10-22-2015, 11:31 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2009
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Originally Posted by Yac
YES! I used this episode 2 times to show some of my .. let's say, opinionated friends that this show is not the "silly ghost drama for teenage girls" they though it was and i laughed my a** off both times. If I laugh at something 3 times, it has to be good.
My biggest pet peeve with the show is that the Winchesters .. well, they don't learn. I understand that when you start your career as a monster hunter, you might get into stupid trouble or end up fist fighting that monster because you have no weapon, but after years and years .. they are still doing that. Oh no, it's a demon/vampire/djinn/changeling/werewolf/angel/leviathan/whatever, let's charge, get our as* handed to us, and now one of us is tied to a chair, the bad guy is giving his cliche speech and the other one just manages to save everybody. Just.
But .. this is minor. Show me another show that mocks itself by creating vision driven fanfiction (including homosexual fanfiction) with a huge following, about the brothers that they discover by accident.
Anyway, the show is great (at least the first 6 or so seasons are) and any fan of urban fantasy, rpg games and things like the gateway to hell being guarded by a many miles wide train tracks pentagram created by one Samuel Colt will enjoy it.
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Spoiler for spoilers for Supernatural:
That was always something that bugged me too, as well as their complete disregard for the lives of the humans possessed by demons as well as the general power creep of the show. In the first season there was an episode where they captured the 2nd in command to the big bad, and were all set to exorcise the demon when another hunter mentioned that if they do that, the girl being possessed will die (she had fallen out a window). It created this big moral conundrum for them, and even went into the season finale when one of the brothers had to shoot a possessed human beating on the other brother to save him. Fast forward to season 3 when they get the demon killing knife and then it just becomes a stab-a-thon with absolutely no regard for the people they are actually killing. I haven't watched since season 8 so maybe they've addressed this issue, but even then, it's still kind of a major plothole the writers decided was too inconvenient to address.
The second problem, as I mentioned, was the power creep. Power creep, if you're unfamiliar with the term, is used in gaming when there becomes an unbalance with the release of new content. Basically, as more content (be it DLC, expansions, weapon packs, etc.) gets released, the game needs to be rebalanced so it does not become too easy for those who have that new content. In relation to the show, the Winchesters, since about season 4, have steadily received "upgrades" for lack of a better term, to their arsenal. They had Ruby's demon killing knife from season 3, they got the Colt working again, and then they got an angel BFF which almost literally gives them God Mode. Yet despite all that, apart from the Leviathans from season 7, there never really seemed to be a great external threat after season 5 (although that may have something to do with Season 5's baddie being the literal fucking Devil).
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