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[green_queen]

Is it an unpopular fandom opinion if I believe that season 2 was the best season?

SWEET LORD OF THE RINGS! Sex...with girls.

They're like Andrew. Keeping it current with the writer's strike. In the history of YOUR LIFE!
The theme song rules. LOL that shot of Dean!

I like the slow-mo walk. Two lone wolves. Where do ghosts come from? I'm just going to be quoting the whole thing, aren't I? ADOPTED. Love at first geek! 1/16th Cherokee, lol.

Leap year ghost, seriously? Ugh. Are those boys flirting? They really are like Andrew, and also, do we have to have the only gay male in the show be...that guy? NOT HELPING. He is kinda cute though.

LOL 'pretty well fenced off'. That car sounds familiar ;) YAY. Their high five thing was so cute.

FACE TIME! Calm the whirlwinds of your mind. The rat! That 'police officer' sounds familiar. Pretty boys hooray. OMG SWEARING BOYS YAAAY! THEY GET TO SWEAR and talk like they would actually talk if they weren't PG-rated.

They walked into a reality TV film noir horror movie!

Did Dean really just try to bribe them with ice-cream? Oh, Corbett :S

Aw, Dean and Sam having a domestic. Only two months! Multiple echoes, just a guess, multiple deaths? It seems like Ed likes Corbett back. An optimist! Oh, ewww.

That shot of Dean actually made me jump. Wait, who just disappeared? Oh, duh, of course it was Sam. SAMMY! Bow chicka wow wow. His best sister? ADOPTED!

Yay, Corbett's ok! A bit bloody, but alive. OMG! CORBETT :(

He's taxiderming the people! Ew! Does Sam have something stuck to his head? Inside the duffle bag?

Oh, Corbett.

He's gonna do his fucking job! I LOVE Dean swearing like a mofo. It's a party hat! Ewww. Poor Corbett.

Oh, Ed. Who knew there was a heart inside that geeky exterior? Good thing those cameras have loads of batteries.

You've gotta go be gay for that poor dead intern! This is how they do gay on this show? Seriously? I mean...kinda sweet, but not overly positive and very marginalising. Is that a word? Awwwwwww!!!

Corbett! He's, like...the hero.

VERY pretty shot of the car right there. How can they still be so stupid after poor Corbett died? Like...Andrew, huh. Gay love wins the day.

Corbett :(

Half-awesome. LOL honour Corbett's memory while grossly exploiting the manner of his death, precisely correct. Facer-haters. Theme song over Metallicar shot!

First look at next week's episode. Check out the last name on the Final Cylon poll on the right ;)

Green Queen

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[speakerwiggin.livejournal.com]

YAY i finally get to watch a live ep!

I watched the first...3 eps live (s1) then got behind and never got DVDs.

Finally netflixed/torrented during writers strike and have been DYING for more.

Sad that they've only got what, 2 or 3 eps left?

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I think it's 3, but there'll be another season and hopefully without a strike it'll be better balanced than this one was.

[speakerwiggin.livejournal.com]

i dunno, i've really liked 3 so far. i think it's unfortunate that with four eps left one was ghostfacers, as much as I liked it - but I also understand. They had it mostly written already and i'm guessing it served as levity before hitting us hard w/ the final arc.

but i'm with you - i LOVED 2 - especially that finale. It was very nicely handled, ending plot line that really served as the purpose of the series while starting up new threads to keep it going. Dragging out yellow eyes could have worked but would have gotten frustrating.

Anyway, here's hoping 3 ends strong and we get a great S4. :)

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

I feel like the season has just been one-note and stale. With the writer's strike a lot of shows are not taking risks and I'm glad Supernatural decided to shake things up a bit. Did you notice that the two before Ghostfacers had weird structure, or was that just me?

I think maybe I'm also letting my issues with the show's...social conservatism, I suppose, get to me.

[speakerwiggin.livejournal.com]

i'm having trouble remembering which 2 were just b4 ghost facers.... jus in baloo right?

*goes to imdb*

ah, mystery spot and jus in bello. Mystery Spot def had a diff structure. Jus did a little to, but it was also heavy on mythology.

I also never really noticed the show's social conservatism until ghostfacers. i noticed DEAN'S, but it always made sense to me for him to be that way. (Sammy's a different story.)

It actually surprises me that this show isn't popular with more non-geek guys. I mean, heavy metal, hot girls of the week, muscle cars, guns. It's very testosterone heavy yet most of the people I know who like it are female. :)

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot about Jus in Bello. Jus was good, it had perfectly normal structure, but Mystery Spot and the one before that, the dreams one, were like...a bunch of themes and episodes were squished together and they didn't follow the normal act structure and the result was unsettling for me.

I am still torn on my feelings about the way homosexuality was treated in Ghostfacers. I mean, Corbett was sweet and sympathetic and all, but the gay thing was still almost entirely played for laughs and when it wasn't it felt awkward. The pretending to be gay thing was off, but totally in character for those geeks.

I'm pretty sure the boys being supernaturally (forgive the pun) attractive and talking about their feelings every other week is the reason for the girl appeal - and possibly the girl-heavy fanbase is the reason for guys staying away in droves.

Man, my Supernatural icons kick ass. That's one good thing about this fandom, awesome icon makers.

[speakerwiggin.livejournal.com]

To me Corbett's sexuality was more a "generic conflict" than "comic relief." it was on the same level as best friend w/ best sister love. sure, there were some funny moments involving his orientation, but it was a Ben Edlund script. :)

I think it felt awkward because... who the hell is Corbett? Most of the conflict was played out in exposition because he had maybe two scenes with everyone else before he was captured and then set in his "death echo." I think maybe it could have felt a little less forced had this entire team been in the original hellhounds episode.

And it really is hard to watch geek characters like this and NOT compare them to Jonathan/Warren/Andrew. Especially when one of the ghostfacers resembles a taller more angular Jonathan to me. Made me long for SUPERSTAR!

you do have some kick ass supernatural icons. i may have to make/get me some one of these days. :)

[green-queen.livejournal.com]

Well, not really, because, while I was unsure of this while watching the episode, Ed didn't love Corbett back. He had to pretend.

Oh, this episode had SO much in common with Storyteller. The framing device was very like Andrew, down to the speech patterns (which, of course, were mocking the old horror shows to begin with), and those boys are very much like Jonathan and Andrew. (None of them are as malicious as Warren.)
Which reminds me of another thing, when did the gay geek stereotype start? Not that I don't know gay geeks, but I'm pretty sure there are more straight male geeks out there than gay ones, so why does that stereotype exist? Is it part of a stimatism thing, like the gay black guy of the 80's, making the gay person someone who is already prejudiced against based on something other than their sexuality? But the modern version, since it's now unacceptable to show prejudice against blacks, but not gays?

[speakerwiggin.livejournal.com]

I think it's just easier to do it that way. Not that that makes it GOOD to do it that way, but like you said - geeks are already looked down upon.

Though there is another more positive possibility - identification. Sorta how brian singer identified with the x-men when he directed the first two movies. There are actually quite a few gay geek writers - bryan fuller and a buffy angel writer (was it jeffery bell?) come to mind. Perhaps the gay geeks come from their existence in the room or even to give the straight geeks in the audience, the ones who are loyal to the show, a reference point. Like, even if someone is slightly homophobic, they might really like andrew because they identify w/ the geek side of him and become more comfortable with the idea of ...

nah, i think i'm overthinking it. most likely it's easier for them to get that combo of character past the network than, say, making Jack Sheppard gay.

Though - at least Tom Friendly wasn't also a geek. :)