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.
I liked the exploration of monsters and the idea of Purgatory. It made sense to go there; after all we'd already been dealing with Hell and Heaven. I feel that there's still room to explore with the monsters, esp. the Alphas (I was ready for the Leviathan to move on, however). It's too bad S8 turned into whatever it was.
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.
:'(
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.
That will forever be The Episode that was a complete and utter waste of something that could've been amazing. I think it may come down to a show runner who has a clear vision AND will demand better. I read some interviews with Kripke for Revolution at SCDD and he's still the same opinionated guy who acknowledges his mistakes and doesn't hesitate to rally for what he wants (he was yelling about the Revolution characters looking too clean "It's not a Noxzema commercial! More dirt!" and that reminded me of him freaking about about Sam and Dean holding umbrellas in "Bugs"). I don't get the sense that Carver has a clear vision. At this point, I'm just hoping for a S9 story with a cohesive beginning, middle, and end and not something that resembles the first draft of a choose-your-own-adventure book.
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Date: 2013-07-27 02:09 am (UTC)I liked the exploration of monsters and the idea of Purgatory. It made sense to go there; after all we'd already been dealing with Hell and Heaven. I feel that there's still room to explore with the monsters, esp. the Alphas (I was ready for the Leviathan to move on, however). It's too bad S8 turned into whatever it was.
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.
:'(
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.
That will forever be The Episode that was a complete and utter waste of something that could've been amazing. I think it may come down to a show runner who has a clear vision AND will demand better. I read some interviews with Kripke for Revolution at SCDD and he's still the same opinionated guy who acknowledges his mistakes and doesn't hesitate to rally for what he wants (he was yelling about the Revolution characters looking too clean "It's not a Noxzema commercial! More dirt!" and that reminded me of him freaking about about Sam and Dean holding umbrellas in "Bugs"). I don't get the sense that Carver has a clear vision. At this point, I'm just hoping for a S9 story with a cohesive beginning, middle, and end and not something that resembles the first draft of a choose-your-own-adventure book.