But at least I'm not in denial anymore about the fact that angels and Crowley do not interest me, right? ROFL yes, coming out of denial is a good thing. But I often do that, too, trying to convince myself I like something because I want to like it, but there always comes the moment of defeat. I've been tired of the angel mythology since S5, and I was very pleased that Sera Gamble slowly but surely backed away from it and opened the mythology in other directions - alpha monsters, eve and purgatory, souls, leviathans. Gamble really did a lot of great things to flesh out the universe Kripke left her. Carver is just trampling around in it. :( And I really used to love Crowley. I enjoyed him and his snark and his clever, opportunistic ways. However, in S8 he was reduced to a cardboard villain, whose actions made little sense and were often out of character. It's a shame, really. :(
I'm hopeful that whatever pans out with "the secret" is cool and clever and makes sense because JP seems to be so excited about it. I won't hold my breath, particularly not about the clever part. That's one thing about the current creative team, they always think the things they do are cool and exciting and they don't care if they're walking all over past canon/characerisation with it. And I adore Jared, but he is very excitable and he always tries to make everyone on the show look good. He would never say on camera 'this storyline sucks!' Bless him!
My biggest pet peeve is lack of vision in story telling and a meandering, nonsensical story with weird dead ends and an unsatisfying ending. Ditto! S8 was like that and S9 will be, too. Has to be, because it is the same creative team. I am not sure either if Carver & Co are oblivious to the damage they do to the characters and the mythology or if they just do not care. I want to believe that they're genuinely trying to do their best, but some of the stuff they pulled last season was just so outrageously bad and destructive - Taxi Driver comes to mind - that it seems incomprehensible that they had no clue what they were doing.
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Date: 2013-07-24 09:44 pm (UTC)ROFL yes, coming out of denial is a good thing. But I often do that, too, trying to convince myself I like something because I want to like it, but there always comes the moment of defeat. I've been tired of the angel mythology since S5, and I was very pleased that Sera Gamble slowly but surely backed away from it and opened the mythology in other directions - alpha monsters, eve and purgatory, souls, leviathans. Gamble really did a lot of great things to flesh out the universe Kripke left her. Carver is just trampling around in it. :( And I really used to love Crowley. I enjoyed him and his snark and his clever, opportunistic ways. However, in S8 he was reduced to a cardboard villain, whose actions made little sense and were often out of character. It's a shame, really. :(
I'm hopeful that whatever pans out with "the secret" is cool and clever and makes sense because JP seems to be so excited about it.
I won't hold my breath, particularly not about the clever part. That's one thing about the current creative team, they always think the things they do are cool and exciting and they don't care if they're walking all over past canon/characerisation with it. And I adore Jared, but he is very excitable and he always tries to make everyone on the show look good. He would never say on camera 'this storyline sucks!' Bless him!
My biggest pet peeve is lack of vision in story telling and a meandering, nonsensical story with weird dead ends and an unsatisfying ending.
Ditto! S8 was like that and S9 will be, too. Has to be, because it is the same creative team. I am not sure either if Carver & Co are oblivious to the damage they do to the characters and the mythology or if they just do not care. I want to believe that they're genuinely trying to do their best, but some of the stuff they pulled last season was just so outrageously bad and destructive - Taxi Driver comes to mind - that it seems incomprehensible that they had no clue what they were doing.