Hollywood Babylon

[ivyfic]

Was it just me, or was that Evil Dead? I mean, the reading from the necronomicon, that's a gimme. But the banging of the porch swing against the cabin and the repeated reference to an off-screen character named "Ashley"? Straight up Evil Dead.

I'm slightly annoyed with Supernatural right now. X-Files managed to hold back the urge to do this episode for seven seasons before giving in (and then let Duchovny write the script which led to the holy grail being an LP that played the lord's voice saying the lyrics to "I Am the Walrus" in Aramaic, but that's just Duchovny for you (pretentious Princeton grad *hem*)), Stargate resisted for five seasons. We're in season two. And we've had two goofball episodes in the back half of this season, both of which were rip-offs of X-Files. The plot? Predictable. The satire? Not even remotely original. The characterization? Well, apparently Dean is a horndog and a glutton. We knew that already. And Sam--Sam's just his usual self. I mean--what? Maybe I wouldn't have minded as much that this was a comedy bottle show if they hadn't had Dean flippantly bring up Madison which--no. Maybe I wouldn't have minded if they hadn't rushed right through the angst in "Heart" only to ignore it now. And at least "Tall Tales" had tons of character moments.

When I want goofy crack that pays no attention to character development or plot arcs, I watch SGA.

Sure, I was amused at them ridiculing Route 666, who wouldn't be. I loved the look on Sam's face when he finds out Dean's banging the star. I love that Dean is a horror buff--not just a buff, even, an otaku, if you can be an otaku of horror. But come on Supernatural! I'm getting bored here! You haven't had a truly surprising plot twist since "Houses of the Holy." Throw me a friggin' bone.

*breathe* This is still one of the best seasons of a television show I've ever seen, and I am oh so very much looking forward to next week. I'm just fed up with filler.

Comments

[trakkie.livejournal.com]

Whoa, when did he flippantly bring up Madison? Did I miss that?

I'm just annoyed that they can't even take themselves seriously - I mean, do we have to make reference to the fact that Jared was on Gilmore Girls, or that the show is still filmed in Canada? Even though SGA is usually cracktastic and pays no attention to characterization or plot, you've never once had Rodney say, "hm, this planet reminds me of Canada!"

Annoying!

But yeah, it was totally Evil Dead. The one thing I liked was that Dean wasn't even a horror movie buff - he was a B horror movie buff. I wasn't bored, and I thought the black and white ghost was pretty creepy. But I wasn't impressed.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Dean brought it up at the beginning -- clearly you were too distracted by the Canada reference. He says something like, "Well after that whole thing with Madison, I thought we should come to LA and screw movie stars! But you just want to work! What's up with that?"

If you remove that one line from this episode, you could move it anywhere in the continuity and I'd be fine with that. It's just not the right step after "Heart." Though if they're going to give me a crap filler episode, I'd rather this than another "Route 666."

[trakkie.livejournal.com]

You know, honestly, I think a lot of it is that they're still trying to market this show to boys. I'm sure some higher up somewhere said, "Boys age 18-24 don't want to see Sam deal with his pain over some chick! They want blood, guts, and cleavage! Why don't we bring in a cult figure from B horror movies for good measure! And have Dean bang her! That will get those boys off their Xboxes."