Tonight’s Supernatural went fantasy-heavy, just as it did last episode. I mentioned in my last review about my difficulty in buying into that kind of story-telling; it feels just too fantasy-like to really jive with my view of the show. That’s a ridiculous statement and an absurd standard to apply to a show that has dealt with fairies and the Four Horsemen of the freaking apocalypse but here I am. However, though I’m not really into this particular branch of storytelling choice, I do want to praise Supernatural for a second. In a show such as Supernatural (that is, a network drama with full season episode orders), there is a lot of time and space to fill. Depending on how serialized a show is, you might be able to squeeze ten to fifteen episodes worth of real season-plot, leaving you with seven to twelve episodes of empty time. The conventional wisdom is that you leave…
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