Post by indy42 - THE FILMMAKER on May 9, 2010 17:28:25 GMT -5
This thread will be updated as I watch more.
- All right. After the traumatizing end to the Pilot, we start off with a bunch of losers on a camping trip. We hear weird, scary noises. Then the one minority in the camp goes off to take a piss. Why doesn't he stick a neon sign on his chest saying "Kill me!". And, yep, he's dead.
- And then HOLY SH*T a scene that takes place in Palo Alto, California! Pretty cool, bro. Although I've never seen that cemetery before.
- Sad funeral scene, followed by zombie creepout. But it was a dream. No wonder it didn't look like Palo Alto.
- So a werewolf is killing people, Sam and Dean, that dead dude's brother and that suicidal dude from FlashForward go off into the forest. Guy from Flashforward (Roy?) wanders off. Guess who's gonna get killed next??? ...Or not. They find the campsite.
- So the thing is something called a Wendigo. Roy's getting angry about being questioned by Dean and Sam about shooting it. I think someone's gonna get Samuel L. Jackson-in-Deep-Blue-Sea'd. ...Or not. Man, I keep expecting that guy to bite it!
- Roy's also the Supernatural Skeptic. He's going to die die. As in, very painfully.
- Ok, Dean explains the premise of the series as clearly as possible: He wants to "kill as many evil sons of bitches as I possibly can." Pretty cool, bro.
- Wendigo pretending to scream for help as a human. Roy: "That's no grizzly." No shittuckytuckytuckytuckytuckytuckytuckytuckytuckytucky, Roy. Good job. Here it comes...! Roy thinks he hit the thing, goes running after it... He's gonna die... WHAM! Roy's dead meat. Finally got it right. hehe.
- So they got to torch him. Light 'em up. Roy's dead body drops down from a tree. Called it. So far we don't have a good look at the Wendigo.
- That's right. Enter the dark, damp scary shack. Go ahead.
- Well, at least they found Dean and the girl. Oh, and the brother. He's alive! Holy crap.
- Here comes the Wendingo. Here's hoping for decent CGI. Dean does the Men in Black trick of asking to be eaten.
- And there it is! A human sized bipedal Cloverfield monster.
- And then a flare does the bastard in. Up in flames. "Not bad, huh?"
- End of episode. That was interesting.
8.5/10
Loses points for predictability, wins some for fun-ness.
This episode was creepy as sh*t. As a fan of the Loch Ness Monster, I really enjoyed the sea-monster aspect of this, and was kind of disappointed when it ended up being a not-really-explained water spirit of a dead kid. I wanted sea monster, damnit!
Otherwise, this episode was really great, although I missed some of that comic relief from the previous episodes. Other than that, though, I think it's the best episode of Supernatural yet. The scenes in the bathtub and the sink were seriously scary.
9/10
A fun little episode that plays on all human's natural paranoia about travel. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but it was fun nonetheless. Had some good one-liners and an interesting villain. My one big complaint with this episode was that little was explained about the villain. So much time was put into the backstory in the previous three episodes that this one just felt lacking.
7/10
This episode was great, I just had one major, major problem with it - it was too much like a common slasher flick. One of the strengths of the show so far is how it deals with the craziest sh*t as realistically as possible. Some parts of this episode just felt silly. Especially the scene with the blonde sitting at home talking to her friend on the phone - "Hey, those Winchester boys were cute - This Bloody Mary myth is fake! Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary!" *eyes explode*. Do any of these people watch horror movies?
The Bloody Mary herself was awesome in the explanation and execution, and the episode had a very creepy feel. Another part of this episode that was good was how the story almost felt like it could be a movie all by itself - a crappy B movie called "Bloody Mary".
.
Huh.
Anyway, good episode, but a lot of the dialogue and plot, especially in the first half, felt a bit cliched and contrived. The second half corrected this a good bit, though, and the way to include Sam's dead girlfriend was ingenious.
