SPN Ep: Bloodlines

[the_other_sandy]

So that was the backdoor pilot, eh?

May I say how lovely it is to see Chicago playing itself on TV? Usually when I see "Chicago" on TV, Chicago is being played by Toronto. In fact, I'm so used to seeing Toronto pretending to be Chicago on TV that the one time I actually went to Toronto, everything looked familiar like I'd been there before. [Hee, and the Toronto gods are angry. I just now this second got an email notification about a Supernatural con in Toronto.] Anyway, it was nice to see Chicago on TV and recognize places I've been in real life. I think I even caught a glimpse of a building where I used to work.

As for the pilot itself, I liked the budding friendship between David and Ennis, and I liked the variety of supernatural creatures, but overall I think this (potential) show may be too soapy for me. I don't know. The jury's still out, but nothing in it really grabbed me and said this was a show I'd look forward to seeing.

Comments

[mangacat201.livejournal.com]

I kinda had fun with the episode though I agree about the soapy-ness, I'll be giving it a chance at least. I liked David, he's a character that struck a cord and really put on a performance, but I'm not sure about the rest of the monster brigade. I wasn't enarmoured with how little Sam and Dean were involved even if I understand that the character set up was needed.
Still, there were some really unattractive directing choices in there (they get out of the car, they get into the car, and Dean just lets a monster watch his 6, what?) and the blatant paralellism of the fridged-female-squared struck me as a very lazy narrative choice. But the most off-putting thing really was the blatant disregard for the shapeshifter lore of the show. 'Skin' is such an iconic episode and while I get the sleek gossip girl shifters can't be seen shedding all over, it threw me out big time, especially since all the shifts where designed as 'monster intro' without outright saying which kind they were. At least the werewolf-effects were really nicely done and some throwbacks like the wraith's worked.
I'm still giving it a chance, but I think I'll approach it more as another genre show that piqued my interest than a supernatural franchise. We'll see how they do when they're not awkwardly filtering in and out a couple of the most infamous hunters of the states.
Oh, and yeah, Chicago is definitely a nice city, but can we at least have a comment on how that big apocalyptic storm, flooding, high Death toll ca. 2010 worked out for them? I've been waiting for that.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

I'll be giving it a chance at least

I don't know if I will or not. I don't like soaps, and I don't like large ensemble casts (Heroes taught me that), but I do like supernatural stuff. I'll keep following the news about this show to see what they plan to do with it, and if it continues to sound like something that doesn't interest me, I'll skip it.

I wasn't enarmoured with how little Sam and Dean were involved even if I understand that the character set up was needed.

I've seen enough backdoor pilots that I'd prepared myself for minimal Sam and Dean. They were actually in it more than I thought they would be.

Oh, and yeah, Chicago is definitely a nice city, but can we at least have a comment on how that big apocalyptic storm, flooding, high Death toll ca. 2010 worked out for them?

Honestly? It was no different from our actual weather at any other time, so we barely noticed. ;-)

[mangacat201.livejournal.com]

Yeah, maybe I'll let a few eps accumulate and then have a look in... I don't even know if it's supposed to be an off-season show or launch alongside supernatural in fall. Hmmm, we'll see.

So Chicago always has apocalyptic weather? well, at least you built in stone and steel too, so it doesn't look like the Midwest after. Heard tornado season did the whole year's worth of storms in one weekend, I'm so glad that passed me by when i was over yonder.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

So Chicago always has apocalyptic weather?

Let's just say that when I travel, I find the weather elsewhere terribly boring.

[mangacat201.livejournal.com]

Ehehee, that's funny! I was always fascinated with how little it rained every time I visited the UK. There go your stereotypes.