SPN to date (in order from best to least liked episodes)

[karadinart]

Everbody Hates Hitler - Ben Edlund
(introduction of Aaron and his Golem and the Thule Society)

As Time Goes By - Adam Glass
(Dean and Sam meet Henry Winchester and the Men of Letters)

Hunter Heroici - Andrew Dabb
(Team Free Will - Sam, Dean and Cas enter a world of cartoon rules)

Citizen Fang - Daniel Loflin
(Benny is hunted by a former hunter who knew Dean and Sam as children)

Blood Brother - Ben Edlund
(Benny asks Dean to help him on a mission of revenge)

Pac-Man Fever - Robbie Thompson
(Charlie joins as a 'Woman of Letters' on a Djinn hunt)

Goodbye Stranger - Robbie Thompson
(Castiel asks Sam and Dean to help him find the angel tablet, Castiel is driven to attack Dean)

Torn and Frayed - Jenny Klein
(Castiel asks Sam and Dean to help him save the angel Samandriel)

What's Up Tiger Mommy - Dabb/Loflin
(Sam and Dean meet Kevin's mother and attend a supernatural auction)

The Great Escapist - Ben Edlund
(Sam and Dean hunt down Metatron - Castiel is captured by Naomi)

We Need To Talk About Kevin - Jeremy Carver
(season opener, Dean returns from Purgatory, Kevin translates the demon tablet)

Trial and Error - Andrew Dabb
(Sam and Dean take on the first trial to close the gates of Hell)

LARP and the Real Girl - Robbie Thompson
(Sam and Dean meet Charlie again, involved in real world role play)

A Little Slice of Kevin - Buckner/Ross-Leming
(Kevin is captured by Crowley and tortured, Cas returns from Purgatory)

Taxi Driver - Buckner/Ross-Leming
(Sam takes on the second trial going to Hell to save an innocent soul, Dean asks for Benny's help)

Southern Comfort - Adam Glass
(Sam, Dean and Garth investigate hauntings in the south, Garth tries to mediate between the brothers)

Remember the Titans - Daniel Loflin
(Sam and Dean meet a man who can't die)

Heartache - Buckner/Ross-Leming
(Sam and Dean investigate killings centered around an organ donor - rises above due to Jensen Ackles direction)

Freaks and Geeks - Adam Glass
(Sam and Dean run across a school for young hunters)

Bitten - Robbie Thompson
(three college students follow Sam and Dean who are in town investigating a werewolf case - not enough Sam and Dean, angsty teen melodrama)

Man's Best Friend With Benefits - Buckner/Ross-Leming
(an acquaintence of Sam and Dean's who is a cop is framed for murder because he is also a witch and someone resents his sexual relationship with his woman/dog/familiar as bad as it sounds)

On The Way:

Clip Show - Andrew Dabb
Sacrifice - Jeremy Carver (season ender)

Comments

[kinkthatwinked.livejournal.com]

I see none of Edlund's eps are at the bottom. ;) At least we're getting one more from him before the season's out.

"Man's Best Friend" is at the very bottom, as it frelling should be.

Man, I don't even remember "Heartache!"

I was actually kind of hoping to see S/D/C as cartoon characters in "Hunteri Heroici." I think I was spoiled by that one episode of Farscape that animated Crichton, Aeryn and D'Argo! :D

I couldn't help but notice all but one of Benny's episodes are in the top 10, and the one that didn't make it is the one that killed him off. You liked him too, I take it?

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I was hoping as co-showrunner this year,Ben could write some more episodes, but it's not his fault that Buckner/Ross-Leming do so badly with their eps!

I think they did well with Hunter Heroici considering the time and budget limits with the show. But yeah, there was a scene where Dean should have a had a circle of birds around his head when he hit himself with a book, the sound effects were there, but no animation. And it would have been great for Dean to see wings and a halo sprout up around Cas. XD

Ty did a fantastic job with Benny, and he and Jensen have great chemistry, I could have seen a whole series with Dean, Benny and Cas in Purgatory, that's one of the odd things about this season, it seemed one show (until the Men of Letters) and then morphed into another one.

At least they opened the door for Benny to come back, Dean didn't burn the bones.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I put shows in order of would I watch them again, and sadly, almost every monster of the week this year was an episode I wouldn't watch again. Some episodes went higher than others simply because Jensen, Jared or Misha had great scenes in them. Goodbye Stranger, for example, in retrospect, was a mess, as was last weeks Taxi Driver, those would have been better as two-parters, and drop some of the abysmal one-offs.