Wednesday’s Watching Supernatural 12.14 “The Raid”


WEDNESDAY’S WATCHING
Supernatural 12.14
Writer: Robert Berens
Director: Johnny MacCarthy
Director of Photography C.S.C: Serge Ladouceur
Airdate: 2. 3. 2017
BY WEDNESDAY
WHAT DID I WATCH?
  
 
THE SCRIPT
Either this script includes hidden motivations and foreshadowing, or it is what it is:
a “good” Monster of the Week with unsatisfactory, contrived resolutions and troubling questions.
  
 
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 
 
   
  
   
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  
 CINEMATOGRAPHY AND PRODUCTION
JUXTAPOSITION
  
 
 
  
  
 
MOTIF: HANDS
 
 
 
 
 
 
LIGHTING/RED
 
 
ANGLES (P.O.V.)
 
 
 
  
  
 
High Angle Zoom Out Ending
  
  
 
SET/LOCATION
“I really dig the whole low-budget, Mission Impossible vibe”
  
 
 
  
  
 
VFX
 
  
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EYE CANDY BABY!
  
 
 
  
  
  
 
RIVETING PERFORMANCES
Such astonishing talent for such brief roles!
 
The BMOL characters who left us wanting more:
 
 
David Haydn-Jones as Arthur Ketch
  
  
  
 
   
 
Jensen Ackles as seething Dean
  
  
 
Samantha Smith as Deadly Mary
 
  
 
 
  
       
 
Jared Padalecki as Overwhelmed Sam
  
  
  
  
    
  
 
FROM THE REAR VIEW
 
 
  
  
 
The Colt firing and killing Azazel in 2.22 “All Hell Breaks Loose: Part Two”
 
“That was for our mom, you son of a bitch.”
  
 
 
 
RATING: 3 bottles of “incredibly rare, unspeakably expensive, barrel proof Scotch” out of 5
  
   


 
		
 
			 
			 
			 
			 
			 
			
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