Supernatural season one

[louiselux]

I had a sick day on Monday, so I was able to lie on the sofa under a blanket and gorge on the pretty Winchesters. I've now only got eps 21 and 22 to go!

More deep thoughts for eps 07-20 ...

I really adore the the sets - they're beautiful, specially all those shabby motel rooms with the scary 70s furniture and the star clocks. I liked how they acknowledge this with the lovely black and white disco motel room in one episode. They really help with the sense of them endlessly travelling through these anonymous American backwaters. Although I expect it's shot somewhere near Vancouver isn't it? Like everything seems to be.

This show is obsessed with cars! Seriously, everything happens in cars. The first episode, even. Then there are lots more. There's a racist truck! Well, that was just odd and it was annoying that it was a white woman who got to do the big angst about it at the end, rather than, you know, anyone of a different colour.

Dean's Impala sounds like a huge growling wolf and it's kind of adorable how when they pull up in these tiny places people don't turn in the street and point and stare or even seem to notice it.

Jared Padalecki's acting does get a lot better towards the end of the series. I like how he does the constant questioning and getting angry. The sibling vibe did kick off for me when Daddy Winchester showed up - I thought they did that really well. The rowing, Sam's whiny tones sometimes, Dean being patient but underneath you can see he wants to kick someone. Daddy Winchester is really mean.

Dean's obsession with Sam getting laid is verging on the, well, obsessive. It's kind of hot how we get his POV when he watches Sam kissing women. What?

Jensen Ackles looks enough like Jeffrey Dean Morgan aroud the eyes and nose to plausibly be his son, but Jared doesn't at all.

Lesbian Vampire Moment! Heh. Hello, target audience.

Comments

[stormcloude]

Dean's Impala sounds like a huge growling wolf


Oh, that's a lovely description!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

It does make an incredible sound - normal cars don't sound like that anymore.

[emungere.livejournal.com]

They should call the car Vlad. Vlad the Impala. (Sry, I had to.)

[kanzenhanzai.livejournal.com]

*groaaaaan*

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, that is srs funny.

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

I love the cars! Almost as much as I love Dean! Mmmmmm, Dean.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Dean has so much angst it's really wonderful, far more than Sam for some reason.

[rheasilvia.livejournal.com]

Jared Padalecki's acting does get a lot better towards the end of the series.

Thank a deity of your choice!

The sibling vibe did kick off for me when Daddy Winchester showed up - I thought they did that really well.

*Yes.* I loved that - that the instant Dad turns up, all of the old dynamics and the old, familiar arguments and resentments and rivalries are right there again, and they are stuck in between falling back into their old roles and struggling to hold on to their new views and insights into each other, and to merge the two, and...

And I should stop babbling now, I think. ;-)

Short version: That glimpse of changing Winchester family dynamics is one of my favorite things about S1, and I think it's brilliantly done.

I love how SPN harps on the relationships and character development - not to mention the angst and internal torment. It's really unusual for a series focussed on horror and action, and it's perfect fandom fodder. :-)

[rheasilvia.livejournal.com]

Dean being patient but underneath you can see he wants to kick someone

Yeah - and Dean automatically falling into the role of the mediator, trying to make peace and forge them into a family. And how he himself necessarily fades into the background as a result, to the point where Sam - in a lovely combination of old and new dynamics - actually starts to use him as a weapon against his father very much against Dean's will.

And how Dean finds that he just isn't willing to fit into that role anymore, after all.

Jensen Ackles looks enough like Jeffrey Dean Morgan aroud the eyes and nose to plausibly be his son, but Jared doesn't at all.

I also think Dean looks like Mary - while Sam doesn't look like her, either. Maybe he's a changeling.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Maybe he is a changeling! I like to think so.

The family dynamics are one of the best things about the show, and Jensen Ackles is really a joy to watch when he is doing his frustrated but loving older brother act - it's like he's hopelessly in love with the idea of having a family, except it's never going to work out right because the family was broken a long time ago. He really clings to this idea of love and being a good son and a good brother, and now Sam is the only one left the intensity of Dean's love and need could be drawn out really nicely, focusing all down on Sam. I can see where all the wincest comes from, easily.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I think you're ready for this. (http://ryuutchi.livejournal.com/228534.html)

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Ahahaa, I think you were right, I was. :D

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I love that story so much.

[viridian5.livejournal.com]

I love the cheesy, cheesy motel rooms. They thankfully continue that through season 2. You notice that they don't stay in chains? I guess it's meant to add to the Americana.

When I loved in a backwoods area of Pennsylvania, everything did happen in cars. No car/truck, no life. So I totally bond with that aspect of the show. Plus, I'm a road trip nut.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

They never stay in chains, this is true. I'm pretty certain the art director saw their chance on this show to really work out the cheesy motel room fetish that they have been nurturing all their lives. The lighting and the colours are really good too - I love the look of it to bits.

Heh, yes, I did kind of assume that life in any of these towns depends on having a vehicle. I think part of the reason I love the cheesy motels is because I really want to be on the kind of road trip where you stop at places like that!

[viridian5.livejournal.com]

The disco room of season 1 remains my favorite, but the super tacky wallpaper and mirrors at the Blue Rose Motel in season 2 are choice. And I think I remember one room in season 2 having those chesty mudflap silhouette women as a design accent. Lileks has a section of his site devoted to antique postcards of motels, some of them really wacky, and it makes me nostalgic even as it makes me cackle. Some of the motels still exist, though chains encroach.

Yeah, we were always in a hurry to get places. Trips from New York to Florida in the 80s had us staying in some non-chain motels, but mostly they were utilitarian. But the time when I stayed in the French Quarter in New Orleans I was very pleased with my distinctive (though not cheesy) room and the three courtyards at Olivier House Hotel. I can't wait until I'm able to travel again.

[rose-gialle.livejournal.com]

I want to marry the set decorator.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Heeeee! I am not surprised. You could probably contribute some props. :D

[rose-gialle.livejournal.com]

I miss entire scenes of dialogue and plottiness, just admiring the latest starburst clock or velvet-flocked wallpaper; but it's worth it. That's what rewind is for!

There's a wonderful stuffed armadillo that turns up for a few scenes, that would appear to be an amusing homage to a Smallville in-joke, they being CW stable-neighbours. (The armadillo is a pseud for Michael Rosenbaum's dick, but that's a whole 'nother story). Nobody gets why I leap up and laugh, and cry 'Armadillo!!!' when it appears onscreen in Sam & Dean's hotel room. :-)

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Hey, I saw that armadillo! I thought it was cute.

You realise have to tell me the story about Michael Rosenbaum now.

[rose-gialle.livejournal.com]

Actually, thinking back, I think it was Tom Welling's dick being referenced. I used to have a vid clip of him running commando that demonstrates the armadillo-effect very nicely, (the viewing fangirl public watched agog, and one famously cried 'What's he got in there? An armadillo!?!) but in a quick (and unsuccessful) google search for it online, google instead offers the following bits of randomness:

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*blink* That's more cross-fandom imagery than I'm prepared to handle, this late at night *g*.

[rose-gialle.livejournal.com]

No, no, no. Tom Welling had the duck, Rosenbaum had the Armadillo... Oh dear, it's too long ago. I need another SV fan from the same era to help me remember the order of it.

There were ducks and armadillos involved, anyway. Um.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Okay, I will take your word for it. :D :D

[yami-tai.livejournal.com]

Hope you're feeling better now *hugs*.

I'm enjoying your deep thoughts about Supernatural ^_~!

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Aww thank you! I am feeling much better indeed.

Glad you're enjoying the deep thoughts, such as they are.