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lonelybritI've been snappy and short-tempered recently, though the world briefly became almost rosy again today.
1) Me and my lab partners met up after lectures to begin our latest write-up. I arrived an hour late thanks to tutorials to find them looking tired and bored. They'd been trying to work out a particular factor with no luck all this time. It took me four lines to write out the equation we'd need, and another thirty seconds to remember I'd already done the working out for them last week and it was all neatly tabulated in a file not yet opened. We felt triumphant and promptly spent the rest of the hour chatting about booze.
2) Franz pic spam: I think this may be my favourite pic of the lads yet. Not un-pretty men in eyeliner is always a cheering sight. And everyone looks so happy: Alex with his sister, Paul with his frankly depressingly well-dressed wife, Nick and a shirt that takes the word 'skintight' to new levels. And Bob with his trousers. Long live the trousers *nods*
3) Supernatural. Last week's was a fun ep; Dean sharing lost parent angst with a wee kid, FRED!, a nice little murder mystery to keep the grey cells at least a bit occupied. This week's...
I'll start with the bad because it won't take that long.
Sam. I know I should be feeling for him but at the moment I'm just not. Dean too annoyed me in places when he only seemed to be capable of one expression. So far, both lads do fine overall, but acting wise they're not even close to drawing me in the way Alexis could with Wesley. However, it is still relatively early days. Wesley did take some time to truly show how deep he went, I'm hoping at least one of the brothers will do that before too long.
Plot. So far the basic premise seems very X-Files. (I'm sorry, but this is show isn't yet up to being compared with AtS.) There's a monster, they kill it. Except with the X-Files you always got a healthy portion of a mystery, and often a nice twist at the end. I miss that here. If we're lucky there might be a bit of backstory, a little guess as to who did it and, most importantly, why. Here monsters and demons are just monsters and demons. I can't get excited about trying to figure out what's going on because clearly we're supposed to be happy that these brothers google it or whatever and come up with the answer out of the blue. And it's all clean-cut and dried and at the end it's all done.
This week, for example, I would have found it more fun if Dean *had* been the one to be possessed. There seemed to be good tension building and my hopes rose for a morally complicated showdown, only for Sam to go and ruin it all by making it blatently obvious that that wasn't going to happen.
Also, we never got any explanation as to why the demon was so interested in taking down planes, other than it is a demon and EVAL! Even on the X-Files they tried to have a little backstory for most eps, a little mystery to solve, something for the audience to ponder over. Or at least a mention of what type of demon we were dealing with. At the end when it mentioned Jessica, for one moment I thought 'Oooh, cool, a possible first link to whatever it was that started it all!' Only again for Dean to quash that theory with his mind-reading explanation. I guess I'm looking for an arc, the kind that makes you go back and re-evaluate episodes and find the random mentions that weren't random at all.
Then again. Maybe Dean was wrong. *crosses fingers*
So, if there's been suble clues and I've missed them, I apologise to the gifted writers. If there hasn't... *sigh* Well of course I'll keep watching because, despite all that, I am enjoying this series. It's not a patch on AtS, and plotwise even it comes second to X-Files. But it's still shameless fun, and like the X-Files, it has a genuinely charismatic cast.
Dean. *happy sigh* That blatant, shameless slow camera pan over him at the beginning... Yep, a cheap shot. But damn did it work. I was goo, I might even have audibly mibbled.
Plus, AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW DORK! *squishes him* All happy and proud of his homemade EM-detector thingie, and then slightly embarassed when he realises Sam just doesn't share his geeker joy in such matters.
Add onto that his furious mutterings over being stuffed into a suit, his hilarious flouncing in the airport when he reveals his fear of flying, and of course the running. RUN SAM! RUN DEAN! SCALE THAT FENCE! *ahem*
The icing on the cake would be the hints of family angst and past trauma. He would be otherwise simply another pretty face with good quips, but his genuine devotion to Sam and his inner nerdlet save him.
Sam... I'm going to withold judgement so far since I honestly don't know what the writers are going to do to try and expand his character. I'm hoping it's not just toughening him up a la Wes in Season 2, and actually I doubt that will be it given the nature of the show. One of the boys has got to have something slightly spooky going on sooner or later.
