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Post by Mystique on Oct 26, 2017 6:16:05 GMT -5
So, what's your rating for this one?
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Post by Mystique on Oct 26, 2017 23:46:02 GMT -5
2/10 for me
1 for Dean (even as disconsolate as he is, again) and 1 for the miniscule scene at the end of Cas.
The rest was mind-numbing, with a couple splashes of ancient repetitive arguments thrown in. And Dean needing the aid of a psychic to survive a hunt against an unremarkable MoTW, puh-leaze.
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Post by saltgunempty on Oct 27, 2017 15:42:55 GMT -5
...I don't think I was supposed to laugh at the heartfelt video and training the antichrist seems a wee bit stupid. Sam also has a less than stellar record with his powers when he had them so it's so amusingly arrogant for him to be doing it. Of course he waits until they're alone to do it. Super in character.
I did like the personal life life fallout from Missouri's powers and she thanked Dean after treating him like a minion. Low bars are nice. Again, fairly in character and not being awful to Dean. What an episode!
They killed an old character, they killed another woman... what a swift downturn for this episode, and it was looking so vaguely competent. The new teen looks like she's easily in her mid-twenties, as is the CW way. They got really hamfisted the further into her story we went. I watched That's So Raven as a kid, I don't need a monster version of that and it's basically "you'll be miserable either way." Yay!
Dean got to save someone and do stuff AND kill a monster. Wow. And get told he's still got it, what a nice episode for him.
Jack is smarter than Sam, tbh. Awkward.
I feel like I'm supposed to really like Sam in this but mainly I think he's a projecting idjit for the nth time. It showcases some major selfishness along the way while he really doesn't seem to be helping Jack. Always with the hiding shit and never learning. Naturally it's all Dean's fault but the blowup was satisfying. Even if once again they were doing it where he could easily hear...
JA is looking verrrrry good this season. I'm waiting for Dean to get his face burned off or whatever.
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Post by paforrest on Oct 28, 2017 10:50:22 GMT -5
I'm so disconnected from the show that I haven't been able to muster any enthusiasm, be it happy or angry, to genuinely rate these episodes. They're all so meh that I just settle on a general "3" for everything. Seems easier, though I don't think they deserve much more than that.
I'm all for the brothers having separate storylines, providing Dean legit has one, so that was fine. I despise Misery, so I was good with her being offed right away. Besides, I always got the impression that's what was going to happen so that Patience the Boring Psy Kid would feel compelled to join Jodi and her wayward whatevs. Retconning Misery as a "hunter" was lame, but that's how Singer and Dabb roll.
I hated that Jodi threw Dean under bus at the end of this episode, so any little bit of fondness I had for her went right out the window. Fine, it just gives me reason #127 not to tune into the spin-off. Between Jodi acting like she knows better than Dean who has lived his whole life as a hunter, and boring Patience and her boring psy abilities that saved everyone - because apparently they were all bumbling fools without her - you're getting a great taste of the foundation of the spin-off, which will be how Jodi and her young hot chicks are SOOOOOOOO much better than the idjit Winchester brothers. Fully expected, but now entirely confirmed.
Otherwise, like I said, I have no real feelings about this episode one way or the other. Sure, Jensen was excellent in his Dean rant to Sam at the end, and I always love it when Dean gets that rare chance to stand up to Sam. And at least Dean got to kill something too - because, you know, Sam wasn't there. Though still surprising seeing as Berens et. al. are only interested in the spin-off and not the Winchester brothers in general, so it's shocking that Berens didn't hand the kill to Jodi or Patience.
I saw someone on another board say that even though they weren't at all enamored of this season, WRT Dean it was slightly improved because so far Dean hasn't been reduced to valium!Dean like he was all last year, and I agree on that point. At least, so far.
I FF'd through most of Sam and Jack, but I could tell it was hella boring. Sam was an ass, per norm, and of course Dean is being set up for a fall, which is predictable as hell, and to which I say to the showrunners, fudge you. The relentless woobification of the demon seed is truly barf-inducing.
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