Supernatural
Jul. 5th, 2007 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI'm watching Supernatural on DVD. I just didn't get around to watching it on TV. I mean, I liked the first season, and Dean remains pretty, but it didn't exactly live in my head when I wasn't watching it. I just pretty much forgot it was on.
I'm... not sad about that? I mean the Sam & Dean soap opera stuff remains all angsty and stuff, but... where's all the women? These stories have no women. There's victims and killers and some more victims. And then there's a couple of people you'd think would be actual characters, but... I just watched the one with the serial killer ghost, and this really isn't Buffy. It's possibly anti-Buffy. On Buffy if the blonde chick had the research and the weapons and went to hunt a bad thing then she would kick bad thing arse. On Supernatural despite having all the preparations she gets captured and locked up and pawed and needs rescuing and then used as bait. And, okay, willing bait, intended to be bait from the first, but... this is the anti-Buffy. It's not like there's any part of the plan the guys come up with that requires them to be guys. The part where she's the serial killer's type requires her to be a girl. But she could have done the thinking parts too.
I know they had that line in there to say it's about experience and not gender, but if that's the case... Where's the women?
Also in the other episode there was this mind control guy using his power to get a woman to strip off for him, and the way the camera put us in his point of view was just creepy. I mean, it might have been meant to be, but it's... if the main presence of women in a story is as curves in underwear getting abused then I call that a problem.
The vampire that got tied up and sliced up was also a woman. Why? Why is that not a guy? If the significant factor there was 'vampire' then why is it 'vampire chick'?
There's this thing where the main women in Sam & Dean's lives were sliced up and burned on the ceiling. Which, you know, classic inspiration-trauma. Annoying.
But mostly they're about their dad. First he's missing, then he's dead, it's a whole dad story.
Now they introduce two women, characters we get to see a bunch of times in a row, and... they're all about the dead husband-father.
Which, okay, kind of mirrors the thing the Winchesters have going on about the dead mom, but mostly because of the new developments it connects to the dead dad thing, and makes them women defined by their relationship to men.
They've got a mother-daughter relationship too. It mostly involves being mad at each other. Fair enough. It's kind of like the opposite of Sam and his dad. Fighting about hunting.
So they do actually have conversations that aren't with or about men.
But she wants to be a hunter because of her dad. It isn't just because it might be the right thing to do, it's to feel closer to her dead dad.
I just... it's really blah. It's boring.
It's like, you have to find the daddy issues interesting to find the show interesting.
... I'm not finding the show all that interesting.
On the other hand there's the thing with worrying which one of them is becoming the monster, or maybe it could be both. Dean just getting angrier and worrying he's a bad thing brought back from the dead and Sam worrying maybe he's a freak with a bad fate. That's always a fun thing. Fight monsters / become monster = not that far apart.
I'm not about to stop watching it, but... I don't know, it doesn't really grab me.
I'm... not sad about that? I mean the Sam & Dean soap opera stuff remains all angsty and stuff, but... where's all the women? These stories have no women. There's victims and killers and some more victims. And then there's a couple of people you'd think would be actual characters, but... I just watched the one with the serial killer ghost, and this really isn't Buffy. It's possibly anti-Buffy. On Buffy if the blonde chick had the research and the weapons and went to hunt a bad thing then she would kick bad thing arse. On Supernatural despite having all the preparations she gets captured and locked up and pawed and needs rescuing and then used as bait. And, okay, willing bait, intended to be bait from the first, but... this is the anti-Buffy. It's not like there's any part of the plan the guys come up with that requires them to be guys. The part where she's the serial killer's type requires her to be a girl. But she could have done the thinking parts too.
I know they had that line in there to say it's about experience and not gender, but if that's the case... Where's the women?
Also in the other episode there was this mind control guy using his power to get a woman to strip off for him, and the way the camera put us in his point of view was just creepy. I mean, it might have been meant to be, but it's... if the main presence of women in a story is as curves in underwear getting abused then I call that a problem.
The vampire that got tied up and sliced up was also a woman. Why? Why is that not a guy? If the significant factor there was 'vampire' then why is it 'vampire chick'?
There's this thing where the main women in Sam & Dean's lives were sliced up and burned on the ceiling. Which, you know, classic inspiration-trauma. Annoying.
But mostly they're about their dad. First he's missing, then he's dead, it's a whole dad story.
Now they introduce two women, characters we get to see a bunch of times in a row, and... they're all about the dead husband-father.
Which, okay, kind of mirrors the thing the Winchesters have going on about the dead mom, but mostly because of the new developments it connects to the dead dad thing, and makes them women defined by their relationship to men.
They've got a mother-daughter relationship too. It mostly involves being mad at each other. Fair enough. It's kind of like the opposite of Sam and his dad. Fighting about hunting.
So they do actually have conversations that aren't with or about men.
But she wants to be a hunter because of her dad. It isn't just because it might be the right thing to do, it's to feel closer to her dead dad.
I just... it's really blah. It's boring.
It's like, you have to find the daddy issues interesting to find the show interesting.
... I'm not finding the show all that interesting.
On the other hand there's the thing with worrying which one of them is becoming the monster, or maybe it could be both. Dean just getting angrier and worrying he's a bad thing brought back from the dead and Sam worrying maybe he's a freak with a bad fate. That's always a fun thing. Fight monsters / become monster = not that far apart.
I'm not about to stop watching it, but... I don't know, it doesn't really grab me.