"Oh really, Jody Mills? Well if you say so!"
What the writers of this show needs to understand, and soon, is that a character doesn't have authority just 'cause they've been in more than 2 episodes. It has to be believable, they have to earn it, otherwise it's just insulting to the viewer!
So did Jody earn her medal? Lets see;
1. She was dumb enough to let her zombie son eat her husband, then Sam had to save her 2. She met one leviathan that Bobby saved her from 3. She once cleaned Bobbys house and inadvertently helped discover Leviathans weakness 4. She helped Sam read a couple books on time travel, but didn't help the story otherwise 5. She met one vampire, got stabbed, and the vampires adobtive daughter saved her. 6. She never killed a single monster herself.
And now, suddenly she is THE authority on all things monstrous. As if it wasn't stupid enough she was the one to give Donna "the talk", now she's telling the friggin Winchesters what to do? And they just accept it? This is painfully out of character for Sam and Dean. Lets look at Donna; 1. She is naive 2. She is clumsy 3. She is kinda stupid 4. She is annoying 5. She is not in particularly monsterhunt-friendly shape 6. She's seen a vampires teeth from 20 feet away
DONT BLAME ME, I didn't write that horrible stereotype of a character! That's who she is, and now, because Judge Jody says so she's in with the tough guys? No, doesn't fly, it's so insulting to the intelligence of the fans, and to the credibility of the main characters. But it fits the plot, that's all it does, and that's what drags the episode down for me. A plot should revolve around the rules already set up around the characters and the universe they inhabit, not the other way around.
Well, aside from this the episode is average at best. The banter between Dean and "Deputy douchebag" is fun, but that's pretty much all Sam and Dean get to do, the plot is recycled from an older episode, it's a filler and has nothing to do with the overall arc of the season, and like any other episode that for some reason choose to focus on underdeveloped supporting characters, it's just not very Supernatural-y. 4/10
1. She was dumb enough to let her zombie son eat her husband, then Sam had to save her 2. She met one leviathan that Bobby saved her from 3. She once cleaned Bobbys house and inadvertently helped discover Leviathans weakness 4. She helped Sam read a couple books on time travel, but didn't help the story otherwise 5. She met one vampire, got stabbed, and the vampires adobtive daughter saved her. 6. She never killed a single monster herself.
And now, suddenly she is THE authority on all things monstrous. As if it wasn't stupid enough she was the one to give Donna "the talk", now she's telling the friggin Winchesters what to do? And they just accept it? This is painfully out of character for Sam and Dean. Lets look at Donna; 1. She is naive 2. She is clumsy 3. She is kinda stupid 4. She is annoying 5. She is not in particularly monsterhunt-friendly shape 6. She's seen a vampires teeth from 20 feet away
DONT BLAME ME, I didn't write that horrible stereotype of a character! That's who she is, and now, because Judge Jody says so she's in with the tough guys? No, doesn't fly, it's so insulting to the intelligence of the fans, and to the credibility of the main characters. But it fits the plot, that's all it does, and that's what drags the episode down for me. A plot should revolve around the rules already set up around the characters and the universe they inhabit, not the other way around.
Well, aside from this the episode is average at best. The banter between Dean and "Deputy douchebag" is fun, but that's pretty much all Sam and Dean get to do, the plot is recycled from an older episode, it's a filler and has nothing to do with the overall arc of the season, and like any other episode that for some reason choose to focus on underdeveloped supporting characters, it's just not very Supernatural-y. 4/10