I just can’t bring myself to accept what happened to my show.
I’ve been watching Chuck. Over the summer I started with season one and kept on going and now am watching it live. I’ve really enjoyed that show for what it is and not for anything too lofty. Chuck is a comedy speckled with drama. It’s a problem with a solution in a 40 minutes slot, however, it does carry storylines onward from week to week so there is the sense of a complete tale being told. Sure, I think Chuck peeked in coolness in season 3, but season 4 was enjoyable as five has been, even if Chuck no longer has the intersect. I don’t feel that Chuck and the team have a pointless existence. They know what they want from life and they have family and friends to support their decisions. Yes, Chuck is more a show about family than Supernatural is. The most recent episode: “Chuck versus the baby” ended on a happy note with Sarah reuniting with her mother and the whole “family” sitting down to dinner.
Can’t say that’s going to happen on Supernatural. Sam and Dean are family to each other, but have no one else; so how can this be a show about family? It’s a show about co-dependent brothers. Hell, that wouldn’t be an issue if it wasn’t for this. I feel that the writers don’t respect their characters. Sera Gamble has laughed in interviews and said: “we’re going to take everything away from them.”
Ok, if there was a reason for this, or if this loss was a catalyst to storytelling, I’d say, “bring it.” But it’s not. It’s her idea of fun. It’s not fun, it’s crappy story telling. Given this is a show with five seasons of a story so solid it could have been a book series, it’s crap.
I’ve enjoyed Season seven more than six, but I don’t trust that the writers have any plan in mind. I think they are making it up as they go along. I miss when the brothers were special and had a destiny. I miss the angels, the apocalypse, the Impala. I miss Dean being a wise-ass and Sam being prissy one minute and cold and scary the next.
With Chuck, the characters have changed in that they have matured, but they never lost who they are. Chuck is still a nerd who loves video games, Sarah is still a badass who is afraid to let go. John Casey is still funny and scary, but loves his daughter very much. Crazy Morgan went from annoying twit to loyal and trustworthy friend.
Sam went from vengeful mourner to frightening badass to whimpering penitent to soulless to bland…bland…bland………
Dean went from lascivious hero to frightening badass to whimpering co-dependent to PTSD sufferer to heaven’s rebel to family man…to suicidal alcoholic……..
I wish I felt better now after this rant, but I don’t. I expect nothing from this show. I might like an episode, but it’s as dull as anything else on TV.
One last thing. I've cried numerous times while watching Chuck, but never when watching Supernatural. Why is that?
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