8/10
Dear god, my eyeballs are bleeding. The most sadistic and gory episode yet, with a scene complete with Dean Winchester (technically a guy who looks like him) convulsing in a room tearing off his flesh. Ewwww!. That being said, I liked this episode. Had a good villain, a good hook with the in medias res beginning, and some good lines. I only wish this episode, like previous ones, had as good supporting characaters. Basically there was the blonde (I'm gonna start calling this character the "Dame-In-Supernatural-Distress") and that's it.
The ending was good - although a bit confusing, but that comes with the territory with the whole shape-shifter thing. This is the best episode since "Dead in the Water".
9/10
Here's a lesson for you kids: If you're in a town where people are being brutally slashed to shreds, it's probably not a good place to go snooping around in an empty cemetery, alone at night, to find an unmarked grave of the body of the spirit who is doing the killing. Especially when option B was a sorority party. Come on, Dean!
This episode was uninspiring. It had a stock killer. It had the stock SDD (supernatural damsel in distress). It had the overly religious and hypocritical father. The evil spirit. Basically it felt very cliched. Didn't seem like it had much originality to offer. I'm not sure how many spirit-of-the-week episodes Supernatural can pull off before they can start actually looking for their Dad.
The ending of this episode was exciting, if the CGI of the Hook Man left me uninspired.
Overall, just OK episode.
7/10.
Ick. Ick ick ick. Eww. EWWWW!!!! This episode was very cliched. Native American cursed land? Yawn... I would have preferred the kid-is-Willard explanation. At least this episode didn't have an SDD. What it did have, though, were some pretty crappy CGI bugs.
6.5/10
I watched 9 and 10 but I don't remember enough to write out a review.
Anyway, this episode was good. The scarecrow was creepy as hell, and it had some surprising emotion in both the teen girl and Sam's subplot of the episode. Sam really didn't do much, but that was okay, Dean can carry the show himself, really. Dean was pretty awesome, shotgunning the scarecrow.
My one issue with this episode is that too often it relied on horror-movie cliches. But that's forgivable.
The ending was cool. I liked the reveal of the girl, and I hope that leads to some more continuity between episodes more than "Lets find monsters to kill 'cause dad wants us to!"
8/10
1x02 - Wendigo
- All right. After the traumatizing end to the Pilot, we start off with a bunch of losers on a camping trip. We hear weird, scary noises. Then the one minority in the camp goes off to take a piss. Why doesn't he stick a neon sign on his chest saying "Kill me!". And, yep, he's dead.
- And then HOLY SH*T a scene that takes place in Palo Alto, California! Pretty cool, bro. Although I've never seen that cemetery before.
- Sad funeral scene, followed by zombie creepout. But it was a dream. No wonder it didn't look like Palo Alto.
- So a werewolf is killing people, Sam and Dean, that dead dude's brother and that suicidal dude from FlashForward go off into the forest. Guy from Flashforward (Roy?) wanders off. Guess who's gonna get killed next??? ...Or not. They find the campsite.
- So the thing is something called a Wendigo. Roy's getting angry about being questioned by Dean and Sam about shooting it. I think someone's gonna get Samuel L. Jackson-in-Deep-Blue-Sea'd. ...Or not. Man, I keep expecting that guy to bite it!
- Roy's also the Supernatural Skeptic. He's going to die die. As in, very painfully.
- Ok, Dean explains the premise of the series as clearly as possible: He wants to "kill as many evil sons of bitches as I possibly can." Pretty cool, bro.
- Wendigo pretending to scream for help as a human. Roy: "That's no grizzly." No shittuckytuckytuckytuckytuckytuckytuckytuckytuckytucky, Roy. Good job. Here it comes...! Roy thinks he hit the thing, goes running after it... He's gonna die... WHAM! Roy's dead meat. Finally got it right. hehe.
- So they got to torch him. Light 'em up. Roy's dead body drops down from a tree. Called it. So far we don't have a good look at the Wendigo.
- That's right. Enter the dark, damp scary shack. Go ahead.
- Well, at least they found Dean and the girl. Oh, and the brother. He's alive! Holy crap.
- Here comes the Wendingo. Here's hoping for decent CGI. Dean does the Men in Black trick of asking to be eaten.
- And there it is! A human sized bipedal Cloverfield monster.
