It's a Terrible Life.

[janissa11]

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[iontas]

I felt the same way. I liked when Dean said he would stab him in the face! Angels are dicks I guess. Actually now that I think about it Zach sounded as obnoxious as Azazel when he used to taunt Dean. Must run in the blood. I guess if angels can't really feel much, sympathy shouldn't be expected.

[janissa11]

I think what disturbs me about the episode is the writer. Sera Gamble can't write a believable Dean to save her LIFE. She absolutely sucks, and she's one of the worst things to happen to the show since its inception.

This ep tells us that Dean HAS been whining. I mean, for fuck's sake, did Sera SEE last week's ep? Does she ever talk to ANYONE?

Christ, she's killing this show. What a fuckup.

[koyote19]

I really expected it to have been the trickster again, right up until Zachariah introduced himself. And Zachariah's little speech would have made a lot more sense if it was the trickster, and not a middle-management angel.

I was kind of surprised that this episode was even a little serious, considering the 17th episode is always a humor episode and they usually completely ignore whatever heavy angst went down in the 16th...

But overall, I still enjoyed this episode, just because it had a very first season, two brothers (even if they are strangers) against a random ghost feel. I miss those eps.

[janissa11]

Zachariah was, if possible, even more of an egregiously lame deus ex machina than the Trickster. Lazy, lazy writing. And his solution was a reflection of Sera Gamble's horrifically bad writing.

It was nice to see the guys in the same scene together, yes. But -- so many problems. Ugh. I'm really heartbroken. What a slap in the face to last week's huge and vital emotion, on every level. This was tawdry, cheap. Insulting.

[coolgrin]

I thought it was the trickster. I had hoped it was the trickster because calling Dean a whiner is assfuckery.

[janissa11]

Insulting, yes. Gamble is going to kill this show. I wish Kripke'd pull his head out of his ass and fire her. But evidently he likes what she does, sooo.... what does that say about HIS taste?

I can't even begin to imagine how this show does an ep like Head of a Pin, and then something like this right after. Talk about uneven.

[coolgrin]

You know I never pay attention to who writes the episode but almost every ep that I dislike has been one of hers.

Why won't she just fuck Jared and get that shit out of the way?

[keenoled]

Ooooh! That makes so much sense. Yes, why won't she?

[nyoka]

Wow, you really had me right until you called Dean a whiner.

And now it's all better? He's fixed, presto?

Honestly, if this is all "therapy" Dean gets...I have no words.

I loved the episode up until I realized that this is probably the only time they're going to address Dean's PTSD issues. And that's just...sad.

[janissa11]

It's insulting. It's insulting to the viewers, it's insulting to last week's ep, and it's insulting to Dean. Gamble = worst thing to happen to the show since killing off John Winchester.

[oselle]

I'm so livid. I can't even...it's all on my LJ. Sera Gamble can officially suck my ass. Fire her and go get Raelle Tucker back from HBO.

[janissa11]

What does it say about Kripke that he must evidently LIKE what Gamble does? I guess that tells us a lot right there.

[oselle]

Volumes. And it also tells us that they're LAZY SHITS who had a GRAND OLD TIME crushing one of their main characters and then COULDN'T BE FUCKING BOTHERED to actually try and fix him. I figured they were going to use this ep to teach Dean some lesson but I didn't think it would be EXACTLY the lazy-ass, insulting, cheap fix we were dreading. Poof! Dean's all better now!! Back to saving the world, l'il soldier!

[kimonkey7]

All of this. In a nutshell. Yes. I want to walk into their writer's room and smack the crap out of every single one of them.