# When bad twists happen to good TV shows

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-bad-twists-happen-to-good-tv-shows/536237>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 15, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-bad-twists-happen-to-good-tv-shows/536237 "2010-04-15T18:08:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-bad-twists-happen-to-good-tv-shows/536237/41 "2010-04-22T17:19:45Z")

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Yeah, that whole season of _The Wire_ was pretty disappointing. Not the way you want to go out as a TV show.

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**Author:** ![Robbin\_Hood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Robbin\_Hood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robbin_Hood)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-bad-twists-happen-to-good-tv-shows/536237/42 "2010-04-22T17:32:30Z")

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> [@Kyla](#):
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> I am still really irked with the twist that Supernatural threw into last week’s episode. (Hopefully it won’t turn out to be a major plot point.)
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> [spoiler]Dean is at the end of his tether, so he pretty much runs away at the very end of the episode. I’m going “ooh, where’s Dean going, this is interesting” - until it turns out that he’s going to see an old hook-up from like, ten years ago. WTF? We know this because she was in an episode two seasons ago, and it’s implied that her son MAY be a product of this hook-up. Dean gets all teary - as is par for the course - and says that whenever he imagines being happy, it’s with her and her son.
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> WTF?!?! I can see that Dean would like to settle down and have a family. This I can buy. But with a woman he had a fun weekend with TEN YEARS AGO who has only been mentioned TWICE over the course of the whole series? This is the love of his life? Ugh, it is the shittiest, most pathetic retconning ever. I get what the writers were trying to show, but it’s totally unbelievable.
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> And this woman tries to get him to come in and starts crying, too? I’m sorry, what woman, upon opening the door to see a guy she had a one-night stand with years and years ago, doesn’t totally freak out when he says that he’s always dreamed of having a life with her? Even Dean Winchester isn’t _that_ good-looking.[/spoiler]
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> I seriously just gaped in astonishment at the television. What the fucking fuck was that?

I TOTALLY agree!

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