Supernatural: No Exit
Nov. 2nd, 2006 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
superbadgirlUgh.
Thank goodness I'm brunette.
I don't even know where to begin. I spent half the episode wondering if anything was ever going to happen, and the other half wishing it would just be over already and looking for that non-existent exit.
This is probably hard to believe, but I'm not opposed to the idea of having recurring characters. If the right ones had been involved here, I might not have thought this episode was as dreadful as it was. Alas, the wrong new characters are pretty much all TPTB have given us this year.
Really, having someone in the kind of peril Jo was in should have evoked some kind of reaction, shouldn't it have? It didn't in me, though whoever wrote this made sure to hammer home that Dean was frantic to find the chick. I didn't pick up any shippy vibes (though I've no doubt that's what Jo and Dean were supposed to be giving off). If anything, it was more annoyance on Dean's part...and then his frantic search seemed more like he felt responsible for the green hunter who'd suckered him into letting her tag along. Ugh.
All Jo All Episode wasn't as terrible as it could have been, but NOTHING about this show was an acceptable reason to backseat Sam. And the same would be true if Sam had had a more active role and Dean was sent out for coffee or to "check the south side of the building." Watching one brother with some other person (especially one with whom he shares no chemistry) while the other pops in now and again is not why I watch this show. I get that they have a tough shooting schedule and they get tired. I really do. I can even feel bad for them, but damn - I work two jobs and really don't enjoy either; they're tolerable and they pay the bills, but I don't wake up excited to go do them. At least JA and JP love their exhausting job. (<--lol, different rant. I'll shut up.)
Please, boys, use that laptop I saw you puttering around on with the information Ash pulled together for you. You did it before. You can do it again. Did I say please? PLEASE. Stop using Ash as your go-to guy. Amazing how I could be annoyed by that guy when he didn't even make an actual appearance.
There were a couple of nice Dean moments. I would just prefer he have those moments with his brother and not Ms. Chippy.
I'd say the final ghostie showdown was anticlimactic, but that would imply there was suspense before the lame ending.
Ellen. WTF? So, Ms. Chuckles-Good-To-See-John-Winchester's-Boys-Come-On-In-I-Loves-You suddenly has issues with them and John. Okay, we knew she had issues with John, but it really makes no sense to me that she's all kind and helpful...except, really, she doesn't trust them farther than she can throw them. And if she wanted her daughter to avoid them, she should have told Ms. Chippy the truth. It's not their fault that she didn't, and it's not their fault her beloved husband got killed on a hunt with John. How does she know he screwed up and that's how hubby got dead? Maybe hubby screwed up all on his own. AND...if the only reason she maintains the bar is because her husband was a hunter, but she doesn't want her daughter in the life, why, why, why hasn't she ever, y'know, shut the fucking place down and got a different job? I mean, really. The. Roadhouse. Makes. No. Sense.
LOL, listen to me rant. These issues have been cumulating, so it's not just this episode that's making me fly off the handle.
It wasn't all bad, though. I found an emory board and had ample time to make my nails look great during the parts I found uninteresting. Which was most of the hour.
Thank goodness I'm brunette.
I don't even know where to begin. I spent half the episode wondering if anything was ever going to happen, and the other half wishing it would just be over already and looking for that non-existent exit.
This is probably hard to believe, but I'm not opposed to the idea of having recurring characters. If the right ones had been involved here, I might not have thought this episode was as dreadful as it was. Alas, the wrong new characters are pretty much all TPTB have given us this year.
Really, having someone in the kind of peril Jo was in should have evoked some kind of reaction, shouldn't it have? It didn't in me, though whoever wrote this made sure to hammer home that Dean was frantic to find the chick. I didn't pick up any shippy vibes (though I've no doubt that's what Jo and Dean were supposed to be giving off). If anything, it was more annoyance on Dean's part...and then his frantic search seemed more like he felt responsible for the green hunter who'd suckered him into letting her tag along. Ugh.
All Jo All Episode wasn't as terrible as it could have been, but NOTHING about this show was an acceptable reason to backseat Sam. And the same would be true if Sam had had a more active role and Dean was sent out for coffee or to "check the south side of the building." Watching one brother with some other person (especially one with whom he shares no chemistry) while the other pops in now and again is not why I watch this show. I get that they have a tough shooting schedule and they get tired. I really do. I can even feel bad for them, but damn - I work two jobs and really don't enjoy either; they're tolerable and they pay the bills, but I don't wake up excited to go do them. At least JA and JP love their exhausting job. (<--lol, different rant. I'll shut up.)
