SPN episode poll

[meg_tdj]

I'm always curious how people rank the episodes, so I thought I'd post polls as the season progresses, just to see which eps are the overall favourites and least favourites, and how quickly it changes once there are more eps to choose from. Please feel free to tell me in the comments why you picked what you did. I'd really like to know. :)

ETA: Just to be clear, the third option in the poll is for your LEAST favourite. Sorry for the confusion!

[Poll #1474948]


Favourite - The End. And it BUGS ME that I love it so much, because it was like The Dean Show, and that's... SO not appealing to me, heh. But it had Lucy!Sam!! And Chuck!! And Lexa Doig being awesome!! And future!Dean being all broken and angstful!! And Dean/Cas BFFness!! And Castiel being...well, Misha!! And down-and-dirty apocalypticness!! And Sam saying he wants redemption!! And some of the greatest Cas lines EVER!! And the return of the Croatoan storyline!! And THE BOYS GETTING BACK TOGETHER!!!! Honestly, if it had had more Sam, it would be in my top 5 of all time.

Runner-up - Good God, Y'all! Because it was pure gold from beginning to end. First with Bobby being all broken and sad, and Castiel and the amulet, then RUFUS!! ELLEN!! JO!!, the War thing was awesome, Sam being tempted by the blood AND TELLING DEAN ABOUT IT, lots of tension and angst and action and all-around awesomeness, and one of the most heartbreaking endings of anything ever. Excellent episode.

Least favourite - Haaard, because I've loved them all, but... Free To Be You & Me. Not for any reason other than I really wasn't interested in some parts of it, especially when it got to the whorehouse part. And then the whole suspension-of-disbelief about the raging fire in the middle of a hospital was... not working for me. And Raphael should have been played by someone with a little more presence, IMO. And Lindsay was annoying. The rest of it was awesome, though, with Jess and the hunters and the demon blood and some of the cute Dean/Cas BFFness and all, but... all the rest of the eps so far have had more about them to love, you know? So as of now, it's my least fave of the bunch.

So, that's me. What about you?

(I'm leaving this public, so feel free to pimp if you like.)

Comments

[daydreamer1984.livejournal.com]

my least favorite was Fallen Idiols but Paris ruined it for me. I think having her in the show was the most random thing they ever did.

I loved the other two i chose cause Castiel was funny in one, and Jo and Ellen were in the other!!

[meg-tdj.livejournal.com]

LOL It was definitely random, but I thought it was HILARIOUS, especially when Sam chopped her head off. I'd really love to know how they convinced her to do it, considering she was basically mocking HERSELF. ;)

What do you mean by Castiel being funny? Are you talking about Sympathy For the Devil? I loved it when he "carved" their ribs, heehee!

Jo and Ellen rock!!

[meg-tdj.livejournal.com]

Aw, I loved the twist the plot took in that one, and the first half of it was hilarious. :)

[lessrest.livejournal.com]

OOOPS. I voted wrong.
502 was my third-favorite and I, uhm, might have therefore voted for it in the third poll. Possibly.

Ooops.

[meg-tdj.livejournal.com]

Oops! Maybe I should have clarified the LEAST fave thing... *edits post*

[lessrest.livejournal.com]

It was totally clear from the beginning, it's just me that's tired, haha.
I should probably go sleep...

[meg-tdj.livejournal.com]

Aw, heehee! Yeah, being tired can do that to you. :)

[cupcakery.livejournal.com]

You know, despite the fact that it was stated on the show by Cas that God saved the Winchesters when Lucifer broke free, I'm still not sold on it. It makes as much sense for Lucifer to save the Winchesters as not, considering that Sam is his vessel, and even though Dean is supposed to be Michael's, if he let Dean die, then there is no way in hell (pun emphatically intended) that Sam would dream of consenting to be his vessel.

[meg-tdj.livejournal.com]

But why would Lucifer zap Sam AWAY from him? Sam was there so he could be taken over by Lucifer right away, but Sam and Dean were zapped away to save them from that. I don't know if it was God or not, but it definitely wasn't Lucifer, IMO. And Raphael hinting that Lucifer brought Cas back was kind of weird, since Castiel is a rebel AGAINST Lucifer, not FOR him. If you see what I mean?

