Death is such a great character and i did like the mythos they built in the ep and i liked Rowena.
S10 review 7.5/10
This is my least favorite season and no its not because Charlie died or we didn't get demon dean as much as we should have, its mainly due to the very weak motw eps, the low humour and classic Dean lines that have been low since S9, the tone of the show where Demons are silly creatures, angel nerfing and boring first half. There is too much drama, not as in between the brothers but as a show its too much of a drama show, drama before was way more subtle. S9 still did a good job of showcasing the drama between the brothers but S10 had great potential that was never tapped into. Instead we got side characters getting too much drama time.
I did like the mythology of the mark and the eps containing the main plot.
Plotlines and all
1. Demon Dean and fear of becoming a demon
This season is the most similar to S3 and S9
Sam is pretty much always in trouble but in S3 Dean does something stupid and sells his soul, Sam tries to save him, its impossible for them to do so and ends with him in hell. That season had a really good psychological horror built by the revelation that souls in hell later become demons. We can assume from spn mythology that only souls that are allowed to torture become corrupt and demons but anyway the scene in the dream ep where dream Dean wakes up with black eyes and says "you are going to die and this, this is what you're gonna become" is among the best scenes and the scariest scenes of the show and for it to actually be realized 7 years later is a stroke of genius but dear lord the execution...
Now demon Dean in the beginning 3 eps is a jerk with zero respect for women. The karaoke scene was kinda cringe but also kinda funny i suppose.
The bromance with Crowley was strange too. Is that what demons really do? Play foosball and drink and sing or was this strictly for Dean? Strange.
Now in universe can't say its totally ridiculous, why would Dean straight away be murdering anyone, he must be confused with some demon existential crisis going on but all that is translated to us is that he is confused, should have gotten a bit more of the psychological state.
Now as the show stands that builds as to demon Dean only starting his bad behavior, he hasn't really done much at this point. The season then is not about demon Dean but about the fear of an inevitable future in which he will become a demon and pick up from there.
Unlike S3 tho i didn't feel that horror that should have been there, some bits of Dean's fear were given but it wasn't too compelling for me.
Out universe also there is only a limit one can push a character, they clearly did not want Dean to be completely irredeemable, there is a limit to it, touching a stripper when she repeatedly says no or senselessly beating the security guard while the lowest he has been were apparently in our eyes ok to not cancel the character but if it was worse then who knows, the writers took a risk already with him being terrible to women, as much as people wanted more Demon Dean it had to be the end of the human character then too but still we could have gotten a bit more stupid scenes too. The flashbacks were embarrassing whenever they happened on the show because it just showed how little there was.
2. Moc
The mark basically inflicts the person with serial killer disease and short temper, it kind of is ridiculous but ok, demon blood seems to do that so in this universe badness and evil and all is not only just simple human nature. Its lore is cool. Big bad gets released due to it. Finding the book and all was cool too.
3. Dean and Moc dean
Dean has always had a temper, he was probably the worst as normal Dean at S8 beginning due to purgatory ptsd, then he gets the mark at S9, we thus see Dean as pretty much a hothead who likes to kill anyway, he just is usually in control of the killing part.
The moc also tends to switch on and off or just isn't the focus so it appears like that.
While i have nothing against grey area characters or bad boy character anti-heroes whatever Dean has always been a controlling person, with no respect for Sam's space and that's the only character he has day to day contact with, bossy and all, he already has anger issues, adding in the mark just made him more of a d*ck especially in the last ep when he talks about the girl the way he does, so the mark makes him more se*ist? Idek.
4. Lester
This is just strange to me. Do the writers not check each others work or something? Dean kills him and Crowley says no dead wife no soul. So while we can believe demon Dean tries to mess with Sam that Lester is in hell human Dean says that in the 4th ep too, maybe i am wrong, maybe he just means you got him to sell his soul and that is wrong.
4. Sam
Sam was such a great character in 1-6 but since then the character is just boring, he is just reacting to Dean in the motws, most relationships with other characters are about Dean. This does make sense in the way that his character is shyer and not a comedic relief but if one of your main characters is becoming stale and boring add some personality, some quirks.
