Day 6: 30 Days of Supernatural

[ratherastory]

Day 06 - Your least favourite episode

Erm. Well, there were a few episodes I wasn't thrilled with. On SPN, even the "bad" episodes are still better than what most TV has to offer these days.

All the "meh" episodes are just about on par for me. I'd say there's about half a dozen or so in all five seasons, and it's kind of hard to pick one out of those. Of those, there are two in Season 1, two in Season 3, maybe one in Season 4 and I'd say three in Season 5.

I think I'll have to go with "Bugs," because between the bad special effects, the disjointed narrative, the Indian burial ground cliché, the even more cliché wise-old-Indian, the Plot Devices of Fail™ and the Night That Lasted Only 40 Minutes™, it's pretty much a train wreck.



Pictured here: The Neverending Can of Raid™. Seriously, kids at school used to do that with hair spray, and it doesn't last that long.

30 Days of Supernatural!
Day 01 - Your favourite character
Day 02 - Your least favourite character
Day 03 - Your favourite season
Day 04 - Your least favourite season
Day 05 - Your favourite episode
Day 06 - Your least favourite episode
Day 07 - Your favourite Dean crying scene
Day 08 - Your favourite Sam crying scene
Day 09 - Your favourite Dean death scene
Day 10 - Your favourite Sam/other death scene
Day 11 - Your favourite quote
Day 12 - Your favourite funny scene
Day 13 - A scene that makes you sad/cry
Day 14 - A scene that makes you happy
Day 15 - A scene that makes you angry
Day 16 - An episode that scared you
Day 17 - Your favourite SPN friendship
Day 18 - Your favourite SPN romance
Day 19 - Your favourite SPN song
Day 20 - Your favourite recap
Day 21 - Your favourite character entrance
Day 22 - Your favourite minor character
Day 23 - The character that is most like you
Day 24 - An episode you wish never happened
Day 25 - Something that you wish happened but didn’t
Day 26 - Your favourite SPN fanvid
Day 27 - Your favourite season intro episode
Day 28 - Your favourite season finale
Day 29 - Your favourite SPN fanfic
Day 30 - Anything SPN related

Comments

[crayola-fics.livejournal.com]

Just had to come in here and comment that YES that is exactly how I feel about Dean's little rants in Bugs. I mean, the dynamic of Sam and Dean and Sam going to college and Dean wanting him to stay is great and understandable and whatever... but to tell some random kid that he shouldn't go to college? Seriously? Dean is not that... one-dimensional.

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

There are just some writers out there who get a bit confused when they try to add a second dimension . . .

At least that was back in the day when they did bad, clunky characterization by giving the rants to the characters involved. In s5 an equally bad episode would involve some random character coming up to Dean and saying, "You do not approve of that kid going to college because you have Issues with People Leaving Their Families," and then Dean would be all like, "Yes, this is true, I feel the Issues in me."

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

and then Dean would be all like, "Yes, this is true, I feel the Issues in me."

I giggled SO hard at this that I snorted coffee through my nose. I hope you're happy.

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

As long as it didn't get on your keyboard and short your computer. I callously ignore the blow to your dignity, but I don't want anything to interfere with your writing fic for us.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

The computer appears unscathed, have no fear.

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

"I feel the Issues"! Bwhah!

You know, I go sneaking on to LJ at work sometimes...sudden fits of laughter are going to give me away, thank you very much!;)

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

What is the internet but a vast conspiracy to get respectable people in trouble at work?

[lavinialavender.livejournal.com]

*falls apart laughing*

Perhaps I've blocked it, but what S5 episodes are you thinking of that do this?

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

They do it more to Sam than to Dean, though Sam, Interrupted kind of manages to do it to both of them, and then there was Famine letting Dean know that he felt all empty, in case he hadn't noticed, and Joshua, pointing out that he was losing trust in Sam, in case we hadn't quite followed the big, glowing "Dean is losing trust in Sam" signs. Don't get me wrong, I love a lot of what they do with s5 character development, but there is an awful lot of "Sam has Bad Qualities! But then again, he has Good Qualities!" s1 Sam was more convincingly angry than s5 Sam, but when they decided they needed Angry!Sam everyone from Lucifer to Dean to Bobby kept walking up to Sam and telling him how Angry he was. It was kind of hard on his acting; JP did so many things so subtly and well in s5, but his big hulk out rage scenes in Sam, Interrupted and The Devil You Know didn't work for me.

I even wrote a cracky fic on some of the early s5 characterization moments. *is disgusting self-pimper*

[lavinialavender.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, v. good examples.

Hey! I just told you how much I loved your fic and it made my birthday (seriously, I even spent part of my boring work hours today amusing myself by recalling what triggered each orgasm). Your fic is totally welcome.