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Post by crowschmo on Oct 17, 2010 18:56:43 GMT -5
The episodes so far this season have been boring. I hope this show isn't on its last legs.
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Post by crowschmo on Jan 29, 2013 14:35:33 GMT -5
Bump. Wow, it's been that long since I started this thing? Time is going too fast!
Anyway, I just watched one of the older eps in syndication that made me laugh: Sam and Dean are investigating a haunted movie set. I remember it from the first time around, but I didn't remember all the dialogue and I cracked up for a few scenes.
In the "movie" that's being filmed, one of the actresses is invoking spirits by reading Latin out of a book. One of the producers or whatever he was was asking one of the writers how demons from hell would respond to Latin chanting, he says, "Some of this dialogue is not ringing true for me. If they're in Hell, how can they hear this? What, do they have super hearing or something?" (He says it like that is completely stupid). And the writer says, "How about if I throw an explainer in?" And the producer says okay, we'll see how that reads or something to that effect.
Then they cut to Sam and Dean for a while, then when they come back, they are redoing the scene with the chanting and this time they have the actress in the movie actually questioning why demons would respond to Latin chanting and how would they hear it, and one of the other actors says in a wow-isn't-this-amazing voice, "They must have super hearing!", using the exact how-stupid comment from the producer.
Then in another "scene" the actress wants to cut and says she can't wrap her head around the scenario when they need to use salt to repel the demons and wonders why ghosts would be afraid of salt. And one of the crew goes, "How 'bout some other condiment?" and the director goes, "That's just different, not better." And one of the crew goes, "How about a shotgun?" And the director says, "That makes even LESS sense." ;D
I just thought it was funny that the writers of the actual show were giving a sort of wink and nudge at their own stuff.
Cute.
As for the show in recent episodes, it's getting better, but it's still a lot of going nowhere fast. It's like they don't really know where they're going with this themselves. How are they going to explain God, for real, in the end? Will the show just go on forever with no one really knowing? Even the angels, who supposedly, one would think, have come across God at some point in their existence? Or HAVE they? Is it just some sort of agreed upon duty that they have, where they don't know where the actual "orders" are coming from?
And I really hate shows, movies, books, etc., that show Heaven as some corporation with angels in suits and ties (white robes would be lame too, though, so I don't know what WOULD work).
Though I don't really like the angel storyline, I do like Castiel.
As an aside: Um, why LATIN? All these stories in every book and movie and TV show about invoking demons and spirits, it's always Latin. As if that's the be-all end-all language of creation. There are older languages than that. I guess it just stems from Latin Masses or something, and people thinking it's all mysterious, 'cause only a few people understand it? Don't know. Just wonderin'.
Edit: After listening, the guys do mention ancient "anokian" or "inokien" however you spell it, so I guess it isn't all Latin on their particular show. Maybe the writers had the same questions I did.
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Post by crowschmo on Feb 21, 2013 17:45:49 GMT -5
Okay, where do these guys get their money to pay for everything? Do they just use fake credit cards, or what? And that journal of their father's - is it the Neverending Story? No matter what they are looking for, they just flip it open and dad has written something they need. Is it an interdimensional thing, where it's thicker than it looks? (I know they look some things up on the internet, but, you know...). And it's kind of amusing, it seems to be an in-joke with all these motel rooms they stay at, they all look almost identical with the same beds, table, chairs, and the same room dividers, just different art work and wall paper or something.
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Post by crowschmo on Mar 1, 2013 21:16:08 GMT -5
Worst. Episode. Evah.
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Post by crowschmo on May 5, 2013 18:15:48 GMT -5
Their new somewhat underground digs: Can't that thing have like a GARAGE or something? They're trying to be all secret and there's their all-too-recognizable car just SITTING THERE out in the open.
Okay, the scribe of the Word Of God was in the SECRETARIAL pool? That's what I mean about how I hate that shows like this make Heaven a kind of business or something. That's just so dorky.
I saw the scenes for next week when I was watching and it said "final two episodes". Of the season, or is this show ending for good? I hope they come up with a good ending.
