07.30 Kyle XY
08.30 Supernatural
Kyle XY. Season 3, Episode 10. "Bringing Down the House" The final episode finds Kyle sabotaging the plans of Latnok, while Amanda and Jesse team up...
Great episode. But a pretty lousy final episode. The show ends with major cliff-hangers. Some shows get a sense of closure before they are cancelled. Kyle XY did not. And it's a great pity. This show was really hitting it's stride, I think. And the cancellation came at a very bad time for the stories in progress.
So, under the circumstances, one must take what pleasure they can from the episode.
All the elements that made this a cool (and unique) show are on display here. Good teen drama, good family drama, good sci-fi stories and a modicum of action. Our hero's love triangle gets more complicated in this episode, while his foster brother tries to deal with losing his girlfriend. The strong relationship between our hero and his foster mother gets a good airing in this episode. Which is, I suppose, fitting since their relationship is one of the core elements of the show, and has been since the pilot when she first met him and took him in.
Finally, you have the revelation of Latnok's plot. It's not bad, actually. A pretty cool storyline. And we get to see Kyle doing some superhuman stuff when he goes in to destroy everything.
Jesse gets to be a real superheroine in this one: kicking in doors and throwing bad guys around (to save Amanda). Amanda was really well written in this episode. Obviously the writers had no intention of writing her out.
Pity the show ended so abruptly.
Supernatural. Season 4, Episode 7. "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester" The boys go after a witch who is planning to raise a very powerful demon on Halloween.
Misha Collins is proving to be as good an addition to the regular cast as Jim Beaver was/is. Guy plays Castiel like he has the weight of the world on his shoulders. And I love it.
But this was a Sam episode. And quite a powerful one, too.
TV often gives us heroes who cross a line to do something good. But their actions are bad and they (sometimes) must pay the price.
Modern TV heroes like Jack Bauer do this all the time, so it's easy to forget that most of our lead characters don't cross the line every week. Most never do. One of the most famous crossing the lines moments occured at the end of the Magnum, PI episode "Did You See the Sunrise?" in which Thomas Magnum confronts and shoots the bad guy in cold blood. We know it's the 'right' thing, but it's being done at a cost. It's also the most controvertial, most famous episode of Magnum, PI. And, as goes without saying, it has the best ending (final frame), too.
The current story-arc on Supernatural finds Sam dealing with powers he shouldn't have, powers that came from an evil source and (in this episode) using those powers to defeat the bad-guy-of-the-week (in an awesome way). Sam's confrontation with the demon was exciting on multiple levels: the defeat of the bad guy, the fascination of seeing Sam using his powers again, and the horror on Dean's face as he watched...
Great to see Don McManus on the show. He was great on 24 recently and in a hundred other roles. I've been a fan ever since his time on "Cracker".
Highlight? Kyle XY (final episode)
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