Supernatural 1X20 - 1X22

[loligo]

You boys are supposedly professionals, and you've never heard of The Key Of Solomon before? Dudes. I have a couple pages of it in my nighttable drawer right now, and I'm just an armchair enthusiast.

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[coffeeandink]

I think of "Evening on the Ground" as a Dean vid, actually, rather than a family-focused one. Not that they're mutually exclusive.

After viewing the first season, I am pretty sure the show was originally conceptualized as Sam's journey and that it only ended up being about both brothers' journeys after Ackles turned out to be so talented. I mean, he is so very, very pretty, but it's not the prettiness that makes his reaction shots pure gold. So I think it may be easier to vid Sam's journey because the show was plotted around it and it shows up in the visuals more strongly.

I mean, of course some people are going to like Sam better than Dean and want to vid him first, but I don't think that's the only thing behind the imbalance.

[loligo]

So I think it may be easier to vid Sam's journey because the show was plotted around it and it shows up in the visuals more strongly.

Good point. I saw a bunch of eps from the second half of the season before I ever saw the beginning, so that really obscured that progression for me. When you start with the second half, Dean and Sam almost come across as Mulder and Scully -- Dean as the engine that drives the narrative, and Sam as the outside character who gets pulled in to the narrative. Before I saw the earlier eps, I had a completely different Winchester back story provisionally worked out in my mind, with John and Dean intentionally shutting Sam out of the supernatural stuff, until Dean didn't have any choice but to bring him in once John disappears.

[coffeeandink]

I got the season set at Best Buy, which has a panel of producers and the two actors (which is both (a) X Files Old Home Week and (b) entirely made up of white men, what a shock), and Eric Kripke (the creator) is very open about admitting that he initially thought of Sam as the main character and Dean as the comic relief, but that this changed very quickly. You can see the traces of the conception in the earlier episodes, particularly the Pilot, but Dean's already being fleshed out a bit in Ep 2 and Ep 3 focuses more on him than Sam. So I think the show is now intentionally about a partnership and suspect that the focus will be more equitably distributed than it was on XF simply because Dean's a man.

[oracne]

"Evening on the Ground" is my fave SPN vid so far, because I loved the song already when I saw it, not because I have any idea what's going on in it....