What does it mean when you're bad at talking to yourself?
I have been remiss in my posting. I suppose this is not really a surprise, as this journal is really for my own perverse pleasure and I have not even been on the internet in the past two or three days, but I feel kinda bad. I mean, here it is already Thursday again and I have not even expanded on my shoddy Supernatural meanderings from last Thursday! I am a bad fangirl. Let's rectify this situation.
So, I was thinking that most fans would be totally focused/distracted by the whole "PUDDING!" incident last week, and how that is shameful because there is more to show than cheap dick jokes and there was more to that particular episode even that was probably being ignored. This bothered me because Kripke (supposedly) is an avid reader of fan boards and websites where people discuss the show and I was thinking "Great, now I'm going to have to deal with base humor instead of good characterization because of all the unwashed masses giggling themselves stupid over Dean pantsing himself." Then I realized that I did the same damn thing. Color me hypocritical. But seriously, what do you expect when you literally wave a penis around?! Okay, so said penis was not explicitly shown, but I have a very vivid imagination! Besides, just the word penis is distracting. See? Penis.
At any rate, I liked the continuing trend of seeing older hunters, re: possible futures for Sam and Dean if they make it out alive. And let's face it, this is a pretty plausible outcome. It also allowed the audience to delve more deeply into the boys psyche without having to do the oh-so-cheesy voiceover narration, so kudos to the writers on dodging that incredibly annoying bullet. I particularly liked the scene where Dean was staring into the mirror and talking to his psychiatrist/himself while searching for the monster. A well put together shot, and also well lit (are we perhaps saying that this insight into Dean's mental trauma was illuminating? I apologize for that terrible fucking pun). And way to tug at my heartstrings with drugged!Sam telling Dean "I love you!"
On the other hand, the rushed exposition at the end when they are fleeing the facility and are about to get into the Impala was pretty lame. I get it, Sam has so much repressed anger issues he wonders how he can let some of it out without exploding, meanwhile Dean wants to keep it all in because dealing with it = going fucking crazy. Yeah, I already knew that. Show don't tell!
So, I realize that NBC is *gasp* fourth in the ratings (as a huge fan of a show on the CW this is fucking laughable) but has their potential losses from the Winter Olympics caused them to institute furlough days on certain shows, or are the writers of The Office just that out of ideas that they ran a freaking flashback episode last week? I mean sure, said flashbacks still made me laugh. They still make me laugh when I watch them on my box set DVDs, THANKS.
I don't have the time for an in depth of 30 Rock, so I'll just say "Stop trying to send dirty text messages to my land line!"
So, I was thinking that most fans would be totally focused/distracted by the whole "PUDDING!" incident last week, and how that is shameful because there is more to show than cheap dick jokes and there was more to that particular episode even that was probably being ignored. This bothered me because Kripke (supposedly) is an avid reader of fan boards and websites where people discuss the show and I was thinking "Great, now I'm going to have to deal with base humor instead of good characterization because of all the unwashed masses giggling themselves stupid over Dean pantsing himself." Then I realized that I did the same damn thing. Color me hypocritical. But seriously, what do you expect when you literally wave a penis around?! Okay, so said penis was not explicitly shown, but I have a very vivid imagination! Besides, just the word penis is distracting. See? Penis.
At any rate, I liked the continuing trend of seeing older hunters, re: possible futures for Sam and Dean if they make it out alive. And let's face it, this is a pretty plausible outcome. It also allowed the audience to delve more deeply into the boys psyche without having to do the oh-so-cheesy voiceover narration, so kudos to the writers on dodging that incredibly annoying bullet. I particularly liked the scene where Dean was staring into the mirror and talking to his psychiatrist/himself while searching for the monster. A well put together shot, and also well lit (are we perhaps saying that this insight into Dean's mental trauma was illuminating? I apologize for that terrible fucking pun). And way to tug at my heartstrings with drugged!Sam telling Dean "I love you!"
On the other hand, the rushed exposition at the end when they are fleeing the facility and are about to get into the Impala was pretty lame. I get it, Sam has so much repressed anger issues he wonders how he can let some of it out without exploding, meanwhile Dean wants to keep it all in because dealing with it = going fucking crazy. Yeah, I already knew that. Show don't tell!
So, I realize that NBC is *gasp* fourth in the ratings (as a huge fan of a show on the CW this is fucking laughable) but has their potential losses from the Winter Olympics caused them to institute furlough days on certain shows, or are the writers of The Office just that out of ideas that they ran a freaking flashback episode last week? I mean sure, said flashbacks still made me laugh. They still make me laugh when I watch them on my box set DVDs, THANKS.
I don't have the time for an in depth of 30 Rock, so I'll just say "Stop trying to send dirty text messages to my land line!"