All of this has happened before...
Jul. 10th, 2012 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
astri13I had kind of a renewed interest after the last thirty seconds of the SPN Season 7 Finale but the first spoilers out have already cured that. Completely. Same old, same old.
So basically, their motto is "Raiders of the lost ark"? You know I love that movie but then I also love "Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid" and that was supposed to be the motto of LAST year's arc. And it blew chunks. Just like Season 6 was in no way good "noir".
Also, it sounds as if the main players will be Crowley and Kevin Tran. Because we didn't learn anything from the boring Leviathan mess and the supposed main protagonists of the show very, very loosely connection to that plot? Namely that it is fucking boring if the supposed main characters have NO personal stake in the main plot? Guess not.
The whole set-up with purgatory aka their first good idea in years? A stuff for a few flashbacks that doesn't have any bearing whatsoever on the main arc by the looks of it. Splendid. Though I will say flashbacks about Purgatory is still a better storyline for Dean than he has had in years. Which isn't a compliment.
But if you only get random emo scenes by the car as a "story", nearly anything will look better in comparism.
Sam will get a love interest. In itself that wouldn't bother me so much because I'm sure their writing for a recurring love interest female will fail again as it always does and she'll either leave or get killed off soon. As they always do.
Cas will be...occassionally there. But no further word on it. Sounds ominous.
And from crewpeople's tweets, Jim Beaver will be there right from the beginning again. Because Bobby is like a godamn cockroach at this point. I will laugh my ass off if they will try to pull another tearful "reunion", followed by a tearful "now he is REALLY dead". Pfft.
I'm not sure if this is the longest I've ever held on for a show that makes me wanna drive spikes through my head - nope, X-Files still holds that record, in the end I cried every year when I heard they renewed it. Still, Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins, I'm sending you my therapy bills. :-p
Meanwhile, I also read some basic spoilers for Season 5 of Fringe. And while those make my stomach clench, they do so in a good way.
It really WILL be set in 2036, the observer-verse from Letters in Transit? Wow, that is daring. But then, this show has the guts to do stuff like that. I'm really glad I liked the episode and Henrietta because normally those "mind-controlled" environments? Not a big fan of stories like that.
There will be flashbacks apparently to how the team ended up in amber in the first place.
That would also get them around the problem of showing a pregnant Olivia. Or Olivia and Peter with a baby.
Though, the producers have said that Olivia's slight pause before she broke the news to Peter was meaningful. I can't imagine they wouldn't make not his baby - nooooooooooooo - so maybe a condition like alt!Livia had? Or maybe the cortexiphan is like spice on Dune when Chani was pregnant with the twins? And the whole pregnancy/birth will be accelerated?
I'm sad it will end after only 13 more episodes but if they manage to pull the last one off, too, they will have had an - for me - unparalleled winning streak. I can't recall ANY genre show like this where I liked ALL the Seasons. Even if I meassure only the first five years of all my shows, they always had at least one real stinker in them. Fringe, so far, hasn't had one. Sure, I have my fave as well - Season 2 - but that doesn't mean I hate the others.
So maybe it will be good to go out on a highpoint. Hopefully.
So basically, their motto is "Raiders of the lost ark"? You know I love that movie but then I also love "Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid" and that was supposed to be the motto of LAST year's arc. And it blew chunks. Just like Season 6 was in no way good "noir".
Also, it sounds as if the main players will be Crowley and Kevin Tran. Because we didn't learn anything from the boring Leviathan mess and the supposed main protagonists of the show very, very loosely connection to that plot? Namely that it is fucking boring if the supposed main characters have NO personal stake in the main plot? Guess not.
The whole set-up with purgatory aka their first good idea in years? A stuff for a few flashbacks that doesn't have any bearing whatsoever on the main arc by the looks of it. Splendid. Though I will say flashbacks about Purgatory is still a better storyline for Dean than he has had in years. Which isn't a compliment.
But if you only get random emo scenes by the car as a "story", nearly anything will look better in comparism.
Sam will get a love interest. In itself that wouldn't bother me so much because I'm sure their writing for a recurring love interest female will fail again as it always does and she'll either leave or get killed off soon. As they always do.
Cas will be...occassionally there. But no further word on it. Sounds ominous.
And from crewpeople's tweets, Jim Beaver will be there right from the beginning again. Because Bobby is like a godamn cockroach at this point. I will laugh my ass off if they will try to pull another tearful "reunion", followed by a tearful "now he is REALLY dead". Pfft.
I'm not sure if this is the longest I've ever held on for a show that makes me wanna drive spikes through my head - nope, X-Files still holds that record, in the end I cried every year when I heard they renewed it. Still, Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins, I'm sending you my therapy bills. :-p
Meanwhile, I also read some basic spoilers for Season 5 of Fringe. And while those make my stomach clench, they do so in a good way.
It really WILL be set in 2036, the observer-verse from Letters in Transit? Wow, that is daring. But then, this show has the guts to do stuff like that. I'm really glad I liked the episode and Henrietta because normally those "mind-controlled" environments? Not a big fan of stories like that.
There will be flashbacks apparently to how the team ended up in amber in the first place.
That would also get them around the problem of showing a pregnant Olivia. Or Olivia and Peter with a baby.
Though, the producers have said that Olivia's slight pause before she broke the news to Peter was meaningful. I can't imagine they wouldn't make not his baby - nooooooooooooo - so maybe a condition like alt!Livia had? Or maybe the cortexiphan is like spice on Dune when Chani was pregnant with the twins? And the whole pregnancy/birth will be accelerated?
I'm sad it will end after only 13 more episodes but if they manage to pull the last one off, too, they will have had an - for me - unparalleled winning streak. I can't recall ANY genre show like this where I liked ALL the Seasons. Even if I meassure only the first five years of all my shows, they always had at least one real stinker in them. Fringe, so far, hasn't had one. Sure, I have my fave as well - Season 2 - but that doesn't mean I hate the others.
So maybe it will be good to go out on a highpoint. Hopefully.
