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kribbanThis has been my weekend so far:
1) Got home from work on Friday, made a huge batch of cabbage pudding and watched 6 episodes of Stranger Things. :D :D :D
It may be a corny genre pastiche but HOLY CRAP does it do romance and children/teenagers better than 99% of other shows. The writing is superb and so are the young actors. That's what I was thinking especially as I watched:
2) Supernatural 13x03 "Patience" that introduced the first new character for the spin-off. I found the writing really... unsubtle. More "tell" than "show." One tiny example:
Missouri's son complains about how his mother was always "on the road, hunting." Why would he use those exact words? Does he even know about the hunting subculture? As a viewer, I don't need everything spelled out for me, and I think this is an area in which the show has deteriorated in later years. :/
Now for Patience herself - forty-year-old writers who think they know what teenage girls are like - STOP WITH THE SASSY ONE LINERS.
(Did I mention Stranger Things does young characters really well? Just checking. :D)
3) Yesterday we celebrated M's birthday by getting our hair cut, eating sushi and watching four movies she picked: the two new Alien-installments (she loooooves Michael Fassbender) and the Fifty Shades of Grey-movies.
Jensen Ackles mentioned a while ago there was a slight possibility he would have played Mr. Grey and I'm glad for his (our?) sake he didn't.
There are something like 20 sex scenes, I kid you not.
I do wonder how much was body doubles and how much was the actors, but it all looks very realistic in either case. At some point, the repeated exposure had dulled my second-hand embarrassment so much that I was actually impressed by the creative positions and camera angles.
As for the movies themselves, they're actually not as bad as I thought! And they made me think of Dean (what doesn't?)
The first film actually ends pretty fantastically. Girl realizes the guy she loves is way too dark for her taste and gets the fuck out, despite still being in love with him. (Of course, there are two more installments, so we know they get back together eventually, but let's ignore that for a second.)
(Warning: video contains nudity)
Isn't this great? This look of pure anguish on her face as she realizes a future with him is impossible? How elated he is at finally getting what he wants? How she can't stand his touch now that she's experienced this side of him?
This ending made me sad there's a no-romance rule on Supernatural because I would love one last, horribly tragic romance for Dean. Not tragic in that the woman dies or is taken away by ~circumstances~ but something like this. She asks him to show his worst, that's the only way she'll be able to understand, and then, when he does, realizes she can't reconcile the monster-part and the man-part.
1) Got home from work on Friday, made a huge batch of cabbage pudding and watched 6 episodes of Stranger Things. :D :D :D
It may be a corny genre pastiche but HOLY CRAP does it do romance and children/teenagers better than 99% of other shows. The writing is superb and so are the young actors. That's what I was thinking especially as I watched:
2) Supernatural 13x03 "Patience" that introduced the first new character for the spin-off. I found the writing really... unsubtle. More "tell" than "show." One tiny example:
Missouri's son complains about how his mother was always "on the road, hunting." Why would he use those exact words? Does he even know about the hunting subculture? As a viewer, I don't need everything spelled out for me, and I think this is an area in which the show has deteriorated in later years. :/
Now for Patience herself - forty-year-old writers who think they know what teenage girls are like - STOP WITH THE SASSY ONE LINERS.
(Did I mention Stranger Things does young characters really well? Just checking. :D)
3) Yesterday we celebrated M's birthday by getting our hair cut, eating sushi and watching four movies she picked: the two new Alien-installments (she loooooves Michael Fassbender) and the Fifty Shades of Grey-movies.
Jensen Ackles mentioned a while ago there was a slight possibility he would have played Mr. Grey and I'm glad for his (our?) sake he didn't.
There are something like 20 sex scenes, I kid you not.
I do wonder how much was body doubles and how much was the actors, but it all looks very realistic in either case. At some point, the repeated exposure had dulled my second-hand embarrassment so much that I was actually impressed by the creative positions and camera angles.
As for the movies themselves, they're actually not as bad as I thought! And they made me think of Dean (what doesn't?)
The first film actually ends pretty fantastically. Girl realizes the guy she loves is way too dark for her taste and gets the fuck out, despite still being in love with him. (Of course, there are two more installments, so we know they get back together eventually, but let's ignore that for a second.)
(Warning: video contains nudity)
Isn't this great? This look of pure anguish on her face as she realizes a future with him is impossible? How elated he is at finally getting what he wants? How she can't stand his touch now that she's experienced this side of him?
This ending made me sad there's a no-romance rule on Supernatural because I would love one last, horribly tragic romance for Dean. Not tragic in that the woman dies or is taken away by ~circumstances~ but something like this. She asks him to show his worst, that's the only way she'll be able to understand, and then, when he does, realizes she can't reconcile the monster-part and the man-part.
