Supernatural: The Worst Thing This Show Could Do |
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| Written by April Yorke |
| Friday, 19 November 2010 15:50 |
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In all honesty, an ep like "Dogs" isn't boring because it's poorly directed or written or acted or cast or anything of the sort. It's boring because it's wheel spinning. We see what appears to be werewolf attacks and eventually learn that they are the handiwork of a "skin walker," a human who can transform into the shape of a dog (or possibly any animal?) at will. Sam and Dean track down a Cujo who's actually broken his pack's rules by enacting vengeance on behalf of the family that took him in. Sam wants to follow the doggy all the way up to the top, snag the Alpha, and trade him for his soul, but Dean's still in his moralist snit about 1) working with Crowley (unlike, say, when they worked with him to save the damn world) and 2) not into handing over Alphas to be tortured. So in the end Sam and Dean take out the entire pack, save Lucky, our murderous dog from the opening who trots off down the road like The Littlest Hobo. It has all the elements of a solid episode, but it ends up more or less giving us exactly what we got the week before in "Family Matters." Break it down:
Aside from learning about the existence of skin walkers and that they, too, are in the midst of a "recruitment drive," we reiterate the four aforementioned points ad nauseum. Of course, this recruitment drive does raise a lot of delicious points to ponder (to what end? Are all the beasties in on this together? If so, from whence do they get their marching orders?), but it would have been better if those points came during an episode that wasn't weighed down by so much repetition. BUT! We do get a tasty tidbit in the closing, a.k.a Angst on the Bayou: Handsome Brothers Discuss Their Feelings Near Bodies of Water (other alternate title for the show: Metallicar: Ridiculously Scenic Shots of a Classic Car in Nature). Sam and Dean sit down to a fastfood picnic, and Sam comes clean: Dean's right. Sam's not Sam. At least not in the way that he's been pretending/trying to convince Dean to be. Not only does he not care about, say, killing innocent bystanders, but he doesn't even care about Dean. He just wants Dean around because he knows Dean's useful. Dean takes this all in stride, which is more than I expected of him, and Not!Sam continues. He's had a lot of time to think about it, and, while Sam's life was a lot more difficult than Not!Sam's, he thinks going back to old/real him would be the better choice over all. So they had better work real hard to get Dean's brother back. In other news:
Tonight: Fairies. Dean screaming "FIGHT THE FAIRIES!" from the back of a patrol car might be just what this show is missing. Also, Sam's improved hair looks to be back.
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There are probably worse things that Supernatural could do (luxuriate in the ANGST like it used to, perhaps?), but why are we watching episodes as boring as last week's "All Dogs Go to Heaven"? When we know the show can give us "Weekend at Bobby's," why do they think we'll stand for this dog's breakfast?
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