And it's not like Kripke wasn't on staff, for at least 6 (I think 7, but am not sure). I get the impression that this season, with Carver at the helm (and back from his vacation), zero Sera, and I think no Kripke at all, will be the most different. Can still be great (I am also the only person in the world (cue "Am I the only one who..." post) who isn't sure Community will suck, so take my words with appropriate salt), and I'm excited to see what will happen.
Sera said she was taking us back to basics, and Carver says, no really, we're going back to basics, the mythology got a little confusing, right? And I realise I don't know what "back to basics" actually means anymore. It's stopped looking like English.
Yeah, I'm not sure what that means either.
But I don't really care, for now. If Show's on, I'm watching. I may have mentioned the whole "irrational about it" thing.
I loathed S7 Buffy, and I still watched, you know?
I honestly think Season 6 went off the rails about midway through with dropped plots and wasted potential, and then mostly picked up right at the end. Season 7 started off awesome and has had the occasional good episode, but I think it took really promising and different main antagonists and squandered them by making them pedestrian. The cardinal sin is that I was bored by much of this last year's episodes. I still generally enjoyed the performances, but I did not think the show was being well-managed. (My opinion of Gamble WRT to the show is much like my opinion of Marti Noxon: a talented writer who's responsible for good episodes but probably shouldn't have been put in charge of the show as a whole.)
I think for me, when I get attached to show like this, I'm watching it sort of as a friend. As in, I don't really care about the Big Bads that much, I just want to know how my friends are doing, if that makes sense. Same way I wouldn't say I wished a friend's divorce had been more dramatic, with more of a clear-cut arc, I'm much more interested in just seeing Sam and Dean interact than I am in whatever the latest apocalypse is.
Which is weird, I realize.
It's safe to say that I don't love Sam or Dean any less than I ever have. I don't "worry" less about them, or laugh less at them. The danger signal for me is when I drift away from the protagonists. Yes, the show can always be better, but then again, I liked a more corporate villain (not in the league of the Mayor, but I think cut from similar cloth) for the boys. It was a nice break from angels and demons, which I was kinda burnt out on.
This person should be booted out of fandom for not calling this: [link] Cas-tea-el.
JUST SAYING.
I just realised more tickled me about this than the punchline.
Jared? Really? That
is
your favourite? You're adorable.
And Misha, I'm assuming that's a West thing, which is +500 cute points to house Collins right away.
I bet it's his favorite NOW. Although my niece's favorite animal has always been the moose, so who knows.
I don't get the West Wing ref, but I do love the looks on their faces when the kid says "vampire bat". Heh.
Not West Wing, West
thing.
West Anaximander.
