SPN 'Roadkill'
Meh.
That is all.
Just kidding. This is one of those episodes I'll enjoy more on another viewing. My first impression was, truly, meh. It had a few funny lines, but other than that, I was kind of bored. The big twist about Molly already being dead fell really flat for me because it bothers me when ghosts are portrayed as being that solid. Dean and Sam aren't mediums. Yet they interacted with Molly as if she was a live person for hours. It made the story really cheesy for me. I'm not a fan of the new BSG, so I had no prior history with the actress to give her a little oomph in my mind. As a result, I wasn't really impressed with her. Many other actresses could have done the role better, created more sympathy in me for her. As she was, I didn't really care one way or the other what happened to her. They seemed to be trying really hard to play down her looks. They were successful. I know this is a totally superficial comment, but her hair looked like shit for someone on tv.
Other aspects made the ep unbelievable for me. Like, don't people on SPN buy their houses from realtors, or do they all just go out into the woods, build their own house like a mountain man from the 1800's, and live in isolation from society? When people who live in houses die, the houses don't just sit there with all the furniture and keepsakes still in them without anyone ever touching the house again. Houses are sold, family members or friends check on people they haven't heard from, so on. Therefore, it is completely unbelievable to me that a house could sit there for 15 years in this modern day and age without anyone coming to clear it out so it can be sold/inherited. I mean, did these people live like the Blair Witch or something? Not only are there still photo albums and scrapbooks in the house for Sam and Molly to conveniently poke through, but there's a BODY hanging in plain sight in the basement. Total bullshit, IMO. You could make a hundred cases for how this could possibly happen and I'm still going to go PFFFT. The only good part about that scene was that Dean got off the really funny line, "It smells like old lady in here."
Sam over-emo'ed for me. I expected any minute that he'd just start bawling. I kept trying to figure out why he was being so weepy over the whole thing, and I guess it was because he knew Molly was already dead. Which I guess makes sense. Still irritated me a bit.
I don't understand why a story about some random ghosts that was kind of boring is more important than finding out what Dean's necklace means, or why his eyes bled in Bloody Mary. Kripke once said that he couldn't do those stories this season because he had so many others to tell that were, apparently, more important. If this is what he considers better stories... again, I say pffft. What happened to urban legends and mythological monsters? Instead, we get too many random ghosts. I hope the rest of the season steps it up.
Next week's episode better be damn sexy, with the werewolves, to make up for it. I'm not a big fan of werewolves. Like vampires, the only thing they're good for is animalistic sexuality to keep them interesting. "Buffy" was able to make werewolves sort of interesting with no sex present; they did have some good eps with Oz. But Kripke is no Joss Whedon. So, I'm interested to see what he'll do with the werewolf legend. Like, are they keeping the fact that people who get bitten by werewolves become werewolves themselves? Because it looked like Dean got bitten in the preview (in a scene that looked really good, rrreow). How will they justify changing it if they throw that out? I didn't think they accomplished the changes they made to vampire legends very well; it all came off sort of cheesy. Like Kripke just wanted to distinguish his vampires from others so he made a bunch of random changes that were supposed to be unique, but just wound up ripping off Vampire Princess Miyu and Anne Rice. I would have preferred they not make such drastic changes to the legend. A few are nice, but... anyway, that doesn't mean I didn't like some of the characters who came out of the vampire eps.
I babbled on a lot longer than I meant to. I really do love this show, I promise. But sometimes, the more I love something, and the more I see it rule, the more critical I can be of it when it sucks.
I wish it would stop being hot outside until my A/C is turned on. :( Just stay in the 60's for a while, damnit. This isn't supposed to let up for at least the next week. Arrrrrghsohotandcranky.
All of you peeps who do pic spams and junk - I read somewhere that a person who does regular screencaps of the episodes had a program that would take the screencaps for them. Like, they'd tell it to screencap something and the program would take a still of every frame. Then later, they'd just delete all the extra pics they didn't need/like. This sounds like a very convenient way to cap something, much less time consuming than the way I do it now. (Pause, cap, save. Watch. Rewind. Pause...) Does anyone know what programs will do this?
