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Supernatural: LOTUS (2016)
low on character - fun on action drama
There are some very interesting characters and a few good themes so far this season. Unfortunately all of the most interesting of them have been of new and not so established characters. The rock star which Lucifer possessed was a more interesting character than Lucifer. Dean's mother is more interesting than Dean. The psychic girl from episode 4 ' American Nightmare' this season is more interesting than Sam. etc. etc. Let's look at the main villain so far this season, Lucifer
Spoilers:
It's no surprise that this season Sam and Dean would have to deal with Lucifer and would be in conflict. Even though Lucifer is very dangerous, he feels unlike he has in past seasons. In the past Lucifer was like a force of nature, an archetype similar to the darkness, who had a plan and philosophy which differed from God's. Yes, he had a gripe too. No doubt Lucifer is still a powerful character but he's been given a downgrade. Lucifer has been turned into a dark knight's joker like character who can be defeated with Men of Letter's magical technology. While I think it perhaps natural to level the playing field a little bit this way to make Lucifer not stand as huge a threat for all future seasons, I am disappointed in the character change.I was glad to see Lucifer last season. It looks like they are finding a new role for Lucifer to fill. But to me this new Lucifer no longer presents an ideology and is no longer a force for it in his own right even if it's a twisted ideology. One can say he always was but he wasn't always ONLY throwing a tantrum. Now Lucifer's destruction is getting old.
Other than the only thing interesting going on character-wise being with new characters it was an otherwise engaging episode with an interesting man of letter's. His introduction in this episode was pretty awesome. I did quite enjoy the conflict that Lucifer having the presidency introduced and I am looking forward to the struggle presented in this "spawn of Lucifer" story. Again, while main characters like Lucifer are the focal point of the action and conflict, the most interesting inner struggles and character arcs are all coming from those introduced who are new. The show seriously has to find something more creative and fitting to do with established characters.
Supernatural: The One You've Been Waiting For (2016)
not very engaging - lost interest
Not worth watching unless you want reminded of how bad a Supernatural episode can be once in awhile. Supernatural is a show with some really fun episodes, really gripping episodes, really interesting episodes etc. This is not one of them in my opinion. It follows under the category we seem to have of Supernatural episodes every season that you are better off skipping.
Contains minor spoilers:
At the beginning of the episode I was mildly interested. Then it turned into a sort of story telling episode with a very annoying stereotype of the modern teenager or young adult woman and her badly acted drama out of surprise and disgust at being related to Hitler. Naturally Sam, like always acts as the voice of support to the person who is not used to this world introduced by Sam and Dean. After the engaging initial sequence of Sam and Dean investigating the antique shop and after the first somewhat entertaining introduction to this stereotypical girl, the nazi's female of interest, my expectations for the episode quickly faded. Seeing the direction the episode was going and not interested in watching a cheese filled stereotypical and un-engaging kill Hitler episode, I quit around half way through and just called it a night. After all, after I just watched the previous week's episode the same night - one which I found quite enjoyable and that came out the bat very interesting and maintained that interest throughout. This episode quickly after the nazi started telling his "story" felt very very lame.
Supernatural: American Nightmare (2016)
Good all around - with heavy foreshadowing
This episode of Supernatural contains a pretty standard horror story of an ultra-religious and seemingly friendly family who is not quite like they appear - but the episode does it well with plenty of hearkening back to past episodes - reminds me of a mixture of s1 episode 12 - faith and season 1 episode 14 - nightmare.
We may find out in the end that this episode is skippable in a supernatural essential episodes binge like some other for-shadowing episodes of past seasons. Then again we may find out it play's an important part in Sam's story arc and certain events in the episode may be mentioned again when it comes to the Men of Letter's. Either way the episode was gripping and foreboding enough for me to recommend generally.
- General Review - Small hints or SPOILERS:
We see some possible foreshadowing of a return of the psychics as a supernatural faction in the coming season or seasons and we also get some foreshadowing of what the British men of letter's are like and why they might clash with the more ideological Winchester brother's - who have different idea's about virtue and what doing the right thing is.
- More detailed review with heavier hints / moderate SPOILERS:
I did not predict the ending of this episode. This episode made me care about this young psychic girl through Sam and through empathy with her struggle in the episode. There is one thing for sure to me. Sam made a mistake in assuming that she could just go and live on a farm and live a normal life as a young girl. People like her, and Sam can not live normal lives in the Supernatural universe. Instead of Sam giving her their number and telling her to contact him if she needs help he needed to be even more involved if he cared to make sure nothing could happen to her. Psychics are a feared and very important faction in the world of supernatural.
