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Supernatural, Season Ten
Jul. 11th, 2021 03:14 pmSupernatural, Season Ten. Overall, I think that this is proving to be Season Seven all over again. More than seasons Eight and especially season Nine, Season 10's plot has a premise that is very, very promising. I should know by now that this naturally means it will go nowhere, 100% guaranteed, but in my defense, it did perform better than I thought it would at first.
Said plot is the Mark of Cain, the desperate measure Crowley and the Winchesters took to putting down Abaddon in Season Nine. It goes beyond magic, in that it's a powerful negative force that dates back to the beginnings of the planet. It steadily turned Dean into a dangerous, bloodthirsty individual, until he tried to fight Metatron, but lost, leading to his death...or rather, his demonification, setting the stage for Season 10 to feature one of its very own heroes as the main threat.
Okay, so that didn't work. But I will admit that Jensen Ackles pulls off Mark of Cain!Dean and he makes it...oh god, he makes it hot. It's so much hotter than I could've anticipated. He wraps his biceps around a dude's neck and snaps it holy fuck, slam me up against a wall and--
Ahem.
The other biggest introduction in Season 10 is probably Rowena and the Steins. The Steins are annoying as fuck and basically exist as a minor threat, whose only real plot significance is...well, I'll get to it in a minute. Rowena first.
Rowena is shockingly good as the mother of Crowley--petty, self-absorbed, often doesn't think about what she's walking into, and absolute shit at manipulating people, but good enough at sensing when people are desperate enough to fall for her bargains anyway to make up for it. She's kind of fun, as Crowley was when he first appeared, though it's a shame she's not dead by the end of the season, as I can only anticipate she'll continue parallel-ing Crowley's character by quickly overstaying her welcome and becoming annoying as fuck.
As for the Steins, they basically exist only to ensure Charlie does not make it out of the season, which is absolute bullshit. You know what else is bullshit?
CHARLIE STAYS DEAD TOO. THEY EVEN MAKE A FUNERAL PYRE FOR HER AND GET ALL SAD, EVEN THOUGH CASTIEL COULD LITERALLY BRING HER BACK TO LIFE WITH A SNAP OF HIS FINGERS!
Castiel literally brought her back to life last season! I cited that when they killed off Kevin and he did nothing, either!!! I'm not fucking stupid, Robert Singer, why do you keep acting like I'm braindead and don't remember well-established facts of the series?! Why do you keep killing off valuable and beloved characters for no fucking reason?!?
They even cockteased me with Dean killing Castiel near the end. Bitches.
The only other subplot that bears addressing is Claire Novak. Yes, Jimmy Novak's daughter. There is a subplot about Castiel finding her and trying to make amends to her, which unfortunately is not a subplot I liked. It has been five years since anyone has given half a shit about Jimmy Novak, and in fact, this is the first time they even bother to clarify that he's actually dead, and hasn't been stuck with Castiel puppeting him around all this time! This perhaps makes it even worse than it otherwise would be (and trust me, it's already bad, because this subplot is bad for the sheer amount of time before anyone thought to insert it), because poor Claire has to deal with an angel who is wearing her dead father's skin like a suit trying to buddy up to her and atone. I kept screaming in the Discord that there was literally no believable way for Castiel to make that up to her and that if he really cared about her wellbeing, he'd leave her the hell alone and let her hate his guts in peace.
Besides that, Rowena, the Steins, and the Mark of Cain aren't necessarily bad plots or even poorly-executed ones, just not as good as they could've been, which leaves me nothing to scream about except Jensen Ackles' biceps, manly voice, and jawline--and that Charlie is fucking dead, god fucking damn it.
Time to get back to my fix-it fanfictions.
Said plot is the Mark of Cain, the desperate measure Crowley and the Winchesters took to putting down Abaddon in Season Nine. It goes beyond magic, in that it's a powerful negative force that dates back to the beginnings of the planet. It steadily turned Dean into a dangerous, bloodthirsty individual, until he tried to fight Metatron, but lost, leading to his death...or rather, his demonification, setting the stage for Season 10 to feature one of its very own heroes as the main threat.
Okay, so that didn't work. But I will admit that Jensen Ackles pulls off Mark of Cain!Dean and he makes it...oh god, he makes it hot. It's so much hotter than I could've anticipated. He wraps his biceps around a dude's neck and snaps it holy fuck, slam me up against a wall and--
Ahem.
The other biggest introduction in Season 10 is probably Rowena and the Steins. The Steins are annoying as fuck and basically exist as a minor threat, whose only real plot significance is...well, I'll get to it in a minute. Rowena first.
Rowena is shockingly good as the mother of Crowley--petty, self-absorbed, often doesn't think about what she's walking into, and absolute shit at manipulating people, but good enough at sensing when people are desperate enough to fall for her bargains anyway to make up for it. She's kind of fun, as Crowley was when he first appeared, though it's a shame she's not dead by the end of the season, as I can only anticipate she'll continue parallel-ing Crowley's character by quickly overstaying her welcome and becoming annoying as fuck.
As for the Steins, they basically exist only to ensure Charlie does not make it out of the season, which is absolute bullshit. You know what else is bullshit?
CHARLIE STAYS DEAD TOO. THEY EVEN MAKE A FUNERAL PYRE FOR HER AND GET ALL SAD, EVEN THOUGH CASTIEL COULD LITERALLY BRING HER BACK TO LIFE WITH A SNAP OF HIS FINGERS!
Castiel literally brought her back to life last season! I cited that when they killed off Kevin and he did nothing, either!!! I'm not fucking stupid, Robert Singer, why do you keep acting like I'm braindead and don't remember well-established facts of the series?! Why do you keep killing off valuable and beloved characters for no fucking reason?!?
They even cockteased me with Dean killing Castiel near the end. Bitches.
The only other subplot that bears addressing is Claire Novak. Yes, Jimmy Novak's daughter. There is a subplot about Castiel finding her and trying to make amends to her, which unfortunately is not a subplot I liked. It has been five years since anyone has given half a shit about Jimmy Novak, and in fact, this is the first time they even bother to clarify that he's actually dead, and hasn't been stuck with Castiel puppeting him around all this time! This perhaps makes it even worse than it otherwise would be (and trust me, it's already bad, because this subplot is bad for the sheer amount of time before anyone thought to insert it), because poor Claire has to deal with an angel who is wearing her dead father's skin like a suit trying to buddy up to her and atone. I kept screaming in the Discord that there was literally no believable way for Castiel to make that up to her and that if he really cared about her wellbeing, he'd leave her the hell alone and let her hate his guts in peace.
Besides that, Rowena, the Steins, and the Mark of Cain aren't necessarily bad plots or even poorly-executed ones, just not as good as they could've been, which leaves me nothing to scream about except Jensen Ackles' biceps, manly voice, and jawline--and that Charlie is fucking dead, god fucking damn it.
Time to get back to my fix-it fanfictions.
