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superbadgirl) wrote2007-10-18 10:26 pm
superbadgirl) wrote2007-10-18 10:26 pm
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SPN: Bad Day at Black Rock
Or whatever it was called. I really wish they'd pick better titles.
Which isn't saying much, considering how clearly I stated I didn't enjoy the first two of the season. There were good moments, there were WTF moments, there was bad acting and bad dialogue and then there was cute Sam.
Whu...what? Suddenly John's got weapons and bad things in storage, Bobby knows about it but never bothered to mention it until someone who also mysteriously knew of Secret Storage Room of Doom happened to break in? SBG doesn't know what the fuck. (I particularly hated that they had Dean deliver the "aw, shucks, that sneaky old John" line.)
I really like Gordon, but I hate that they keep playing him as a one trick pony. I think the character could be more, and I think Sterling K. Brown could DO so much more. They've made him a flat villian, when I don't think he's a villian at all. He's misguided and misinformed, yes, but he's not ooooohevil. And if they make him say "Sam Winchester must die" one more time, I will cry and start writing letters. Not only is it an over the top stupid line, it reminds me of that awful movie from a few years back - John Tucker Must Die. I do not want to associate revenge-bent high school girls with Gordon, damnit.
Ben Edlund can usually tell entertaining stories, and this one was for the most part...but his stories, I think, also have the humor tipping the scale just a little too much. Ha ha, look at all the bad things happen to Sam, never mind that all that bad stuff will eventually lead to DEATH and that's not, y'know, funny. I don't know, I guess I prefer dark humor for this particular show. As cute as JP was with all the slapstick, I hope they keep Ben Edlund away from him in the near future.
Yay, brothers together pretty much until minute 37, when it started to kind of suck. However, the dialogue and certain something even between JA and JP is still off. I'll take what I can get at this point, but it's still noticeable to me. My theory is that the long killer hours together is what made the show rock so hard before, and now that that complaint has apparently been addressed, there's less clickage. It's like they did a hard shut down and when they re-booted they did it in safe mode and the screen's all wonky. Except on a people level. Or am I delusional? I can't be the only one feeling it, or rather not feeling it.
Bela. Oy. You know, I don't hate her. Like Ruby, though, I don't get why she's there. Like Ruby, her character feels shoved in and it's all wrong and off. Ill thought out. In fact, I think it's even dumber than the Roadhouse. Bobby's "Oh, yeah, I know this thief, ran into her a few times" just makes me cringe and wish he wasn't involved at all. Plus, she's got a serious underbite and a strange mouth thing when she talks. I know I've got a prejudice, but actors who move their mouths funny really throw me. (See: Vanessa Angel as Anise/Freya on SG-1, the dude who plays Allison's brother on Medium.) I also tend to think it's a bad idea to have people from Pennsylvania try for some kind of British accent*. Maybe that's why she does the weird mouth things? Either way, she's not a good enough actress to pull it off regardless of where she's from, I'm afraid.
*and if she's legitimately British, then my bad, but then it's all bad acting on her part.
Mostly I seriously dislike the whole pairing off each of the brothers with the new hot chicks. Just...ugh. Like there isn't enough weird-ass, unfathomable ship out in fandom?
I think I puked a little when Dean pulled out his "I can read people" schtick more than once.
A Jesus-freak hunter? Come ON. That was really stupid.
"Yeah. You're Batman." LOL. Okay, the way that line was delivered was actually funny.
Which isn't saying much, considering how clearly I stated I didn't enjoy the first two of the season. There were good moments, there were WTF moments, there was bad acting and bad dialogue and then there was cute Sam.
Whu...what? Suddenly John's got weapons and bad things in storage, Bobby knows about it but never bothered to mention it until someone who also mysteriously knew of Secret Storage Room of Doom happened to break in? SBG doesn't know what the fuck. (I particularly hated that they had Dean deliver the "aw, shucks, that sneaky old John" line.)
I really like Gordon, but I hate that they keep playing him as a one trick pony. I think the character could be more, and I think Sterling K. Brown could DO so much more. They've made him a flat villian, when I don't think he's a villian at all. He's misguided and misinformed, yes, but he's not ooooohevil. And if they make him say "Sam Winchester must die" one more time, I will cry and start writing letters. Not only is it an over the top stupid line, it reminds me of that awful movie from a few years back - John Tucker Must Die. I do not want to associate revenge-bent high school girls with Gordon, damnit.