We do see some of his sass this season and him take action, a difference because now its Dean in danger.
But they went a bit overboard i think with how callous he became and i'm not talking about Lester or Charlie but that girl in the ep where he finds the decoder.
5. Cass
Usually i actually forget about him but he was the better of the characters this season, his storyline with Claire was good. He had some good classic Cass lines. I liked seeing him this season, except the first 3 eps and that snoozefest Hannah storyline.
6. Cass and Hanna storyline and rogue angels
Absolutely boring. Though i did like the dilemma of rogue angels i feel i have had too much senseless killing of angels to care about that, or of angels in anyway. I liked the Hannah Cass concept but its the runtime it got i suppose. Spn was a bit too much into drama with it and i like drama in spn but this was a bit unlike spn. Not saying i wouldn't mind a female love interest just that make it not so boring and i just can't take anymore stupid angel talk.
7. The novaks
I really liked this, felt very organic, the ep of the mother wasn't that great but Claire was a good addition and Cass's relationship with her. Also the way Hannah was used to get there was good.
8. Crowley and hell
I know he is the king but the demons are hust shown as utterly stupid around him. Not scary at all.
Crowley was fine, he wasn't as awesome as he has been but was good still.
9. Rowena and witches
I love witches and spn has had some confusing witch lore but it got a bit cleared up with Rowena's intro. We get more witches this season.
Rowena was a breath of fresh air really, so different. I did find her screentime that had to do without the brothers or Crowley a tad much tho.
10. Charlie aka Kevin repeat
Not only was S10 similar to S9 in its tone but worse i think because it was a lot less horror and terrible joke worthy demon potrayal, it repeated the whole Kevin thing with Charlie with the brothers switching sides.
Dean is particularly nasty about it telling Sam he should have been dead instead, real Dean probably wouldn't have.
I liked Charlie a lot and think they could have done more with the character but i'm ok with characters dying. Also if you see the ratings and reviews of Charlie eps they are bad especially the last bad Charlie one so from the writers perspective it probably was going to happen.
Now the thing is the way the death went down while ridiculous can even be made to make sense if IF they didn't pretend like Castiel doesn't exist.
Really, wouldn't he be closer to Charlie than the bros? Its ridiculous. And why can't he bring her to life? Now that can be interpreted as heaven is guarded well and they are not letting souls leave but maybe the show should have said that.
This could have been easily avoided if they gave Cas's grace to him after Dean beats him up and goes missing.
Also this brings a writing error in S9 to my notice, heaven was closed and Kevin could not go but when Charlie is brought back by Gadreel she says she was in a dream like heaven is.
11. The stynes
Actually a good villain set up done quickly.
12. Cain
Pretty interesting character. I like how the one ep motw characters may suck but atleast the show has great chilling characters
13. Magnus
Only for a scene but this is one of the absolute best characters they have had on the show
14. Metatron
I like him. I liked how he was trolling the boys.
15. Jody Mills
Like her and good character development
I see reviews of S11 and it looks promising but man S9 and S10 have made me tired mainly because the charm is missing, the craziness seems gone, the humour is minimal, i am tired of the brother's drama, i don't care about much of the other character's stretched drama but like it in small doses, the motws have no charm, there is no horror, the demons are a joke, and i can't take anymore angels.
I was done before in mid season 9 and i do believe the show is worth watching but i think it just hurts to feel like the magic is gone because this show is something special and sometimes the writing is just contradictory and doesn't follow.
Not sure if its because Edlund i think left at S8 he can't be responsible for all the crazy comedy, i just want that specialness and wtf factor.
The most crazy this season was fan fiction which was more than awesome and then Dean turning into a teenager and it was fine but the weird connection to the mark made the writing so strange, why would they not try to get Rowena to do the spell, why does Sam act like that is not his brother, it was a big deal and was not treated as such.
Fave ep of ofcourse Fanfiction, executioners song, rowena's entry ep
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