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nnyAs I say this, please remember I've only seen up to Houses of the Holy so please don't spoil me for anything beyond there, 'k?
The thing about Supernatural that gets me - well, there were two things, actually, but the second thing has been dealt with over the past few episodes and added an entirely interesting layer of Peril! to the show, so I'm pleased with that - but the thing that gets me is that Sam and Dean really don't seem to have a conversation outside of what we see on the show.
Frequently the show will end with some kind of dramatic statement and... it's almost as though it's not questioned further. Dean will say something, Sam will look pensive, and then next week they're back in the metallicar and bopping to the hair metal. Now I understand that it is necessary to show exposition in order that the audience can catch up, but really sometimes it's bordering on the Pretty Durned Clunky and that pokes at me a little. 'cos when it comes down to it I really do love this show.
I dunno... there's hideously clunky exposition on Stargate: Atlantis, too, but there're also fragments of conversation and games and indications that these people have lives outside of what they do, and outside of the show, and sometimes I find that kind of hard to believe with the Winchester boys.
Possibly, though, this is something to do with the amount of fanfic I read in SG:A. Haven't got around to SPN, yet; somewhat wary of Wincest.
I use this icon entirely gratuitously, by the way, because I haven't yet found a Winchesters icon I liked, and because Brendan Dean is dorky love.
The thing about Supernatural that gets me - well, there were two things, actually, but the second thing has been dealt with over the past few episodes and added an entirely interesting layer of Peril! to the show, so I'm pleased with that - but the thing that gets me is that Sam and Dean really don't seem to have a conversation outside of what we see on the show.
Frequently the show will end with some kind of dramatic statement and... it's almost as though it's not questioned further. Dean will say something, Sam will look pensive, and then next week they're back in the metallicar and bopping to the hair metal. Now I understand that it is necessary to show exposition in order that the audience can catch up, but really sometimes it's bordering on the Pretty Durned Clunky and that pokes at me a little. 'cos when it comes down to it I really do love this show.
I dunno... there's hideously clunky exposition on Stargate: Atlantis, too, but there're also fragments of conversation and games and indications that these people have lives outside of what they do, and outside of the show, and sometimes I find that kind of hard to believe with the Winchester boys.
Possibly, though, this is something to do with the amount of fanfic I read in SG:A. Haven't got around to SPN, yet; somewhat wary of Wincest.
I use this icon entirely gratuitously, by the way, because I haven't yet found a Winchesters icon I liked, and because Brendan Dean is dorky love.
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Date: 2008-01-18 04:03 pm (UTC)(And, coincidentally, I just yesterday got up to "Houses of the Holy.")
Also, anything they bring up "outside" of that week's story is usually directly in service of the plot. Not just some goofy story about the janitor at that school they went to in Michigan for a few weeks, who if he caught you sticking gum under the desk would put it in your HAIR. Or something like that. It's all dad and mom and demons, and pretty directly related to the current show.
There's no--did you ever watch Buffy? Do you remember the "be my deputy" scene with Xander and Willow? (If you don't--it was a short scene with those two that, while it illustrated the THEME that Buffy was feeling disconnected from her friends and all their long history together, had nothing to do with the plot or the monster of the week. They were trying to tell Buffy about some incident in grade school, and they were so sent into hysterics by remembering it that they couldn't ever TELL it--they just kept collapsing with giggles and garbling, "Be my deputy!" at a bewildered Buffy. It was insanely cute, and, watching it, I utterly believed that they had known each other since they were five.)
Anyway. I don't get that with the Winchesters.
That said, I am hugely enjoying the second season, and I think the acting and writing is getting better all the time, and, uh, there's pretty. And *flail* RON!!!!!
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Date: 2008-01-18 04:22 pm (UTC)I still love their brotherly relationship and all that, I love the emotional dynamics that there are indications that we should see, I just don't feel as connected to it as I'd like to. I think it could maybe be written differently to make me feel it.
And no, I don't remember that scene but man I wish I did. I loved Xander&Willow ridiculously. :D