SPN

[gategrrl]

I *finally* watched "Provenance" two nights ago when I couldn't get to sleep. Oh what a night - two episodes of "Medium", half of a "Crossing Jordan" and SPN's "Provenance" (that's the one with the creepy family painting in it and the people getting their necks slashed open) and I finally got to sleep at four in the morning!

So - the episode! Wasn't nearly as scary as I thought it would be, really. I didn't like the brunette barbiedoll they had playing the deep cleavaged daughter of the auction-house dealer. I was kinda hoping the dealer and her *would* get their throats slashed, but it was not meant to be. Dean was also not quite the same character I thought he was (I'd seen an episode that took place in an abandoned asylum - much better ep than this one). He's such a guy-ho! I didn't know that! And that 70's wacka-wacka-hotel room? Do they check into weird rooms like that every episode? And have they ever checked into a haunted/demon infested hotel room without knowing it?

I thought the mystery was kinda shallow. If I hadn't known who the killer was, would I have guessed? I have no idea. But I would have appreciated more lore, like in Buffy, where there'd be a *reason* for the haunting human-demon thingy to BE there, other than to cause havok-and-death-by-nasty-means (TM).

I like the look of this show - the producers certainly love the bleached blue-black end of the color spectrum a whole lot. It fits.

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[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

I've only seen eleven episodes, but I thought Provenance was atypical of the episodes I've seen. It seemed somewhat out of synch with all the others somehow and a little off. OTOH, I liked it anyway because I liked the conversations between Dean & Sam, but it's not my favorite of the episodes that I've seen.

I haven't seen Asylum which might possibly be the other episode you are referring to--though maybe not. *g* I'm still just starting to get the episode titles straight.

They don't check into weird hotel rooms in every episode either, as far as I know. *g* That was just one weird room and their reaction was rather cute, I thought.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Asylum was the one I referred to. I got into it about 20 minutes into the episode and ended up shrieking so much, my Guy came in from the other room and asked me what was going on!

That episode really DID hit my Scarometer buttons, and actually made me *not* want to watch the show, especially if all the episodes were as um, intense? as that episode. But if they're not, I might give it another try.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

I think they're not. I'm not a fan of horror or of being scared. The first episode I saw was Scarecrow and I also almost didn't watch again but mainly only because of the ending, which was only about 30 seconds and a setup for future stories. I think the second-to-last episode and the last episode had some exciting and intense moments, but I didn't really find it all that scary. But...that could be just me. Everyone is so different. I scare easily, though--but maybe I'm just finally growing up? *g*

I'm all about the emotion and relationship between the two brothers--and their father. (I just loved it when Dad showed up. *g*)

welcome to a new obsession

[ndmzero.livejournal.com]

Hi gategrrl,

Sounds like you had quite an otherworldly marathon!

I "discovered" Supernatural about two months ago, so I have seen a few early eps and most of the last half of the season. (I haven't seen Asylum either.)

The motel rooms tend to be standard -- lots of hunting themes if they're supposed to be somewhere where that is appropriate. But I think occasionally they want to have fun with them - and they're pretty good about having the boys write on motel-themed pads of paper.

Checking into haunted hotels -- so far only in fic, that I've seen.

Er, if you thought this mystery was shallow, brace yourself -- of the ones I've seen, it was one of the better ones.

So far, I'm enjoying the show more for the pretty boys, er, I mean scenery, than for the writing.

I'm hooked enough to try and catch up during reruns, though.

Enjoy.

ndmzero

Re: welcome to a new obsession

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Aw, really? This is about as much depth as it gets, honest? That is disappointing. I hope the casting for the women on the show isn't as bad as it was for this episode. I truly completely and totally found the actress in this episode to be perhaps one step short of having plastic for skin. She really did look that fake. And looking at her, I wondered how much of her personal assets were real as well. :=( They need better casting.

I'm generally not a fan of pretty-boy watching ONLY. I really like the stories to have good pacing, some humor, few if any obvious plot-holes, and as little teenage angst-emoting as possible. Granted, I think I know who the target audience is for SPN, so I'd allow for that focus, but...good stories and characterization are good for ALL types of shows.

I started getting into Roswell (remember *that* one?) just as the focus changed = twice!- from SFish to 90210 angsty all the time, and ended up dropping it.

[agentotter.livejournal.com]

I like the sound of this "Provenance."

Also, I don't watch "Medium" because that Arquette drives me a little nuts and I don't think she's terribly well-written, but the guy who plays her husband, Jake Weber? He's my TV boyfriend from way back. You should rent Wendigo, which has him in it and is awesome. ;)

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

I really hadn't noticed that Arquette's character isn't so well written, honestly, mostly because I find that overall, that show has a WONDERFUL family dynamic in it, with the husband's lines cracking me (and *my* husband) up without fail. They get the dad-itude perfectly, and I love the child-actors and their characters. I find that (so far) Medium is more consistently written than The Dead Zone, which I loved in its first two seasons, before Michael Pillar left it because of cancer illness. He died, and his death is a real loss to quality television. :-(

Wendigo, eh? Is that a horror film? It sounds familiar somehow.

[agentotter.livejournal.com]

Well, I think I just have a small annoyance with Arquette, too. So that's probably coloring my judgement of the character, that I'm not real crazy about that actress. I just remember in the episodes I watched (which were the first two or three, I think), she came off as almost too aggressive and defensive about things... like she'd snap at people and I'd just be thinking how totally lame and unprovoked it was. But who knows? Maybe I was just in a bad mood while watching, too. Might give it another chance one day, if for no other reason than to oogle Jake Weber.

Wendigo is... you'd probably find it in the horror section, and the video box has a VERY horror-y cover art which is incredibly misleading. It's a psychological horror film, if anything, but if you're into the family thing I think you'd really like it... I mean, it's not a family film by any means (I found it pretty scary, and there's some violence), but Weber's character is a dad who's taking his wife and son to a borrowed cabin for awhile and I think the best thing about the film is that the interaction between the husband and wife characters is so great. It's like an actual relationship, which I rarely if ever see in film.

[ldyanne.livejournal.com]

There are SO much better eps than Provenance! Don't give up. This was not typical Dean or even Sam. While many of the episodes do stand alone and can be viewed out of sequence and appreciated, if you can get them in order and watch them that way, they take on whole new meanings. This is my favorite new show this year and I hope it's back as big and bad next year!

And on the shallow end, there's a scene with Sam in the towel, wow, my heart has not been the same since! /g/