SPN mini-commentary

[xparrot]

Regarding SPN 5x12 and 5x13:

5x12: a criminal waste of a good body swap. Phooey.

5x13: DANGIT SHOW, why'd you have to go and do that? I liked Anna, quite a lot - rebellious angels of all stripes are a major draw for me. Having her go evil (and stupidly evil no less - she actually achieved her objective, she killed Sam, and then rather than go and immediately scatter his atoms across the cosmos - back in time, no less, it probably would've taken some effort to straighten that out - she continued to go for the brutal murder. ARGH.) and then get killed is just annoying.

I also believe this means that every single female character who appeared in more than two episodes is now dead. Seriously, show, the hell? Even Castiel h/c can't make up for that.

(not to say that I didn't enjoy those bits. But I would've enjoyed them a lot more in a different context.)



Also finished s4 Buffy/s1 Angel. Yay friendship! Yay h/c! Yay Spike in tweed on a swingset! (Joss Whedon is a Twin Peaks/David Lynch fan, y/y?)

Comments

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Yeah, SPN's TPTB are a little too aware of fandom. And negative fan reaction does explain the handling of the female characters (to an extent, anyway, though I still think how they're written is part of why fans react badly to them. And also why bring Jo & Ellen back just to kill them; were fans really wanting that??) What's going on with the black chars can't be explained by fan reactions and is just bizarre...even if it's a series of coincidences, you'd think it'd be a coincidence they'd want to specifically avoid.

And yeah, while I think female writers/showrunners are important - most of the shows I know with awesome female chars have women in high places - they're not the only factor, as SPN shows!

Ahh, I can totally understand not wanting to analyze your shows too much for fear of losing the fun of them. Lately I've been mostly avoiding the meta-fandom discussions that have been going around because I've found they take a lot of the enjoyment out of fandom itself for me. At least at the moment, I'm happier sticking to my smaller circles, quietly discussing things with people like yourself without getting into huge and often unintentionally hurtful debates...

At least I have NCIS - that show's my happy place, and since it's laid off the politics I got no complaints ^^