Why couldn't you be dealing drugs like normal people?

Snyder ,'Empty Places'


Supernatural 1: Saving People, Hunting Things - the Family Business  

[NAFDA]. This is where we talk about the CW series Supernatural! Anything that's aired in the US (including promos) is fair game. No spoilers though -- if you post one by accident, an admin will delete it.


Beverly - Mar 02, 2008 7:07:05 am PST #6620 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I'd love to see Bela played by Morena Baccarin.

whimper

I do think casting an actress that's visually reminiscent of the much cooler and more capable Stephanie Romanov turned out to be a mistake. Bela mainly makes me nostalgic for Lilah Morgan.

mournful howl

Two vastly different characterisations, and two actors who would rock the part. And Romanoff is tall enough not to need a scully box! What were they thinking? Oh yeah, teeny little network, 14-year-old sensibilities. Anybody over the age of 25 is pretty much irrelevant.


Polter-Cow - Mar 02, 2008 7:34:25 am PST #6621 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Okay, but does she have to walk and talk? Can we just have a little picture of her up in the corner of the screen?

Well, she needs to talk, or I can't dig the accent.

I agree with Amy on Bela, though. And Ruby, mostly.


Morgana - Mar 02, 2008 2:30:52 pm PST #6622 of 10002
"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber

I can understand the purpose of Bela's character; I do not like the execution of it. For many of the reasons mentioned above by all the other posters. Also, I think she has already been overused in an unrealistic way... the guys are criss-crossing the country, have been doing so all their lives, and suddenly in the past 6 months or so they keeping running across Bela? In the past 12 episodes she's appeared in 5 of them. (3.3: Bad Day at Black Rock, 3.6: Red Sky at Morning, 3.7: Fresh Blood, 3.10: Dream a Little Dream of Me, and 3.12: Jus In Bello). (That's as many episodes as Bobby has appeared in, by the way.) It is perhaps the cilantro effect -- a little would be okay, but too much just ruins everything.

Another issue I didn't see raised was her interaction with Gordon in Fresh Blood. I didn't like it -- Gordon was one seriously badass hunter, who had never needed help tracking down his prey before. I don't believe he would have stood there and bargained with Bela. He would have tortured her for the information, or shot her because of the inconvenience she caused him, (because he paid lip service to saving humans, but seemed willing to lay waste to anything in his way in his quest to kill Sam) but he wouldn't have put up with her taking something valuable from him. That whole scene made Gordon look powerless.

Also, I still don't buy Dean shrugging off Bela shooting Sam. Dean is so rabidly protective of Sam that he would never just let that slide by. He might be willing to overlook the theft, but not the shooting.

Not to mention I'm still waiting to see more than one facial expression, and to find out if she's capable of a vocal intonation of more than smug condescension.


Beverly - Mar 02, 2008 3:49:01 pm PST #6623 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

The writers haven't learned, apparently, that you can't just tell us "she's so badass even Gordon Walker is intimidated" and have us believe it. "Yah? Show me."

What if the little girl Lilith's inhabiting is her daugher?

You are not the only person to wonder about this. I've seen some meta about it, and there's one chilling little Jackson-esque fic about it. Which unfortunately I didn't bookmark and can't find, now.


Anne W. - Mar 02, 2008 3:52:18 pm PST #6624 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Which unfortunately I didn't bookmark and can't find, now.

I hate when that happens. I do that all the time.

I wish I trusted the producers enough to go with that particular plot idea.


Consuela - Mar 02, 2008 4:01:10 pm PST #6625 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Hmm. I think that story was either Fryeadvocate or trollprincess...


sumi - Mar 03, 2008 4:52:03 am PST #6626 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

I was thinking daughter or neice.


SailAweigh - Mar 03, 2008 5:17:02 am PST #6627 of 10002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

I was thinking daughter or neice.

My mind didn't even go there. If Lilith was one of those, why was Bela haring off somewhere else with the gun and not right there with Dean and Sam? Besides, why would she need the gun to save her daughter, when her daughter is a demon? The only thing the gun could do is kill Lilith. I don't see it. I think Bela, as with everything she steals, is going to sell it to the highest bidder. And that is going to bite her right in the ass, because I'm willing to bet it's not a hunter.


tiggy - Mar 03, 2008 10:32:47 am PST #6628 of 10002
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Amy - Mar 03, 2008 10:35:49 am PST #6629 of 10002
Because books.

::twirls tiggy happily::

Thanks for posting that, babe!