Supernatural Seasons 4/5

[Starbreaker]

Despite a couple of episodes, Season 4 of Supernatural is one of the best television seasons I've seen in a long time. "Criss Angel is a Douchebag" and "Sex and Violence" were both boring to me, but I loved the rest.

I especially liked how they laughed at the episodes Route 666, Bugs, and whatever that one with the pirate ship was (which I actually liked.

There were some great supporting characters: Ruby, Anna, Castiel, Uriel, Anna, Chuck, Alastair, Zachariah... just some really great work from some other actors.

One thing I've noticed... all the black guys seem to be evil. Gordon Walker turned against the boys, Henriksen came back to haunt Sam, Uriel turned out to be a very bad angel, and Rufus was pretty mean, and then managed to turn against them in "Good God, Y'all" in early Season 5.

Anyway, I'm heavily addicted to this show, and even though seeing a couple of Lost alums on here as War and Lucifer is very weird , I'm still watching and loving this show. For something I almost gave up, its's been my version of demon blood over the past month.

 

[The Evil Dead]

On Lost this past season, Jacob is asked by another character "Are you the Devil?" It was impossible for me as a Supernatural fan not to get a chuckle out of that.

 

[startrekwatcher]

"Criss Angel is a Douchebag" and "Sex and Violence" were both boring to me, but I loved the rest.

I disagree about the former. I enjoyed "Criss Angel..."--it was a standalone done right and could stand on its own rather than like a lot of season 5 episodes where it felt the episode was pretty pointless beyond seeding future plot points or characters.

It was fun and I enjoyed the guest stars especially Barry Bostwick.

Season four was a very good year for the show. It produced quite a few very strong important mythology episodes like "Lazarus Rising", "In the Beginning", "I Know What You Did Last Summer", "Heaven and Hell", "Death Takes a Holiday", and "Lucifer Rising"(I really liked how it ended with the brilliant white light as it faded into the credits reminding us lucifer is a being of light--LOST did it a day earlier in its finale that year but I liked it nonetheless; some good episodes that didn't necessarily focus on the mythology in any great way but was there nonetheless like "Its the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester"(also a well done Halloween episode), "Its a Terrible Life", "After School Special"(the supernatural plot wasn't that great but Sam's story was really good) etc. So the show was pretty consistent which was always something the show had struggled with for the most part as evidenced by seasons 2,3 and now 5.

Granted there were duds like "Metamorphosis(which felt less like the second half of "In the Beginning" and more of a standalone), "Wishing Well", "Yellow Fever", "Monster Movie", "Family Remains". "Jump the Shark" was not bad but I really didn't care for it beyond the idea of the unknown brother angle. I also thought Castiel vessel's origin story "The Rapture" could have been much better--it was sorta stale--it wasn't as illuminating or compelling as far as origin stories go and "When the Levee Breaks" was a little weak for a preamble to the season finale.

It was also the first time since season one where the show managed to balance character and plot effectively. The idea to bring angels & God into the series was just what I had been wanting since season 3 and opened up the mythology even more by adding yet another player to the mix. Misha's Castiel was great and I found myself more interested in all the angel characters more than the guys. And another knock against season 5 was how they mishandled them--Castiel was wasted, Anna was nothing more than a plot device, Zach instead of being an interesting adversary for the guys became an annoying buffoon most notably in "Dark Side of the Moon".

The show also had a more epic feel than shockingly this past season--lots of characters offering differing perspectives, high stakes, everybody all over the place tackling the problem in their own way.

But oh boy season 5 was a precipitous drop-off in quality and consistency. It was so uneven. When it did mythology it was excellent when it didn't I was bored out of my mind.