0 comments on my sanity Listening to: Queen- '39
Mood: Neutral
So, sports day is over and the next big hurdle is Halloween, which I hate. I have no idea what I should come as, and I suppose I should try and decide today because I'm not going to have time in the next two days!
I've started playing the guitar again properly too, rather than just looking at it for a minute and going "Eh... I think I'll watch some Dead Zone." This is mainly because I want to be able to play '39 by Queen:
The chord sequence at the end of the chorus is kicking my ass because no one online seems to have tabulated it correctly, and I'm anal that way. I think I got it while I was lying in bed last night listening to it with my headphones, but I couldn't try it out then because it was 2am and I don't think the neighbours would have thanked me.
I'm so totally having a soundproof room built when I get my own house. Anyway, I need somewhere to put the drum kit now I've bought out my brother's share of it!
I love Brian May. Just so you all know. (and he submitted his PhD in the summer, 36 years after he started it and then dropped out to become famous.)
I'm about to rant about Supernatural a little now, so if you don't want to be spoilered, you might want to stop reading.
We're on episode 4 of season 3 now, and I want to have a little rant, having seen the latest one.
I was a little disappointed when I watched the first episode. The plot wasn't great, it wasn't exactly a mystery what was going on, and it seemed to be just an excuse for a huge infodump. But, I didn't mind that so much because it was the first episode and they did need to establish what was going on and set the scene for the series and introduce some new characters.
Then we got two awesome episodes, starting with the one with Mini-Dean, who was possibly the cutest thing ever, even if no kid in the world says things like that. Dean standing next to him, clearly thinking, "Dude, am I like that? I'm awesome!" was just so brill.
Episode 3 was the one with the rabbit's foot, and it was fantastic from beginning to end. The best parts were Sam almost crying from losing his shoe down the drain, and
"I'm Batman!"
"Yeah. You're Batman."
*dies* I do so love you, Sera Gamble.
Buuuuut... Episode 4? Not so much. We're back to the main storyline which is starting to gain X-Files proportions of main storyline hate from me. I'm sorry, but I have just had enough of the Yellow Eyed Demon really. And Demons generally.
There was no real plot- it was obvious who the villians were- and so much infodump it was actually painful. They also saw the need to whack us round the head with the episode's message, which was apparently that Demons don't need to do much to corrupt humans at all. Most people probably got that from the Demon ranting about it in the middle of the episode. We really didn't need Dean doing it later as well. Since when does he go on about serious stuff, anyway?
Worse, the brothers spent almost no time together, and every single woman in the episode was hateful. Except for the hooker, but she was hateful in a whole different way.
Bobby was the only awesome thing about it really. I'm starting to adore Bobby even more than I did before. He's much better than John Winchester :D
I've also noticed that there is not nearly so much good music in the show. I don't know what's happened. It's not like there's a shortage of music. But they are supplementing more and more with new BGM, which is not terrible BGM, but it's not the same as having Foreigner playing or something. (Incidentally the music for episode 4 was "Run Through The Jungle" by Creedence Clearwater Revival.)
The only explanation I have for the crappitude of the main storyline episodes is that they are frantically trying to cram the necessary background info into these first episodes so that we get to where we need to be early enough to fit the rest of the plot arc in inside the season. That is the only excuse. If it's not that, then the writing for those episodes is really quite piss-poor and far below the standard of the episodes of the last two seasons.
Come on, Supernatural, give us more of what we want:
- good music
- mystery
- Sam and Dean as a team
- snappy, good dialogue. Not stodgy crappy, predicable stuff.
Also, man, have they turned the gore-meter up to eleven. There's been a gross-out inducing thing in every episode so far, much much worse than the last two seasons. Unneccesarily so I think. I really don't need to see a man with a carving fork stuck through his head, thanks CW.
So I'm hoping. We've had two awesome episodes and two sub-par episodes. I'm really hoping episode 5 will swing the balance back towards awesome. I'm not going to stop watching Supernatural because I do want to know what happens, but I am afraid that I will stop loving it like I did before...
October 28, 2007 at 9:57 a.m.