John Crichton
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To follow your line of thinking, I'm interested to see what is up with his father tearing a page out of the contract and burning it. That is possibly the loophole Sam was looking for.Orius said:
anybody watching Reaper?!
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GlassJaw
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Orius said:
This is an interesting, and one of the cooler subplots of the show. I'm also glad they haven't really tried to explain the devil's fascination with Sam and have just let it play out. It's just in the last episode that we learn that there are other Reapers that the devil has no interaction with at all.
So I'm glad the writers have left us in the dark as to why the devil takes an interest in Sam so much. I don't really think the devil is trying to corrupt Sam per se. I mean he tempts Sam a lot but I don't think the devil ever really things Sam will take him up on his suggestions. I think the devil is intrigued that Sam has been largely unaffected and uncorrupted by being a Reaper.
John Crichton
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I'm sure it still applies, but now Sam won't know about it unless he learns it elsewhere.Orius said:
I watched the first half-dozen episodes and saw it locked into a terrible, stagnant formula. Freak-of-the-week shows up with powers that are thematic, scary, and also happen to have some specific and obvious weaknesses. Protagonist raids his big-box store for ways to exploit said weaknesses. In between, protagonist has some idle chit-chat with his sidekick who's one step lower than him one the loser chain, with his love interest, and with the devil. For all the glibness of the devil's chit-chat, it's pretty much a dead-end diversion where he goes poof without anything substantial coming of the chatter. Big waste of time.
A show has to break away from freaks-of-the-week rut in order to survive, because only the most rabid viewer won't eventually find it monotonous. Smallville outgrew it, X-Files relegated FoW episodes to filler material after the first couple of years, and so I hope Reaper has become a little more ambitious as well. If it has, or if it does, please notify me.
A show has to break away from freaks-of-the-week rut in order to survive, because only the most rabid viewer won't eventually find it monotonous. Smallville outgrew it, X-Files relegated FoW episodes to filler material after the first couple of years, and so I hope Reaper has become a little more ambitious as well. If it has, or if it does, please notify me.
But see, the devil issues some variation of that line pretty much every week, right?occam said:
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John Crichton
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It has already broken the mold you mentioned. I believe it has already been mentioned down-thread.Felon said:
Darth Shoju
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John Crichton said:
Yeah, they definately seem to be setting up a meta-plot from what I can see.
Orius
Unrepentant DM Supremacist
Felon said:
It's a matter of taste I guess.
Like I said above, Smallville is turning to crap. They're getting rid of the old characters and putting kids in, always a bad sign (must be the CW touch). Pa Kent was bumped off a few years ago, now Ma Kent isn't even around. Then there's that whole teenie soap opera crap going, every time Lana shows up and whines about Clark/Lex/whoever lying to her, I just want to puke. And don't get me started on last season's
fake pregnancy
And honestly, I never liked the X-Files. I've never been a fan of UFO conspiracies and the like, and that show was loaded down with them.
Yes, right now Reaper is following a good deal of formula, but it works for me.
As for deeper, well it hasn't really developed a deep season arc like some shows do, but there's a few developments that could add depth to the show.
First, there's the aforemention contract burning. That was one of the early episodes, so you might have seen it.
Basically, Sam was still annoyed about his soul being sold and everything, and demanded the devil for a copy of his contrat. The devil then delivers the contract to Sam in an incovenient fashion. Said contract is a foot-thick tome written entirely in Latin, which Sam can't read. His father offers to translate what he can of it, but at the end of that episode, he tears a page out of the contract and burns it. This of course has piqued the curiousity of the fans it seems. However it might not even be important, maybe just something slipped into the episode for atmosphere.
Then there's Cady.
She's a girl Sam met who may or may not be the devil's daughter. It's been kept unresolved. They like each other, Sam can't find any proof she's the devil's daughter, and the devil even denied it. But weird things happen around her, flowers die, panes of glass shatter for no reason, and so on. The devil told him getting involved with her would be a bad idea. And who trusts the devil anyway? It's intriguing, but I like Sam and Andi as a couple better.
Finally, I don't know how important this is overall or if it's just flavor,
but we keep getting hints that Satan's minions are highly malcontented. They're poorly motivated, surly, and unreliable, and often won't do what he wants just to spite him. Gladys, the DMV demon, has her house loaded down with angel knick knacks, maybe because she regrets her fall from grace. Steve and Tony, who are the guys' neighbors in their new apartment and are also demons, have a special room where they go to bitch about the devil behind his back. Like I said, this might not mean anything at all, but it also could be signs that some serious trouble is brewing for the devil down the road.
I don't think the producers are going for a lot of deep plotlines that requires constant watching to follow, but they have a few hooks in place should they choose to do so.
Mustrum_Ridcully
Legend
Yes, you are, this certainly violates the "no-religion" rule!occam said:
But really, this guy is awesome in the show!
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