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maychorianSo I've watched to the third episode of both Grimm and Once Upon a Time. I think they are both growing on me, a bit. I want them both to succeed--I want there to be more interesting television on the air, especially fantasy based, because I've been a fantasy nerd since I was a tyke. But... Neither of these shows grabbed me from the beginning, and neither has quite managed it yet.
I think part of it is cognizant dissonance. Both purport to be fairy tales, yet one is filmed like a melodrama and the other is a police procedural. There's only so much melodrama and police procedural I can handle. I already watch Royal Pains and Criminal Minds. Making room in my head for these two shows is going to take some work.
I do like the way OUT repurposed the Snow White story. That episode was the first one where I really started to feel some strong sympathy for the characters. They started to feel like real people instead of archetypes, at least Snow/Miss Blanchard did, and I really want her to get her happy ending. Her search for human connection throughout episode got under my skin, and I hated how she didn't get her Prince Charming in the end.
I also am enjoying the way Grimm repackages the fairy-tale feel. The Goldilocks opening in Ep 2 was great, and the show has managed some moments of true tension. I still don't really like the protagonist that much though, which continues to be a problem. Blutbad Monroe is still on my good list.
Anyway, I'm still watching. Hoping they both succeed, both with me and with the national audience.
I liked the last couple episodes of Supernatural, though I don't have much to say about them. I thought it was really cool the way they used the Fox sisters. That was a genuinely creepy and entertaining episode. Also really glad the seasonal break-up of the brothers only lasted for one episode. Any more than that would have been pushing it. :D
I do find it interesting how the boys are kind of switching back and forth this season on who we're supposed to be worrying about the most--first Sam, then Dean, then Sam, then Dean again. Which is...fairly realistic, I think, considering the trauma both boys have suffered and are still suffering. My heart broke a bit at Dean admitting that he's having trouble trusting since Cas. Oh, my boys.
I'm glad Becky did the right thing in the end. Show was fairly delicate with its meta-ness this time, which was nice to see. And at least Show admitted the inherent eviltude of the wish/love-potion method of obtaining romance, unlike in some other eps.
Supernatural is continuing to repeat previously seen patterns, only slightly faster and somewhat better. I continue to approve!
Now, where's my angelface?
I think part of it is cognizant dissonance. Both purport to be fairy tales, yet one is filmed like a melodrama and the other is a police procedural. There's only so much melodrama and police procedural I can handle. I already watch Royal Pains and Criminal Minds. Making room in my head for these two shows is going to take some work.
I do like the way OUT repurposed the Snow White story. That episode was the first one where I really started to feel some strong sympathy for the characters. They started to feel like real people instead of archetypes, at least Snow/Miss Blanchard did, and I really want her to get her happy ending. Her search for human connection throughout episode got under my skin, and I hated how she didn't get her Prince Charming in the end.
I also am enjoying the way Grimm repackages the fairy-tale feel. The Goldilocks opening in Ep 2 was great, and the show has managed some moments of true tension. I still don't really like the protagonist that much though, which continues to be a problem. Blutbad Monroe is still on my good list.
Anyway, I'm still watching. Hoping they both succeed, both with me and with the national audience.
I liked the last couple episodes of Supernatural, though I don't have much to say about them. I thought it was really cool the way they used the Fox sisters. That was a genuinely creepy and entertaining episode. Also really glad the seasonal break-up of the brothers only lasted for one episode. Any more than that would have been pushing it. :D
I do find it interesting how the boys are kind of switching back and forth this season on who we're supposed to be worrying about the most--first Sam, then Dean, then Sam, then Dean again. Which is...fairly realistic, I think, considering the trauma both boys have suffered and are still suffering. My heart broke a bit at Dean admitting that he's having trouble trusting since Cas. Oh, my boys.
I'm glad Becky did the right thing in the end. Show was fairly delicate with its meta-ness this time, which was nice to see. And at least Show admitted the inherent eviltude of the wish/love-potion method of obtaining romance, unlike in some other eps.
Supernatural is continuing to repeat previously seen patterns, only slightly faster and somewhat better. I continue to approve!
Now, where's my angelface?
