spn retrospective: s8!

[fannishliss]

A bit of an uneven season again.  Several good ones, several mediocre ones.  Overall, a bumpy arc as it transitions from recovery from Dean's year in Purgatory, to closing the gates of Hell.  And then they don't.  Hmm

Comments

[fannishliss]

It's been really fun. It's also a chance to take a step back and let myself say, well, I don't remember that ep at all, so maybe it wasn't that great... :) Whereas sitting in front of the tv in the moment, I am completely glued. O_O Even meh episodes are riveting as they occur. It's only two or three years later that I'm like whuh??? So it's interesting to do a retrospective like this. In the last week I've touched back on EVERY SINGLE EPISODE, and it is actually pretty interesting to watch as the show changes.

I can say, there was a shift after Kripke left, which is, that the first five years do develop along a single arc, and then, post Kripke, that sense of forward pull is a little more absent.
As fans we want to reach equilibrium where the Boys are happy and Hunting and maybe have a few friends. But the writers have chosen to keep the show Tense by having the Boys become more and more estranged. I really hope that s10 will be a season where some of that is worked out. Star Trek was always able to make a more episodic storyline work out, but nowadays, the long arc is preferred. Hm. I could stand a season 11 where it was just monsters of the week! :)

[milly_gal]

I saw the shift when Kripke left, it lost it's way a little, but as shows go, for one that's gone on this long, they've done okay. Each season has it's merits and pitfalls but without either, we wouldn't have gotten here.