In the seventh episode of the tenth season of\u00c2\u00a0Supernatural<\/i>, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot going on in this episode. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0Supernatural<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trigger Warning: For talk of sex work and anti-sex-worker bias, misogyny<\/b>.<\/p>\n
Seriously, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just too much here. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like four episodes in one!<\/p>\n
Hannah<\/b><\/p>\n
I guess I get her full story now, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s taken this show seven episode to finally get to a point where the plot doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel aimless. I admit that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m completely uninterested in the romantic comedy tropes invoked in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Girls, Girls, Girls\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no substance in them. What exactly comes to pass due to what happens here? I think the writers want us to believe that Hannah kisses Castiel and that helps her realize that she must part ways with her vessel. Sort of? Obviously, if Joe hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sought out his missing wife, this wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have happened so soon, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ultimately the problem with this episode. The story had been wandering about the show for six episodes, and then, over the course of maybe ten minutes total, 90% of the story happens. It absolutely feels rushed.<\/p>\n
So will we see Hannah again or is her story completely done? I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really tell, to be honest.<\/p>\n
Cole<\/b><\/p>\n
Was Cole\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s whole purpose here to provide Rowena with the means to escape Dean? Where the\u00c2\u00a0hell<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0did he come from? There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an interesting story here to be told, buried somewhere within this cluttered and overcrowded script, but most of it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get to the surface. Travis Aaron Wade does his best to switch between rage and sadness, but it was hard for me to get past how bland this development felt. Like, how does Dean\u00c2\u00a0not<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0know what kind of monster Cole\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dad was, yet he was certain in killing him? And are we supposed to accept that Cole buys Dean\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story and won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ever do anything further? If this story was given more time, I might have found it more compelling, but it suffers from the same issue as Hannah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plot. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s too little for me to feel attached to it.<\/p>\n
Raul<\/b>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Girls<\/b><\/p>\n
At times, this episode felt actively misogynist. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to watch\u00c2\u00a0Supernatural<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0when women are so consistently objectified as they are here, and it certainly doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help when the show repeatedly fucks up any sort of representation of sex workers. Seriously, all three of the characters here are portrayed as airheaded and naive, unable to navigate a world without someone controlling them. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of the most pervasive and damaging stereotypes about sex workers, and the show doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even bother to make any of these characters seem different from one another. And I experience no shame in calling this show \u00e2\u20ac\u0153aggressively straight\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at this point because\u00c2\u00a0oh my god<\/i>, could you confirm to us that Dean Winchester is a red-blooded American who likes woman again? Could you,\u00c2\u00a0Supernatural<\/i>? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d forgotten this was the case.<\/p>\n
I know I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t complain about this as much as I am if the show had offered us anything else, but it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. None of the three sex workers really matter to the story. What even happened to the third one of them? Where did she go? Just ran off in the alley after punching Rowena? Does she even get the dignity of closure? It just feels so\u00c2\u00a0lazy<\/i>, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all.<\/p>\n
Rowena<\/b><\/p>\n
And yet I found myself intrigued by Rowena. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clearly got a ton of secrets to reveal, and she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sure of her own power. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m interested in the idea that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s trying to recruit women to join a new coven of her own and that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d seek out women who were exploited or taken advantage of. Except I think that she just wants to do the very same thing herself, unfortunately. While I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t doubt that she ultimately wants to build a new coven, she mostly uses the sex workers here for her own ends.<\/p>\n
So what is it that Rowena\u00c2\u00a0wants<\/i>? If she trains new witches, is her goal some form of domination? A power grab? Something else? I find Ruth Connell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s acting to be so mesmerizing that Rowena becomes fascinating just by default, but I definitely need to know more. Of course, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m avoiding the big reveal, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s because I wanted to talk about the story that happened\u00c2\u00a0before<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0we found out that ROWENA IS CROWLEY\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S MOTHER. Oh.\u00c2\u00a0OH<\/i>. Is\u00c2\u00a0that<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0why she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s here? Does she want to replace or take down the King of Hell? Offer her powers? SOMETHING ELSE?<\/p>\n
Jesus, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, look at Crowley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face during that final scene. PRETTY MUCH MADE THE EPISODE WORTH IT.<\/p>\n
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