Supernatural Season Six: Worth another shot?
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I'm actually waiting for one of those kind of episodes this season, I'm not feelin' this year so far.The French Mistake was Ben Edlund's maniacal mind at work. I loved it.
616 - ...And Then There Were None
Silly runaround episode that tried to pull the shock value by killing off a lot of returning characters, only to fall flat by giving each of them about 10 seconds of characterisation before biting the bullet. The paranoia over 'who has the worm in their ear' was pretty childish. Is it me or is this season ripped straight from Buffy's final season, with the whole 'first evil' thing?
Favourite line: "This isn't rocket surgery!"
617 - My Heart Will Go On
One of the best of the season IMO. The WTF monets early on with Ellen and the Impaler-imposter, then "Dean's kind of Librarian" setting up people's deaths, then Castiel literally pulling their asses out of the fire. Baltazar is fast becoming as fun as Castiel. The story is hardly original (Dr Who did it in it's first revival season) and Fate's motivation is a little off (she's pissed off about the Titanic history being changed and yet with the whole Apocalypse-didn't-happen she doesn't want to scoop up the souls that should've died then? Fate's dialogue implied the Apocalypse "should've" happened! Or did I mishear her?) yet this was a great episode to watch.
Favourite line: "Who's Celine Dion?" "Just some washed up lounge singer from Quebec."
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"Winslet's rack"
Silly runaround episode that tried to pull the shock value by killing off a lot of returning characters, only to fall flat by giving each of them about 10 seconds of characterisation before biting the bullet. The paranoia over 'who has the worm in their ear' was pretty childish. Is it me or is this season ripped straight from Buffy's final season, with the whole 'first evil' thing?
Favourite line: "This isn't rocket surgery!"
617 - My Heart Will Go On
One of the best of the season IMO. The WTF monets early on with Ellen and the Impaler-imposter, then "Dean's kind of Librarian" setting up people's deaths, then Castiel literally pulling their asses out of the fire. Baltazar is fast becoming as fun as Castiel. The story is hardly original (Dr Who did it in it's first revival season) and Fate's motivation is a little off (she's pissed off about the Titanic history being changed and yet with the whole Apocalypse-didn't-happen she doesn't want to scoop up the souls that should've died then? Fate's dialogue implied the Apocalypse "should've" happened! Or did I mishear her?) yet this was a great episode to watch.
Favourite line: "Who's Celine Dion?" "Just some washed up lounge singer from Quebec."
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"Winslet's rack"
It was so great to see Ellen again.
618 - Frontierland
Excellent episode. I see why most fans loved it. The frustration of just missing out on getting the ashes was complimented with the Back to the Future 2 ending (complete with the 'some of us guys had a bet...' dialogue).
619 - Mommy Dearest
This episode was great up until the final 10 minutes, when all of a sudden Mother wasnt to be the baddie everyone was hoping for, Crowley isn't as dead as we first thought and Castiel's soulhunter ways are finally coming out into the open. It was a bit of a disappointment really. The build up over the last half dozen episodes is taken out with a minor strike by Dean, Castiel works his magic and Mother's new deadly offspring is killed off camera. Still, looking back I'm glad they killed Mother off when they did; they were really getting into Buffy territory - and this episode had a Buffy guest star!
Excellent episode. I see why most fans loved it. The frustration of just missing out on getting the ashes was complimented with the Back to the Future 2 ending (complete with the 'some of us guys had a bet...' dialogue).
619 - Mommy Dearest
This episode was great up until the final 10 minutes, when all of a sudden Mother wasnt to be the baddie everyone was hoping for, Crowley isn't as dead as we first thought and Castiel's soulhunter ways are finally coming out into the open. It was a bit of a disappointment really. The build up over the last half dozen episodes is taken out with a minor strike by Dean, Castiel works his magic and Mother's new deadly offspring is killed off camera. Still, looking back I'm glad they killed Mother off when they did; they were really getting into Buffy territory - and this episode had a Buffy guest star!
I know a few people who were thrown by Mother not being the "Big Bad", but I never felt the show was moving in that direction in the first place. Two many little hints peppered throughout the season, not to mention they never really developed her, as a character.
I figured that was the case but my point is - why bother with her in the first place? Why not have a monster-of-the-week type setting and clues leading up to Castiel later in the season?
Red herring.
