Yup, I saw it

[astri13]

So, I watched the Season 3 Premiere. That means

Well, that was...lackluster.

First off, Katie Kassidy is in the credits, just like that. Great, now Jensen is bumped down to supporting cast because first fiddle in the chorus is STILL just the chorus and not the stage. For a co-lead status they could have given him a freaking "and" or put the girls under "also starring". HATE!!!

Secondly I was so-so with Dean himself. So he is detached and "whatever"-like. But what happened to his feelings toward Sam? I mean in the Finale it was all "don`t tell him, he can`t know". Now that Sam knows Dean doesn`t give a shit anymore? He knows how much that`s gonna hurt and he doesn`t care a lick about inflicting it on Sam?
Now if that is a defense mechanism, I would have liked some hidden looks, some little hints that there is more going on under the surface than Dean being a jerk. It`s a fine line making a lead character so unsympathetic.

I liked him being coldly focused on the job - when he was. The hedonistic moments already make me roll my eyes if they get played like that. Super-dorky dance of cringitude and gratuitious expositional burger eating of "I only got a year to live and I don`t CARE about anything." You might wanna repeat this point a few more times. I think some people in Timbuktu didn`t get it.

I felt sorry for Sam whose character emerged the most unscathed here.

Ruby? Pretty much a non-entity, though the knife effects and the knife-fu itself looked rather cheesy. Presumably she will be a demon or something sent as a bodyguard for Sam so he can fulfill his destiny? And half the demons don`t want him as their leader and half do? Btw, "boy king" - I do hope they don`t plan to make Sam some mythical super-special Chosen One. I thought we were done with this crap. I like the guys being humans caught in the crossfire.
Or at least then give Dean a freaking storyline of his own in which he isn`t just a tag-along in another man`s destiny.

The Seven Sins turned out pretty anticlimatic, except Pride who was pretty cool. But in retrospect that makes Bobby more chicken-little with the bru and ha.

Isaac and Tamara were not unsympathetic but they were pretty much just there.

So all in all, I didn`t feel it, the chemistry of the brothers or the characters or anything really.

Disappointing. :/

Comments

[i-am-schizo.livejournal.com]

o.O

Oh well, I'm gonna see it tomorrow night...but as I'm kinda out of the fandom anyway...Damn, I need the show to gimme back my squee because I do wanna read fic and actually enjoy what I read but I'm afraid that if the show won't get me to squee anymore I'm really officially out...and in desperate NEED of a new fandom. FUCK. Damn, I need stories that make me happy but SPN doesn't do it anymore as it seems...okay, I shut up...*whines*

[katikat.livejournal.com]

I liked the ep. Sure, Kripke should tone it down a bit with Dean but I can see where he is headed with him. And I was afraid of the Ruby character but her entrance was actually quite good, especially since she wasn't too condescending.

[aithne414.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'm even gonna watch it. I was talking with simpatico, and she said if I wanted to preserve my good memories of the show, I probably shouldn't.

I'm gonna keep an eye on the board, and if things look like they're improving, I might dip my toe back in. But with the most recent sides, I feel very done with this show. It's not the thing I fell in love with, anymore.

[ravenhawk7.livejournal.com]

I just watched it tonight, although I did enjoy it there was moments that were supposebly comedy that I didn't find that funny. I dunno how I feel Ruby wise, I was confused as to why Bobby looked so scared when faced with that "Sin" hes used to this kinda stuff?

I dunno what to make of Issac and Tamara, I wasn't too fussed on them to be honest. I liked the whole Sam walking in on Dean that bit was funny and the .*whats in the box?* LOL! that to me was classic supernatural style!

Bring back Dean who cares and I agree we needed some shifty looks just to reassure us that Dean who loves his family and likes fighting evil sons of bitches is here to stay and hes not going!!!! :D

p.s.sorry I ranted lol!

[andromakhe001.livejournal.com]

The ep didn't feel like Supernatural to me. I thought Dean was totally out of character. It almost felt like sabotage. There were a couple of good scenes. The end of the demon interrogation just before they left the demon to Tamara. That meaningful look shared across an empty room and also the boys looking at each other when Bobby and Tamara were fighting. Oddly, so long as there was no dialogue, it worked.

It just felt empty, vapid...it had none of the charm that made Supernatural special to me.

[legoline.livejournal.com]

HA! I KNEW IT! :-)

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

Nicest moment for me was the conversation in the end where the terms are exposed and some of the Bobby moments, otherwise it was an all right episode.
Ruby already am not fond of her, and I think you have her nailed.
Knowing the boys and the demons with quirky shadowing movements... meh....

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

I thought this episode was disappointing for many of the reasons you mentioned. I actually really disliked it, for the most part.

[rheasilvia.livejournal.com]

Hab dein Review vorher gar nicht gelesen, weil ich die Folge da noch nicht gesehen hatte - aber das hier überrascht mich irgendwie nicht:

Btw, "boy king" - I do hope they don`t plan to make Sam some mythical super-special Chosen One. I thought we were done with this crap. I like the guys being humans caught in the crossfire.

*g* Dein Wort in Kripkes Ohren!!

Ich fühle mich schon besser, weil ich wenigstens nicht die Einzige bin, die SOD-Sam als schlimmste Katastrophe für die Serie sehen würde. Aber noch hab ich ja Hoffnung... ist ja letzte Season auch nicht so gekommen, wie ich gefürchtet habe. Auch wenn ich das Finale auch sehr wenig begeisternd fand.

Mit Dean kann ich leben. Es bleibt abzuwarten, wie sich die Sache entwickelt, aber ich habe eigentlich nicht die Befürchtung, das es einfach so weitergeht.

Ganz ehrlich: SPN ist IMO keine wirklich gut geschriebene Serie. Das ist sie nie gewesen und wird sie auch nie sein. Aber sie hat durchaus ihre Stärken, und die liegen in der Charakterisierung. Solange sie da keinen Mist bauen, bin ich glücklich... und ich denke, bisher haben sie das noch nicht.

Mal abgesehen von ein paar Eps zwischendurch - ich denke vor allem an Croatoan - die ich einfach ignoriere. *g*