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fandomsecrets2013-01-28 06:44 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2013-01-28 06:44 pm
[ SECRET POST #2218 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2218 ⌋
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Not good?
LOL
I hated season six. I think I enjoyed two episodes total of the whole season. I found season seven to be better; I liked it much more although nowhere nearly as much as seasons 1-5. Mostly with season 8, I'm just bored. Bored, bored, bored.
To quote myself from an episode review I posted early this season:
We're breaking up, SPN. At least halfway.
I can no longer justify missing Modern Family, which is consistently awesome and funny, hitting notes of utter hilarity and lump-in-throat pathos multiple times in a single episode, for whatever it is you think you're doing here.
Stop it with the flashbacks, SPN. They just make me flashback to when you did not use this unwieldy, clunky, and totally tired-ass storytelling trope. I liked you more then.
Please stop pingponging back and forth in a totally jarring and tonally dissonant way between serious business and jokes that are supposed to be funny but are not. See my new girlfriend, MF, for pointers on how this is accomplished.
Remember, SPN, when the boys used to care that a person was being inhabited by a demon? Remember when they used to not just kill people because they're inconvenient? I also remember those days.
Remember when I used to sit on the edge of my seat during every episode? Yeah. Me neither.
In conclusion, SPN, you are boring me and making me laugh in the bad way. I guess I don't mind watching your rear end as you walk away, so expect me for that last half hour, but overall--I think you should have ended years ago, and it makes me sad that you've grown so far from the show you used to be.
Yawn.
Lorraine
I would add to this that I wish all of Sam's flashbacks weren't painted over with a rainbow wash patented by Bo and Hope in 1985 and also that I think this best episode of this season is the one without Sam and Dean in it. LOL
But to each their own. I got no probs with somebody else digging it.
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Either way, I kind of feel like the show is improving with each new episode of this season. My opinion is that whoever is writing it now knows the show, and they know their fanbase, and I'm totally onboard with it.
But like you said, to each their own. It's cool if you don't like it. People get tired of shows. Shows go in directions that people don't like. (I personally broke up with Doctor Who at some point after the first season with Eleven-- just in time for it to get massively popular, of course.)
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Maybe I'll catch up this week. :)
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(Anonymous) 2013-01-29 04:40 am (UTC)(link)This. Especially when they get all hand-wavey 'Well, the host had probably been possessed so long they were dead anyway'. I want to ghost of Meg Masters to come bitchslap everybody again. (And then I want demon!Meg to bust out of hell, but that's another matter.)
Of course, my main gripe about Supernatural is what it's been for years - I want it to be a ghost-/myth-/urban legend-hunting procedural, and it's decided instead to be a theological epic, but I can't let go.
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The epiphany of Meg's death--that in harming the demon they harmed the human host, that the demon may have possessed Meg but they put the holes in her body that killed her--that was good TV. That was good storytelling. And I've been okay over the years with many of the instances where saving the human host wasn't possible because they still seemed to give a shit about it even if they couldn't.
I agree with you re: the purpose of the show. I loved the YED mytharc because it tied in so nicely with the monster-of-the-week premise. I have been less interested in the other mytharcs they developed.
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(Anonymous) 2013-01-30 04:18 am (UTC)(link)Maybe we'll get answers about that from the 'demon tablet', if they don't just assume no one cares anymore.