Dear Supernatural: Please Win Me Back
I wrote a shortened version of this over at spn_bunker. I'm working out my feeling about this season and the show in general. All opinions are my own. Go nuts in the comments, do not be personally abusive or I will delete your comments and ban you from my journal.
Dear Supernatural:
Please win me back. I'm getting increasingly depressed and unsatisfied. Except for "Baby," it seems like you're spinning your wheels, pardon the pun. In a rut. I appreciate you're trying to work with some of the retcon you've done (soullessness, for example), but I'm not buying it. The Darkness...come on. Crowley's acting like an idiot toward Amara, he still is in the men's room. Wouldn't Crowley be in a posh office, the way he was in Season 8? A beautiful library? Is this some sort of weird budget cut? Amara's kind of fun, at least now. When she's an adult, another evil/neutral/power mad in any case Big Meh.
By @artsydenise
"I don't have much of a personality, but that's Rowena's job."
Nobody sets out to make bad tv. Supernatural is trying to be the best damn show it can. But Robert Berens said on Twitter that this season the script time was being cut back even further, which would lose what little nuance you manage to have. I love Robert Berens, Snarmelo, and Nancy Won's a good addition. But is there anything left to say at this point? I don't think so.
My spouse glanced at a picture of Jared and Jensen from the show and said, "They're too old". Which is how I feel. You incorporate jokes about it, so we know you feel the same way. The meta episodes give us a clue to how you feel and how much you understand how the show's shortcomings are perceived. I love the guys. It's also a clue to the show's unwillingness to acknowledge change that the Winchesters, now well into their 30s (isn't Jensen 36 or 37 now?), are still called "the boys".
Comedy team Laurel and Hardy were called "the boys" back in 1930s.
Jensen and Jared are gorgeous. I love their tweets, their Facebooks, the con footage, everything. I loved "Baby". The whole show seemed re-energized. But I almost turned off "Thin Lizzie" ten minutes in. It seems like there's no possibility for originality, not after 11 seasons.
I don't want to lose you, but you've been around too long.
With great sadness,
Me
Dear Supernatural:
Please win me back. I'm getting increasingly depressed and unsatisfied. Except for "Baby," it seems like you're spinning your wheels, pardon the pun. In a rut. I appreciate you're trying to work with some of the retcon you've done (soullessness, for example), but I'm not buying it. The Darkness...come on. Crowley's acting like an idiot toward Amara, he still is in the men's room. Wouldn't Crowley be in a posh office, the way he was in Season 8? A beautiful library? Is this some sort of weird budget cut? Amara's kind of fun, at least now. When she's an adult, another evil/neutral/power mad in any case Big Meh.
By @artsydenise
"I don't have much of a personality, but that's Rowena's job."
Nobody sets out to make bad tv. Supernatural is trying to be the best damn show it can. But Robert Berens said on Twitter that this season the script time was being cut back even further, which would lose what little nuance you manage to have. I love Robert Berens, Snarmelo, and Nancy Won's a good addition. But is there anything left to say at this point? I don't think so.
My spouse glanced at a picture of Jared and Jensen from the show and said, "They're too old". Which is how I feel. You incorporate jokes about it, so we know you feel the same way. The meta episodes give us a clue to how you feel and how much you understand how the show's shortcomings are perceived. I love the guys. It's also a clue to the show's unwillingness to acknowledge change that the Winchesters, now well into their 30s (isn't Jensen 36 or 37 now?), are still called "the boys".
Comedy team Laurel and Hardy were called "the boys" back in 1930s.
Jensen and Jared are gorgeous. I love their tweets, their Facebooks, the con footage, everything. I loved "Baby". The whole show seemed re-energized. But I almost turned off "Thin Lizzie" ten minutes in. It seems like there's no possibility for originality, not after 11 seasons.
I don't want to lose you, but you've been around too long.
With great sadness,
Me