Huh?/Hmm
I have no idea what I feel about Friday's episode.
I ... think? I over-all liked it. Like, the hell stuff and the Lisa and Ben stuff.
But I was very confused by the case stuff. Wha? Why was he talking to his sex doll? Where did that come from? He seemed like a weirdo, but ... And then with the sister at the end? Did she get hit by flying glass? Did she not know it immediately? Wasn't she about to say something along the lines of I'm fine before she started coughing up blood?
Normally I'd just shrug and move on with my general enjoyment. But two things: 1. those really do seem more jarringly poorly done than usual. And 2. the promo for next week has me really worried about the general quality of the show.
Don't get me wrong, it has the potential to be really funny. But ... it would be really funny as a fanfic. Matter of fact, I read that story many years ago when I was reading X-Files stories. And I feel certain they exist in the Supernatural archives as well, but I strive to avoid all the real people stories because ... well because if it were me, I wouldn't want a bunch of people I didn't know writing all these bizarre sexual stories about me and my friends. But even setting aside how it looks like next week's episode is going to cross that line, it's just plain lazy. I would just like to be able to expect better from writers who are paid to put out a show seen on national TV than I do from people who do it in what spare time they can find between pieces of their very busy real lives. Even if the episode turns out to be hilarious (and the promo did make me laugh pretty hard), that is just cheap laughs. Scraping the bottom of the barrel. No getting around it.
And the mother of monster thing just seems like exactly the kind of plot shows in the past have gone to in their last season, and I don't *want* it to be Supernatural's last season! And it doesn't feel like it has to be -- I am interested in what Dean is going to do next and how that will affect Sam and whether Sam will ever get to pat himself on the back at all for saving the world, or at least think about whether that sets him even for almost ending it. I think there is interesting human stuff going on here, but the monster stuff needs to reverse its slide into cheesiness. I don't have high standards -- rather the opposite. It's not hard to keep me satisfied ... but come on.
On a completely unrelated note, I know I still owe y'all two seasons of house photos. I will get there eventually. It just takes such a long time to upload the photos! I have to set aside a kind of big chunk of time for it, and I haven't had many of those lately. I *have* however been making good progress on my 30x30 list! I've actually started a more regular blog for it, so that I can theoretically send regular people to it without it getting all mixed up in Supernatural stuff. I haven't done that yet -- I haven't given the address to anyone (blogging just ... feels so self-absorbed), but in theory ...
I ... think? I over-all liked it. Like, the hell stuff and the Lisa and Ben stuff.
But I was very confused by the case stuff. Wha? Why was he talking to his sex doll? Where did that come from? He seemed like a weirdo, but ... And then with the sister at the end? Did she get hit by flying glass? Did she not know it immediately? Wasn't she about to say something along the lines of I'm fine before she started coughing up blood?
Normally I'd just shrug and move on with my general enjoyment. But two things: 1. those really do seem more jarringly poorly done than usual. And 2. the promo for next week has me really worried about the general quality of the show.
Don't get me wrong, it has the potential to be really funny. But ... it would be really funny as a fanfic. Matter of fact, I read that story many years ago when I was reading X-Files stories. And I feel certain they exist in the Supernatural archives as well, but I strive to avoid all the real people stories because ... well because if it were me, I wouldn't want a bunch of people I didn't know writing all these bizarre sexual stories about me and my friends. But even setting aside how it looks like next week's episode is going to cross that line, it's just plain lazy. I would just like to be able to expect better from writers who are paid to put out a show seen on national TV than I do from people who do it in what spare time they can find between pieces of their very busy real lives. Even if the episode turns out to be hilarious (and the promo did make me laugh pretty hard), that is just cheap laughs. Scraping the bottom of the barrel. No getting around it.
And the mother of monster thing just seems like exactly the kind of plot shows in the past have gone to in their last season, and I don't *want* it to be Supernatural's last season! And it doesn't feel like it has to be -- I am interested in what Dean is going to do next and how that will affect Sam and whether Sam will ever get to pat himself on the back at all for saving the world, or at least think about whether that sets him even for almost ending it. I think there is interesting human stuff going on here, but the monster stuff needs to reverse its slide into cheesiness. I don't have high standards -- rather the opposite. It's not hard to keep me satisfied ... but come on.
On a completely unrelated note, I know I still owe y'all two seasons of house photos. I will get there eventually. It just takes such a long time to upload the photos! I have to set aside a kind of big chunk of time for it, and I haven't had many of those lately. I *have* however been making good progress on my 30x30 list! I've actually started a more regular blog for it, so that I can theoretically send regular people to it without it getting all mixed up in Supernatural stuff. I haven't done that yet -- I haven't given the address to anyone (blogging just ... feels so self-absorbed), but in theory ...