So, I don't know if it'll turn out to be God who did it or just some other powerful being (Michael, maybe? I wonder if he will ever turn up to talk for himself, LOL), but I really don't buy that it could have been Lucifer. He just wants to take his vessel, kill all the other angels, and have creation all to himself.

[cupcakery.livejournal.com]

I was thinking more along the lines that he needed to get Sam out of there because the release of power/whatever the geyser of light was, would have essentially killed any humans within radius.

I think what Lucifer might be betting on is that Sam 'n Dean 'n Cas will eventually take out the rest of the douchebag angels for him, given how Dean's all "Screw 'em all. We'll kill 'em both." Plus, WRT Cas, I think it's a slippery slope thing in that Luce feels that Cas is already a rebel angel, he might saunter vaguely downward.

[meg-tdj.livejournal.com]

If that was his plan, it seems to be backfiring on him, considering how well Cas was able to hide the boys from him, haha. I kind of wonder what Lucifer is up to right now, actually. Still haunting Sam's dreams? Watching Bobby's place in case they show up there (which would seem to be the smart thing to do)? Trying to track them down some other way? Off sniffing roses somewhere? Can't wait to find out. :)

[cupcakery.livejournal.com]

Nah, he probably got side-tracked by Vegas. He's somewhere down on the strip. XD

Their Lucifer is very much a Milton-by-way-of-Constantine interpretation. It makes me giggle a bit.

[meg-tdj.livejournal.com]

LOL! In his flashy white suit... yeah, I can totally see that. ;)

Milton-by-way-of-Constantine? What do you mean?

[cupcakery.livejournal.com]

Milton's Lucifer in Paradise Lost is very much made out to be the sympathetic character, as opposed to God. With the way they're making Lucifer act very gentle, very deliberate and delicate, they're really highlighting the formerly angelic properties he possesses; they're making a likeable Lucifer. And, uh, basically most of the plot from this season and the last one are very much Erik-Kripke-saw-the-Hellblazer-adaptation-movie - Cas's outfit is a mirror of John Constantine's. XD

[meg-tdj.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, definitely similar then. It seems like a logical interpretation of Lucifer, really - extremely manipulative, coming across as compassionate so that you've basically sold your soul to him before you even realize what you've done. And I knew about all the nods to Constantine, hahaha! Ahh, Kripke and his homages. ;)

[partaymon5.livejournal.com]

Let's see, I think GGY was my favourite because of all the action and the chance to see Ellen, Jo and Rufus again, followed closely by the Children one, just because of the interactions between Dean and Sam and both guests were excellent, even if the storyline looked like swiss cheese because of all the plot holes!! :) Least favourite was The End - the 'Dean show' didn't interest me at all and I felt we saw pretty much everything in it in other episodes.

[meg-tdj.livejournal.com]

GGY was awesome! And I agree, 5x06 was great aside from the plot holes, heh heh. SPN is usually so good at foreshadowing and making the big reveals make sense, but... not so much this time.

[llivla.livejournal.com]

Favorite: Fallen Idols LMAO I'm the only one because I loved not only how Sam got them to talk about their issues, Dean being passive-aggressive and totally bringing out the PO'ed older sibling to the max, Dean's drooling over cars, Sam not getting cars, Sam speaking SPANISH, Sam and Dean and their soap opera DRAMA LLAMA, and then teasing each other sldkfsdlf. Plus it was such a good looking episode for both the guys /shallow. Especially with Sam's thing that Dean doesn't have to see Sam as his kid anymore and take on all Sam's burdens with the intensity of a thousand suns. Seriously. Did I mention seriously? And how Sam DOESN'T want Dean to forget how Sam fucked up and hurt him, but to tell him what's going on so Sam knows if things are or aren't going to work. I loved Dean at the end admitting a bit to making Ruby look like a better, more accepting confidant/support system than him. I don't care about the plot holes like the vanishing wax museum owner dude, it was the first episode in a long time I felt all 'I need the next one!' in a long, long time. It felt like S1's Scarecrow, I *felt* something getting better understood between them, understanding and learning each other instead of assuming and being afraid to speak up and rock the boat. And haters to the left, I've liked Paris since Repo: the Genetic Opera, how desperate she was to be in it, her love of being in horror movies and getting killed in them (it just seems that way imo lol) and when I saw the behind the scenes of House of Wax. Plus I was double-giggly thinking of Jensen making fun of her on Chelsea Lately back in January and imagining him squirming.

