SPN 8.04
I just...
I get the idea. I like what they tried to do. The way they wanted to handle the werewolf stuff, I get it. The idea was clever. It was.
But the execution was not so much. The first chunk was, let's be honest, boring. In a show with such a tiny cast, it's hard to get attached to one-off characters who have little to no interaction with the mainstays.
Maybe if they'd used recognizable actors? I was saying that Nine Dobrev, Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley would have kept us engaged if only for the novelty of those actors being on Supernatural.
But let's be honest. It wasn't a scary episode, and there was very little to keep you invested. I like the re-establishing that Sam and Dean only hunt monsters who kill humans, and though they have a one strike and you're out rule, they don't come looking until you give them a reason.
But...but other than that...I just...
I get what they were trying to do. Werewolves are hard to do well, so posing this as a Winchester-light episode made sense.
But...
It coulda been better. Writing Credit on this goes to Robbie Thompson, who wrote Time After Time. So that's kind of sad because Time After Time was great!
Season 8...I like the pacing. It's quick, it moves. I appreciate that in a TV show. Shows that drag drive me nuts.
But there's no personal connection for the boys anymore. Because seasons 1-5 were so embedded with the deaths of their parents, and the tug of war Heaven and Hell were playing with them, it felt so much more compelling than...
Than two guys wandering around hunting things and saving people and shrugging their shoulders at these new emergencies. Also, the writers have backed themselves into a huge corner by KILLING OFF THE REST OF THE CAST!
When you kill that many people over the course of eight years, 1. the value wears off. How is the audience supposed to feel sad or stunned when someone dies now? and 2. You leave nobody for the boys to feel connected to. They've got no roots, and now they almost feel like ghosts of who they used to be. And maybe they as characters feel like that, too. I wouldn't be surprised.
But why not go into that? Why not show that? These two guys who are getting a little (not really. Let's be honest they're both still young) older, who are SO TIRED.
I would watch the fuck out of Sam and Dean trying to assimilate to normal, everyday life. They sort of tried it with the Lisa and Ben stuff for Dean, but it felt half-hearted, because the writers knew it 1. wouldn't last, and 2. wouldn't be something the fans (the crazy ones who like to see brothers having sex) wanted to see.
*sigh* Oh Supernatural. The more I think about it the more I miss the way you were.
Wouldn't it be cool if they jumped ahead like...10 years, and made them all old and having crazy midlife crises? I'd watch the shit out of that.
Give me something personal again, Supernatural. Make me care. Please?