Supernatural Season 1
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jetpack_monkeyI dug it.
The boys were very pretty and they made a balanced team. Both were intelligent, capable fighters and neither one was necessarily "weaker" then the other. Certainly they were different -- Sam was more sensitive and bookish, Dean was more "streetsmart" and closed-off. I liked that they were both prototypical guys and that the writers showed them as emotional creatures through their guyness, not despite it.
My favorite part of the series, though, was that it was a horror series. Buffy and Angel are about vampires, certainly, and they were both scary in places, but they were paranormal action-adventure soaps with very witty dialogue. The travel in Supernatural keeps things fresh. The faces change, the fears alter just a little. We're only have Dean and Sam (and occasionally John) as points of recognition and they can't be everywhere at once. There were more moments that freaked me out or just jolted the heck out of me in that first season than in the entire run of Buffy (excepting Hush, because OMG).
I didn't love it, though. The writing is solid, but it rarely entranced me the way Joss and company do. Plus they hit a lot of major urban legends already, and one wonders how much farther they have to go before they start repeating themselves. Of course, they could always segue into a more character-driven show, but they'll lose a lot of the edge that makes the horror element so potent.
It remains to be seen whether I'll be staying with the show in its second season. What else is on the schedule at the same time will affect my decision a great deal.
The boys were very pretty and they made a balanced team. Both were intelligent, capable fighters and neither one was necessarily "weaker" then the other. Certainly they were different -- Sam was more sensitive and bookish, Dean was more "streetsmart" and closed-off. I liked that they were both prototypical guys and that the writers showed them as emotional creatures through their guyness, not despite it.
My favorite part of the series, though, was that it was a horror series. Buffy and Angel are about vampires, certainly, and they were both scary in places, but they were paranormal action-adventure soaps with very witty dialogue. The travel in Supernatural keeps things fresh. The faces change, the fears alter just a little. We're only have Dean and Sam (and occasionally John) as points of recognition and they can't be everywhere at once. There were more moments that freaked me out or just jolted the heck out of me in that first season than in the entire run of Buffy (excepting Hush, because OMG).
I didn't love it, though. The writing is solid, but it rarely entranced me the way Joss and company do. Plus they hit a lot of major urban legends already, and one wonders how much farther they have to go before they start repeating themselves. Of course, they could always segue into a more character-driven show, but they'll lose a lot of the edge that makes the horror element so potent.
It remains to be seen whether I'll be staying with the show in its second season. What else is on the schedule at the same time will affect my decision a great deal.
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Date: 2006-09-20 12:57 am (UTC)We shall see.
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Date: 2006-09-20 01:07 am (UTC)I wouldn't say they'd be likely to be able to draw it out past, say, another season, but, yes, we'll see.