Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Swap Meat.
Let's review the problems, shall we:
-Wasted potential of premise
-Inconsistent representation of main characters
-No new mytharc information
-No new depth to characters
-Nothing gained out of the experience at all
(On a side note: I'm totally flaking out of work today...let's hope no one figures it out and fires me)
Swap Meat.
Let's review the problems, shall we:
-Wasted potential of premise
-Inconsistent representation of main characters
-No new mytharc information
-No new depth to characters
-Nothing gained out of the experience at all
(On a side note: I'm totally flaking out of work today...let's hope no one figures it out and fires me)
- Current Mood:
hungry
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Let's hope we don't have something like that in S6.
But the lack of consequences was odd (though kind of par for the course.) It was like an episode of the Simpsons. "Let's never mention this again!" along with you know, the dead teenager and the formerly possessed girl.
I suspect in part it relates to getting hooked on the show in Season 4, when it really, really was on the top of its game.
Fallen Idols at least had SOME character moments and no one acted horribly out of character, so it gets a better rating than Swap Meat for me. But yeah, it wasn't a stellar showing either.
I'm sure they'll turn things around a bit in S6. Even if they go back to MOTW episodes (ala S1) for a while. It'll be nice to have a brand new mytharc.
Partially, at that point I was still able to laugh at the lengths they'd go to for angst. And part of it was that Season 3 seemed a lot more dire. The only reason I was able to watch it was that I would think, "but he's going to get pulled out of hell by a really awesome angel! And God himself took interest in it!" It kind of deflated a bit as the season went on, but I was kind of immune to it because a) I just lumped it in with "the writers are ridiculously addicted to over-the-top angst that they can't possibly follow through on" (ala 40 years) and b)"that's really inconsistent, so I'm just going to ignore it!" (ala the angsty, angry angels, which were the sign I guess that they were Bad, but I ignored it up until the very end). I like the first half of the season a lot more than the second half. I was kind of disappointed by the 'the angels are evil' angle, but mostly because it's so not edgy anymore, and I crave novelty. I'm a novelty junkie.
This is why I was a bit disappointed when they made Sam Lucifer's vessel. I'd kind of hoped they were going to do something new and interesting with him, after so many seasons of him angsting over having an evil destiny. I mean, what do you do when you've fulfilled your evil destiny, and now you're done, left with regrets and guilt? Could have been some interesting character development there. Not that it's the only thing they could have done, nor that there was anything inherently problematic about the vessel storyline. Just would have been a little different.
Also, I liked the fact that the angels had questionable morality. I thought it added a great dimension to S4, since it all became about who you could trust...angels, demons, Winchesters...
I didn't find S3 pessimistic at all, but maybe that's just because the brother relationship was at it's strongest. Yes, the situation was dire, but for some reason I didn't find it pessimistic...maybe I'm just weird. When I watched S3, I did not know that Dean would be rescued by angels - nor did I really know that he would actually go to hell.
And we've long since established the fact that the angst levels don't bother me as much as they bother you ;)
Now, in S6, I would be more than happy to finally have the "horrible destiny" storyline be over and done with. I'm hoping whatever the boys get into next is at least somewhat their choice to get into.
I've been thinking about writing something on season 5, because a lot of my feelings and opinions on it probably would require a few digressions on narratology and history (it's just how i think about things), as it's not really "I didn't like X". It's more like "X is fine, but it becomes problematic in reference to Y given context A"
The truth of the matter is that I can't make the pieces of season 5 fit together in my head. They're like thematic fragments. I can talk about individual episodes, and their merits and difficulties, but I can't connect them to anything larger than that, because I can't make sense of it.
Hoping anything for S6 makes me think of Jared being interviewed after the start of S4, when he admitted that he had really been looking forward to storming Hell to get his brother back - and then he got the first script and found out that we didn't actually see what Sam had been doing at all and angels got Dean out...and Jared was all pouty, because he wanted to be a badass brother-rescuer.
Which is to say, that they'll probably do something I'm not expecting at all, and I'll like it anyway.
And yes, I agree...S5 is much more fragmented than the other seasons.
It does seem though that the show's strongest seasons were the ones where they shook things up and had to create something new.
If that's true, S6 should be good :P
The beginning scene was hilarious, and then they never used it again - and we all know Jared could have pulled it off so well if they actually had him playing the awkward teen.
And yes, now I'm worried that since they've done a "bodyswap" episode, they'll never use that premise again - which means we'll never get a Sam-Dean bodyswap, which, would have been awesome to see.