Supernatural

[gategrrl]

I'm dipping my toes back into Supernatural after having given last season a miss. It doesn't *feel* as if I've missed a whole lot, though, considering how many of my flist are into this show.

This wasn't full of the frights as I thought it would be. No jumps, no shocks. Just some Heaven and Hell talk, a grim reaper (I was half expecting Ellen Muth as George to pop in as a Reaper). I thought the conversations were well done and delivered. I know I missed nuances, but that's what I get for coming in more than half-way through the fourth season.

The angel wasn't as angelic as I'd have expected (ie, no unearthly beauty there!). I did enjoy the psychic the brothers called in. It was plainly an arc episode, but fortunately, it didn't feel unfinished.

I liked the kid who played the dead boy. I swear I've seen him somewhere else but I can't figure out where. The talk Tessa the reaper gave him sort of negated what Sam told him (Cole? Shout out to the Sixth Sense? Sure....) Really, the kid didn't have any choice, and it was silly to let him think he had one.

I've set this series on mt DVR for record, so I won't miss it next week.

Comments

[tejas.livejournal.com]

Hon, you have missed *so* much.;-)

My icon is a picture of the psychic, too. :-) You missed that episode. :-)

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Plainly! I'll have to record the older parts of the season when they air.

[tejas.livejournal.com]

Oh. Yeah.

[deej1957.livejournal.com]

Er... you haven't missed a thing....depending on who your favorite character is.

If Dean: you've missed a lot, an exceptional season, apparently.

If Sam: Don't bother watching any more episodes as he's hardly there, and when he is, he's pretty much joined Daniel and Teal'c in S4/5 as pretty wallpaper. Bitter much? Yes, I am.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's why I'm trying hard these days to not get into one character only. Not saying it's good or bad or anything like that, but like you, yo, Daniel Jackson? Don't want to go through that again, so I'm approaching TV series like I used to--ie, as an episodic show with a story to be told.

I take no sides with SPN.

[superbadgirl]

LOL, according to fandom, the angel does indeed have unearthly beauty. *snorts*

I swear I recognized the boy who played Cole, too, but I still haven't figure out from where. I think what Tessa told him was supposed to negate what Sam told him, because what Sam told him was a big, fat lie in an attempt to get the kid to help them.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

That angel felt kinda, well, worn around the edges and been hurled around the block a few times.

Unearthly beauty? Put Jamie Bamber in a pair of wings, baby, that's unearthly...or Ioaon Gryffud. Man. Whistles. THAT is ethereal.

Oh, you know who that kid reminded me of? The kid who played Edmond in The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe! It's the big brown eyes. I'll have to find him in IMDB.

[superbadgirl]

Yeah, Castiel probably has been hurled around the block a few times. Fightin' a war, you know. ;)

And while I get what Deej is saying - I think there's a reason Sam seems to be wallpapered. I was irritated about it at first as well, but his bigger story? Is pretty big.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

The kid actor's name is Alexander Gould and his IMDB page is here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1071252/

I don't think I've actually seen him in anything else.

[agentotter.livejournal.com]

OMG, it's Elliot McQuoddy! No wonder I recognized him; I just saw his episode of Pushing Daisies last week. I'd guess he'd be more generally familiar though because he was the voice of Nemo in Finding Nemo. He's had quite an august career for such a young whippersnapper.

[nialla]

Everyone's tastes are different in the looks department (ex. don't care for Bamber at all, but like Gruffudd), but I adore Castiel's voice for some reason. The voice sold me on the character being an angel in the "warrior angel" sense.

I don't get the "unearthly beauty" vibe, but especially in the beginning of the season he was doing very well at plain old "unearthly".

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

This season is better than last season, but seasons 1 & 2 were much better. *g* I no longer like either of the main characters all that much, but the episodes are still entertaining enough to watch, so I keep watching. I just don't care that much about it anymore.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

If you still like that kind of dynamic, try out the Cal Leandros books (reviewed on my page). Weren't you one of the ones to tell me about it, though? If you were, never mind. But the dynamics of brothers is really there.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

:-) I can't remember if I told you about the books or not, but I started reading them shortly after deej1957 mentioned them in her journal maybe a year or so ago. I have Deathwish sitting on my desk right now.

I love these books. :-)

[agentotter.livejournal.com]

I have nothing to add to the existing comments, but I think you should see the angel in a different context. Just for hilarity alone. :D I actually find him incredibly attractive, but I'm not sure why everyone else does. From what I've seen on the fanfic end of things, I don't think people are crazy about the character for who he is but rather who they think he should be... there's an awful lot of fic in which he's terribly devoted to Dean, whereas I think canon-wise he may have his doubts about his ideology on the whole but Dean is no more to him than a particularly handy tool: perhaps expensive, perhaps well-loved, perhaps useful, but ultimately disposable.

You have missed quite a lot, I must say. ;)