Supernatural season one
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louiseluxI 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.
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.
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Date: 2007-09-26 10:36 pm (UTC)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. :-)
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Date: 2007-09-26 10:41 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2007-09-27 12:24 pm (UTC)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.