oselle | Bitch, bitch, bitch (Reply)

If the little summaries on TWoP are correct, it also appears that two of the final eight episodes this season are going to be humor. Or whatever passes for humor in that writers' room.

You know, when SPN squandered one of the last four episodes of its truncated season on the vaguely insulting silliness of "Ghostfacers" I was annoyed but I can cut them a little tiny bit of slack because everything last year was so fucked up by the strike. But they're doing the exact same shit this year and they don't have the strike to blame it on. These are clearly the sorts of stories they want to tell.

Okay, so...two episodes out of eight devoted to the writing staff's inside jokes, and this with the apocalypse literally looming. Jesus Christ. Can the creative team from Battlestar Galactica* come over to give them a workshop or something?

*I mention BSG here not because I think it's the masterpiece that a lot of critics say it is, but because it's one of the best examples of how genre television -- scifi, fantasy, horror -- can take itself seriously and is usually better when it does. Personally, I find BSG a little TOO serious but the show's commitment to intensely dramatic storylines that do not mock the genre or the audience is breathtakingly refreshing. I saw a similar level of intensity in the first episodes of SPN Season 4 but the team seemed either afraid or unwilling to keep it up for long and I just don't know why.