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 10:57 pm (UTC)I read them and decided I needed to steer clear of spoilers, lest my enjoyment of the show end before the 2nd season even began. Heh.
Female characters don't fit into this show. And I'm fine with that. If they want, they can introduce a previous character. I didn't mind Sarah, I'd like to see Missouri, or Kathleen.
They could. I wouldn't mind seeing a bona fide female hunter if she had characteristics that Sarah, Kathleen or that Hailey girl from Wendigo had. Tough, in control, smart - all things I think they're trying to portray with Jo. It's just not working, because all three of the women mentioned above had actual chemistry with Dean and/or Sam and she...as cute as she is...doesn't.
They have a lot of past characters that were interesting in general. Why introduce these lame ass ones instead? That's Kripke's fault for killing of Pastor Jim and Caleb. There was lots of potential there.
Huge potential. He set up the universe, then tore it right down before we could even get inside it. In place of a historic landmark, we've got a friggin' mini-mall. It's newer, it's shinier...and it's got no soul.
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Date: 2006-11-03 11:52 pm (UTC)I think Kripke needs to realize that most people don't care for these new characters and he should keep sticking with what worked, aka, the brothers on their own fighting demons. Hell, even having too much Daddy!Winchester tended to ruin the dynamic.
Kripke is taking something that was working fine and is trying to tweak it and all he's doing is messing it up in the process.
I could have understood if this was like 4 seasons down the line, and he felt he needed to change stuff up, open up their world a little bit, but it's only the second season and it's beginning to piss me off.
I love this show and I don't want it to go The OC route and watch it fall apart. This was always my biggest fear because I was a huge fan of The OC first season and was so disappointed with the second season, and well all the seasons after that. I just really don't want that happening to Supernatural.
And there's so much potential now that John is gone. I'd like to see the boys, broken, on their own, trying to come to terms with his death and keep up hunting and all the angst and drama that would come with that. Not the boys hanging out at a bar, while Ash researches and Jo and Dean fake banter with Sammy hiding out in the back somewhere.
And wow, I'm angry, lol.
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Date: 2006-11-07 06:35 pm (UTC)I'm avoiding fandom, but have seen a number of people who love the changes. It's a matter of perspective, I suppose...but overall? I balk at change when it's not necessary, and especially when it's, well, bad. These changes were really, really unnecessary, especially considering it's only the sophomore year of the show.
I could have understood if this was like 4 seasons down the line, and he felt he needed to change stuff up, open up their world a little bit, but it's only the second season and it's beginning to piss me off.
Exactly right.
And wow, I'm angry, lol.
Right there with you.