Tonight’s Supernatural was a character deep-dive, of which I am a fan. Like most people I believe the characters make a story interesting, much more so than any sort of convoluted plot. In this episode we got the return of both Donna Hanscum and Jody Mills, and what a pleasant pair those two turned out to be. The gender diversity was a nice break from the typical Winchesterness of the show, especially as it marches towards the inevitable darksiding of Dean into Mark!Dean. I was really pleased to see Donna’s life and backstory be explored a bit as she is a character that could easily be turned into strict comic relief and I really wanted more for her. But even as much as I enjoyed the character exploration, I was really disappointed in the overall story arc. Outside of Jody, Donna, Dean, and Sam, the other characters only existed to…
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