Let's talk about television? Apparently?
Feb. 4th, 2008 09:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labellementeuseSo,
1. oh my god, did you SEE Ronon's ass in those pants? I nearly wrote an impromptu ode to the very very very gifted costume department.
2. John's dad was not military SO THERE. \o/
Also, I actually watched SPN: Malleus Maleficarum tonight, which I did not think I was going to do, because I had to stop watching the Christmas episode when the carol singing happened and since then I'd kind of lost momentum on the show, but.
The one thing I was thinking at the end of the show was "How great to see Sam and Dean genuinely saved by someone else! How great to have it be a woman! How super-awesome to give her fantastic presence of mind and courage in a terrifying situation she was poorly prepared for! And how fucking gratuitous to fucking kill her, you assholes.
I'm sure other people have pointed this out, but the only person Sam and Dean actually saved in this episode was the guy who did wrong, i.e., the cheating cheater. His wife, who did absolutely nothing wrong? DEAD. Her attacker? DEAD. Every other character, who were, okay, not exactly honest and true, but guilty of winning craft competitions? Oh yeah, dead as doornails. Was there even a nod to the fact that this guy was a cheating asshole? Oh hell no! GAH.
I thought Ruby's storyline was pretty cool and I enjoyed the writing on this episode - Ben Edlund's episodes have been pretty snappy - but I was reading someone else talking about his prediliction for extremely gross violence against women and this episode kinda took the cake. Urgh. Let's even the playingfield and kill some men, shall we, SPN? (I mean, I know that the show is part of the horror genre. But it was just creepily obvious that out of every. single. character introduced in this episode, every. single. woman was killed and neither of the men were. I mean, I liked seeing witches! In some respects I found the coven really fun! It just would have been nice if some of them had stayed alive.)
and, by the way, Sam's willingness to kill the coven no questions asked is not exactly a little baby step away from his previous position. I repeat: craft competitions!
1. oh my god, did you SEE Ronon's ass in those pants? I nearly wrote an impromptu ode to the very very very gifted costume department.
2. John's dad was not military SO THERE. \o/
Also, I actually watched SPN: Malleus Maleficarum tonight, which I did not think I was going to do, because I had to stop watching the Christmas episode when the carol singing happened and since then I'd kind of lost momentum on the show, but.
The one thing I was thinking at the end of the show was "How great to see Sam and Dean genuinely saved by someone else! How great to have it be a woman! How super-awesome to give her fantastic presence of mind and courage in a terrifying situation she was poorly prepared for! And how fucking gratuitous to fucking kill her, you assholes.
I'm sure other people have pointed this out, but the only person Sam and Dean actually saved in this episode was the guy who did wrong, i.e., the cheating cheater. His wife, who did absolutely nothing wrong? DEAD. Her attacker? DEAD. Every other character, who were, okay, not exactly honest and true, but guilty of winning craft competitions? Oh yeah, dead as doornails. Was there even a nod to the fact that this guy was a cheating asshole? Oh hell no! GAH.
I thought Ruby's storyline was pretty cool and I enjoyed the writing on this episode - Ben Edlund's episodes have been pretty snappy - but I was reading someone else talking about his prediliction for extremely gross violence against women and this episode kinda took the cake. Urgh. Let's even the playingfield and kill some men, shall we, SPN? (I mean, I know that the show is part of the horror genre. But it was just creepily obvious that out of every. single. character introduced in this episode, every. single. woman was killed and neither of the men were. I mean, I liked seeing witches! In some respects I found the coven really fun! It just would have been nice if some of them had stayed alive.)
and, by the way, Sam's willingness to kill the coven no questions asked is not exactly a little baby step away from his previous position. I repeat: craft competitions!
