oh show WHY
I'm getting this feeling like Supernatural is trying to suck, just so they won't be renewed for an 8th season.
The first episode had some promise. I was actually really excited about it. It did feel a little rushed, a little stilted, like they hadn't got into their groove yet, but the ensuing episodes feel like this on purpose.
The shots are awkward and unnatural, the editing is shit - practically film student level. The storytelling in general is downright sub-par. The performances of the guest stars and extras are awkward and forced. The color palette and filters are too bright. Dialogue is stilted and heavy-handed and eerily reminiscent of the first season. Special effects are half-hearted and laughable (red light and meat-hooks, honestly?). Every person dies with a cut-away shot and a huge comic splash of blood thrown across a wall. Character emotions are shallow and a constant retreading of things we've seen before, with less effort and depth put into them. Jensen, in particular feels like a parody of his own character; saying lines that Dean would say but with a kind of sarcasm to them that makes them feel insincere and satirical. It's becoming difficult to watch. The episode staring Jewel Staite was interesting but its revisiting of the whole 'do we kill bad things full stop or bad things that only do bad things' dilemma (ie. the vegetarian vampires episode) was shallow and poorly treated, and the flashbacks were awkward and practically unnecessary - not done nearly as well as the very similarly edited "After School Special". It feels like they've stopped trying - everybody has stopped trying, except Mark Pellegrino, who is like a bright spot in this entire mess - and it seems like it's on purpose. Because a lot of these are very specific changes that have no reason to have changed; like say the filters on the film itself. I don't even feel like I'm looking at the same show.
I'm one and a half episodes behind, and frankly it's pretty hard to get through this Osiris episode because his costume is so stupid, I can't even take him seriously. He looks like he's wearing a blinged-out barber's smock. [ETA: I finished this episode and it improves in the last 1/3. Especially when Dean and ghost!Jo are talking; and then they finally had a scene with the bros leaning on the Impala alongside a road and talking. That kind of thing is almost necessary by this point; it's about as classic Supernatural as you can get.]
And maybe at the end they'll reveal that it really is all a hallucination experienced by Sam and Lucifer just isn't as good at making Supernatural as the actual people who make Supernatural.
The first episode had some promise. I was actually really excited about it. It did feel a little rushed, a little stilted, like they hadn't got into their groove yet, but the ensuing episodes feel like this on purpose.
The shots are awkward and unnatural, the editing is shit - practically film student level. The storytelling in general is downright sub-par. The performances of the guest stars and extras are awkward and forced. The color palette and filters are too bright. Dialogue is stilted and heavy-handed and eerily reminiscent of the first season. Special effects are half-hearted and laughable (red light and meat-hooks, honestly?). Every person dies with a cut-away shot and a huge comic splash of blood thrown across a wall. Character emotions are shallow and a constant retreading of things we've seen before, with less effort and depth put into them. Jensen, in particular feels like a parody of his own character; saying lines that Dean would say but with a kind of sarcasm to them that makes them feel insincere and satirical. It's becoming difficult to watch. The episode staring Jewel Staite was interesting but its revisiting of the whole 'do we kill bad things full stop or bad things that only do bad things' dilemma (ie. the vegetarian vampires episode) was shallow and poorly treated, and the flashbacks were awkward and practically unnecessary - not done nearly as well as the very similarly edited "After School Special". It feels like they've stopped trying - everybody has stopped trying, except Mark Pellegrino, who is like a bright spot in this entire mess - and it seems like it's on purpose. Because a lot of these are very specific changes that have no reason to have changed; like say the filters on the film itself. I don't even feel like I'm looking at the same show.
I'm one and a half episodes behind, and frankly it's pretty hard to get through this Osiris episode because his costume is so stupid, I can't even take him seriously. He looks like he's wearing a blinged-out barber's smock. [ETA: I finished this episode and it improves in the last 1/3. Especially when Dean and ghost!Jo are talking; and then they finally had a scene with the bros leaning on the Impala alongside a road and talking. That kind of thing is almost necessary by this point; it's about as classic Supernatural as you can get.]
And maybe at the end they'll reveal that it really is all a hallucination experienced by Sam and Lucifer just isn't as good at making Supernatural as the actual people who make Supernatural.