you forget....
Sometimes just how scary show can be.
I wanted a viewing task for my 9th graders today and showed them 1x02 Wendigo.
All of them bar one had never seen it before. Good grief they were jumping in their seats like the boogey man himself had leapt out the screen at them. More than a few oaths were uttered around the "holy shit" variety. I'd forgotten how scary Wendigo was. Indeed the scare factor is nowhere near the level that it used to be in terms of frequency of delivery.
First scene that had them jumping was Sam's dream as he delivers flowers to Jessica's grave and the hand reaches out and grabs him.
Then the woods scenes - where Roy gets snatched, followed not too long after Roy dropping from the tree.
Then the whole underground mine/cave scenes.
It was fun to see it through these fresh eyes...and even better there were a number of them commenting about the fact that they needed to "get this show" as in rent it on dvd, download it whatever and watch from the beginning. It was "hell cool".
We got into some good discussions about how the boys were such vastly contrasting character types and how Dean had noticed Sam was acting out of character due to his residual anger over Jess. We talked personality types and how Dean seemed almost ridiculously reckless - "Miss - who the hell would DRAW THE MONSTER to them????" - with his life.
Pretty sure they've all just decided they're never going camping without peanut m&m "provisions" ever again.
Still wanna rewatch 9x02 before I do my reaction post - initial thought?
OMGSQUEESOOOMUCHAWESOMEWHEEBROKENWINGSASDFHGHLSAMZEKIELDEEEEEEEEAN*FLAILS*
I wanted a viewing task for my 9th graders today and showed them 1x02 Wendigo.
All of them bar one had never seen it before. Good grief they were jumping in their seats like the boogey man himself had leapt out the screen at them. More than a few oaths were uttered around the "holy shit" variety. I'd forgotten how scary Wendigo was. Indeed the scare factor is nowhere near the level that it used to be in terms of frequency of delivery.
First scene that had them jumping was Sam's dream as he delivers flowers to Jessica's grave and the hand reaches out and grabs him.
Then the woods scenes - where Roy gets snatched, followed not too long after Roy dropping from the tree.
Then the whole underground mine/cave scenes.
It was fun to see it through these fresh eyes...and even better there were a number of them commenting about the fact that they needed to "get this show" as in rent it on dvd, download it whatever and watch from the beginning. It was "hell cool".
We got into some good discussions about how the boys were such vastly contrasting character types and how Dean had noticed Sam was acting out of character due to his residual anger over Jess. We talked personality types and how Dean seemed almost ridiculously reckless - "Miss - who the hell would DRAW THE MONSTER to them????" - with his life.
Pretty sure they've all just decided they're never going camping without peanut m&m "provisions" ever again.
Still wanna rewatch 9x02 before I do my reaction post - initial thought?
OMGSQUEESOOOMUCHAWESOMEWHEEBROKENWINGSASDFHGHLSAMZEKIELDEEEEEEEEAN*FLAILS*