SPN: Bad Day at Black Rock
Oct. 18th, 2007 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
superbadgirlOr 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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Date: 2007-10-19 04:21 pm (UTC)The long hours thing is that JA and JP were formerly in practically every single scene together, which apparently takes lots and lots of time and they don't get to rest. Which I totally get...but I think at this point I could have lived with ONE woman being added (I'd vote for Ruby if my choices were only her and Bela), and have the stories be about both of them rather than splitting them completely up.
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Date: 2007-10-19 08:01 pm (UTC)And yes Gordon's lines were pathetic, I don't know if the writers had a massive brain fart towards the end and couldn't think of anything else or what...that bit was irritating. Hopefully next time we see him he'll have more to work with. Hopefully.
As for the long hours, well, we don't want JA and JP to work themselves into an early grave, so if it means fewer scenes together (but not too few) then I'm ok with that, as long as I get my weekly dose ;)