Tuesdays are Supernatural!

[Wayside]

So far I've liked the odd-numbered episodes and been disappointed by the evens. I definitely prefer that they explore new directions when using common material, which they did with Bloody Mary (but not with the Wendigo, and for me that makes a huge difference).

Well, the series was just picked up for the rest of the season, but I am doubting that there will be a second... There is very little buzz about it, here on the boards... So, is no one watching? I actually thought that this week's episode was a half-decent one, although still FotW...

Well, what we on these boards think about it doesn't really matter. There isn't a lot of buzz about One Tree Hill here either, and yet...

 

[trancejeremy]

I finally got to watch it (normally I watch baseball on Tuesdays, but the Cardinals were off) and I thought it was pretty good. Though not having seen the pilot, I have no idea what the premise is, other than the obvious (2 guys going around investigating the supernatural). Also irked how the last 10 minutes seemed to be an ad for the Rolling Stones new album


As to buzz, it seems to be the most well received of the new supernatural shows, both here and on various mailing lists I belong to (for Bureau 13 & Chill, most notably). I mean, look at the comments for Night Stalker (the new one). Basically 3 people. Haven't see much on Invasion. And Surface and Threshold seem pretty non-existant.

 

[Crothian]

Another good episode. I like what they are doing and I like the foreshadow that was shown with the fire demon and the dreams the kid had. I wonder if the father had those same dreams?

I missed the beginning of this week's episode, how did they find this case?

 

[WayneLigon]

I missed the beginning of this week's episode, how did they find this case?

They actually didn't say; they started in media res, so to speak, with them getting out of the car and walking into the backyard to talk to the girls, dad's picture in the paper circled. The first part of the show was the teenaged girls starting the sequence of events by playing Truth or Dare. She has to go up and say Bloody Mary three times; she does, they scare her, ha ha ha, and go back downstairs. Then Dad goes into the bathroom and gets his eyes ripped out, so you know something is screwy about what was happening right away. Big sister comes home and says Hi to the kids, goes upstairs, and sees the blood coming out from the bathroom. Checks things out, screams, first commercial.

 

[CrusaderX]

Question about the Bloody Mary episode...

(Semi-spoilers)

According to the Bloody Mary legend, if you have a deep, dark secret that led to a death, Bloody Mary will come for you, and your eyes will bleed. At the end of the episode, when Bloody Mary confronted Sam and Dean, both boys were bleeding from their eyes. We know Sam's secret (relating to his girlfriend), but this means that Dean, too, has a death-related secret in his past, right? I was disappointed that Sam didn't confront Dean about this at the end.

 

[Kylara]

Dean didn't bleed til Mary came out of the mirror and was there physically, at which point her powers probably expanded. Its not like its an exact science and Sam could call BS on that excuse, or that that reasoning didn't occur to Sam in the first place.

 

[Crothian]

Ya, it could be either a dark secret or the more powerful spirit. Hopefully, that will get mentioned at some point

 

[Arnwyn]

Nice to see that everybody, Aunt Mabel, Uncle Lou, the kids down the street, and their dog had a "deep dark death secret".

 

[Steverooo]

Well, another "okay" episode, but not great. Not quite "Freak-of-the-Week", but too close for comfort...

They mentioned both Skinwalkers AND Werewolves, again. I wonder if that means anything?

I also wonder why they didn't have much on next week's episode... That will probably be the "Halloween" episode, and you'd think they'd have something special planned, for that.

?

I guess not. The next Tuesday night will be Nov. 1rst. I kinda doubt they'd do anything, then.

I was hoping to see Dean chase a "Freak-of-the-Week" through a crowd of little Trick-or-Treaters, or something!

Well, Dean did have some secrets, but no "Death Secrets" were revealed, so nothing to tie it to last week...

Shades of Nietsche! The Shapeshifter's comments about watching the family were interesting... I don't know if it means anything, but it makes you wonder... I hope they do something with tying all these kinds of hints together, at some point.

 

[WizarDru]

Nice to see that everybody, Aunt Mabel, Uncle Lou, the kids down the street, and their dog had a "deep dark death secret".

It's an hour-long show. There simply isn't enough time to introduce some new characters, the monster and then have any sort of tension if you have to pad the story to be more believable in that regard. You have to accept certain concessions to budget, time and flow.

Plus it was pretty clear that Mary, as Dean said, didn't really understand anything but a binary equation. Either you fit the pattern or you didn't, and it's possible feeling guilt was good enough.

Overall, I've been pretty pleased with the series. They've maintained the mood, developed the characters slowly but consistently and still managed to introduce interesting plots.

I enjoyed last night's episode for once again not taking the straight cliched route and introducing another interesting take on a monster. We definitely got some character development with both main characters, which was nice. If I had a complaint, it was with the assumption that the police would ignore some fairly obvious forensic clues (like the blood smear outside). But Supernatural is hardly unique in that; there are three types of forensic cops in TV: CSI's super-competent do-it-alls, Law and Order's we'll-do-our-besters and Supernatural's asleep-at-the-wheelers. To be fair, though, that's a genre convention; in Night Stalker fashion, the police see what they want to see, and will do whatever they need to reinforce that paradigm.

Along with the Night Stalker remake, Supernatural remains my favorite new show this season.