Runner up: The End. BECAUSE IT WAS WONDERFUL. Lucifer wearing Sam and Dean crying because it's KILLING HIM INSIDE and telling Sam his little brother, fuck up and all, makes him human, and Castiel with the '....I'll just be right here' for FOUR HOURS and then canon proof that Castiel would LOATHE ever not being an angel no matter what the really batshit crazy Dean/Castiel fans shriek (I have sane ones on my f-list thank god), CHUCK dropping his drunken recluse life to help Dean with the major refugee camp, the most kick ass female EVER, and bad ass jack ass Dean fucking WINchester of 2015 lskdfsd. *\0/* IT WASN'T PERFECT BUT IT WAS PRETTY DAMNED GOOD.

Least Favorite: Hard. I hated Dean's side in Free to Be You and Me because D&C literally accomplished nothing while Sam's side was kick ass with Lucifer. 506 was ruined for me by some of the fans' responses to it, the plot holes, and Dean was bugging me again (Dean! We used to be likethis! What happened?), not with his perv b/c honestly after hell and his temporary break up with Sam I was expecting him to be more aggressive (?) in some areas, but his comments on the kids powers. And his buzzer thing that came off Dean being passive-aggressive about his lingering anger, to which I want to tell him to just out with it to Sam already. But I say Sympathy for the Devil for the fact that I hated the deus ex detox, the cut from convent to plane to car, how Dean didn't know where Sam went before he came back with hex bags, and other character things in Dean that more or less bugged me. It had its awesome moments, like Dean refusing to be Michael's vessel, Chuck+Sam bff squint, Castiel kicking ass, I liked Becky (but dnw wincest in show and Chuck saying SHE was okay to not be spied on made no sense) and poor Nick's fall to Lucifer, but...yeah too much bugged me to really enjoy it.

Extra
Solid Episode: GGY. I loved War messing with Sam, Jo+Ellen, Rufus and lsdfldsf the tension between Sam and Dean was perfect.

[meg-tdj.livejournal.com]

I LOVE THIS COMMENT SO MUCH. Just so you know.

I loved Fallen Idols, so it makes me sad that so many people didn't. I agree with all the reasons you listed, even Paris Hilton - anybody who's willing to mock themselves to that degree goes up a notch in my estimation. ;)

and then canon proof that Castiel would LOATHE ever not being an angel no matter what the really batshit crazy Dean/Castiel fans shriek

YES!! At first I was scared, especially with this ep coming right after the whorehouse ep, because I was afraid that Cas would really want to go there at some point in the near future... but the fact that it turned out he was doing it all because he missed being an angel and felt so helpless as a human... GUH. THANK YOU, WRITERS!! In that moment, I loved Cas ten times more than I already did. Which is saying something.

I've honestly never understood why people class him as one of those "aliens who long to be human" characters, because he ISN'T, and that's always what I've loved the most about him. He's quite happy being who he is... in fact, I'd say he's the most content of any other angel we've met to REMAIN an angel. He just wants things to go back to the way they were, when God was in control and all was right with the world. He doesn't want to be human, but he's humanity's biggest advocate in the supernatural world right now because "they're all my father's creations." So yeah, I thought future!Cas was heartbreaking and tragic and SO IN KEEPING WITH THE CHARACTER. Excellent.

CHUCK dropping his drunken recluse life to help Dean with the major refugee camp

That was SO great to see! I think deep down all Chuck wants is to be an average Joe, so he was kind of living his dream there - no more prophecies and killer headaches, just plain ole Chuck trying to be important in seemingly unimportant ways (taking care of the toilet paper!! *squishes him*). I loved that. :)

because D&C literally accomplished nothing while Sam's side was kick ass with Lucifer

Ha! Totally. I really wish that had been Sam's equivalent to Dean's The End, because the Sam side of the story could have been way more in-depth while Dean's side was pretty much unnecessary and could have been waaaaay shorter.

