Epic SPN Rewatch: Season 10
Jan. 25th, 2019 06:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caitri Season 10 is shockingly forgettable. It has its moments, but it suffers from an excess of plots:
* There's Dean dealing with the Mark of Cain.
* There's Cole, the son of a man Dean killed. Plot twist, his dad was monster, Cole is eventually convinced the Winchesters are the good guys.
* There's Rowena's introduction and her feud with Crowley.
* There's "the house of Styne" family.
* There's the reintroduction and rescue of Claire Novak, bb!Hunter to be.
* And the aftermath of the war in Heaven.
That's a lot. That's a dumb amount of a lot.
There are a few highlights to the season: the "Fan Fiction" musical episode (with the brief appearance of Chuck!) and the epic team-up of Jody and Donna in "Hibbing 911". There's also the just BAD, as when they killed Charlie--and a looooooooooot of people tapped out after that.
The misfires: I still can't get over that we had Demon!Dean and he was just mostly an asshole who drank a lot, fucked around, started fights, and did bad karaoke. Like, you'd think if you're going to utterly degrade "the Righteous Man" you could have done something....interesting? Instead the scene with the most punch is in the season finale, "Brother's Keeper", when the boys argue about good versus evil and have a fist-fight. Given the years of layering parallels--Michael vs. Lucifer, Cain vs. Abel--this should have been....bigger.
Anyway, on to Season 11. Season 11 I remember being slow at first and then picking up with a vengeance, and the show not slowing down since.
* There's Dean dealing with the Mark of Cain.
* There's Cole, the son of a man Dean killed. Plot twist, his dad was monster, Cole is eventually convinced the Winchesters are the good guys.
* There's Rowena's introduction and her feud with Crowley.
* There's "the house of Styne" family.
* There's the reintroduction and rescue of Claire Novak, bb!Hunter to be.
* And the aftermath of the war in Heaven.
That's a lot. That's a dumb amount of a lot.
There are a few highlights to the season: the "Fan Fiction" musical episode (with the brief appearance of Chuck!) and the epic team-up of Jody and Donna in "Hibbing 911". There's also the just BAD, as when they killed Charlie--and a looooooooooot of people tapped out after that.
The misfires: I still can't get over that we had Demon!Dean and he was just mostly an asshole who drank a lot, fucked around, started fights, and did bad karaoke. Like, you'd think if you're going to utterly degrade "the Righteous Man" you could have done something....interesting? Instead the scene with the most punch is in the season finale, "Brother's Keeper", when the boys argue about good versus evil and have a fist-fight. Given the years of layering parallels--Michael vs. Lucifer, Cain vs. Abel--this should have been....bigger.
Anyway, on to Season 11. Season 11 I remember being slow at first and then picking up with a vengeance, and the show not slowing down since.
