What a long, sad trip it's been

I don't know anything about Dungeons and Dragons but I do know that the premise of this week's episode was almost entirely plagiarized from Neil Gaiman's American Gods. They have ripped off Gaiman in the past, but never so blatantly, and while Gaiman apparently does not have a problem with it, I have to admit that I do. If the show's writers are going to make fun of us for writing Supernatural fanfic, then surely they deserve to be mocked for writing Neil Gaiman fanfic -- and not even doing a very good job of it. The teleplay for this episode was from the crack team of Loflin and Dabb and while they pulled off some good moments in "Dark Side of the Moon," I am back to wondering why these two guys are given so many episodes to write, when most of them, in my opinion, have been such clunkers. If it's true that they were brought onto the show because they are old friends of Ben Edlund, then I'd like to suggest that Mr. Edlund find himself some new friends.