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

[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.

[astri13.livejournal.com]

Empty is a good description. The only good thing I see coming out of this? If it goes on, I`ll definitely come to the point where I can drop the show without major pains. Or I wouldn`t even be anxious about the ratings. I feel numb.

S3 speculation

[(Anonymous)]

WORRRRRD. This is why I didn't watch the ep because I knew it would suck out loud. :)

Mary/YED backstory is intriguing to say the very least. Um, is it wrong that I think Mary had an intimate relationship with the YED at some point and that's how she recognized him in the nursery? It always struck me as odd that we get something on Sam's 6 month birthday but NOTHING where Dean's infancy is concerned. Who knows what could've happened in 3 and a half years time span? <--fanfic heaven right there, oh yis.

This only leads me to wonder just how MANY people and demons alike Sam will kill to save Dean. Makes me worried...and giddy at the same time. Protective Sam hits my kink buttons hard. :)

Now that I think about it, Dean's creating a monster in his little brother. Irony's funny like that.

The demons have Sam exactly where they want him in terms of forcing his hand. He'll be too busy trying to save his brother to notice anything else going around him. Why have one when you can have them both? Nothing makes sense anymore when it comes to their roles as brothers or the mythos.

Oh and I've noticed when Dean's life was in danger from the YED Sam failed to save him with his useless powers BOTH times. About Dean's supposed latent abilities i've seen in many speculative posts, it makes me curious as to what role Dean might play this season if he has one AT ALL that doesn't contribute to what he can do FOR SAM. I believe he's not all that improtant since he got shafted in Cold Oak by Jake. I kinda loved that scene. Yes I'm a bit twisted so what? :p

p.s. I'm anonymous cause I don't have an LJ account. Just so you know, I'm not a stalker or anything. lol.

sorry about the rant. :]