And his buzzer thing that came off Dean being passive-aggressive about his lingering anger, to which I want to tell him to just out with it to Sam already

I got that impression from it, too. But it was also hilarious, so I'm conflicted. ;)

But I say Sympathy for the Devil for the fact that I hated the deus ex detox, the cut from convent to plane to car,

That did all happen way too fast. I was a little disappointed until they got to Chuck's place. Then I kind of forgot about anything else that had happened. ;)

Chuck+Sam bff squint

I WANT MORE CHUCK+SAM BFF-NESS!!!

Solid Episode: GGY.

Yes, that's exactly the word I'd use for that ep - solid. There really wasn't anything I would have changed about it. :)

[llivla.livejournal.com]

LOL UR ICON. Sam, it's a love tap. :3

It's the first and only episode I could not stop capping I loved it so much. The End I capped a bit, but only the Samcifer/Dean confrontation and the ending were capped extensively. Fallen Idols? LOL, EVERYTHING. *____* I just wanted to snuggle this ep close and officially claim Supernatural as my show to enjoy, not watch out of morbid, sadistic curiosity how it could possibly get more depressing with a schizophrenic mytharc alongside.

"aliens who long to be human" characters, because he ISN'T
Yes, this drives me nuts! It's what made me really dig the tension between Castiel and angels like Uriel and Anna. Uriel who takes his angel status seriously, but to the point he's blinded by superiority he lost sight of the mission: to serve their Father. And Anna, who loves humanity and embraced emotions and questioning Authority that didn't come from their Father directly, but loved humanity so much that she risked EVERYTHING to be apart of it. Castiel was a balance right between the two, and it was fascinating to see him struggle to find his place, his own definition of what he was while the war was approaching. Then I started to dislike his character a bit a little before 4.20 and in 5.06 wouldn't have cared if he'd stayed a toy until the last episode, but I see flashes of the Castiel I went 'that is a BAMF, and aw he's interesting, tell me more!' in stuff like The End. I'm REALLY hoping they'll develop Castiel's God-thing appropriately instead of continuing to use him for cheap humor like Free to Be or making him an idiot. >< I want to hear about how far Castiel will go for this God he's been loving but feels so hurt by.

Chuck trying to be important in seemingly unimportant ways
Yeah! Poor Chuck, when I looked at him, and thought 'damn, he looks fine. And so does Dean. Is it realllllly so bad for Sam to say yes if I get all this?' xD But he was so put together and looking back at Monster at the End, where his creative process is getting drunk and passing out -- he's just not happy as a writer and I hope he gets a happy ending too.

I got that impression from it, too. But it was also hilarious, so I'm conflicted. ;)
SAM'S FACES WERE SO WORTH IT. About as awesome as Dean's 'that'll do, pig.' And 'LOOK WE DON'T HAVE A FRIDGE OKAY' --- lol white trash hick Winchesters > everything. THAT IS CLASS OKAY.

[meg-tdj.livejournal.com]

was a balance right between the two, and it was fascinating to see him struggle to find his place, his own definition of what he was while the war was approaching.

Yes!! That was exactly what made me love him in the first place. I really hope they get over trying to make him the butt of every joke and make him COOL again, because I just rewatched season 4, and I REALLY miss the old Cas. :(

'damn, he looks fine. And so does Dean. Is it realllllly so bad for Sam to say yes if I get all this?'

Hahaha! Considering we'd get Lexa Doig and Samcifer as well? Nah, not so bad. ;)

SAM'S FACES WERE SO WORTH IT. About as awesome as Dean's 'that'll do, pig.' And 'LOOK WE DON'T HAVE A FRIDGE OKAY' --- lol white trash hick Winchesters > everything. THAT IS CLASS OKAY.

TOTALLY AGREED. LOL The "we don't have a fridge!" was seriously adorable. :D