Oh, SPN. XD I've pretty much disengaged emotionally with the show; I'm just not surprised at any stupid thing it does anymore. I did roll my eyes so hard they almost fell out of my head at Anna being all horror-movie-monster with John and Mary in the mechanic garage (i.e. standing there and glaring ominously rather than just wiping them out, when she's supposed to be all super-badass -- she came back 30 years and can't just pick up a tire iron?), but I've decided that getting emotionally invested in supporting characters isn't really worth it for this show.
One thing I was saying at someone else's LJ ... well, I'll just paste my comment rather than trying to paraphrase:
I think it's becoming more and more obvious that what they should have done to make [the mytharc] work -- what they started to do back in season two and then pulled away from for some reason -- is to world-build like crazy, because what they need at this point, I think, is a large cast of supporting players and world-building concepts to draw upon. Instead, they've been introducing supporting characters and artifacts Maguffin-style and then getting rid of them, which doesn't really leave them much to play with. At this point they're pretty much just reduced to going in circles with both the plot and Sam & Dean's interactions with each other.
... which is really where I'm at with the series: it feels like they've been retreading the same territory with Sam and Dean for two seasons now (if not longer), and they just don't have the universe to support the long-arc plot that they're trying to do. They've already plumbed the depths of their main characters' relationship to each other ad infinitum, and their relationship with their parents, and now they're left with the claustrophobic results of having systematically killed off everyone else who's important to them (except for Bobby, but that's another relationship that's pretty much been plumbed to its depths) and having nowhere left to go emotionally.
I did, somewhat against my will *g*, really enjoy the Castiel h/c and his loyalty to Sam (though, I really didn't feel like the show had adequately set up for it -- "Sam is my friend" since when?).
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Date: 2010-02-08 09:45 pm (UTC)One thing I was saying at someone else's LJ ... well, I'll just paste my comment rather than trying to paraphrase:
I think it's becoming more and more obvious that what they should have done to make [the mytharc] work -- what they started to do back in season two and then pulled away from for some reason -- is to world-build like crazy, because what they need at this point, I think, is a large cast of supporting players and world-building concepts to draw upon. Instead, they've been introducing supporting characters and artifacts Maguffin-style and then getting rid of them, which doesn't really leave them much to play with. At this point they're pretty much just reduced to going in circles with both the plot and Sam & Dean's interactions with each other.
... which is really where I'm at with the series: it feels like they've been retreading the same territory with Sam and Dean for two seasons now (if not longer), and they just don't have the universe to support the long-arc plot that they're trying to do. They've already plumbed the depths of their main characters' relationship to each other ad infinitum, and their relationship with their parents, and now they're left with the claustrophobic results of having systematically killed off everyone else who's important to them (except for Bobby, but that's another relationship that's pretty much been plumbed to its depths) and having nowhere left to go emotionally.
I did, somewhat against my will *g*, really enjoy the Castiel h/c and his loyalty to Sam (though, I really didn't feel like the show had adequately set up for it -- "Sam is my friend" since when?).