Bela gets a real job

[oselle]

I checked out The Vampire Diaries tonight and much to my surprise, Lauren Cohan (formerly SPN's Bela) was a guest star. It took me a half hour before I realized it was her because her look was so different...but more because she actually had something to do. I really disliked Bela's character on SPN but I never felt anything but pity for Ms. Cohan, who had one of the most useless, thankless roles I've ever seen on television. So, good on the CW for hiring her and actually giving her, y'know...a part.

I've also seen both Mr. and Mrs. Carrigan (the pagan deities from "A Very Supernatural Christmas") turning up on the CW this past week. I just spotted Mr. Carrigan on Nikita (playing a "Senator Kerrigan" LOL) and last week, Mrs. Carrigan was once again a party to human sacrifice on Smallville. Regarding the latter, WHY oh WHY is the idea of hicktowns sacrificing unwitting travelers for the sake of their crops so popular in genre television? I mean really...their crops? It's 2010 and the world turns on credit default swaps and hedge funds. How much mileage can a small town in the middle of nowhere get out of a good apple harvest? Have all of these writers just seen The Wicker Man too many times?

Speaking of which, if you ever get a chance to watch The Wicker Man (the original, not the piece-of-shit remake with Nicholas Cage), don't pass it up. And wear diapers, because it's shit-your-pants scary.

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[oselle.livejournal.com]

I think movies like The Wicker Man are so scary because they didn't have good SFX back then so they had to rely on things like atmosphere and suspense instead of gross-out. One of the creepiest parts of that movie is when the police inspector is running around town trying to find that little girl while everyone else has already gone off to the May Day celebration...spooky as hell. And then man, they sure don't skimp on the ending.