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Supernatural: Dark Dynasty (2015)
The Worst Episode of the Entire Series - A New Low!
Let's cut to the chase: This episode destroyed one of the most beloved characters in the series in order to "raise the stakes" for the Winchesters and add to their "man pain". It was such a gross decision, that I can now understand why Misha Collins made a comment about a future episode being truly disgusting. I'm not one to listen to PR, whether it be actors or promotion, so I didn't put too much stock into what that could mean. But as soon as this episode was over, and the pit at the bottom of my stomach kept growing, I knew he had been referring to this episode. What a waste of a character.
What a disgusting,misogynistic, hateful thing to do Charlie and to the fans. The problem I see is that this show doesn't have enough creative power in the writer's room to come up with a better way to add tension than "Kill the next person in line that we've set up as a friend or family member of the Winchesters." That's it. It's all you know how to do in order to create buzz. You're too afraid to create buzz with positive story lines such as the canonization of Dean and Castiel's relationship. Either you're sitting on that for the very last season, which is a disservice to their relationship, or you're never going to go through with it out of fear or embarrassment or something else that I'd rather not dwell on. The point is that season 8 had some of the highest ratings because of all the "Dean and Cas buzz". You could have capitalized on that in season 9 and season 10 for a boost. Instead, you fridge this queer relationship, kept the characters apart all season, and in order to get fans talking, you butchered their favorite character!
Wow, well congrats on discarding and murdering yet another female character for Dean and Sam. Are these characters even heroes anymore? I keep seeing fans asking that question, and these are loyal, long-standing fans, and we just don't know. Many people have come to loathe the Winchesters because their bond is so toxic and immature and boring, and all it does is kill characters who are more interesting than they could ever be because you all don't know what to do with them anymore. They are these sad, pathetic middle age white dudes who cling onto each other the way a five month old clings onto his mother's chest. And unless you romanticize that codependency, the average fan is just fed p with it and bored out of their mind.
A lot of fans have remained with this show, hit after hit, but this time the show has gone to far. If I was them, the first thing on my agenda for season 11 would be to bring back Charlie. Unless you want the fans to think bringing back the dead is only afforded to the three white dudes who have been killed hundreds of times yet are still hear stinking up episodes with unoriginal and unimaginative stories?
In many ways Charlie was better than the show. What it has become anyway. She was a breath of fresh air, a ray of sunshine, a flower in the dessert. You had been using her sporadically and it had worked to make fans feel that kind of love even in the bleakest of seasons, but now that's gone. You've made this series so unbearable and unwatched. I'm not sure what the purpose of that was. Maybe you just really want season 11 to be the last season or to get axed because of poor ratings.
I really can't recommend this episode. It was horrendously written, bad pacing, bad acting, a storyline that made no sense and was just boring. A death of a beloved character for no reason that was predicated upon every character acting like an idiot so this one character could be preyed upon. The death wasn't even shown on camera. All we got was an over the top bloody moment in a bathtub, a character discarded like garbage.
What a waste.
This episode does not deserve 1 out of 10.
This episode deserves a 0 and it deserves to be eliminated from DVD sales because this 1 episode will have me make this the first season that I don't purchase on DVD. I don't need trash sitting on my shelves at home.