They made Heaven in Dark Side of the Moon scarier than this hell which looked like a fictional castle dungeon.
I think that's the trouble with all three 'Underworlds' this season. They all look a bit too much like ordinary places that just happen to have dead people in them. Take Naomi's office. It looks like it's actually her office, not just a place that she's using. Contrast that with Raphael borrowing a businessman's study to properly intimidate Castiel, or the particular horror of Castiel massacring his own people in a field that really belongs to a dead man who is just trying to enjoy flying his kite. I think making the afterlife this mishmash of human minds with the various gods, angels and demons living in them like parasites gives it a texture that is unique to Supernatural. I hope they bring that concept back. I'm a little bit in love with it.
Kind of like the Death Star without blasters and a garbage compactor.
It reminded me a lot of old-style Doctor Who sets. It doesn't matter whether the characters are visiting a space station, a medieval castle, a secret laboratory, an underground civilisation or an ancient temple. It's going to look like a corridor with some appropriate wallpaper slapped on. Now if hell had contained Brian Blessed at his loudest, that might have been something to see. :)
For similar reasons, too, since neither show ever really had the budget to build grandiose sets.
It's too bad it went this way because if it had been handled differently, there was the potential to make the episode hold up with the likes of Hello, Cruel World. As it was, I liked it as I watched it but was pretty disappointed in the aftermath. That being said, I think this could have gone worse so I ended up being relieved also.
Yeah. I think the concept of the trials is fantastic, and the idea of Sam going down to hell and being able to get some closure from escaping again is inspired. It's only the execution that failed, and it certainly could have been worse than it was. I just wished they'd put this episode in the hands of a stronger writer. They have a few that could have done interesting things with it.
I think that's the trouble with all three 'Underworlds' this season. They all look a bit too much like ordinary places that just happen to have dead people in them. Take Naomi's office. It looks like it's actually her office, not just a place that she's using. Contrast that with Raphael borrowing a businessman's study to properly intimidate Castiel, or the particular horror of Castiel massacring his own people in a field that really belongs to a dead man who is just trying to enjoy flying his kite. I think making the afterlife this mishmash of human minds with the various gods, angels and demons living in them like parasites gives it a texture that is unique to Supernatural. I hope they bring that concept back. I'm a little bit in love with it.
Kind of like the Death Star without blasters and a garbage compactor.
It reminded me a lot of old-style Doctor Who sets. It doesn't matter whether the characters are visiting a space station, a medieval castle, a secret laboratory, an underground civilisation or an ancient temple. It's going to look like a corridor with some appropriate wallpaper slapped on. Now if hell had contained Brian Blessed at his loudest, that might have been something to see. :)
For similar reasons, too, since neither show ever really had the budget to build grandiose sets.
It's too bad it went this way because if it had been handled differently, there was the potential to make the episode hold up with the likes of Hello, Cruel World. As it was, I liked it as I watched it but was pretty disappointed in the aftermath. That being said, I think this could have gone worse so I ended up being relieved also.
Yeah. I think the concept of the trials is fantastic, and the idea of Sam going down to hell and being able to get some closure from escaping again is inspired. It's only the execution that failed, and it certainly could have been worse than it was. I just wished they'd put this episode in the hands of a stronger writer. They have a few that could have done interesting things with it.
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