Yup, I saw it
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astri13So, 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. :/
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. :/
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Date: 2007-10-06 10:12 pm (UTC)Ich kann mit sowas leben wenn mir eine Serie oder Story generell von Anfang an klarmacht, dass es auf mythische Kämpfe und das Ende der Welt hinausläuft. Zum Beispiel dass das eine Serie über eine einmalige auserwählte Vampirjägerin ist und schon die erste Folge vom Weltende spricht.
Dann weiß ich Bescheid und kann mich drauf einstellen aber erst mit relativ normalen Jungs anzufangen und dann einen zum Fürsten der Hölle zu machen, der dann vielleicht noch Blitze aus den Augen schießt? Nein danke.
Die haben nicht mal das Budget um so einen Storybogen richtig durchzuziehen. Geschweige denn die Frage was dann mit Dean wird, steht der dann daneben während SuperSam die Gegner plattmacht? Hilfe, hilfe.
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.
Sehe ich eigentlich genauso und von daher tut mir der Weggang von Raelle Tucker schon weh, weil die meiner Meinung nach sehr character-lastig gearbeitet hat.
Kripke? Nicht unbedingt seine Stärke. Sera Gamble? Die schreibt mir zu sehr karrikaturmäßig, mehr wie Tall Tales, nur in echt. Shiban? Der verliert sich in den "coolen" Plotpunkten zu denen er hin will. Edlund? Gute Comedy aber eher weniger bei Charakteren.
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Date: 2007-10-06 10:23 pm (UTC)Und mach mir mal keine Angst, was die Zukunft der Charakterisierung bei SPN angeht! :-/ Ich verfolge die Vorgänge hinter den Kulissen nicht, deshalb ist das das Erste, was ich in Bezug auf diese Gefahr höre...
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Date: 2007-10-06 10:31 pm (UTC)Es stößt auch ein neuer Writer dazu aber von dem kenn ich nichts, da kann ich nicht beurteilen wie der schreibt.
Ohne dich jetzt total zu spoilern, kann ich zumindest sagen von den Skriptseiten, die ich gelesen hab, ist die Charakterisierung relativ okay. Die kleinen Holper gibt`s halt immer.
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Date: 2007-10-06 10:33 pm (UTC)