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

[harrigan.livejournal.com]

Late to the party! If I stopped to read everyone's comments first then I probably wouldn't bother to add my two cents but... what the heck.

And by the way - I'm enjoying this meme!

I totally agree with you that the worst SPN is better than a lot of alternatives in other shows, and I've always found something redeeming in pretty much any SPN episode. And I also agree that Bugs falls higher on the stupid meter (especially the resolution of the MOTW issue!) than most SPN. But it also has more things that I love than things that I hate. (I love the revelation that they Dean they would squat in a vacant new construction! And even if you didn't agree with some of Dean's lines being in character, I loved learning more about Sam's relationship with his father and how his perceptions growing up differed from Dean's.) This is an episode that made me want to read or write fanfic, and it gets points for that.

So all that being said, I can certainly see why you'd pick Bugs from your shortlist of episodes that dropped the ball. For me, my choice would end up being something that annoyed me less but also entertained me far less. There were a handful of eps (probably not in season 1 or 2) where I felt the boys were mostly kind of bystanders. I either didn't learn anything more about them (or had to work too hard to), or they didn't move forward on their arc, and the MOTW and the victim of the week weren't engaging. And the boys weren't even well-lit for me to enjoy the pretty! LOL. Sadly, I can't even remember the titles of such episodes.

I guess for me, my 'least favorite' will have the same meaning as 'least memorable'. Even though these might in fact be well-written stories by some of my favorite writers. (Like - the one with the creepy kids living in the walls of a house? Just - nothing about that ep made me in a hurry to rewatch it or get online to babble about it with friends.)