Ben Edlund can usually tell entertaining stories, and this one was for the most part...but his stories, I think, also have the humor tipping the scale just a little too much. Ha ha, look at all the bad things happen to Sam, never mind that all that bad stuff will eventually lead to DEATH and that's not, y'know, funny. I don't know, I guess I prefer dark humor for this particular show. As cute as JP was with all the slapstick, I hope they keep Ben Edlund away from him in the near future.
Yay, brothers together pretty much until minute 37, when it started to kind of suck. However, the dialogue and certain something even between JA and JP is still off. I'll take what I can get at this point, but it's still noticeable to me. My theory is that the long killer hours together is what made the show rock so hard before, and now that that complaint has apparently been addressed, there's less clickage. It's like they did a hard shut down and when they re-booted they did it in safe mode and the screen's all wonky. Except on a people level. Or am I delusional? I can't be the only one feeling it, or rather not feeling it.
Bela. Oy. You know, I don't hate her. Like Ruby, though, I don't get why she's there. Like Ruby, her character feels shoved in and it's all wrong and off. Ill thought out. In fact, I think it's even dumber than the Roadhouse. Bobby's "Oh, yeah, I know this thief, ran into her a few times" just makes me cringe and wish he wasn't involved at all. Plus, she's got a serious underbite and a strange mouth thing when she talks. I know I've got a prejudice, but actors who move their mouths funny really throw me. (See: Vanessa Angel as Anise/Freya on SG-1, the dude who plays Allison's brother on Medium.) I also tend to think it's a bad idea to have people from Pennsylvania try for some kind of British accent*. Maybe that's why she does the weird mouth things? Either way, she's not a good enough actress to pull it off regardless of where she's from, I'm afraid.
*and if she's legitimately British, then my bad, but then it's all bad acting on her part.
Mostly I seriously dislike the whole pairing off each of the brothers with the new hot chicks. Just...ugh. Like there isn't enough weird-ass, unfathomable ship out in fandom?
I think I puked a little when Dean pulled out his "I can read people" schtick more than once.
A Jesus-freak hunter? Come ON. That was really stupid.
"Yeah. You're Batman." LOL. Okay, the way that line was delivered was actually funny.
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I went WTF? at that "idjit" bit myself. They didn't know what would happen, and it's certainly not Dean who's the idiot at that moment. Sam's the one who grabbed the thing.
I can appreciate absurd humor - I mean, I wrote a story in which both Sam and Dean spend most of the time crying at insane thing - but there has to be balance, some sort of tangible link that they still understand the gravity of the situation. Even when Sam got shot at the end, I didn't feel the angst. Dean was pissed, but he didn't even move toward Sam.
Gordon is kind of boring and repetitive, the new hunters were scary, but not really in a "wow, I want to see them again" way. More like the "ew, see the gross full tick I pulled off my dog" way. The scary you want to throw away and forget about.
It makes me bad. And it bothers me that the two people doggedly after them are black male characters (Hendrickson, if he ever shows up this year) who haven't been fleshed out as anything but villains to our heroes. Neither of them ARE that cut and dried, and I wish that angle would be presented more effectively. I also think both actors deserve more.
I didn't like the Jesus freak hunters because they're giving all other Jesus freaks a bad name. Like the die-hard evangelicals mucking it up for the normal Christians. ;)
Bela was irritating--she did talk funny, both the accent and the mouth thing were weird. I also don't see how they can possibly redeem her after her having SHOT Sam. Deliberately. Maliciously. Not the kind of thing you can really get over. I honestly expected Dean to just shoot her where she stood for doing that. He still had the rabbit's foot, he should have succeeded. I wish he had.
Me too! Seriously, if I ever see D/B ship, I'll become nauseated. She shot Sam! No ship. There's always, too, that they had no chemistry.
She looked like a human piraha with her underbite. *meow*
Long hours and lots of time together may have translated onscreen to that "us against the world" attitude that existed for the first two seasons. I think maybe they traded in intensity and originality for lowest-common -denominator appeal.
Which is a damned shame. The CW has a plethora of other programs that fulfill the LCD appeal, it would have been nice of them to leave this show alone.
I knew the second the dude cleared out the sink what was going to happen. Actually, I knew the second the beer bottle rolled. Did NOT need to see it. Gross.
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LOL, mad, not bad. I mean, I am bad, but that's got nothing to do with SPN. ;)