People love "Changing Channels" because they enjoy watching the boys cut up, and I'll admit the parodies of assorted genres were well done, but I usually find this sort of broad comedy briefly entertaining and then instantly forgettable. I know that comedy episodes like this are a longtime and popular staple of this show, so we can expect at least one in every season, but as cute as they are, I'd rather they spent the time on something that makes a contribution to the storyarc. Then again, the storyarcs are usually so vague that I guess it's better for them to blow an episode on something that's at least funny instead of being a complete waste of time.
And let's not even talk about 5x09.
Yes, let's not. Ever.
some crap about Sam and Dean being descendants of Abel and Cain.
They so love to drop in these big, weighty concepts and then never mention them again. Why do they even bother? Do they think it makes them sound deep? If they're going to go Biblical then they should at least commit to it instead of letting it just be a meaningless, throwaway factoid.
Then there was "Dark Side of the Moon."
That was a goddamn brutal episode, and not in a good way. It started with that lovely bit where Dean and Sam were shooting off fireworks and then before you know it we're discovering that heaven sucks and that Sam really never gave a shit about Dean. People were fanwanking that shit like crazy, trying to find something to make Sam not look like a douchebag but come on. I have no idea what the writers think they accomplish with horrible episodes like that, especially since the troubling concepts they raise are just forgotten immediately and never mean anything at all.
speeches about how everyone's always been hard on Sam.
Bobby's speech about how everyone's hard on Sam and how if anyone can take Lucifer out it's good ol' Sammy was truly one of the most ridiculous and inexplicable things I've ever seen on this show.
I still don't see how some think season six was all perfectly planned out.
I deeply enjoy watching a slavering fangirl like Missyjack twist herself into a pedantic, patronizing, pseudo-intellectual pretzel trying to prove that this show is nothing short of brilliant. I actually wrote a long, flocked post about this very same "analysis" of how effectively SPN pulled off the noir theme. I can add you to my list if you would you like to read it.
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Date: 2011-06-23 10:58 pm (UTC)And let's not even talk about 5x09.
Yes, let's not. Ever.
some crap about Sam and Dean being descendants of Abel and Cain.
They so love to drop in these big, weighty concepts and then never mention them again. Why do they even bother? Do they think it makes them sound deep? If they're going to go Biblical then they should at least commit to it instead of letting it just be a meaningless, throwaway factoid.
Then there was "Dark Side of the Moon."
That was a goddamn brutal episode, and not in a good way. It started with that lovely bit where Dean and Sam were shooting off fireworks and then before you know it we're discovering that heaven sucks and that Sam really never gave a shit about Dean. People were fanwanking that shit like crazy, trying to find something to make Sam not look like a douchebag but come on. I have no idea what the writers think they accomplish with horrible episodes like that, especially since the troubling concepts they raise are just forgotten immediately and never mean anything at all.
speeches about how everyone's always been hard on Sam.
Bobby's speech about how everyone's hard on Sam and how if anyone can take Lucifer out it's good ol' Sammy was truly one of the most ridiculous and inexplicable things I've ever seen on this show.
I still don't see how some think season six was all perfectly planned out.
I deeply enjoy watching a slavering fangirl like Missyjack twist herself into a pedantic, patronizing, pseudo-intellectual pretzel trying to prove that this show is nothing short of brilliant. I actually wrote a long, flocked post about this very same "analysis" of how effectively SPN pulled off the noir theme. I can add you to my list if you would you like to read it.