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SPN: Scarecrow and Faith
Mar. 10th, 2011 09:29 pmI cannot remember the last time I watched a show with so small a main cast. Everything I've watched within the last few years or so has involved an ensemble cast, and even if there was only a handful of principals - on Veronica Mars, say, or Bones - there were many more supporting and recurring characters. I mean, here are my main shows of the last five years: BtVS, Ats, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, The West Wing, House, Avatar: the Last Airbender. Huge casts!
And now I'm down to three characters I've ever seen more than once (well, plus their mom, I guess). It feels a tad claustrophobic.
I also haven't spent this much time thinking about guy-guy relationships in a really long time. Or possibly ever. Certainly not with BtVS; there aren't any guys with anything like the depth of relationship the Winchesters have. So that's kind of a new/weird mental space to be in.
(It actually quite bothers me how few same-sex friendships we see in the Buffyverse. We have Buffy-Willow, Andrew-Jonathan [which y'all have assured me is totally platonic!], Dawn-Tara, Dawn-Janice, and Dawn-Buffy if we're counting siblings. It's not like there aren't plenty of girls around for pretty much the whole show, but so few of them are friends. Feh.)
Anyway. On to the ep notes, which got long and end up talking about, among other things, religious faith (in fairly generic terms); if that sort of thing gives you hives, well, be ye forewarned.
( In which we discover the writing staff reads Neil Gaiman )
Overall, this was by far the best disk so far; all four of these eps were head and shoulders above anything else that came before (except possibly "Skin," which also pretty solid). Interesting spooks (except for the poltergeist in "Home," but that ep had enough other stuff going on that I didn't mind too much) and good character stuff for both individuals and relationships. Good work team.
And now I'm down to three characters I've ever seen more than once (well, plus their mom, I guess). It feels a tad claustrophobic.
I also haven't spent this much time thinking about guy-guy relationships in a really long time. Or possibly ever. Certainly not with BtVS; there aren't any guys with anything like the depth of relationship the Winchesters have. So that's kind of a new/weird mental space to be in.
(It actually quite bothers me how few same-sex friendships we see in the Buffyverse. We have Buffy-Willow, Andrew-Jonathan [which y'all have assured me is totally platonic!], Dawn-Tara, Dawn-Janice, and Dawn-Buffy if we're counting siblings. It's not like there aren't plenty of girls around for pretty much the whole show, but so few of them are friends. Feh.)
Anyway. On to the ep notes, which got long and end up talking about, among other things, religious faith (in fairly generic terms); if that sort of thing gives you hives, well, be ye forewarned.
( In which we discover the writing staff reads Neil Gaiman )
Overall, this was by far the best disk so far; all four of these eps were head and shoulders above anything else that came before (except possibly "Skin," which also pretty solid). Interesting spooks (except for the poltergeist in "Home," but that ep had enough other stuff going on that I didn't mind too much) and good character stuff for both individuals and relationships. Good work team.
