Don't get me wrong I didn't dislike the episode. I do, however, feel that it was not even remotely close to being mid-season finale material. This is how I felt about the season opener; a good episode if it wasn't one of the major episodes of the season.
I just wrote this as a response elsewhere and everything that niggled me about it fell into place.
It felt like three different writers sat in three separate rooms and each of them wrote something for upcoming episodes. The first writer actually wrote the Supernatural storyline of Sam and Dean Winchester and the effects of the Mark of Cain on Dean, and on their relationship, culminating in Dean going nuclear (as I had been predicting) and verily, it was good. Action and drama.
The second writer wrote a story of the King of Hell and his mother filled with quips, one-liners, and Machiavellian tactics. Comedy and intrigue.
The third wrote a soap opera worthy of daytime soaps and PSAs everywhere, and it was really moving. Soap opera and melodrama.
When the three writers were done, a fourth, who I assume had been hiding a flask in his or her bottom drawer, decided that what was needed was a 'John and his boys' anecdote and wrote it whilst drunk.
Then Carver (or whoever) came along and said, we don't have enough episodes for all of thes plots so let's smush them into one! Even though it was like three separate jigsaw puzzles, some of the pieces fit and hey, if they don't we can force them into place. The edges won't match up but it will still make a colorful picture.
What came out of this was 10.09, a Frankenstein episode with all of the bolts and stitches showing.
That John anecdote actually had me screwing up my nose. I kept waiting for it to get to the point but it never did. As anecdotes go, it was like something that's told in the middle of a dinner party by someone who drank the entire bottle of red. It wasn't funny, it wasn't moving, there was no golden moral lesson. It was utter rambling pointlessness. Surely they could have come up with something interesting for a nice bonding moment for the boys to toast their dad. *shakes head, completely baffled*
Each story on its own was great. I really did enjoy learning more about Crowley anad his mommy issues. I was moved at the horror that was Claire's life and the pain Castiel had wreaked on her family. I loved Sam making grilled cheese for his brother, Dean wanting to protect Sammy from what was happening to him, and the moment in the house after the slaughter was breathtaking. The parts were all good, but the Sesame Street song 'One of these things is not like the other' kept running through my head and it was offputting. The whole didn't work for me. Had this aired last week when it wasn't a mid-season finale, I would have probably loved it.
On a completely different note. I'm heading off in the morning to spend four much needed days with my mum so I won't be online until Sunday night/Monday morning. My only internet access will be on my phone.
Don't get me wrong I didn't dislike the episode. I do, however, feel that it was not even remotely close to being mid-season finale material. This is how I felt about the season opener; a good episode if it wasn't one of the major episodes of the season.
I just wrote this as a response elsewhere and everything that niggled me about it fell into place.
It felt like three different writers sat in three separate rooms and each of them wrote something for upcoming episodes. The first writer actually wrote the Supernatural storyline of Sam and Dean Winchester and the effects of the Mark of Cain on Dean, and on their relationship, culminating in Dean going nuclear (as I had been predicting) and verily, it was good. Action and drama.
The second writer wrote a story of the King of Hell and his mother filled with quips, one-liners, and Machiavellian tactics. Comedy and intrigue.
The third wrote a soap opera worthy of daytime soaps and PSAs everywhere, and it was really moving. Soap opera and melodrama.
When the three writers were done, a fourth, who I assume had been hiding a flask in his or her bottom drawer, decided that what was needed was a 'John and his boys' anecdote and wrote it whilst drunk.
Then Carver (or whoever) came along and said, we don't have enough episodes for all of thes plots so let's smush them into one! Even though it was like three separate jigsaw puzzles, some of the pieces fit and hey, if they don't we can force them into place. The edges won't match up but it will still make a colorful picture.
What came out of this was 10.09, a Frankenstein episode with all of the bolts and stitches showing.
That John anecdote actually had me screwing up my nose. I kept waiting for it to get to the point but it never did. As anecdotes go, it was like something that's told in the middle of a dinner party by someone who drank the entire bottle of red. It wasn't funny, it wasn't moving, there was no golden moral lesson. It was utter rambling pointlessness. Surely they could have come up with something interesting for a nice bonding moment for the boys to toast their dad. *shakes head, completely baffled*
Each story on its own was great. I really did enjoy learning more about Crowley anad his mommy issues. I was moved at the horror that was Claire's life and the pain Castiel had wreaked on her family. I loved Sam making grilled cheese for his brother, Dean wanting to protect Sammy from what was happening to him, and the moment in the house after the slaughter was breathtaking. The parts were all good, but the Sesame Street song 'One of these things is not like the other' kept running through my head and it was offputting. The whole didn't work for me. Had this aired last week when it wasn't a mid-season finale, I would have probably loved it.
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On a completely different note. I'm heading off in the morning to spend four much needed days with my mum so I won't be online until Sunday night/Monday morning. My only internet access will be on my phone.