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Episode 8 of Supernatural: Jim Byrnes as an anthropology professor!
LOVE
I'd like this show so much more if they'd just Google half of the assertions they make. It's not like it's hard to check facts in the information age, people. That, and a little bit of logic would make it hurt so much less.
One small example: in the episode Hook Hand, they burn the bones of a dead serial killer in an attempt to exorcise his ghost, and when that fails, they assume his spirit must be bound to the hook hand he used to commit his murders. They go looking for it in the archives of the church to which it was donated after his execution. They find that it was melted down and re-forged.
Their reaction to this is to toss everything silver in the church into the kitchen fire (and incidentally all those objects mysteriously disappear before the actual remnant of the hook is tossed in, but I'm a Highlander fan, I'm not gonna nitpick continuity too much). I'd just like to ask the writers this:
What can a kitchen fire do to silver that a FORGE failed to do?
I hate it when the stupidities are so blatant that I can't blame the characters, I'm forced to blame the writers. It pulls me right out of enjoying the story, which frankly I do despite the fact that they've managed to not scare me at all through 12 episodes due to a combination of ripping off R.L. Stine and ripping off dumb urban legends. God, if you want to do a horror show, at least use the REALLY scary versions of the urban legend. I keep wanting to forward some of the ghost stories/legends I have in text files on my computer to the writers, in a desperate hope they'll use something genuinely frightening next season.
Of course, there's something to be said for a horror show when I can marathon eight episodes of it until 2 AM on a Saturday night and go to sleep within five minutes of turning out the lights with no nightmares.
And that something is: it's not a horror show. It's a soap that doesn't spend enough time on the character development. I may have to pull a Weiss Kreutz on Supernatural and just start interacting with canon through the rosy-paned window of fanfiction. Adorable as Sam and Dean are (and they are VERY adorable), the writing is terrible and plotholey and error-riddled to the point where I actually can't ignore it.
LOVE
I'd like this show so much more if they'd just Google half of the assertions they make. It's not like it's hard to check facts in the information age, people. That, and a little bit of logic would make it hurt so much less.
One small example: in the episode Hook Hand, they burn the bones of a dead serial killer in an attempt to exorcise his ghost, and when that fails, they assume his spirit must be bound to the hook hand he used to commit his murders. They go looking for it in the archives of the church to which it was donated after his execution. They find that it was melted down and re-forged.
Their reaction to this is to toss everything silver in the church into the kitchen fire (and incidentally all those objects mysteriously disappear before the actual remnant of the hook is tossed in, but I'm a Highlander fan, I'm not gonna nitpick continuity too much). I'd just like to ask the writers this:
What can a kitchen fire do to silver that a FORGE failed to do?
I hate it when the stupidities are so blatant that I can't blame the characters, I'm forced to blame the writers. It pulls me right out of enjoying the story, which frankly I do despite the fact that they've managed to not scare me at all through 12 episodes due to a combination of ripping off R.L. Stine and ripping off dumb urban legends. God, if you want to do a horror show, at least use the REALLY scary versions of the urban legend. I keep wanting to forward some of the ghost stories/legends I have in text files on my computer to the writers, in a desperate hope they'll use something genuinely frightening next season.
Of course, there's something to be said for a horror show when I can marathon eight episodes of it until 2 AM on a Saturday night and go to sleep within five minutes of turning out the lights with no nightmares.
And that something is: it's not a horror show. It's a soap that doesn't spend enough time on the character development. I may have to pull a Weiss Kreutz on Supernatural and just start interacting with canon through the rosy-paned window of fanfiction. Adorable as Sam and Dean are (and they are VERY adorable), the writing is terrible and plotholey and error-riddled to the point where I actually can't ignore it.