7:04: Defending Your Life
Oct. 15th, 2011 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oselleMan, the silence that greets each new ep of SPN here on LJ is really depressing. I just feel like people have totally given up. I'd go over to TWoP but those boards have always been boring as fuck with all their ban-happy bullshit rules about what you can and can't talk about.
But, like the rest of you, I don't seem to have anything to say. There just isn't anything to react to or discuss. I hadn't realized until Castiel was gone how much he'd held my interest for the past couple of seasons -- really, the last truly great episode (for me) was "The End" and that was a whopping two years ago. Got a lot of fic out of that one, anyway. But now it's just so blah. Dean continues to be pretty as ever but there's nothing to get worked up about. I want something to HAPPEN for God's sake, but the show really feels like it's run out of gas. Maybe seven years is just too long for a series like this.
The Vampire Diaries is kicking ass, but you know...that's only in it's third season. Four years from now, will there still be stories left to tell about Elena and Damon and Klaus etc.? Maybe genre shows like this simply don't have legs.
I wonder what SPN could have done to keep momentum. Letting Kripke basically end the show back in Season 5 was probably a shitty idea (ya think?). It might have helped to give good writers like Jeremy Carver a reaon to stick around, and they're not going to get much out of Ben Edlund now that they've more or less written out one of his favorite characters. And of course, the reins of the show should never have been handed over to Sera Gamble. I read that the show lost 25% of its audience by the end of Season 6. Those people have not come back. I think it's pretty safe to lay the blame for that at Gamble's feet.
Whatevs, I guess. It was a pretty good run there for a while. I became a fan in 2007 so that's...almost four years. Not bad.
I've got that displaced, "girl without a fandom" feeling, though. I hate that. I started a new job in August and I don't like it much and feel like I could use some distraction, but at the same time, I'm so tired that I don't think I could drum up the energy for fandom. Maybe that's part of the reason why I'm not into the show this year. Yesterday I didn't get home from work until almost 8:30. It was a shitty day and really, all I wanted to do was crawl into bed. I practically dozed off during the episode. On the weekends now, I stay in bed until almost 10:00 am -- I haven't done that in years. Everything is so shitty. You make a move like this thinking things are gonna get better and they just get worse. That's been the whole pattern of my life. Every time I try to make things better they get worse.
Everything sucks.
But, like the rest of you, I don't seem to have anything to say. There just isn't anything to react to or discuss. I hadn't realized until Castiel was gone how much he'd held my interest for the past couple of seasons -- really, the last truly great episode (for me) was "The End" and that was a whopping two years ago. Got a lot of fic out of that one, anyway. But now it's just so blah. Dean continues to be pretty as ever but there's nothing to get worked up about. I want something to HAPPEN for God's sake, but the show really feels like it's run out of gas. Maybe seven years is just too long for a series like this.
The Vampire Diaries is kicking ass, but you know...that's only in it's third season. Four years from now, will there still be stories left to tell about Elena and Damon and Klaus etc.? Maybe genre shows like this simply don't have legs.
I wonder what SPN could have done to keep momentum. Letting Kripke basically end the show back in Season 5 was probably a shitty idea (ya think?). It might have helped to give good writers like Jeremy Carver a reaon to stick around, and they're not going to get much out of Ben Edlund now that they've more or less written out one of his favorite characters. And of course, the reins of the show should never have been handed over to Sera Gamble. I read that the show lost 25% of its audience by the end of Season 6. Those people have not come back. I think it's pretty safe to lay the blame for that at Gamble's feet.
Whatevs, I guess. It was a pretty good run there for a while. I became a fan in 2007 so that's...almost four years. Not bad.
I've got that displaced, "girl without a fandom" feeling, though. I hate that. I started a new job in August and I don't like it much and feel like I could use some distraction, but at the same time, I'm so tired that I don't think I could drum up the energy for fandom. Maybe that's part of the reason why I'm not into the show this year. Yesterday I didn't get home from work until almost 8:30. It was a shitty day and really, all I wanted to do was crawl into bed. I practically dozed off during the episode. On the weekends now, I stay in bed until almost 10:00 am -- I haven't done that in years. Everything is so shitty. You make a move like this thinking things are gonna get better and they just get worse. That's been the whole pattern of my life. Every time I try to make things better they get worse.
Everything sucks.
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Date: 2011-10-16 03:19 am (UTC)Personally I think they ditched Cas because Misha is a much better actor than Jared, and people were drawn to the incredible chemistry between Jensen and Misha.
Cas was Misha's creation, just as Dean is Jensen's.
Don't get me wrong, I like JP as a person, as an actor, not so much. He is not the level of Jensen, and once Misha came on board it was woefully obvious JP was the weak link.
Mischa deserves a spinoff. Talent should be rewarded not pushed off to protect the mediocre.
You should think of your current situation that way. You spinoff is around the corner. You are far too talented to be in a sucky situation for long.
Hang in there.
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Date: 2011-10-16 03:52 am (UTC)When I can't sleep (which is often, these days) I try to offset my stress by focusing on a little Endverse myself. Just because I'm not writing it, doesn't mean I've stopped daydreaming about it.
I gotta say at sunrise, seeing the light glow though all of the blown out windows was very eerie and beautiful.
I can believe that, but I'm still not sure I'd want to begin my day with a view of Michigan Central. That place was creepy as fuck, both from a distance and up close, and everything around it really did look like the apocalypse had come and gone. Brrr.
Personally I think they ditched Cas because Misha is a much better actor than Jared, and people were drawn to the incredible chemistry between Jensen and Misha.
I think the writers and producers (with the exception of Ben Edlund) really were not happy with Castiel's position on the show. But they're the ones who created that situation -- they destroyed Dean's relationship with Sam and introduced Castiel in the same season, so it's not surprising that so many viewers got attached to him, especially when he seemed to be the only character on the show who had any regard for Dean. Sam got more and more shunted off to the side, and I agree with you that Jared's weaker presence as an actor did not help.
You should think of your current situation that way.
Actually, that's exactly how I'm thinking of it. I'm already trying to lay the groundwork that will allow me to leave, hopefully within a year or less. That is, assuming they don't let me go first. I'm good at what I do but I'm really not a good fit with that company's culture and especially not with that particular team or workstyle. And I'm clearly not alone in that thinking -- of the three people who held this job before me, only one stuck it out for more than a year. My immediate predecessor only stayed for four months. It's so unfair that the employer gets to do a background check on you before offering the position, but you don't get to do a background check on them before accepting.