#7x20

[sarcasticsunshine123]

YOU SAY HELLO YOU WALK ALONGSIDE SOMEONE FOR A WHILE AND THEN YOU SAY GOODBYE. THATS THE ARC OF A LIFE, ISNT IT? 😭😭😭 IM SICKKKKK

[asstroyess]

okay I officially am obsessed with charlie?? nerdy lesbian who switches from the other side hell yes

[allarax-gah]

Overall fun but I'm really struggling with the stakes of the "Bobby Is A Ghost" plotline. It feels mismatched to try to simultaneously care about the potential that his ghost turns angry and the potential that the leviathans, uh, enslave and eat the entire human race.

[allarax-gah]

why the hell is Sam like bridal-carrying Charlie??? are we meant to assume that the leviathan hurt her that badly?

edit: yeah she broke her arm apparently

[allarax-gah]

world's least aware security guard. and that's saying something.

[allarax-gah]

THEEE iconic scene.

exactly as crazy as it's pitched?

The "he's not a girl" "... ok, I'll walk you through this" line gets all the airplay, but that (1) buries the lead on the princess leia slave bikini tattoo (2) ignores Dean immediately diagnosing the security guard having a crush via the concept of eye contact (3) buries the lead on Dean like body-doubling with Charlie to flirt with the guard?

Robbie Thompson explain yourself.

I'm looking at the list of episodes he wrote and sensing a theme (nerds, gays, gay nerds).

[allarax-gah]

They aren't setting up Charlie as any particular, like, parallel to Dean, but I can see why fandom AUs like to make them friends - she feels responsible for people, she likes nerd movies, she sings when she's nervous, she invokes pop culture characters constantly.

[allarax-gah]

SPN does make me understand why people would move away from episodic and monster-of-the-week format through this time period. Today when half of the big TV shows are more like 10-hour movies we wax nostalgic about MotW, but here we're at an awkward middle ground where they don't seem to know how to balance the episodic requirement with an overarching plotline. Any given story element has to be resolved in 1-2 episodes and we've got 23 of them, so we're constantly bringing up the Leviathans as a world-ending threat and then dropping them again for an evil clown episode. We could commit to 17 hours of Leviathan, work to seed in references every episode while also making it clear that this isn't the most important thing at all times and other conflicts are just as important, or make them less of an all-encompassing threat so that it doesn't seem as strange when they dip for a few episodes. But we're doing none of those and the pacing of the show is the worse for it, even when not binging the whole thing at once.

S5 had the same issue, though there it manifested more as hopelessness; basically none of their ideas for combating the apocalypse worked until they got to the 11th hour, because they couldn't find a solution in episode 10 and then keep going with the season for another dozen episodes.