Red whale. Went on far too long.
It served two legitimate purposes one, since they were out and out assaulting purgatory, it makes sense for that realm (just as Heaven and Hell) to have a power Hierarchy. And the arc of the season would certainly give cause to bring you into conflict with that being.
The show typically doesn't discard the higher ups of one of the major realms in a one off. YED, two years, Lilith Two Years, Michael 2 years, Lucifer one year. So having the Mother be around for half a season was hardly long, not at all.
So I don't think a "monster of the week" story would be appropriate at all. Half a season (well not quite) episode 12-19, enough to give some weight to the voice of purgatory, but not enough to be pushing the character as the "Big Bad" of the season.
And as mentioned it puts the spotlight on something else, so that casual viewers don't dig deeper into what is pushing the season forward.
The show typically doesn't discard the higher ups of one of the major realms in a one off. YED, two years, Lilith Two Years, Michael 2 years, Lucifer one year. So having the Mother be around for half a season was hardly long, not at all.
So I don't think a "monster of the week" story would be appropriate at all. Half a season (well not quite) episode 12-19, enough to give some weight to the voice of purgatory, but not enough to be pushing the character as the "Big Bad" of the season.
And as mentioned it puts the spotlight on something else, so that casual viewers don't dig deeper into what is pushing the season forward.
But they weren't though... the "war" on Purgatory never felt like a war at all. Just like Babylon 5 had the Minbari "civil war".
They spent half the season going after Dean's soul and dealing with the aftermath of the aborted Apocalypse. None of that really involved purgatory (admittedly my memory is a little hazy of the first half of the season). It was only the sudden resurrection of Mother that began the prugatory arc, and even then they weren't going after purgatory; they were only going after Mother.
As I said, anything before 'All Dogs...' is a little hazy for me.
The assault on Purgatory (quest for the souls) is in almost every single episode of the sixth season.
Hunting down the first's, the campbells, Balthazar, Crowley all of those are directly tied to it. The only episode I can't recall having a direct link of some sort to that is The Fairy episode and Veritas' episode.
Hunting down the first's, the campbells, Balthazar, Crowley all of those are directly tied to it. The only episode I can't recall having a direct link of some sort to that is The Fairy episode and Veritas' episode.
620 - The Man Who Would Be King
I had a crying one year old during this ep so will have to go back and watch again. Good ep from what I saw. Castiel's going down a dark road.
621 - Let It Bleed
Thank god this storyline is over. Wiping their memories was extremely obvious; I think I even guessed that would happen a few eps back. Another OK ep but largely filler.
622 - The Man Who Knew Too Much
Sam fights himself, Crowley escapes to fight another day, the Civil War ends with a click of the fingers and Castiel completes his decent into darkness.
What. A. Poor. Episode.
Seriously, there were no surprises in this episode. Such an obvious way to end the season and I guessed every plot point. My three year old could have written it. And the actors seem to dial in their performances. Why did they devote so much time to Sam finding his Hell memory? That should've happened sooner in the season; I can only assume that a) they didn't want to have Sam-got-his-memory-back overshadowing Castiel's storyline, or b) they didn't have enough material for the season finale.
A mixed season. Some good, some not. Am two eps into the 7th season and it's good so far.
I had a crying one year old during this ep so will have to go back and watch again. Good ep from what I saw. Castiel's going down a dark road.
621 - Let It Bleed
Thank god this storyline is over. Wiping their memories was extremely obvious; I think I even guessed that would happen a few eps back. Another OK ep but largely filler.
622 - The Man Who Knew Too Much
Sam fights himself, Crowley escapes to fight another day, the Civil War ends with a click of the fingers and Castiel completes his decent into darkness.
What. A. Poor. Episode.
Seriously, there were no surprises in this episode. Such an obvious way to end the season and I guessed every plot point. My three year old could have written it. And the actors seem to dial in their performances. Why did they devote so much time to Sam finding his Hell memory? That should've happened sooner in the season; I can only assume that a) they didn't want to have Sam-got-his-memory-back overshadowing Castiel's storyline, or b) they didn't have enough material for the season finale.
A mixed season. Some good, some not. Am two eps into the 7th season and it's good so far.
LOVED that episode, my favorite quotes were both from Dean:
"That's great!! We'll Star Trek four this bitch!" and,
"Posse?! I LOVE posse!!!!"....
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