SPN ...meta? And poll, sort of: Spotlights.

[caffienekitty]

The Case of the Missing Spotlights
All screencaps from Supernatural.tv

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[caffienekitty]

I know! Dude! It's heinous! If it was Kripke or Kim Manners, it'd be more palatable, but it was a guy who only directed two (admittedly kickass) episodes! What the hell?!

I didn't notice at first either and I think it might be (besides Mystery Spot and Jus-in-Bello being incredibly distracting episodes(although I remember a brief 'hey where's the spotlight?) before being distracted by the psycho-Sammy in the Mystery Spot Wednesday montage) that they didn't have any decent, clear, indisputable shots of the front end of the Impala in those episodes. Not that I could find anyways. Call me paranoid, but it's like they were hiding that they'd been taken off.

Fixing or explaining in fic is one thing, on the show? I have no idea. Letter-writing? Add it to the "Bring back KAZ 2Y5" lobbying which is probably going on? Spread the word?

What annoys me about it on a real-world level is that prior to them being removed, show could easily save a bit of budget money by re-using Impala driving shots from prior seasons. Now if they do, the spotlights will be on the drive-by shot, and not on the car in the episode, and look like sloppy editing work. :-P

[malevolent73]

I know they've already re-used Impala shots and you're totally right. It will seem kind of dumb to have them there one second and not the next.

Dean: "Sam, I can't see out of that corner of the windshiled, take off that spotlight over there while I'm driving 85mph down this stretch..."
Sam: "Uhhhhh....."
Dean: "Just shut up and do it!"

And then a few weeks later when Sam is bitching that a flashlight just won't cut it, Dean has him put the spotlights back on while he's driving 90mph down some stretch, and it's raining to boot. HAHA

[caffienekitty]

I've got an image now of Sam with his head hanging out the window like a dog, only with a massive bitchface, messing with the spotlights and grumbling.

[malevolent73]

Hee! I like that image! Poor Sam.

[malevolent73]

PS I hope you don't mind but I linked to this in the Metallicar thread at TWoP. I can edit my post if you want. Sorry I didn't ask first!

[caffienekitty]

I don't mind at all. I was looking for the Metallicar thread last night and couldn't find it.

[malevolent73]

I believe it's always in the boys will be boys area since she is a main charcter in her own right. :)