8 posts tagged “supernatural”
So Star Trek was shiny and lots of fun (although personally I would have liked a few more female characters who weren't just there to be love interests/sources of angst for the men; thankfully I am not the only one), but it made me wonder where I'd heard Simon Pegg do a Scottish accent before, and then I realized it was in one of my favourite Big Train sketches:
Oh yeah, and then there was the SPN finale which had
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DEAD
WOMEN EVERYWHERE! Slaughtered nuns and nurses stuffed in car boots and
Ruby killed in a disturbingly sexual way and Lilith wearing the
traditional SPN sacrificial white nightie! ARGH! And still I continue
to love this show even though it constantly makes me feel like a
traitor to my gender.
Stuff in no particular order:
- Dean's gleefully wanton destruction of property and subsequent completely unsubtle guilty expression when Castiel turns up. He is five. ♥
- I know EVERYONE'S said this, but: jacket clutching! ♥ ♥ ♥
- OH. SAM.
- In Sandman, when Lucifer left Hell, he buggered off to Australia and bummed around on a beach for a while, grudgingly admiring God's sunset work, and then he opened a nightclub in LA. Sort of want something like this to happen on SPN. Like, Lucifer's all, OH BUGGER THE APOCALYPSE FOR A GAME OF SOLDIERS I JUST WANT A HOLIDAY.
- I LOVE that Dean broke the first seal and Sam the last. And now they are equally matched in their guilt and self-doubt.
- I thought at first that it was the angels who had altered Dean's phone message, because they SO WOULD, but rewatching, Ruby's smirk when Sam listens to it seems to suggest otherwise. We are going to get some closure on that, aren't we? Sam is going to find out what Dean really said, yes? Fic, glorious as it is, will only satisfy me so much.
- I sort of want the spin-off Chuck and Castiel Show. Chuck would be going "Don't look at me like that, man. I can't write when you're looking at me like that. God I need a drink. Do you eat pizza? I think I have some leftover somewhere..." and Castiel would be all *headtilt*. Yeah, I dunno. Needs some work.
- It's interesting that Zachariah is constantly trying to lead Dean into temptation.
- God has left the building? Why is no one writing SPN/Preacher crossovers? They are PERFECT for one another. Fallen angels, absent Gods, Vietnam vet dads called John, Western themes, towns called Salvation, dog collars...
- I'm so sick of the word "bitch" being flung around. More creative, less gendered insults please! And doesn't Sam calling Ruby a bitch at the end just seem horribly... inadequate? Evil Counselors and Deceivers go to the 8TH CIRCLE OF HELL Sam!
- Part of me is gleeful that Ruby was playing the long con, the rest of me is pre-emptively wearied by the idea that this will allow the more misogynistic elements of fandom to feel justified in hating her. I've already seen too many icons taking pleasure in her demise.
- I do quite like the poetic justice of Ruby dying by her own knife, though.
- Extreme close-ups a-go-go! I liked the sense of claustrophobic tension this lent things, much like last season's finale. I also liked all the push focusing.
- Next season: Hugging! Flaming swords! Zacharia gets his! Apocalypse! Hugging!
Hurry up Thursday evening, go quicker! Want to download a new episode of Supernatural!
*chivvies*
I fully expect Dean to be thwarting infernal wiles with a flaming sword now that he's part of the Ineffable Plan and all.
There is entirely too much Supernatural fanfiction. Obviously, I have to read all of it. OBVIOUSLY.
Still, if I go to hell for voraciously reading Sam/Dean* at least I'll be in good company.
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* Honestly. My del.icio.us links have increased by something like 200% since June.
1. Is it just me or does anyone else take a perverse pleasure in constant painstaking refinement of the organisation of their del.icio.us links?
2. The Dark Knight is excellent, though mostly about as much fun as being stabbed in the face. The female characters once again get short shrift and I was so very happy to find Origin Story, a fanfic by Minim Calibre that she'd written in response to Jim Gordon's daughter (future BATGIRL for goodness sake) barely getting a look-in. Also, I like to imagine the Joker attends these:
3. The following is an annotated extract from an Amazon email I got the other day (I am probably far more amused by its unintentional accuracy than is strictly necessary):
4. Depeche Mode are made of win covered in awesomesauce. Never Let Me Down Again is an entirely perfect slice of '80s new romantic/synthpop/electronica/wossname, and it's totally about Dean and Sam Winchester. Oh yes it is.
5. Why don't they sell ginger beer on draught in pubs? It's much nicer than that hop-based stuff.
I have found Supernatural/A Series of Unfortunate Events crossover fanfiction!
MY LIFE IS NOW COMPLETE.
So, thanks to a typo in his contract, Dean Winchester's gone to Hull, right?
Right?
Come on, there could be dramatic potential in Sam having to rescue Dean from East Yorkshire.
