I must make this quick, as I have to get to an appointment. I'll give my full attention to your post when I get back. But I did want to address this:
It's off somehow but i like how they did it in S1 - explain something through couple of phrase or looks or acts. It was like we learn something new about Winchester's family along with Sam :) I don't mind if they keep it in next season too. I mean - i can tell they have a lot thingsd to explain to each other, right?
That's not really what I mean. Finding out about characters through a throw-away line or a glance is great--it's one of the things Jared and Jensen excell at. No, I mean explaining away an entire storyline in a couple sentences--like explaining how Dean got out of Hell with an oh, by the way, his contract wasn't valid because . . . or whatever. They need to delve into it and how it affected both the Boys. And I think that's what they're going to do. So I'm not really perturbed that they're picking it up where they are, especially if we eventually find out what *did* happen in those missing months.
I'm comparing it specifically in Farscape in the season where they left John hanging out in space in his module by himself while Moya got sucked into a wormhole. The following season we started with John already having been rescued by a passing laviaton, and he'd been on his own for months. There could have been all sorts of adventures of him being picked up by Scorpius or something, but instead, they just kind of told us oh, btw, this passing laviathon found him and picked him up. Very anticlimactic for me.
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Date: 2008-08-08 06:00 pm (UTC)It's off somehow but i like how they did it in S1 - explain something through couple of phrase or looks or acts. It was like we learn something new about Winchester's family along with Sam :) I don't mind if they keep it in next season too. I mean - i can tell they have a lot thingsd to explain to each other, right?
That's not really what I mean. Finding out about characters through a throw-away line or a glance is great--it's one of the things Jared and Jensen excell at. No, I mean explaining away an entire storyline in a couple sentences--like explaining how Dean got out of Hell with an oh, by the way, his contract wasn't valid because . . . or whatever. They need to delve into it and how it affected both the Boys. And I think that's what they're going to do. So I'm not really perturbed that they're picking it up where they are, especially if we eventually find out what *did* happen in those missing months.
I'm comparing it specifically in Farscape in the season where they left John hanging out in space in his module by himself while Moya got sucked into a wormhole. The following season we started with John already having been rescued by a passing laviaton, and he'd been on his own for months. There could have been all sorts of adventures of him being picked up by Scorpius or something, but instead, they just kind of told us oh, btw, this passing laviathon found him and picked him up. Very anticlimactic for me.
Gotta run. Will be back.