That is all.
Just kidding. This is one of those episodes I'll enjoy more on another viewing. My first impression was, truly, meh. It had a few funny lines, but other than that, I was kind of bored. The big twist about Molly already being dead fell really flat for me because it bothers me when ghosts are portrayed as being that solid. Dean and Sam aren't mediums. Yet they interacted with Molly as if she was a live person for hours. It made the story really cheesy for me. I'm not a fan of the new BSG, so I had no prior history with the actress to give her a little oomph in my mind. As a result, I wasn't really impressed with her. Many other actresses could have done the role better, created more sympathy in me for her. As she was, I didn't really care one way or the other what happened to her. They seemed to be trying really hard to play down her looks. They were successful. I know this is a totally superficial comment, but her hair looked like shit for someone on tv.
Other aspects made the ep unbelievable for me. Like, don't people on SPN buy their houses from realtors, or do they all just go out into the woods, build their own house like a mountain man from the 1800's, and live in isolation from society? When people who live in houses die, the houses don't just sit there with all the furniture and keepsakes still in them without anyone ever touching the house again. Houses are sold, family members or friends check on people they haven't heard from, so on. Therefore, it is completely unbelievable to me that a house could sit there for 15 years in this modern day and age without anyone coming to clear it out so it can be sold/inherited. I mean, did these people live like the Blair Witch or something? Not only are there still photo albums and scrapbooks in the house for Sam and Molly to conveniently poke through, but there's a BODY hanging in plain sight in the basement. Total bullshit, IMO. You could make a hundred cases for how this could possibly happen and I'm still going to go PFFFT. The only good part about that scene was that Dean got off the really funny line, "It smells like old lady in here."
Sam over-emo'ed for me. I expected any minute that he'd just start bawling. I kept trying to figure out why he was being so weepy over the whole thing, and I guess it was because he knew Molly was already dead. Which I guess makes sense. Still irritated me a bit.
I don't understand why a story about some random ghosts that was kind of boring is more important than finding out what Dean's necklace means, or why his eyes bled in Bloody Mary. Kripke once said that he couldn't do those stories this season because he had so many others to tell that were, apparently, more important. If this is what he considers better stories... again, I say pffft. What happened to urban legends and mythological monsters? Instead, we get too many random ghosts. I hope the rest of the season steps it up.
Next week's episode better be damn sexy, with the werewolves, to make up for it. I'm not a big fan of werewolves. Like vampires, the only thing they're good for is animalistic sexuality to keep them interesting. "Buffy" was able to make werewolves sort of interesting with no sex present; they did have some good eps with Oz. But Kripke is no Joss Whedon. So, I'm interested to see what he'll do with the werewolf legend. Like, are they keeping the fact that people who get bitten by werewolves become werewolves themselves? Because it looked like Dean got bitten in the preview (in a scene that looked really good, rrreow). How will they justify changing it if they throw that out? I didn't think they accomplished the changes they made to vampire legends very well; it all came off sort of cheesy. Like Kripke just wanted to distinguish his vampires from others so he made a bunch of random changes that were supposed to be unique, but just wound up ripping off Vampire Princess Miyu and Anne Rice. I would have preferred they not make such drastic changes to the legend. A few are nice, but... anyway, that doesn't mean I didn't like some of the characters who came out of the vampire eps.
I babbled on a lot longer than I meant to. I really do love this show, I promise. But sometimes, the more I love something, and the more I see it rule, the more critical I can be of it when it sucks.
I wish it would stop being hot outside until my A/C is turned on. :( Just stay in the 60's for a while, damnit. This isn't supposed to let up for at least the next week. Arrrrrghsohotandcranky.
All of you peeps who do pic spams and junk - I read somewhere that a person who does regular screencaps of the episodes had a program that would take the screencaps for them. Like, they'd tell it to screencap something and the program would take a still of every frame. Then later, they'd just delete all the extra pics they didn't need/like. This sounds like a very convenient way to cap something, much less time consuming than the way I do it now. (Pause, cap, save. Watch. Rewind. Pause...) Does anyone know what programs will do this?