Supernatural: All Along the Watchtower (2017)
Season 12, Episode 23
1/10
Horrible episode
14 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Like I said in my headliner, it's a completely and utterly horrible episode. Full of meaningless actions, terrible writing and completely unnecessary scenes just to fill the plot.

Too bad because they could have made a truly nice season finale with all those deaths and all that emotion, but they forced it too much, it's like they didn't event put a little effort into thinking a good way of developing the plot. Of course it has the terrible food print of the worst writer of all times: Andrew Dabb.

First of all, we didn't felt bad for Rowena cause we all knew she would be back.

Death has become meaningless in this series.

The only thing mildly relevant was the introduction to the multiverse, which of course they ruined later.

Second, they completely reduced Crowley's character to a dull slave. It's like they wanted people to stop respecting him. That's one of the many reasons Mark Sheppard left in bad terms.

They killed him in a completely ridiculous and meaningless way.

Not having enough with that, They stopped him from saying a really bad ass line before his death.

Originally he was going to say: "Even when I Lose, I win" and instead they forced him to say "You're right".

Talk about lame decisions.

Third, they lured Lucifer into the other world, which I find hard to believe because no matter how much curiosity he could have had, his priority was to get to his son, so the real thing that on any plane would have happened, is that he would have gone after his son, and maybe later pursue the winchesters wherever they went.

Not to mention that he took a big risk entering to a rift cause it was obvious he was being lured, possibly to close it with him inside.

Going back to Crowley, writers made him kill himself allegedly to close the rift, which didn't even close instantly, and of course, completely unnecessary, castiel goes inside the rift to attack Lucifer with his angel blade. They also made him look pathetic, he wants to solve everything with his blade even though he knows there are a lot of things invulnerable to his pitch fork.

Anyways, as I was saying, it was completely unnecessary that he entered the rift, and even after entering, he could have listened to the boys that the rift was about to close, and go back out with them again.

But of course, they needed him inside, no matter how bad the writing was, so they made him attack Lucifer, and after that, go back out the rift, and ridiculously staying right next to it where he was easy to stab.

Talk about lame writing again.

And yes, Lucifer back out again, the rift still open.

Enter Mary Winchester which starts punching Lucifer all the way until he falls into the rift again, but she does too. Another lame scene.

And just after that, the rift decides to close.

What a casualty.

The cherry to the pie is that in the ending they made jack glance an evil look at Sam, just to create hype and expectation, when in reality jack wasn't Evil and in next season premiere he didn't stared at Sam that way.

Another phony strategy.

One of the worst episodes I've seen, and too bad, cause I repeat, they could have played better with all those deaths.

All they needed was good writing.

But, with Andre Dabb, that's impossible.
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