Rilly Show?
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roxyIt was a pleasure seeing Kavan Smith on the show (Magnus). This was his second time; the first time he just walked into an ER and literally spilled his guts. I loved him so much and it stems from the time I took a one-time character he played on SV and wrote this whole thing where Whit and he were in a terrible relationship, and then I wrote him again as Lex's kidnapper...ah, the good old days, when our perversions were practically innocent!
As usual I have thoughts about the show but this time, I'll do more than write them up and delete them--I'm posting this short rant. Because GRRR!!
One of the problems I have with Show is that the writers seem to have no idea that on the whole, we're a pretty smart bunch who appreciate smart people and in fact, find smart people pretty darn sexy. I think we tend to view the boys through that lens. We imagine that after all these years in hunting, all the research—both Sam and Dean, thank you—they have to know at least a little about a lot of things. I think a lot of us have also incorporated fanon as canon without meaning to. our boys are competent, think quick on their feet and are both *smart*, no matter what they believe of themselves.
That's why the scene outside the invisible castle at the end really bothered me, so much that I was vocal in my outrage. How the fuck does Sam look at Baby and wonder what that language is scratched into her side? *ouch, poor girl!* Show writers, please stop making those guys ask stupid questions. If someone wrote a fic in which Sam said, "What language is that (that looks kind of like the stuff that was BLASTED INTO OUR RIBS WHICH WE KNEW WAS ENOCHIAN AT THAT TIME.)?" they'd be roundly snickered at. I would be silently judgey, because I'd consider it a cheap and OOC way to move the story along. I would be *most* judgey about the fact that it was not an entertaining way to move the story along.
I'm not sure why these kind of things bother me so much lately. Maybe because of the amount of fanfic I read, maybe because I've been following the show for a long time. But I'm putting that Stupid Questions Sam, Of All People, Has Asked right up there with "Metatron? You're saying a Transformer wrote that?"
If they're going to keep doing this, then they should start each episode with an additional title card, CONCUSSION, which would explain these sort of drifting stupidities they spout.
I swan, if it's true that Show folk are reading fanfiction, they're def reading the wrong stories.
As usual I have thoughts about the show but this time, I'll do more than write them up and delete them--I'm posting this short rant. Because GRRR!!
One of the problems I have with Show is that the writers seem to have no idea that on the whole, we're a pretty smart bunch who appreciate smart people and in fact, find smart people pretty darn sexy. I think we tend to view the boys through that lens. We imagine that after all these years in hunting, all the research—both Sam and Dean, thank you—they have to know at least a little about a lot of things. I think a lot of us have also incorporated fanon as canon without meaning to. our boys are competent, think quick on their feet and are both *smart*, no matter what they believe of themselves.
That's why the scene outside the invisible castle at the end really bothered me, so much that I was vocal in my outrage. How the fuck does Sam look at Baby and wonder what that language is scratched into her side? *ouch, poor girl!* Show writers, please stop making those guys ask stupid questions. If someone wrote a fic in which Sam said, "What language is that (that looks kind of like the stuff that was BLASTED INTO OUR RIBS WHICH WE KNEW WAS ENOCHIAN AT THAT TIME.)?" they'd be roundly snickered at. I would be silently judgey, because I'd consider it a cheap and OOC way to move the story along. I would be *most* judgey about the fact that it was not an entertaining way to move the story along.
I'm not sure why these kind of things bother me so much lately. Maybe because of the amount of fanfic I read, maybe because I've been following the show for a long time. But I'm putting that Stupid Questions Sam, Of All People, Has Asked right up there with "Metatron? You're saying a Transformer wrote that?"
If they're going to keep doing this, then they should start each episode with an additional title card, CONCUSSION, which would explain these sort of drifting stupidities they spout.
I swan, if it's true that Show folk are reading fanfiction, they're def reading the wrong stories.
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3/20/14 10:02 am (UTC)My immediate thought was, no way Sam doesn't recognize Enochian.
And while we're at it, no way Sam stage-whispers to Dean "Hey, LET'S KILL CROWLEY NOW!" while Crowley's standing well within earshot a few yards away. Even if Crowley HADN'T been able to hear him, it'd be pretty clear what the topic of discussion was just from the way the boys were behaving. :/
Not that I WANTED to see Crowley killed. I didn't.
In fact, I was more than a little pissed with the way the boys treated him this episode. :P *sigh* I'm pretty firmly convinced that he would not have double-crossed them this time if he hadn't heard them planning to double-cross HIM. :/
ETA: Just thought of something, though - while it's weak writing, it's kinda similar to what they used to do in early episodes, like having the boys discuss something that would have been common knowledge to both of them. Hex bags, for example. Or something similarly simple and obvious. "Hey, aren't those used by witches to cast curses, Sam?" "Why yes, Dean, I believe they are" LOL
Obvious exposition for the sake of the audience, awkwardly placed in the mouths of characters who have known this crap since they were 8 years old :P *sigh*
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3/21/14 12:10 am (UTC)It's not that they do it, it's that they do it so badly, lol! Can't the guys tell the writers, "Look, we've seen the fans and there's really not many thirteen year olds out there. It's all women of a certain age and *koff* outlook."
And they don't like being treated like idiots. ;D