I mainlined season one of Torchwood and I don't know if I had watched it week to week that I would have stuck with it. By mainlining it, I grew to love it before any of the troublesome aspects could derail me. Now I just love it.
I mainlined Spooks, Monarch of the Glen, and Ballykissangel the same way. I think I would have loved them even week to week. I'm really glad that I didn't have to wait though.
Supernatural, on the other hand, had me at hello. Actually I sat down to watch it thinking really bad things about the WB's parentage and Angel cancellation, and fell in love despite myself.
I don't watch horroro (okay, I'm leaving it. I know how to spell it, I just don't know when to stop) stuff. Even the old Vincent Price, Boris Karloff stuff can upset me. I can take fake gore and all that, it just doesn't interest me. But scary stuff? Like The Fog, and (the original) The Haunting of Hill House? Hitchcock? Brrrr.
So I started watching the pilot, and the first guy drove through the White Lady, and I just changed the channel. I gave it another shot for Dead in the Water (Not Dean in the Water, although yeah, it really was) because Amy Acker was guesting, and was intrigued by the relationship between the brothers. There seemed to be some recent estrangement there I wanted to know more about. And I liked the short one's rapport with the kid, and then I wanted to know what he saw when he was little, and what happened to his mom and why he needed to be brave everyday...
It was the human element that got me through the scary stuff. I still don't watch scary movies, but SPN isn't about that for me, that's just the window dressing. SPN's about the people--specifically the brothers and their relationship, and the way they relate to people who move in and out of their lives.
Short version? It's all Amy Acker's fault. I could be watching the 84th season of CSI.
Dude. DUDE. FINALLY saw the ep. Trickster for the motherlovin' WIN!! Whee!!
(Also? That actor is local to my nabe, and was in a film set here. Sweet!)
Ahem. snorgles Trickster, who would like me, because I have a big-ass tattoo of one of his facets. Yes.
What, you expected intelligent commentary? Pshaw.
I saw the Trickster on a season 1 episode of Jericho last night, where he plays a small-town cop. Very amusing.
Trickster is ftw. I love that guy. I am really curious to see what his motivation really is--if he has a definite stake in what is going on. Tricksters, in mythology, are not evil--just mischievous and wise right? I am no expert on trickster folklore but I seem to remember something to that effect in the Coyote stories my uncle told me as a kid. Of course I doubt he was an expert either. =)
I'm watching the Trickster right now on a repeat of CSI Miami.
Always feel the need to tag AIFG at the end of a sentence like that.
Tricksters, in mythology, are not evil--just mischievous and wise right?
NSM evil-intentioned, at least. Definitely not always looking out for the betterment of humanity (though their antics often further humanity's interest). Sometimes petty and mean, sometimes wise, often possessing of a twisted-ass sense of humor. Trickster's role, usually, is to step outside of the god- or human-created boundaries and show what happens next.
the Trickster is actually a semi-regular on Jericho. he was in the season two premiere too.
Yeah, and don't forget that he was in Band of Brothers.
My guess is that he doesn't want demons to take over the Earth because that would be no fun for him.
he doesn't want demons to take over the Earth because that would be no fun for him.
Ah, the happy meals on legs defense. Works for me.
