Brothers in Assault on Precinct 13
Two episodes of SPN this week.
3:10
Well, it's better than the similarly-titled Farscape episode Litigaria planet of the lawyers indeed, that's worse than Chronicles of Riddick. I feared Bobby's traumatic back story would become a heavy-handed angst expedition, but they handled it pretty well. It's kind of interesting that all the hunters seem to be traumatised, and it makes me a little sad that SPOILER*.
Uh... I don't know. FBI Dean having a surreptitious beer was cute, and his first dream. The episode was a good idea, which I think they squandered when they realised they could just use it to torture Dean instead of ending the story satisfactorily. Although I did like that. I mean, I liked that he's confronting it, and that they're not leaving him on default angst all season. I found the end of the episode quite upbeat, actually, I don't know if it was supposed to show that Dean could master his fear enough to seek a solution or if we're meant to infer that he has a seed of evil in his heart. I figured the first one, like I say.
*...that we won't see Henriksen up and hunting next season, to jump ahead a little.
and
3:12
Sweet! I likes me some plausible consistency in a show*, and this is a nice escalation of the Henriksen storyline. I really enjoyed this one, until they blew it appallingly by running the entire desperate climax of the seige at Benny Hill speed, did they run out of time or something?
Nonetheless, an excellent set-up, and the promise of a proper Romero-style siege after the half-hour long blunder of Croatoan. Mebbe they're just better at cribbing from action movies, because the Die Hard overtones in Nightshifter were ace and this had some real '70s John Carpenter promise. Sadly '90s John Carpenter took over at the end there, but all the same.
Good stuff abounded here. Leg iron humour. Proof that God will help you out even if you put a rosary down the loo. Tension. Characters of an unobjectionable or outright endearing nature. Ruby being entertaining, at least until the end. And fair enough, she was really annoying at the end, but "Anyone got a breathmint? I got guts in my mouth killing my way in here" and "I'm sorry, I must have blood in my ear" were classics.
I can't decide how I feel about Lilith showing up. Not the kick-in-the-nuts ending; that was sad but I suppose necessary to back up all of Ruby's big talk about the adversary in question. Creepy children can go either way, however. I don't think this one will be turning out as bad as the Annoying One, but you never can tell.
*To skip back to Farscape, the Disappearance of Stark drove me absolutely nuts through most of season two, for example.
3:10
Well, it's better than the similarly-titled Farscape episode Litigaria planet of the lawyers indeed, that's worse than Chronicles of Riddick. I feared Bobby's traumatic back story would become a heavy-handed angst expedition, but they handled it pretty well. It's kind of interesting that all the hunters seem to be traumatised, and it makes me a little sad that SPOILER*.
Uh... I don't know. FBI Dean having a surreptitious beer was cute, and his first dream. The episode was a good idea, which I think they squandered when they realised they could just use it to torture Dean instead of ending the story satisfactorily. Although I did like that. I mean, I liked that he's confronting it, and that they're not leaving him on default angst all season. I found the end of the episode quite upbeat, actually, I don't know if it was supposed to show that Dean could master his fear enough to seek a solution or if we're meant to infer that he has a seed of evil in his heart. I figured the first one, like I say.
*...that we won't see Henriksen up and hunting next season, to jump ahead a little.
and
3:12
Sweet! I likes me some plausible consistency in a show*, and this is a nice escalation of the Henriksen storyline. I really enjoyed this one, until they blew it appallingly by running the entire desperate climax of the seige at Benny Hill speed, did they run out of time or something?
Nonetheless, an excellent set-up, and the promise of a proper Romero-style siege after the half-hour long blunder of Croatoan. Mebbe they're just better at cribbing from action movies, because the Die Hard overtones in Nightshifter were ace and this had some real '70s John Carpenter promise. Sadly '90s John Carpenter took over at the end there, but all the same.
Good stuff abounded here. Leg iron humour. Proof that God will help you out even if you put a rosary down the loo. Tension. Characters of an unobjectionable or outright endearing nature. Ruby being entertaining, at least until the end. And fair enough, she was really annoying at the end, but "Anyone got a breathmint? I got guts in my mouth killing my way in here" and "I'm sorry, I must have blood in my ear" were classics.
I can't decide how I feel about Lilith showing up. Not the kick-in-the-nuts ending; that was sad but I suppose necessary to back up all of Ruby's big talk about the adversary in question. Creepy children can go either way, however. I don't think this one will be turning out as bad as the Annoying One, but you never can tell.
*To skip back to Farscape, the Disappearance of Stark drove me absolutely nuts through most of season two, for example.