Please, boys, use that laptop I saw you puttering around on with the information Ash pulled together for you. You did it before. You can do it again. Did I say please? PLEASE. Stop using Ash as your go-to guy. Amazing how I could be annoyed by that guy when he didn't even make an actual appearance.
There were a couple of nice Dean moments. I would just prefer he have those moments with his brother and not Ms. Chippy.
I'd say the final ghostie showdown was anticlimactic, but that would imply there was suspense before the lame ending.
Ellen. WTF? So, Ms. Chuckles-Good-To-See-John-Winchester's-Boys-Come-On-In-I-Loves-You suddenly has issues with them and John. Okay, we knew she had issues with John, but it really makes no sense to me that she's all kind and helpful...except, really, she doesn't trust them farther than she can throw them. And if she wanted her daughter to avoid them, she should have told Ms. Chippy the truth. It's not their fault that she didn't, and it's not their fault her beloved husband got killed on a hunt with John. How does she know he screwed up and that's how hubby got dead? Maybe hubby screwed up all on his own. AND...if the only reason she maintains the bar is because her husband was a hunter, but she doesn't want her daughter in the life, why, why, why hasn't she ever, y'know, shut the fucking place down and got a different job? I mean, really. The. Roadhouse. Makes. No. Sense.
LOL, listen to me rant. These issues have been cumulating, so it's not just this episode that's making me fly off the handle.
It wasn't all bad, though. I found an emory board and had ample time to make my nails look great during the parts I found uninteresting. Which was most of the hour.
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Date: 2006-11-03 05:49 pm (UTC)Yes. It's that age-old "fiction has to make sense, where real life can be absolutely crazy" thing. Writers have to make sure the world they're creating is actually workable, and they have to have solid, explanable reasons for what they do and who they bring on.
Maybe SPN's PTB have solid, explanable reasons for all this tripe, but it's too late now. They've already established something I don't buy, and no amount of explaining is likely to make me change my mind.
That whole scene was maybe a minute or two, but it said a lot. We got some insight into Sam, some insight into Dean, saw some brotherly interaction, saw how resourceful and persistent they can be, and saw how they get this information.
Yes, I miss that so much. Such small things can sometimes make a great difference.
I agree. destina mentioned that it seemed OOC for Dean to lie to Ellen like that, and I agree with that.
Dean's OOC with Jo, that's for sure. And he's OOC with Ellen as well. Both are reason enough for me to dislike the characters...because I don't want to dislike Dean.
This smacks of Daniel with Vala.
I bet they get paid a lot more, too! *g* And I get it, too. Toolman and I sometimes had four or five different jobs between us--and he was in the military which required him to spend two nights a week at the base back then, standing duty (going out on cases) while also working full-time at the base on week days and pumping gas on weekends or painting houses or whatever. It wasn't easy, but we did it.
It's damned exhausting at times (like the weeks when it seems every stupid tenant locks themselves out at midnight or later), but you do it and you carry on. I'd be a lot more chipper about it if I actually enjoyed the work. ;)
LOL I admit I'm glad that at least one other person feels this way. Everyone else seems to love Ash.
Ash as a character is amusing...but I don't like his purpose at all.
Bwah! You probably saw that I wrote almost the same thing. LOL
It boggles the mind. The woman clearly wants to control her daughter and prevent her from living the hunter lifestyle. Her husband's been dead for 10 years, FCOL. She should have moved her daughter outside that influence right away if that was a concern. Duh.
I agree with you about the rest, too. I really hated that. It seems like they're trying to make John even more of a "bad guy" so that it will make us have sympathy for Ellen and Jo. It's not working for me.
Ugh.
hehe I wasn't totally bored, but then...I'm not usually riveted by the plots of any of the SPN episodes. This episode didn't give me much of what I watch the show for, and the little it gave was off or just wrong, for the most part.
Part of it might have been that Criminal Minds did a "lock the pretty girls in an underground box" episode on Wednesday night, and they did it SO much better.