My love for Dean was based in part that he was a human that could defeat any and all supernatural creatures. He was the last man standing in SS (I know that a lot of Dean fans wanted him to be Michael and have the huge battle between the brothers) but as written he was stronger than all of them just as a man.
That may have been true before Dabb took over in season 11. Since then Dean can't walk and chew gum at the same time, he's so unremarkable as to be incompetent if not outright useless. Dabb's Dean isn't strong at all.
I have no expectations that anything will get better next week. Jensen claimed to like the penultimate episode, and seeing as that is literally only the second episode all year that he's talked about liking - the other being, obviously,
Regarding Dean - I assume Dean may not be entirely worthless in that one. Fingers crossed. If Dean gets to use the grenade launcher, it will be in that episode. As for ep 23, Jensen has been pretty much mute on that subject, so I have to assume Dean goes back to being useless in the finale.
All that being said, I actually broke down and watched parts of this last episode, and say what you will, Buckner/Lemming allowed Dean to be more badass than he's been in almost two years with the scene in the bunker at the end, actually taking out several BMoL and Ketch before skanky Mary shows up to spoil everyone's fun as she is want to do (brainwashing or no brainwashing). Sure, it's just one scene, but it's more than we've gotten in ages.
And everything else that happened in that episode is at the direction of Dabb. You can't blame them for Eileen's death - writers can't just willy nilly kill off anyone like that without permission or having been directed by the showrunner to do so. So the problem is still Andrew Dabb.
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cassiopeia (528)
7 years ago
Dean was finally allowed to take an active role in this episode. I did love the shoot out in the Bunker.
And yes I put the blame totally on Dabb. It's his show, he owns it and he broke it.
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aduty1 (160)
7 years ago
"All that being said, I actually broke down and watched parts of this last episode, and say what you will, Buckner/Lemming allowed Dean to be more badass than he's been in almost two years with the scene in the bunker at the end, actually taking out several BMoL and Ketch before skanky Mary shows up to spoil everyone's fun as she is want to do (brainwashing or no brainwashing). Sure, it's just one scene, but it's more than we've gotten in ages."
Not to take away from that scene (which I loved) but I just don't believe the Duo wrote "Dean shoots a guy from behind his back" or "Dean slides across the floor and disarms Ketch". I am biased but I credit Jensen and the stunt coordinator. Not to take away from Yockey either but I credit the same thing with the knife fight in Asa Fox. Dabb and crew can only control the scripts, they can't stop Jensen from acting cool in the few action scenes they give him. Hence, banishing him to the woods. No action...no cool acting.
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PAForrest (158)
7 years ago
Dabb and crew can only control the scripts, they can't stop Jensen from acting cool in the few action scenes they give him.
I completely agree that the uber-coolness factor is all credit to Jensen and the director, no question about it. But the writers had to include the scene in the script, write some mundane stage direction along the lines of "Dean shoots several BMoL and comes up behind Ketch to take away his gun." But the fact is they at least wrote Dean as being competent enough to use his freaking gun for a change, and that's a humongous difference in how everyone else has written him most of the season. Dean had more kills in that one little scene than he's had all season. How it was staged is certainly down to Jensen and the director.
I'm not saying the episode was good or anything - but, let's be honest, almost none of them are good, because the arcs are terrible. But, quite honestly, from what I did see, I didn't think it was the worst episode of the season - not by a longshot. Granted, that's not really a compliment, and it's not intended to be. But my bottom line is that I did enjoy watching Dean for those few seconds in the bunker.
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Idahoforspn (61)
7 years ago
Eactly this. Anything badass wasn't scripted. There was one there little thing Jensen ad-libbed but for the life of me I can't remember what it was now. That's sad.
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