- And then a flare does the bastard in. Up in flames. "Not bad, huh?"
- End of episode. That was interesting.
8.5/10
Loses points for predictability, wins some for fun-ness.
Dead in the Water
This episode was creepy as sh*t. As a fan of the Loch Ness Monster, I really enjoyed the sea-monster aspect of this, and was kind of disappointed when it ended up being a not-really-explained water spirit of a dead kid. I wanted sea monster, damnit!
Otherwise, this episode was really great, although I missed some of that comic relief from the previous episodes. Other than that, though, I think it's the best episode of Supernatural yet. The scenes in the bathtub and the sink were seriously scary.
9/10
Phantom Traveler
A fun little episode that plays on all human's natural paranoia about travel. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but it was fun nonetheless. Had some good one-liners and an interesting villain. My one big complaint with this episode was that little was explained about the villain. So much time was put into the backstory in the previous three episodes that this one just felt lacking.
7/10
1x05 - Bloody Mary
This episode was great, I just had one major, major problem with it - it was too much like a common slasher flick. One of the strengths of the show so far is how it deals with the craziest sh*t as realistically as possible. Some parts of this episode just felt silly. Especially the scene with the blonde sitting at home talking to her friend on the phone - "Hey, those Winchester boys were cute - This Bloody Mary myth is fake! Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary!" *eyes explode*. Do any of these people watch horror movies?
The Bloody Mary herself was awesome in the explanation and execution, and the episode had a very creepy feel. Another part of this episode that was good was how the story almost felt like it could be a movie all by itself - a crappy B movie called "Bloody Mary".
.Huh.
Anyway, good episode, but a lot of the dialogue and plot, especially in the first half, felt a bit cliched and contrived. The second half corrected this a good bit, though, and the way to include Sam's dead girlfriend was ingenious.
8/10
Skins
Dear god, my eyeballs are bleeding. The most sadistic and gory episode yet, with a scene complete with Dean Winchester (technically a guy who looks like him) convulsing in a room tearing off his flesh. Ewwww!. That being said, I liked this episode. Had a good villain, a good hook with the in medias res beginning, and some good lines. I only wish this episode, like previous ones, had as good supporting characaters. Basically there was the blonde (I'm gonna start calling this character the "Dame-In-Supernatural-Distress") and that's it.
The ending was good - although a bit confusing, but that comes with the territory with the whole shape-shifter thing. This is the best episode since "Dead in the Water".
9/10
Hook Man
Here's a lesson for you kids: If you're in a town where people are being brutally slashed to shreds, it's probably not a good place to go snooping around in an empty cemetery, alone at night, to find an unmarked grave of the body of the spirit who is doing the killing. Especially when option B was a sorority party. Come on, Dean!
This episode was uninspiring. It had a stock killer. It had the stock SDD (supernatural damsel in distress). It had the overly religious and hypocritical father. The evil spirit. Basically it felt very cliched. Didn't seem like it had much originality to offer. I'm not sure how many spirit-of-the-week episodes Supernatural can pull off before they can start actually looking for their Dad.
The ending of this episode was exciting, if the CGI of the Hook Man left me uninspired.
Overall, just OK episode.
7/10.
Bugs
Ick. Ick ick ick. Eww. EWWWW!!!! This episode was very cliched. Native American cursed land? Yawn... I would have preferred the kid-is-Willard explanation. At least this episode didn't have an SDD. What it did have, though, were some pretty crappy CGI bugs.
6.5/10
Scarecrow
I watched 9 and 10 but I don't remember enough to write out a review.
Anyway, this episode was good. The scarecrow was creepy as hell, and it had some surprising emotion in both the teen girl and Sam's subplot of the episode. Sam really didn't do much, but that was okay, Dean can carry the show himself, really. Dean was pretty awesome, shotgunning the scarecrow.
My one issue with this episode is that too often it relied on horror-movie cliches. But that's forgivable.
The ending was cool. I liked the reveal of the girl, and I hope that leads to some more continuity between episodes more than "Lets find monsters to kill 'cause dad wants us to!"
8/10
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