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Supernatural Season 3 premiere thoughts
Please don't shotgun me with rock salt, but I'm giving my honest opinion of last night's SPN premiere.
For some reason that felt like the second part of a two-part episode. There was way too much going on at the outset last night. After the events of the finale, I wanted to see a little more resolution to their situation, not a silly scene of Dean being a horndog.
I did appreciate the humor last night, and laughed a couple of times. But the conversation between them at the end of the episode should really have come at the beginning in order to set the tone. It was obvious that Dean is now living it up because that's the type of guy he is; however, it felt like they were immediately trying to cast off the gloom of last season by ignoring what happened.
The pacing seemed off too. The moment in the car after the opening sex scene was extremely rushed, and if you listen, Padalecki and Ackles are almost stepping over each other's lines. And it also felt that Padalecki was only half-interested based on a lot of his line readings last night.
I realize new characters need to be introduced and we want to have an interesting and explosive premiere, but cramming in all Seven Sins demons along with New Blond Chick With The Super Knife and the hunters Tamara and her husband was just too much. The hunters' introduction was unbelievably contrived, as was the super knife. It was just way too rushed.
Can you imagine how cool it would have been if Blonde Chick were introduced slowly, like if Sam and Dean were on the trail of some demons and suddenly came across all these dead demons with mysterious knife wounds? And then they come to discover that not only is there some amazing new weapon, but there's a new woman hunter wielding it?
I could hardly work up interest last night in the married hunters. It was too telegraphed that one of them wasn't going to make it. Their backstory with their daughter was annoying.
Maybe I'm being too critical because I was really looking forward to the premiere and I just felt like it could have been so much better.
For some reason that felt like the second part of a two-part episode. There was way too much going on at the outset last night. After the events of the finale, I wanted to see a little more resolution to their situation, not a silly scene of Dean being a horndog.
I did appreciate the humor last night, and laughed a couple of times. But the conversation between them at the end of the episode should really have come at the beginning in order to set the tone. It was obvious that Dean is now living it up because that's the type of guy he is; however, it felt like they were immediately trying to cast off the gloom of last season by ignoring what happened.
The pacing seemed off too. The moment in the car after the opening sex scene was extremely rushed, and if you listen, Padalecki and Ackles are almost stepping over each other's lines. And it also felt that Padalecki was only half-interested based on a lot of his line readings last night.
I realize new characters need to be introduced and we want to have an interesting and explosive premiere, but cramming in all Seven Sins demons along with New Blond Chick With The Super Knife and the hunters Tamara and her husband was just too much. The hunters' introduction was unbelievably contrived, as was the super knife. It was just way too rushed.
Can you imagine how cool it would have been if Blonde Chick were introduced slowly, like if Sam and Dean were on the trail of some demons and suddenly came across all these dead demons with mysterious knife wounds? And then they come to discover that not only is there some amazing new weapon, but there's a new woman hunter wielding it?
I could hardly work up interest last night in the married hunters. It was too telegraphed that one of them wasn't going to make it. Their backstory with their daughter was annoying.
Maybe I'm being too critical because I was really looking forward to the premiere and I just felt like it could have been so much better.
*hugs*
I felt the opposite during S1 and S2, that everything moved like molasses, so I really ate up the quick pace for this one. I hope S3 will keep up this level.
I thought the whole episode was clunky and mechanical, and I thought they could have done a lot more interesting things with the big bad seven than they did. But yeah--too much, too fast, no actual story development. Even the actors didn't seem to synch performances. I don't mean the characters not being in synch, which in a way was part of the storyline, although it sort of contradicted the end of last season's "us against the demons" tag. But the performances just seemed off.
I am hoping it is first-day-of-school reacquainting stuff, and that it will get better next week.