Eugenie Ross-Leming and Brad Buckner continue their soul-destroying run of terribly written episodes with "Dark Dynasty," sloppily directed by Bob Singer. ( If it looks like a duck, it's this episode )
"This plot was like a huge pile of cafe chairs badly stacked up."
Yep. This ep was so incredibly bad I can't even...at first I was angry; then I started laughing about halfway through. It was just ridiculous. I believe I called it a crap fest in my review.
I was thinking about last season--Dean was absolutely losing it. First he butchered Abbadon, then he sliced Gadreel, then he told Crowley, "I really need to kill!" and barfed when he couldn't.
Right now he's sort of a violent petulant teenager.
YES... and not even that, because I don't really get to see him be a violent petulant teenager at all, we just get told 'Dean's getting worse' which could mean anything from developing a stomach ulcer to entering underground cage matches. And no, I'm not satisfied with a casual throwing down of 'oh you know, urges, visions, the daily grind' WHAT? What visions... we know of weird dreams and stuff, but visions is a different animal in my book. That is sloppy SLOPPY and lazy writing and I will call them on it. Also the foreshadowing of 'this ends badly, maybe do it different this time?' was great when it was Bobby doing the writing, but it just got cheesier and cheaper every time Jared war forced to do those face contortions. *headdesk* ok, I think I need to put it behind me now, lest my bitching gets out of hand.
*From the 200th iteration of 'Dean's getting worse!' that's Sam's being trying to sell us...*
OMG, Right!? The only redeeming quality of this cluster-fuck of an episode is the potential of pushing Dean completely over the edge. I would LOVE to see Dean on a rampage, feeding the Mark and the darkness and the injustices of his life.
Great review! Can I say what I think? The Frankenstein family (I still hate the whole concept - it feels so penny dreadful) will cut off Dean's arm to replace the arm of their guy who killed Charlie. Boom. No more mark of Cain. Boom. That easy and Rowena will resurrect Charlie somehow.
OH, I wish that would happen! Too much thought and dramatic symmetry for the writers' current abilities, I fear. I think that would be AWESOME; then there would be a Styne (though I hate them, too) running around with the mark of Cain, and they MIGHT actually be able to wring an interesting villain out of that!
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Yep. You nailed it. Nothing more needs to be said.
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Yep. This ep was so incredibly bad I can't even...at first I was angry; then I started laughing about halfway through. It was just ridiculous. I believe I called it a crap fest in my review.
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Every.single.word.
Though I did love getting a bit more of WetHair!Sam...
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What does it say about me that I fast-forwarded thru the entire episode just to see that scene?
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That is a fantastic expletive.
I was thinking about last season--Dean was absolutely losing it. First he butchered Abbadon, then he sliced Gadreel, then he told Crowley, "I really need to kill!" and barfed when he couldn't.
Right now he's sort of a violent petulant teenager.
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That is sloppy SLOPPY and lazy writing and I will call them on it. Also the foreshadowing of 'this ends badly, maybe do it different this time?' was great when it was Bobby doing the writing, but it just got cheesier and cheaper every time Jared war forced to do those face contortions. *headdesk* ok, I think I need to put it behind me now, lest my bitching gets out of hand.
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OMG, Right!? The only redeeming quality of this cluster-fuck of an episode is the potential of pushing Dean completely over the edge. I would LOVE to see Dean on a rampage, feeding the Mark and the darkness and the injustices of his life.
Sadly, I rarely get what I want. :(
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Cynical yes.
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