Taxi Driver

[brightly_lit]

Okay ... now I'm REALLY confused. How did a Ross-Leming-and-Buckner episode ("Taxi Driver") end up being one of the best episodes of the season??

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[kalliel]

To quote Professor McGonagall, "Sheer dumb luck?" XP This is what I always think when I remember that they wrote that one scene I like so much at the beginning of 7x05. I JUST REALLY LIKE THAT SCENE. ALL LIKE, ONE MINUTE OF IT.

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

I've discovered they actually have a talent! THEYS GOOD AT THE FEELS. Even in the Racist Truck episode, on second viewing, the Sam-and-Dean relationshippy stuff was good! In fact--dare I say it?--they seem better at that stuff than any of the other writers still on the staff (now that Sera and Ben and Raelle and anyone else who could do it ALL is gone).

Now we just need Carver to be a good manager and make each writer do what they're best at, so all the writers will work on every episode: these guys can write the relationship arcs, Dabb can do humor, Loflin can do season arcs, Glass can do recurring minor characters, Klein can address all their shipping needs, and Thompson can fill in the gaps. I HAVE SOLVED THEIR PROBLEMS, YOU'RE WELCOME CW, I WILL TAKE THE TITLE AND PAYCHECK OF EXEC PRODUCER PLEASE AND THANKS.

[cuddyclothes.livejournal.com]

Taxi Driver--? It drove me crazy by retconning so much canon. For instance, it was so easy to get in and out of Purgatory. Why did Dean spend all of that time there? Rogue reapers? Is Death not minding the store? And hell looked so...chintzy. And wouldn't Sam have PTSD like nobody's business, re-entering the place that almost destroyed him? And the innocent soul had to be Bobby...I could go on but I'm glad you liked the episode.

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, it had all those problems and more (those writers can't write anything that makes sense at all, plot-wise). I suppose it speaks more to how comparatively unfavorably I've viewed the rest of the season than how good this episode was overall--that it's one of the best episodes of the season doesn't mean I think it's, ya know, good. I've discovered those writers do actually have one talent, though, even though plotting and keeping track of places and history and everything else is out the window with them, and that talent is a good, feels-y relationship scene, between Sam and Dean, and especially, Dean and Benny.

But yes, I was snickering about everything you mentioned. I also liked that though Dean was constantly attacked the whole time he was in purgatory, Sam traipsed along with one incident that didn't even muss his perfect hair, and Benny and Dean killed attackers, including leviathans, by the dozen, but Benny appeared to succomb to a lousy trio of vampires he could have taken on (and did) on Earth with no problem at all. ('Chintzy,' hee, yes.)