Supernaturally Rising
At first, I wasn’t too sure about the season premiere of Supernatural. The first few minutes just didn’t do it for me. I was disappointed somehow, in some vague way that I can’t quite explain, by what happened. It did get better,though, and by the end, I had mostly enjoyed it and was looking forward to next week.
But there were still a few things that bothered me. This may be a little spoilery if you haven’t seen the ep, so read at your own peril.
First of all, I had a very hard time swallowing the fact that some divine power brought Dean back from hell. Even more, before we even met the angel, when I saw the first burned out eyes, I said to my husband, it’s God. He said what? I said they are gonna make it that God brought Sam back. I was right. It just seemed like a cop out to me somehow. Its so easy to blame God for everything, isn’t it, since He’s not likely to explain Himself. I guess it all leads back to the fact that Dean has no faith in God, which I always thought a little unlikely, cause how can you believe in evil if you refuse to acknowledge good. What would demons be fighting against if there was no ultimate good trying to save souls? But whatever, I’m over it.
There were other issues as well. It seemed like they didn’t have a lot of time to let things play out. Both Bobby and Sam didn’t trust that it was Dean at first, but they both seemed to give in too easily without really questioning things as much as they should have. They just expected too much suspension of disbelief from me, as well.
Beyond that, I’ve read about the budget cuts, which enable the CW to channel more money into its new shows, like 90210, and I could see the lack of money. The crummy music, for one thing. One of the best parts of Supernatural, to me at least, has always been the awesome rock music soundtrack, and that was noticeably deficient. I’m not saying there was no good music, but there was also some really bad music. Of course, it could just be that Sam has sucky taste in music compared to Dean.
Also, that was Ruby?? That was Ruby?? *sigh* I know, I know, they can explain it away by saying that demons can inhabit different bodies, but it really bothers me. I’d rather they say that Ruby had disappeared, that she had died, that she had been eaten by an giant Gila monster, anything than just putting Ruby into a different body and acting like nothing had changed. *sigh*
Finally, and this is a minor point, but some of the effects were a little, um, not so effective. Like the trees all bent away from the grave. I was not impressed. Especially since they showed it so fast, I could barely tell what I was seeing.
I’ll still be watching next week, but I don’t have to be happy about what they’ve done.
