SPN Ep: We Need to Talk About Kevin

[the_other_sandy]

I've got my eye on you, Show.

I know a lot of people are excited about Jeremy Carver taking over as showrunner, but I'm feeling less confident. He's written some of my favorite episodes, but he's also written some episodes I hate like burning, so I'm just not sure how his tenure is going to work out.

I've always said that I can put up with almost anything from this show as long as they don't screw with the brothers' relationship. Then they screwed with the brothers' relationship. I put up with it in season 4 because I thought it wouldn't last long. After all, the show usually only drags out plot points for half a season. I put up with it in season 5 because I was promised that was the season the brothers would reconcile. By season 6 I was sick to death of the animosity between them, but fortunately the boys did work on their relationship and were really coming back together in seasons 6 and 7. I'll give it a couple of episodes to see where things are going now, but if Sam and Dean are getting back on the animosity train again for season 8, then this is where I get off.

Meanwhile, how many states did the boys visit in this episode? Dean covered everything between Maine and Louisiana, and Louisiana and Montana. Sam covered all the states between Texas and Montana. Then I lost track for awhile before they ended up in Iowa.

I'm having trouble with Sam giving up hunting completely, to the point of hanging poor Kevin out to dry. We've never been shown the soul-crushing weariness and hunting burnout from Sam the way we have with Dean, going all the way back to "Croatoan." But abandoning Kevin and not even looking for Dean or trying to get him out of Purgatory just makes Sam look like a douchebag for no apparent reason. Amelia had better be something pretty special. And she'd better not be that bitchy, judgmental veterinarian.

About the only thing I really liked in this episode was that the Winchesters can never just say "hello;" they have to douse themselves and/or each other with various liquids and draw blood. Oh, I also liked Kevin explaining things to his possessed girlfriend: "There's a demon in you and you're going to your safety school."

So yes, I've got my eye on you, Show. I'm open to working things out, but I also have my separation papers ready if it turns out that we've just grown apart.

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  ETA: This was the icon used on the original LJ post.

Comments

[un-conscience.livejournal.com]

I love your icon! And it fits your sentiment.

At least you're smart enough to let the show go if you no longer enjoy it. It always fascinates me that people will say how awful the show is and how they hate to watch it, and then continue to watch.

I will hold out that there will be reconciliation, but thing might be a bit rocky for awhile.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I'm ready to completely let go of the show. I still like the characters, and after 7 seasons I'm still invested in what happens to them, even when I don't like it.

See, I've been through this before. SG-1 had a horrible season 3 before rebounding with seasons 4-6, then tanking in seasons 7-10. SGA had a horrible season 2, but season 3 was my favorite of all. I've hated some of the story arcs SPN has had, but then things have gotten better. I'm always hoping things will improve and I'll get back to liking the show as much as I used to. And even the worst seasons have managed to produce episodes I love.

However, the show has gone from my #1 fannish obsession to some show I watch once a week, and I'm going through a trial separation from the fandom. I mostly stopped reading the fic ages ago (though I can still get sucked in by a really original plot and good writing), and I dropped most of my SPN LJ comms. I really missed them for a day or two, but then I didn't. Since I now delete unread more posts than I read on Yahoo!Groups, those groups may be next. Since I am a multifandom ho', I still have my other shows to keep me warm.

[and-ed.livejournal.com]

We disagree about this ep - I actually really really liked it. But I do agree about Jeremy being hit and miss with his writing eps in the past. Love how appropriate your icon is to your keeping your eye on him thing!

I still love the show and watch it religiously, I just don't do the communities thing much any more. So much negativity, it harshes my squee. The only folks I discuss with are ones actually on my flist. And that's okay...even if we're not on the same page.

I hope you stick around where SPN is concerned - I'd miss reading your thoughts on it. =)

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I just don't feel like I have much new to say about the episodes because the episodes themselves don't have much new to say. Sam quit hunting for a year to settle down with a woman while Dean was in purgatory? I can probably just recycle my comments from when Dean quit hunting for a year to settle down with a woman while Sam was in hell.

Also, we get Dean's purgatory flashbacks, which remind me of Sam's hell flashbacks, which remind me of Dean's hell flashbacks.

Also also, we get Dean sneaking off to have his secret relationship with Benny, which reminds me of Sam sneaking off to have his secret relationship with Ruby.

If they're going to recycle plots this heavily, can't they at least recycle plots from the earlier seasons that aren't quite so fresh in our memory?

The hilarious thing here is that I was just at a SPN convention (winchestmidwest) last weekend and I had a great time. I really want my squee back. I miss my squee, but I'm just not feeling it right now.

[zanne68.livejournal.com]

I think they missed a prime opportunity to work in the Maharishi University of Management (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharishi_University_of_Management), in Fairfield, Iowa. As long as they had the guys in town, why not have Dean try a little transcendental meditation? Perhaps that's where Castiel will turn up. :)

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Dean would last less than 5 minutes with meditation, unless he actually fell asleep.