I just don't know how else to explain it, but that Carver was so upset everyone hated his show running at the end of last season that he compiled a list of every fan gripe he could find and set his writers out to tick at least two boxes every episode, I mean, we'd all love him them wouldn't we?
Amulet? tick Music? tick Vessels? tick Castiel meeting Claire? tick Jody? tick Sam looking after Dean? tick Sam and Dean in the bunker scene? tick Dean and Cas scene? tick Boys talk in the car? tick Boys reminisce about their childhood? tick
And so on, I'm spoiler free, so I'm not even going to try and guess who's going to turn up in the next few episodes, but I already have quite a few ideas.
But it feels like writing by rote to strict demands, it's clunky and obvious and there are so many things in there that should have me fist pumping and shouting **YES!! THIS!! AT LAST!!**, but sadly the execution was boring and shallow and the themes are far too late to suddenly address now and in concentrating on ticking those boxes to please fans everything else doesn't make a tad of sense.
Overall it was an ok episode, it could have been a great episode, for the mid season break it should have been an awesome episode and it wasn't, even though some of the things they're tackling should be profound and thought stirring, but no, what should be a delicious 4 course meal gets served up as a ham sandwich.
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Date: 2014-12-10 05:11 pm (UTC)Amulet? tick
Music? tick
Vessels? tick
Castiel meeting Claire? tick
Jody? tick
Sam looking after Dean? tick
Sam and Dean in the bunker scene? tick
Dean and Cas scene? tick
Boys talk in the car? tick
Boys reminisce about their childhood? tick
And so on, I'm spoiler free, so I'm not even going to try and guess who's going to turn up in the next few episodes, but I already have quite a few ideas.
But it feels like writing by rote to strict demands, it's clunky and obvious and there are so many things in there that should have me fist pumping and shouting **YES!! THIS!! AT LAST!!**, but sadly the execution was boring and shallow and the themes are far too late to suddenly address now and in concentrating on ticking those boxes to please fans everything else doesn't make a tad of sense.
Overall it was an ok episode, it could have been a great episode, for the mid season break it should have been an awesome episode and it wasn't, even though some of the things they're tackling should be profound and thought stirring, but no, what should be a delicious 4 course meal gets served up as a ham sandwich.