Not Super at All

[sdelmonte]

Supernatural thoughts.

Let's see. The last recurring female character killed for no good reason? Check.

The last recurring African American character killed in a less than heroic manner? Check.

A derivative villain played by a mediocre actress? Check.

A frustrating hour of TV? Check.

A sincere but fading hope that they can bring together all the pieces one last time and make it work, and then end this show? Check.

Comments

[dotfic.livejournal.com]

Check and check.

Sigh.

[yakalskovich]

To be honest, I stopped watching it a while ago because it really only alternated between silly meta episodes poking fun at the fans, cheesy episodes with monsters-of-the-week, and these terribly contrived arcs suffused with religion in an unpleasant way.

Oh yes, and their treatment of women was sliding from the old-fashioned to the antediluvian. A good show gone to the dogs because they didn't know when to stop. The setup never had that many seasons in it.

[sdelmonte]

The handling of religion always seems a little better than on most shows, though I don't think it was by design. But I never found myself vaguely put off the way I was on occasion by Joss Whedon's approach to it on Buffy and Angel.

[yakalskovich]

I personally found the way they treated the underlying myths of the three 'religions of the book' as fictional clichés or cultural building blocks that don't get questioned sometimes uncomfortably wedged between religious propaganda and blasphemy.

Especially the hints of having God as a character (albeit absent) on a (more or less serious) show were sometimes oddly off-putting. Satire is different; fun can and should be poked at anything.-