Tonight's SPN

[janedavitt]

Going behind the cut.



So, they ripped off homaged The Thing, Puppet Masters, and, I guess the Christie novel, just to kill off three major secondary characters in the most trivial way possible?

Uh, why? Samuel was the only one that we really needed to have closure with; the others, Rufus especially, could've been allowed to live without us ever seeing them again if they just didn't want to use those characters again. This was pointless. So we know that the stakes are high now? They've just had a freaking apocalypse! They know all about that kind of thing.

Eve especially wants the boys to know she's out? Again, why? Their track record is impressive; Eve, honey, sneak around, gets your monsters in place, your demonic ducks in a row, and then do the whole wiping out the feelthy humans thing; don't give the Winchester boys advance notice and time to plan with their friendly neighborhood angel ::rolls eyes::

Some great Rufus/Bobby moments, but by the end I was meh.

ETA And why does a mother have to be a young pretty virgin? Am I missing something here? Make the mother, well, motherly. Hell, a sweet, white-haired grandmother even. Shake it up a bit, show!

Comments

[samjohnsson]

And why does a mother have to be a young pretty virgin?

Cause it's the CW. And gods forbid (literally) that SPN actually pay attention to relaying a myth, especially one as complex as the all-mother myths.

[janedavitt]

Sometimes, they're sadly predictable :-(

[sorrel]

I haven't seen it yet, but my tivo screwed up and told me that it was Eve before I even got a chance to watch it. For the past few weeks my nerd friends and I have been kicking around ideas for who the monster-mom would be, and all of the ideas we came up with were from other religions. And yet- shocker!- they go with Eve. This is like when they turned Lilith into a botoxed anorexic twentysomething, had her try to seduce Sam, and then said that she was the first seal because Lucifer seduced her into being evil. I'm depressed all over again, and that's before we get into the "young, pretty virgin host" thing.

[janedavitt]

I sometimes wonder what goes through their heads ::is sad::

[sorrel]

You know, a friend of mine pointed out at brunch today that if the writers had actually planned season six then the roles of Lilith and Eve should have been switched. Traditionally Lilith is seen as the mother of monsters, as I understand it, and Eve was the one to be seduced by Lucifer (into eating the apple). It also would have been a bit less creepily destructive of the feminist traditions attached to Lilith in modern culture. Just goes to show how badly this season was planned.

[janedavitt]

It's like they never google anything and yet I know they do...

[sorrel]

Well, when most of their research material was clearly gleaned from Wikipedia, they clearly have no excuse.

Since they spent season five ripping so heavily off Gaiman that he should have gotten writer's credit, I wish they'd gone with his version of Eve- the storyteller in the cavern- or Mike Carey's version of Lilith, who stormed the gates of Heaven and tore down the Silver City. Those were interesting versions of the characters. I'm not impressed yet.

[janedavitt]

Since the episode with the deity convention, I have no respect for their treatment of any religion/myth/whatever. I won't stop watching until it's over, but it's not the show I used to love. It's not even scary these days. Gruesome, yes, scary, no.

[sorrel]

Ohhhh yeah, that was a bad one. Which was sad because it started out awesome, if admittedly a retread of Gaiman (again). And then Lucifer showed up and it was just FAIL FAIL FAIL.

The mannequin episode actually got me pretty hard, I gotta admit. And I'd been really spoiled for it, so it wasn't even surprise creepy. Gotta give 'em that.