Supernatural Season 1
Moss is my default 'nerdery' icon, but maybe I need to get a SPN icon or two, cause apparently watching that show makes me really chatty. Opinions, I has them. I start with the bad, but really there's also a lot of good. I only get this critical when I care. XD
I've already mentioned the Darkplace-esque special effects. And silly stuff like EVIL FRIDGE THAT TRAPS KIDS! Lamp cords that try to choke you! Vampires that look like the 'bad' kids in early 90s after school specials. Racist ghost monster trucks. Dementor-like witches. Some of it is so over the top it feels like a parody. XD
The writing is often atrocious, and the exposition bits are especially terrible. Ugh. I really feel bad for the actors sometimes, being fed those really clunky lines and having to sell them. Some of the lore might be more interesting if it wasn't fed to us in such a ham-fisted way.
The time-space continuum is seriously messed up. I've given up trying to keep track of timeline, or how they get to new places so quickly or so slowly. Sometimes it's day, then the next scene it's the middle of the night but it really doesn't make any sense in terms of pacing. I can accept a lot of unrealistic stuff in a fantasy setting, suspension of disbelief and all that, but it annoys me when basic rules get broken because it smacks of laziness and lack of attention to detail rather than artistic license (I've talked about it before, but The Walking Dead is also often guilty of this).
A lot of the guest actors are realllllly bad. But this is true of most procedurals so I can cut them some slack on this one. I do think the main actors are pretty good. Jensen Ackles is especially talented at emoting. Jared Padalecki often seems like he has a stick up his ass, but a big part of that is the character I guess. He's really attractive when he laughs though, I wish he got to do it more often. Also he has the best bitchface.
Daddy Winchester is such a dick! It makes for good drama though, cause the family conflicts and the daddy issues are the best bits about the show. Dean especially, omfg that poor boy. The way he tries SO HARD to keep the peace and be a good son and he cares so so much for his family ajshdakshd it kills me. When I went in, I really didn't expect him to be like that. Emotionally vulnerable BAMF is such a cliché, but it's a good one, and Ackles really makes it work. There's this really good moment when Daddy Winchester bitches at him for not taking care of the car properly -- Sam looks at Dean in disbelief and Dean kinds of shrugs and tries to downplay how much of a douche his dad is, but you can tell the comment really bothers him.
They both really sell it, it's so great. <3 ARGH BOYS AND THEIR EMOTIONS, IT HURTS SO GOOD.
I liked that the way Dean figured out Daddy was possessed was because he wasn't being a total jerk. Also, I liked Daddy more when he was a demon, is that a bad thing? Way more charismatic. XD I mean, the boys keep talking about him like he's the best demon hunter on earth and obviously idolize him (Dean especially), but we really have to take their word for it cause he's actually kind of a bumbling dork when we finally see him in action, both in the vampire episode & in the second to last one where he comes up with this ridic idea of giving the demons the fake gun. At least as a demon he got to be a badass for real, you know?
The last scene of the season really took me by surprise! That poor Impala. ;___;
tl,dr: I think the show is a bit ridiculous but the relationships between the main characters & the MAN PAIN (and, let's be honest, the eye candy) are more than enough to draw me in. Dude, I needed a new addiction like I need a hole in the head. XD On to S2!