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

[legoline.livejournal.com]

I think he'll be back to angsty soonish - maybe they're having him being goofy and detached right now so it'll hurt more towards the end when he realises what he's giving up.

[astri13.livejournal.com]

Your word in Kripke`s ears. I like him not being all emo about the deal but the Sam-Dean relationship was really off to me.

[legoline.livejournal.com]

I've discussed this with a friend and we sort of agree that maybe he's still on a high from having Sam back and being the tough guy who doesn't care - but that might wear off soon. I hope :-)

[astri13.livejournal.com]

I hope in the next episode actually we get some more rounded Dean. I could deal with him in this one all through till the last scene where I thought "okay, here comes the pay-off" and then a great, big nothing came.
Don`t know, maybe if it was just an in between ep, I could write it off easier but for a Season Opener it was a let-down.

[legoline.livejournal.com]

I just thought it felt weird he was opening up so much. But who knows, maybe now that he thinks he's dead anyway he doesn't care anymore. He was like that in Croatoan, too.