Supernatural Season 9 - Home Base

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- gif credit
- spoilers contained below
- criticism of show/characters welcome, but please don't be an asshat (ie. no character/actor bashing, no ship wars)
- general thread

- 9.01 I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here
- 9.02 Devil May Care
- 9.03 I'm No Angel
- 9.04 Slumber Party
- 9.05 Dog Dean Afternoon
- 9.06 Heaven Can't Wait
- 9.07 Bad Boys
- 9.08 Rock and a Hard Place
- 9.09 Holy Terror
- 9.10 Road Trip
- 9.11 First Born
- 9.12 Sharp Teeth
- 9.13 The Purge

Coming up:
- Feb. 25 - Captives

Enjoy the show!!! ♥

Comments

Re: 9.05 - Dog Dean Afternoon

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Yes! Jensen is pretty much always going to act well I think, even if he doesn't understand the plot. I feel like he's suffering from Michael Rosenbaum syndrome (c season 6 and 7 of Smallville, Rosie was so checked out, and had no idea what the logic was anymore, but just read the words and pinched Tom's ass and collected his paycheck) at this point. ((As my friend tebtosca says: they have to keep themselves in diapers and gummi bears somehow.)) And he did a good job, I thought, but yes: Dean's been at times a bit schizophrenic in his characterization over the years--which I get, I mean, how many writers have there been?--but usually his grumpiness is more of the middle aged lady variety than downright mean. And I felt like some of the jokes were weak because they were mean.

And yeah, this villain just slid right off my mind, too.

then Sam should have snapped. He had a fatal neck wound Yep. Exactly!

I think it came down to editing choices. The last two eps have suffered the same thing: too much dead air in scenes that wouldn't have been as noticeably clunky if they'd moved faster. Especially when the animals talked, in this case, it was SO evident that Jensen and Jared were just standing there, waiting and pretending to hear things. It was awkward enough to pull me out of the narrative more than once. Why not just tighten it up a bit? It's hardly 30 Rock around here, where the jokes are so fast, you miss one because you're still laughing at the previous one. There's plenty of room for tightening things up.

It could be, I've heard of a thing, where they bring in newb crew on old shows to cut their teeth. Maybe there are new editors and first time directors?

Re: 9.05 - Dog Dean Afternoon

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As I was clipping this episode last night for vidding, I actually appreciate the lack of "talky face". Therefore, I can see where you're coming from about dead air.

Adding it to THINGS I DIDN'T NOTICE, huh.