SPN: The Kids Are Alright
Oct. 11th, 2007 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
superbadgirlThe negative qualities of tonight's episode far outweigh the positives.
The Bad:
1) Dean and Sam doing the brother thing - all of, what, 3 minutes?
2) The mini-Dean. Barf.
3) Psycho kids will be done much better in my fic.
4) Ruby just showing up all over the place. She's like a stain on your carpet - even ifyou clean it, chances are it'll pop back up again. Bleh.
5) Did I mention lack of brother moments?
6) Anti-climactic end to the monster of the week, but then there wasn't really a build up, was there?
7) Ruby. BLEH!
8) I didn't even like the music.
9) I still don't buy Dean as he is, and frankly Sam keeping secrets isn't really making me happy either. Especially big ones.
10) Why do you hate me as a viewer, PTB?
The Good:
Er. They looked good?
*sigh* I'm afraid I'm not woman enough to stick around and hope this shapes up. The previews for next week looked dreadful. I'll give it 6 episodes, and if it's still made of suckiness, I think for my own love of Sam and Dean I will have to stop watching.
Yes, I know I'm apparently in the very tiny minority on how I feel about this episode.
The Bad:
1) Dean and Sam doing the brother thing - all of, what, 3 minutes?
2) The mini-Dean. Barf.
3) Psycho kids will be done much better in my fic.
4) Ruby just showing up all over the place. She's like a stain on your carpet - even ifyou clean it, chances are it'll pop back up again. Bleh.
5) Did I mention lack of brother moments?
6) Anti-climactic end to the monster of the week, but then there wasn't really a build up, was there?
7) Ruby. BLEH!
8) I didn't even like the music.
9) I still don't buy Dean as he is, and frankly Sam keeping secrets isn't really making me happy either. Especially big ones.
10) Why do you hate me as a viewer, PTB?
The Good:
Er. They looked good?
*sigh* I'm afraid I'm not woman enough to stick around and hope this shapes up. The previews for next week looked dreadful. I'll give it 6 episodes, and if it's still made of suckiness, I think for my own love of Sam and Dean I will have to stop watching.
Yes, I know I'm apparently in the very tiny minority on how I feel about this episode.
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Date: 2007-10-12 04:13 pm (UTC)And again not outside the realm of possibility - I just really hate that tendency to make a kid a carbon copy of a father he neve knew and therefore wouldn't get behavioral cues from. You know?
Ruby just had me rolling my eyes. She's a total Buffy clone attempt. Even her speech patterns seem to be trying to mimic the style. I even called her being a demon or having demon-derived powers right from the start. She even has a "magic blade" like Buffy did in later seasons.
I think many who were unspoiled figured her out. They weren't exactly subtle. It makes her slightly more tolerable, but not much. I admit some of my resentment/dislike of her comes from the same reason I didn't like Jo - Jo separated Dean from Sam. Now we get Sam with more interaction with Random Badass Mystery Demon Woman than with Dean. That's not all her fault...and yet it is, because if they hadn't written her in, then it wouldn't be happening. LOL, fear my illogic!
As for the momma changeling - total writer's convenience. They didn't know there was a mom. I don't know what they were going to do once they freed the real kids. Whup, let's not deal with that unpleasantness and move on to Dean/Bendy Woman and Sam/RBMDW.
Also, I hate that every time someone tells Sam it's about him he acts all stunned and confused. Was he or was he not the one in S1 who kept saying it was about him? They're making a supposed genius stupid and I always hate that.
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Date: 2007-10-12 04:49 pm (UTC)Well, my mother has said I've freaked her out more than one because I do things like her paternal grandmother, who (a) died before I was born, and (b) was not even a blood relative (my grandfather's mother died when he was two). ;) But yeah, it does push it with the behavioral stuff being so over-the-top, especially an eight year old cruising for chicks.
I admit some of my resentment/dislike of her comes from the same reason I didn't like Jo - Jo separated Dean from Sam.
What doesn't really make much sense to me is they said they were bringing in the new characters to give the actors a rest. Seems to me they're in the episode almost as much, just not with each other. I guess maybe filming one guy with one of the girls gives the other some sort of downtime though.
As for the momma changeling - total writer's convenience. They didn't know there was a mom. I don't know what they were going to do once they freed the real kids. Whup, let's not deal with that unpleasantness and move on to Dean/Bendy Woman and Sam/RBMDW.
They could have made it work by saying something about the "children" actually being extensions of the Momma Changeling or something along those lines. They couldn't exist without her because they were essentially extensions of her.
But then I'm one who likes the Monster of the Week stuff, to see what twists they put on it. I don't think Whedon would have skipped over that bit, or if he did, there would have been a reason for it.
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Date: 2007-10-12 05:22 pm (UTC)I can get some genetic predisposition, but the kid was playacting Dean almost exactly. Including the way he dressed. Come ON.
What doesn't really make much sense to me is they said they were bringing in the new characters to give the actors a rest. Seems to me they're in the episode almost as much, just not with each other. I guess maybe filming one guy with one of the girls gives the other some sort of downtime though.
Totally. And I am arghing about it. ;)
But then I'm one who likes the Monster of the Week stuff, to see what twists they put on it. I don't think Whedon would have skipped over that bit, or if he did, there would have been a reason for it.
It's just not very good storytelling. Some leaps are okay, because the audience isn't stupid, but some really just make me not know what the fuck.
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Date: 2007-10-15 01:13 am (UTC)That's called "Our audience is too stupid to get subtle, so let's get out the sledgehammer." Wonder if it's on loan from Bridge Studios? ;)
It's just not very good storytelling. Some leaps are okay, because the audience isn't stupid, but some really just make me not know what the fuck.
The audience isn't stupid, but those making the shows tend to think we are.
I'm not heavy into Supernatural fandom, I just discuss it in LJ-land, but I have followed some links to "discussions" where anyone who complains about the new additions are quickly shouted down as not being "true fans" because they're not trusting TPTB.
Sorry, but I've been around the fandom block too many times to trust TPTB blindly, especially when it's been shown time and time again that it's not one person, but many, who make the final decision. I might trust the creative process of the writers, but I don't trust that it won't be interfered with by the studio.
Those who follow a leader without question tend to be the first ones in line for the Kool-Aid.
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Date: 2007-10-15 04:30 pm (UTC)I'm just so naive, because this mentality ALWAYS confuses me, whether it be in fandom or in real life.
Sorry, but I've been around the fandom block too many times to trust TPTB blindly, especially when it's been shown time and time again that it's not one person, but many, who make the final decision. I might trust the creative process of the writers, but I don't trust that it won't be interfered with by the studio.
Exactly. For the writers, it might be creative expression, but it's equal parts business. They, ultimately, write to get paid and if the payer of the bills says they want X, then that's what the creative team does.