*ponders concept of Hullbound: Hullraiser II*
Sigh. At some point while rewatching the second half of season 1 and the first half of season 2 I became a little obsessed with Supernatural.
Alright, a lot obsessed.
Alright, I started reading Wincest when I ran out of episodes. *facepalm*
And I've been mainlining so much imagery and commentary and fic since season 3 finished that Dean and Sam are now making regular appearances in my dreams. I don't believe things have been this bad since the heady days of my Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanaticism. Which is ironic because I ignored Supernatural for ages for the sole reason that I'd read discussions of its problematic treatment of women, framed to suggest a conscious backlash against BtVS (Now BtVS, at its most basic level, was of course about subverting the horror movie cliché of the blonde girl victim, and sure enough Supernatural - in its very first episode - has not one but two blonde women meeting horrible ends in order to further the plot and motivate our two (male) protagonists). And - given that - it's doubly ironic my fannishness has reached critical mass now, when SPN fandom is currently exploding over the subject of misogyny in the series.
The seemingly constant use of gendered insults against women this season has certainly bothered me (to the point where, despite generally liking Dean and disliking Ruby, it made me ridiculously happy when the latter called the former a dick), and the lack of any real female allies means we've had less good stuff to balance out the nastiness. I think it's important that in previous seasons, not only did we have recurring female allies in the form of Ellen and Jo, we also got a number of women whose situations explicitly paralleled that of either Sam or Dean in some way, and with whom our protagonists clearly identified as a result. I can't really think of any examples of this happening in season 3 off the top of my head.
Still, for the most part, my enjoyment has outweighed my frustrations (which is more than I can say for Torchwood this year, but that's another post) and I'll be watching season 4. I don't seem to be able to look away at the moment.
Seen in episode 2x12 of Supernatural:
Spot that?
Pathetic! First post of 2007 and January's practically over. This is what happens when, tired of living for the idea of some unspecified future time when everything will be sorted and nice, you suddenly decide that you just can't stand the unfinished nature of your hallway any longer and you set about redecorating the damn thing like you should have done ages ago. A long, lonely but ultimately rewarding process involving the nigh-endless scraping of woodchip (surely the devil's wallpaper), the liberal application of poly-filla, the slapping on of much cheerfully yellow matt emulsion and the accidental inhalation of vast quantities of old paint dust. Also constant vacuuming.
I still have the skirting boards to do, but that's just the icing, even now it's a pleasant, warmly-lit, neutral corridor instead of the depressingly dingy passage it used to be. If I do nothing else in 2007 at least I can say I accomplished that.
Despite such exertions I also seem to have managed, naturally, to pack in plenty of TV-watching over the last few weeks:
Torchwood
Last three episodes of this weren't too bad, the stand-out being Catherine Tregenna's "Captain Jack Harkness", and not just because Jack (finally!) gets some action. The last episode was good in parts - I thought Eve Myles did a cracking job in the scene where she finds Rhys's body for instance - but was let down by some slightly unclear plotting and a bit too much melodrama. I do hope we see Bilis Manger again - there seems to be much more to him than we've seen so far. Other than that, my one wish for series 2 is that we get more episodes from Catherine Tregenna and fewer from Chris Chibnall, who writes nice ensemble scenes but horrible plots.
Supernatural
I avoided this for ages but the steady livejournal buzz convinced me to give it a go. I've caught up on the first season and am now working my way through the second. It's good. Angst, pop culture references and demon hunting all held together by a nicely-played sibling relationship. Plus, I find Jensen Ackles pretty to the point of distraction in this, which is weird because he did nothing for me in Dark Angel, but, I mean, look at him, for god's sake:
The Office US
I think I love this program. It's really, really delightful. A comparison with the original British version is again a subject for a more in depth post, but for now I'll just say that Jim/Pam pings my One True Pairing meter just as much as Tim/Dawn ever did. And they pinged it hard.
Heroes
Starts on the Sci-Fi channel here soon, which is good 'cause then I can watch it legitimately. I'm enjoying it a lot. Bit like X-Men but with a fate/destiny interconnectedness thing going on. Ensemble shows can get a bit tiring at times but they've kept the pace up well in this so far. I've had a huge soft spot for Greg Grunberg since Alias so I'd probably watch him in this even if it was rubbish, but it's not, plus it's nice to see Clea DuVall in something again.
Ugly Betty
I'd heard really good things about this so I was a bit disappointed when I finally got round to watching it. It does have some positive things going for it but I have a very low tolerance for big, over-the-top sitcom-ish characters and situations (the main reason I gave up watching Desperate Housewives) and I thought the first couple of episodes were a morass of very tired cliches. Not sure about whether I'll continue watching yet.
And since this post has taken me most of the evening to write I'm going to sign off here and watch the most recent episode of Heroes. With any luck it won't be another month before I post again!
