![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Supernatural
Jun. 26th, 2007 05:11 pmIt's kind of a writing-related post, in that I'm dissecting the writing choices of a TV show. But that counts as a change of pace, I think, after what this journal has been like lately.
I don't know how many of you watch the TV show Supernatural, but I just saw the end of the second season, and I am continuing to be pleased by it. Not the most complex character development, or the snappiest scripts, or the most amazing concepts I've ever seen, but there's a solidity to the writing that pleases me, particularly on a macro story-choice scale.
Talking about this without lapsing into spoilers is of course problematic. But I can hit at least the broad points.
( Read more... )
And while they're doing this, they have reasonably good scripts, an entertaining dynamic between the two brothers, a secondary cast of other demon hunters whom I quite love (go Ellen! Go Bobby!), a pretty good variety of demon-type-threats and solutions to them, and a running motif of using classic rock to generate both episode titles and fake names for the Winchesters. True, we've had to create the "Smarter Than Dean" and "Dumber Than Dean" awards, but that's part of the entertainment value, and in a good way, rather than a "snarking so we get something out of the experience of watching this" way. (Winning "Dumber Than Dean" takes some doing, and usually involves a large dose of recklessness. "Smarter Than Dean" goes to whoever does the most intelligent and clever thing in the episode. Occasionally this person is Dean. But not often.)
I'm sure that a goodly chunk of my enjoyment of this show involves the people I'm watching it with. (Let me just say, though, that it's a good thing![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gollumgollum and her boy have usually seen the episodes before they watch them with me and akashiver, or they'd axe-murder us for our writerly dissection and prediction of the plots.) Your mileage may vary. But I think it's worth checking out.
I don't know how many of you watch the TV show Supernatural, but I just saw the end of the second season, and I am continuing to be pleased by it. Not the most complex character development, or the snappiest scripts, or the most amazing concepts I've ever seen, but there's a solidity to the writing that pleases me, particularly on a macro story-choice scale.
Talking about this without lapsing into spoilers is of course problematic. But I can hit at least the broad points.
( Read more... )
And while they're doing this, they have reasonably good scripts, an entertaining dynamic between the two brothers, a secondary cast of other demon hunters whom I quite love (go Ellen! Go Bobby!), a pretty good variety of demon-type-threats and solutions to them, and a running motif of using classic rock to generate both episode titles and fake names for the Winchesters. True, we've had to create the "Smarter Than Dean" and "Dumber Than Dean" awards, but that's part of the entertainment value, and in a good way, rather than a "snarking so we get something out of the experience of watching this" way. (Winning "Dumber Than Dean" takes some doing, and usually involves a large dose of recklessness. "Smarter Than Dean" goes to whoever does the most intelligent and clever thing in the episode. Occasionally this person is Dean. But not often.)
I'm sure that a goodly chunk of my enjoyment of this show involves the people I'm watching it with. (Let me just say, though, that it's a good thing
gollumgollum and her boy have usually seen the episodes before they watch them with me and akashiver, or they'd axe-murder us for our writerly dissection and prediction of the plots.) Your mileage may vary. But I think it's worth checking out.
