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Post by Mystique on May 15, 2018 5:19:18 GMT -5
What would y'all rate this Season's Finale?
P.S. Thanks to all who have contributed their ratings and opinions, I appreciate all of them.
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Post by thesnowleopard on May 20, 2018 1:21:12 GMT -5
Well, it was better than last year. There's that. And Ackles knocked it out of the park with all the Michael stuff. I think the ability of the actors and situations to connect emotionally with the audience has a lot to do with this show's longevity. I just hope they don't squander the opportunity for this new character.
But the directing could have been better and the script was still a bit pain-by-numbers.
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Post by paforrest on May 21, 2018 5:50:25 GMT -5
I tried to watch this a second time to see if I liked the episode better, and I couldn't get through it entirely because it was not good. We have no good writers. The best writing this season was in the Scooby Doo episode, and that's because it was written by Scooby Doo writers. I'm just saying ...
On Thursday I actually watched it live for a change, and when it started out with Jensen doing a V/O about who they were I had some hope. But as the episode wore on and we wasted too much time on Luci yakking away, then everyone else standing around yakking away, I was disappointed at how slow and unexciting it all was. Then when we finally get to the part where Dean is Michael and he can't do squat against Lucifer, and Sam has to help him - in direct contrast to Swan Song when Dean wasn't allowed to do anything - I wanted to cry.
And I can't even with Singer's abysmal direction. WTF was that?
To make matters worse, I'm sure, I find it hard to believe that Singer will allow the Michael story to go on more than a single episode when season 14 comes back. He's always behind the decision to cut Dean stories short, and I can't see where this will be any different. I'm sure they only wrote it into the finale at the time because they probably negotiated it with Jensen when contracts came up again, since Jensen has always felt cheated out of not playing Michael in SS - which of course he was. Jensen looked good, but other than that ... I'd always felt that Jack would eventually be de-powered, which he was. I still believe, as I had all year, that Jack was geared toward adding a touch of young testosterone to the spin-off, and seeing Luci steal his grace that I believe can't be replenished makes me think I got that one right. Of course, now there's no spin-off, so who knows what they plan to do with Jack after this.
I did appreciate the bad civics lesson at the beginning of the episode. Yes, even without monsters and angels walking the earth, everything really does blow.
I'll give it a 4/10 for that and for Jensen. If it was not for him I'd have given it a big fat goose egg.
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