Edit: I think it's just the season ending.
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Post by crowschmo on Nov 5, 2013 21:17:20 GMT -5
S.N.A.R.T.
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Post by mitchell33 on Jan 29, 2014 3:29:17 GMT -5
I have all the seasons on dvd. and so far I've watched seasons 1-5, I'm on season 6 at the moment. and it's got some damn good ones, some ok ones, and some shitty ones. seeing Sam without a soul was an interesting idea, but it lasted far to long, and having the mother of all being put in later in the season was I think a mistake. I haven't seen seasons 7-9 yet so I can't comment on those. but seasons 5 is my favorite one so far. the last one I watched was the one called "And than there were None' when Rufus gets killed by Bobby. a great episode too. wish more in season 6 were that good but oh well ya know? next up the Titanic Episode. I only have 6 episodes left for season 6
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Post by crowschmo on Feb 5, 2014 14:24:12 GMT -5
Do the writers just hate Sam for some reason? He always seems to be the damsel in distress type and Dean comes to the rescue. Why don't they ever have Sam doing more of the rescuing? I know he did those trials, but those weren't that much of a deal (though he almost died because of them, he didn't really do any kickass stuff like they have Dean always doing). Just saying. They should have his telekinetic powers come back somehow.
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Post by crowschmo on Apr 29, 2014 21:30:17 GMT -5
This new spin-off show they are thinking of doing doesn't look too promising. Everyone who does these shows with vampires and werewolves and the like just do the same boring sh*t. They put them in suits and they are at war with each other like either evil corporations, or mob style families going at each other (with some in-fighting as well).
SEEN IT!
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Post by crowschmo on Oct 15, 2014 18:13:46 GMT -5
Okay. So...why didn't Sam just KILL Crowley already? And why doesn't Cass kill Metatron? I mean, come ON!
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Post by crowschmo on Apr 2, 2015 18:19:14 GMT -5
I keep having hope for this show, but every time I watch it, it's a lot of nothing happening. Dean just sits around and mopes and drinks, Sam looks concerned.
Really? Heaven is a long, brightly lit corridor with rooms that are each person's private paradise that they're not allowed to leave? And Hell is just Crowley sitting on a throne and doing absolutely nothing? They should have Lucifer come back and rip Crowley to shreds or something. I don't know why he's a fan favorite. He's just...there.
And find a cure for the Mark of Cain already and move on to something else. I miss the monster-of-the-week eps they used to do. At least they were fun.
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Post by lipatti on Apr 5, 2015 1:37:56 GMT -5
I loved it for a while, then got bored around Season 5. Can't they just fight a plain ghost again, just once?
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Post by crowschmo on Apr 5, 2015 12:12:37 GMT -5
I know it's just a show and everything, but for shows like this (and Buffy): Does all hell break loose just where our heroes are? Nothing of this magnitude happens ANYWHERE else on the planet, and they fight good and evil in just that one spot? That's why these kinds of shows shouldn't get all grandiose and just stick to our heroes fighting things just in their neck of the woods and not make it like they are the answer to everything in the universe. (And I still think it's ridiculous that they get from one state to another in a matter of hours, and they get back to their home base, and everything's just picking up from where it was, and it's not like a couple of days have passed or anything). This is friggin' awesome, though: There's a couple different ones that different people did, and they're all pretty cool.
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Post by crowschmo on May 21, 2015 18:10:09 GMT -5
I know I'm like a broken record here, but, the theology in this show is just plain stupid. Before there was God there was The Darkness? A malevolent FORCE? Malevolent toward WHAT? There was nothing else there. What was it so pissed off at if there was nothing and no one? Dumb.
Then God shows up with his Archangels to fight it and contain it. Shows up from where? WTF?
And Death had said in an earlier show that he thought he was older than God as well. In order for death to be older, things had to die, right? What things?
Geez. They should've just stuck to ghosts and vampires. The only thing I like about this whole Heaven and Hell story arc is Castiel.
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Post by crowschmo on Jun 1, 2015 16:24:29 GMT -5
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