Veronica Mars: Charlie Don't Surf

It wasn't that last episode massively offended me. It was that every single thing that I haven't liked about this season was still there, and there was no narrative drive or compelling character conflict or development.

( I am coming perilously close to losing all interest in the show )

Veronica Mars: Charlie Don't Surf

It wasn't that last episode massively offended me. It was that every single thing that I haven't liked about this season was still there, and there was no narrative drive or compelling character conflict or development.

( I am coming perilously close to losing all interest in the show )

Supernatural

coffeeandink has lured me over to the Dark Side. I am now totally hooked on this show about two hot ghost-hunting brothers on an endless road trip in a super-cool car.

The color palette makes me want to adjust the screen because everything's gone all dark and gray, women are mostly screaming victims (occasionally flaming on the ceiling), almost all characters are white and the land is strangely underpopulated, and the monsters of the week are pretty cheesy.

The reason I watch is that I have a mad crush on Dean there is a great sibling dynamic, the extremely attractive brother is also a good actor and the other brother isn't half bad, and all the scenes with the brothers interacting, with other people or each other, are terrific: sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking.

A much better overview, with photos, is here.

Mely also helpfully lists essential episodes, annotated according to where she guesses my interests lie. Warning: mild spoilers in comments.

I can chart the progress of my obsession as follows. Comments taken from Mely's journal, with spoilers omitted:

Rachel: (10/19 11:29 AM): So, Netflixed the first disc of Supernatural. Was utterly stultified by the pilot. What are the essential episodes (ie, good and/or with excellent fraternal interaction and/or Dean being especially hot and/or essential plot points) to watch before the show actually starts getting good?

[And then that night I watched "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" live on TV.]

Rachel: (10/20 9:00 AM): You should blog about last night. Yes, it did spoil me for the end of last season (and I kept thinking there was something wrong with the color on my TV, and then it would go to a commercial and I would realize that I had color after all) but between that and the crappy first season shows I've been watching, I am developing a mild obsession about the show, flaming ceiling blondes and all. Or maybe I just have a massive crush on Dean.

Rachel (10/20 10:31 AM): Just watched the one where he has the pen in his mouth and keeps it there while he smiles at the waitress, who inexplicably walks away rather than making the natural response, which is to splutter incoherently, then rewind the scene four times. That's also the one where he tells the little mute boy about the vow he made to his mother.

Oh Dean, you break my heart, then you salt the pieces and burn them to ash.

The complete discussion, with significant and unmarked spoilers, is in the comments here: http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/640347.html

( And continuing, with spoilers for everything aired to date )

Supernatural

coffeeandink has lured me over to the Dark Side. I am now totally hooked on this show about two hot ghost-hunting brothers on an endless road trip in a super-cool car.

The color palette makes me want to adjust the screen because everything's gone all dark and gray, women are mostly screaming victims (occasionally flaming on the ceiling), almost all characters are white and the land is strangely underpopulated, and the monsters of the week are pretty cheesy.

The reason I watch is that I have a mad crush on Dean there is a great sibling dynamic, the extremely attractive brother is also a good actor and the other brother isn't half bad, and all the scenes with the brothers interacting, with other people or each other, are terrific: sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking.

A much better overview, with photos, is here.

Mely also helpfully lists essential episodes, annotated according to where she guesses my interests lie. Warning: mild spoilers in comments.

I can chart the progress of my obsession as follows. Comments taken from Mely's journal, with spoilers omitted:

Rachel: (10/19 11:29 AM): So, Netflixed the first disc of Supernatural. Was utterly stultified by the pilot. What are the essential episodes (ie, good and/or with excellent fraternal interaction and/or Dean being especially hot and/or essential plot points) to watch before the show actually starts getting good?

[And then that night I watched "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" live on TV.]

Rachel: (10/20 9:00 AM): You should blog about last night. Yes, it did spoil me for the end of last season (and I kept thinking there was something wrong with the color on my TV, and then it would go to a commercial and I would realize that I had color after all) but between that and the crappy first season shows I've been watching, I am developing a mild obsession about the show, flaming ceiling blondes and all. Or maybe I just have a massive crush on Dean.

Rachel (10/20 10:31 AM): Just watched the one where he has the pen in his mouth and keeps it there while he smiles at the waitress, who inexplicably walks away rather than making the natural response, which is to splutter incoherently, then rewind the scene four times. That's also the one where he tells the little mute boy about the vow he made to his mother.

Oh Dean, you break my heart, then you salt the pieces and burn them to ash.

The complete discussion, with significant and unmarked spoilers, is in the comments here: http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/640347.html

( And continuing, with spoilers for everything aired to date )