*happily settles to wait for next week*
1) Me and my lab partners met up after lectures to begin our latest write-up. I arrived an hour late thanks to tutorials to find them looking tired and bored. They'd been trying to work out a particular factor with no luck all this time. It took me four lines to write out the equation we'd need, and another thirty seconds to remember I'd already done the working out for them last week and it was all neatly tabulated in a file not yet opened. We felt triumphant and promptly spent the rest of the hour chatting about booze.
2) Franz pic spam: I think this may be my favourite pic of the lads yet. Not un-pretty men in eyeliner is always a cheering sight. And everyone looks so happy: Alex with his sister, Paul with his frankly depressingly well-dressed wife, Nick and a shirt that takes the word 'skintight' to new levels. And Bob with his trousers. Long live the trousers *nods*
3) Supernatural. Last week's was a fun ep; Dean sharing lost parent angst with a wee kid, FRED!, a nice little murder mystery to keep the grey cells at least a bit occupied. This week's...
I'll start with the bad because it won't take that long.
Sam. I know I should be feeling for him but at the moment I'm just not. Dean too annoyed me in places when he only seemed to be capable of one expression. So far, both lads do fine overall, but acting wise they're not even close to drawing me in the way Alexis could with Wesley. However, it is still relatively early days. Wesley did take some time to truly show how deep he went, I'm hoping at least one of the brothers will do that before too long.
Plot. So far the basic premise seems very X-Files. (I'm sorry, but this is show isn't yet up to being compared with AtS.) There's a monster, they kill it. Except with the X-Files you always got a healthy portion of a mystery, and often a nice twist at the end. I miss that here. If we're lucky there might be a bit of backstory, a little guess as to who did it and, most importantly, why. Here monsters and demons are just monsters and demons. I can't get excited about trying to figure out what's going on because clearly we're supposed to be happy that these brothers google it or whatever and come up with the answer out of the blue. And it's all clean-cut and dried and at the end it's all done.
This week, for example, I would have found it more fun if Dean *had* been the one to be possessed. There seemed to be good tension building and my hopes rose for a morally complicated showdown, only for Sam to go and ruin it all by making it blatently obvious that that wasn't going to happen.
Also, we never got any explanation as to why the demon was so interested in taking down planes, other than it is a demon and EVAL! Even on the X-Files they tried to have a little backstory for most eps, a little mystery to solve, something for the audience to ponder over. Or at least a mention of what type of demon we were dealing with. At the end when it mentioned Jessica, for one moment I thought 'Oooh, cool, a possible first link to whatever it was that started it all!' Only again for Dean to quash that theory with his mind-reading explanation. I guess I'm looking for an arc, the kind that makes you go back and re-evaluate episodes and find the random mentions that weren't random at all.
Then again. Maybe Dean was wrong. *crosses fingers*
So, if there's been suble clues and I've missed them, I apologise to the gifted writers. If there hasn't... *sigh* Well of course I'll keep watching because, despite all that, I am enjoying this series. It's not a patch on AtS, and plotwise even it comes second to X-Files. But it's still shameless fun, and like the X-Files, it has a genuinely charismatic cast.
Dean. *happy sigh* That blatant, shameless slow camera pan over him at the beginning... Yep, a cheap shot. But damn did it work. I was goo, I might even have audibly mibbled.
Plus, AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW DORK! *squishes him* All happy and proud of his homemade EM-detector thingie, and then slightly embarassed when he realises Sam just doesn't share his geeker joy in such matters.
Add onto that his furious mutterings over being stuffed into a suit, his hilarious flouncing in the airport when he reveals his fear of flying, and of course the running. RUN SAM! RUN DEAN! SCALE THAT FENCE! *ahem*
The icing on the cake would be the hints of family angst and past trauma. He would be otherwise simply another pretty face with good quips, but his genuine devotion to Sam and his inner nerdlet save him.
Sam... I'm going to withold judgement so far since I honestly don't know what the writers are going to do to try and expand his character. I'm hoping it's not just toughening him up a la Wes in Season 2, and actually I doubt that will be it given the nature of the show. One of the boys has got to have something slightly spooky going on sooner or later.
*happily settles to wait for next week*
