^This is the CW. They have to recycle EVERYTHING. 
I wonder how many times they used that same motel room set with the spindles?
I wonder how many times they used that same motel room set with the spindles?
Supernatural, season 11 *SPOILERS!*
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That's not a bad thing, it's one of the charming things about the show! I used to try to guess what sort of decor they would have in each new episode based on the title or opening sequence. It's right up there with the pineapples from Psych.
^ I always got a giggle out that, too.
Didn't watch this episode, and reading the reviews it looks like nothing was missed. Now at least we're done with these silly filler episodes and for the rest of the season they'll be myth arc stories...I'm really hoping there are fewer hiatuses and fewer MotW stories next year. When your A-plot is something like Amara, random side trips like this one just don't make sense, throwaway lines notwithstanding.
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Not a great episode--had the potential to be a good "lesson" episode for Sam and Dean but really wasn't. I was kinda hoping they'd bring these new hunters into TeamFreeWill but no, they let them ride off into the sunset.
Seemed like complete filler. Bah humbug.
Seemed like complete filler. Bah humbug.
Couldn't have said it better. Worse even than "Bloodlines."
Please, SPN team...none of this in season 12!
NOTHING is worse than "Bloodlines."
When the brothers talked about Karma in an antropomorphized way, was anyone else trying to remember if Karma actually was a real being that has shown up before?
I always like it when they introduce new hunter characters and I liked these two, but the actor that played adult Jesse wasn't great. He played most of his scenes like he was a WWE wrestler being interviewed before a match and only remotely dialed it down in their goodbye scene.
Apropos of nothing, I really miss Charlie this season.
Apropos of nothing, I really miss Charlie this season.
I thought it was a decent episode myself. But then, I don't quite get the obsession about always sticking to the metaplot as a whole. If they did that, people would just be upset about them drawing everything out in a way that would be even more obvious and tedious than having them go on side missions.
Not necessarily. "Continuum" managed to avoid it during its time on the air, and "The 100" does it now--both by having shorter and more concise seasons where all the episodes deal with the main plot, the stories are very tight, and there isn't any room for filler material.
Since about mid-season 8, the A-plots have been getting larger and the B-plots have been getting sillier and more out of place. I mean, the one from a few episodes ago where they took time off from Amara to deal with--wrestling? And now a cheap knockoff of an alien story?
I guess I'm just not very bitter about this show.
I like the so-called "filler" episodes for the most part. They're all pretty much callbacks to the first season of the show, and the heart of who the characters are. It's the metaplots that tend to be silly and over-the-top, which each new season having to come up with something to top the previous one. I mean, they're fighting God's sister this season. And they actually think they have a chance to win. Against God's equal (or who's possibly stronger since it took God and his archangels to take her down the first time).
That, at it's very core, is ridiculous. Heck, last season they killed Death. Death. They killed Death. Death.
I like the so-called "filler" episodes for the most part. They're all pretty much callbacks to the first season of the show, and the heart of who the characters are. It's the metaplots that tend to be silly and over-the-top, which each new season having to come up with something to top the previous one. I mean, they're fighting God's sister this season. And they actually think they have a chance to win. Against God's equal (or who's possibly stronger since it took God and his archangels to take her down the first time).
That, at it's very core, is ridiculous. Heck, last season they killed Death. Death. They killed Death. Death.
The examples you gave are called epic storytelling, which the filler episodes certainly aren't. We're not in season 1 anymore, we're closing in on season 12--and telling big stories is what got us here. Yes, some folks like the filler episodes too, but ultimately that's all they are--filler and nothing more. If the whole season were made up of filler material this show would get yanked off the air faster than you can say "Don't call me Shurley." We've grown a lot since season 1, and it makes no sense to act like it's still season 1.
This article sums up the problem with this week's episode quite well I think: http://www.melty.com/supernatural-s...itters-review-we-need-the-darkness-a4942.html
"'The Chitters' wasn't a bad episode per say, but it wasn't a great one. It was an outing that juggled some great ideas, but ultimately suffered from the fact that it's been wedged into the schedule just four weeks before the finale. With Chuck, who is potentially God, returning to next week, from the second we were back in the bunker with Sam and Dean discussing how the trail's gone cold it felt like we were treading old ground and just biding our time for the real story to kick back in next week."
"As for why the standalone episodes are less fun now, the simple answer is that Sam and Dean aren't as lighthearted and chipper as they used to be. It's completely understandable, but part of the fun in the old standalone Season 1 episodes was their wit and charm, yet as they've grown older and become more world weary, that much loved aspect of the standalone episodes has faded away. This is why it's so important that the big story arc episodes are nailed, because they show Sam and Dean's character and growth much more than the standalone ones do."
(Emphasis added by me.)
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...it's been pretty much everywhere that Rob Benedict was going to be back next week--they've been saying he would show up around episode 20 since the season began--and the rumors about him being God are as old as season 5. Soooo...not really sure what's spoiled.
Has it aired yet? No. Then guess what, it's a fucking spoiler.
Alright, if you want to cop an attitude with me, I'll simply point out that however you missed all the news about episode 20, you also missed the very large "SPOILERS" in the thread title. You knew what you were getting into when you visited the thread.
Next time, avoid threads marked with that word if you don't want to read them.