- Detailed review with MAJOR SPOILERS:
It appears something did happen to her after Sam gave this girl hope and she was to be transferred to live with other family. A mysterious figure following Sam and Dean early in the episode and later showed up to kill her. We do not see the struggle but we see the end result. It is her lying on the ground in a pool of blood. Thus we assume she is dead. Since we did not see the actual struggle, I would very much like a reversal of this, that it turns out the girl was alive. That would be a surprise too. In that case I would add this episode to the list of ones not to skip in a story arc binge. I actually hoped watching that she might kick butt against who wanted to kill her and then call Sam and become a part of the roster of characters on the show to be guided by Sam and Dean's experience.
However instead the ending of the episode served as a foreshadowing of the inevitable conflict coming between the Winchestors and the men of letter's. They have very different ideas about what 'doing the right thing' is. If psychics are coming back as a faction, the men of letter's believe in eliminating them i.e killing them just as it was revealed in earlier episodes that they kill every supernatural creature considered a threat who enters Britain. This is not only vampires which was the example we had in earlier episodes for creatures for elimination in Britain. This includes psychics, who Sam and Dean consider people, as Sam was one himself. For Sam and Dean it is just wrong to take the life of a good person.
Since Sam foolishly left this girl to live the normal life he hoped for her ,leaving her with a simple phone number, what happens when Sam finds out the truth? That the men of letter's followed them to test what they would do about this psychic girl and to "eliminate" her when Sam and Dean failed to.
Arrow: The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak (2014)
Disappointing for me. May be interesting to You.
When they introduce what could be a naturally morally gray character they make sure to kill anything interesting about that in this episode, and make him just another morally repugnant villain. And in the meantime make the arrow a protector of the status quo without any doubts on his part. How did the Arrow go from going after billionaires to protecting their massive wealth? Maybe I do not know enough about the Arrow character. Felicity is the main focus of this episode. While Felicity is a great character addition to this show, I didn't care to watch a whole episode about the relationship between her and her mother. Arrow has seen better on CW in my opinion, but of course there are those who may enjoy this episode, especially if they are fans of the character Felicity Smoak and want to see a little more about her past and her family. Not much else went on in this episode. We had Oliver Queen look like he might be deciding to move in with Thea (her idea) to stay close to the family he has left, after they had a little standoff about her accepting of Malcom Merilyn's "blood money" she gets from his estate from which she bought a nice new apartment. She promised eventually she would give the rest of the money to charity. Laurel tells her boxing instructor about the death she had in the family that has been eating at her. He believes now he finally knows how to focus her training and gives her advice about where not to focus. Looks from the trailer that next week some things will be picking up on the death of Sara Lance with some focus on Laurel (of course) and on Roy Harper and his suppressed memories? Does that have to do with his nightmares or is that something different?. Did he have something to do with Sara's murder? Those are the questions the trailer brings up. Hopefully I will be more satisfied by next weeks episode, and I hope season 3 lives up to season 1 and 2.
Dexter: Teenage Wasteland (2010)
Best season episode yet!
This is my first review. I was driven first to review this episode do to seeing one certain sloppy review and to correct the mistake. I will after I comment on the episode.
The series has been building up but there were just certain scenes in this episode that finally for this season get me feeling great. For one thing, we are reminded how much of a b____ Maria is. We probably would have forgot do to her involvement over a series of episodes that has not been very negative. The agent Deb's boyfriend hired finds Dexter quite suspicious, and for good reason, but suddenly the bf doesn't seem so interested anymore. I enjoyed the scene of confrontation between the just fired agent and the bf. The part that I love is the moment before he has to leave and the clash of ego. I might like this agent dude. A friend told me over text one thing they like about Dex is he's a bad_ss dad. This is the episode where I see this. Dexter expresses human emotional concern - he however does it in his own way of course and scares the living daylights out of an abusive father. And it was great! The episode ends on a good cliffhanger to look forward for the coming episodes. Anyway about why I'm writing this review... Another user complains that in this episode there was a plot hole that did not make sense. Namely that the girls taking off without their cell-phones was not explained. That's not true. In the conversation with his daughter it is clearly enough explained for anybody paying attention.