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AAAUUUGH.
Why must both my shows be horribly squick-inducing this week?
I already basically said my piece about this week's SGA at Tipper's journal, and I agree with what she said, so I won't bother complaining about it here.
And then I watched Supernatural to get the taste of that out of my mouth.
Which started out all right -- a light, silly, fast-paced episode; just what I needed. Until SPN managed to prove that, as wrong as SGA can often be, SPN is always willing to go above and beyond (or ... beneath and below). When I realized what they were going to do -- that the brothers and Bobby were actually going to resolve the ghost problem by dragging to death a guy whose only real sin is that he was the victim of a hate crime ... my jaw hit the floor, and I still don't think I've managed to pick it back up. I mean ... the part of the episode where the guy's brother was talking about him being dragged to death was chilling and horrible precisely because this has been done to people in real life, for similar reasons, recently. There's no way that you can watch it and not get that stomach-twisting reminder. It's trivializing enough just to use it as a plot point in an episode, but then to re-enact it for the audience's benefit, and invite us to cheer on our heroes while they do it ... um, no. I feel ill now. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT, SPN.
The only positive benefit is that I now feel less frustrated and awful about SGA. At least it's not SPN.
I already basically said my piece about this week's SGA at Tipper's journal, and I agree with what she said, so I won't bother complaining about it here.
And then I watched Supernatural to get the taste of that out of my mouth.
Which started out all right -- a light, silly, fast-paced episode; just what I needed. Until SPN managed to prove that, as wrong as SGA can often be, SPN is always willing to go above and beyond (or ... beneath and below). When I realized what they were going to do -- that the brothers and Bobby were actually going to resolve the ghost problem by dragging to death a guy whose only real sin is that he was the victim of a hate crime ... my jaw hit the floor, and I still don't think I've managed to pick it back up. I mean ... the part of the episode where the guy's brother was talking about him being dragged to death was chilling and horrible precisely because this has been done to people in real life, for similar reasons, recently. There's no way that you can watch it and not get that stomach-twisting reminder. It's trivializing enough just to use it as a plot point in an episode, but then to re-enact it for the audience's benefit, and invite us to cheer on our heroes while they do it ... um, no. I feel ill now. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT, SPN.
The only positive benefit is that I now feel less frustrated and awful about SGA. At least it's not SPN.
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And yet -- while I'll fully concede your points, and there were some definite WTF OOC moments -- that was one of the episodes I enjoyed most in season 3. With SPN, I think I like the idea of the mytharc and the darker side of the show more than its actual execution; I tend to appreciate the light episodes, and the lighter moments even in the darker episodes, and those are mostly the parts I remember and the parts I go back to rewatch.
And I did like the Eye of the Tiger bit, especially since it was obviously Jensen clowning, and not Dean. :D
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Hehe, poor Sammy. His shoe, hee!