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Oh hey I missed two episodes of Winchester because of how unhelpful the Amazon Prime video interface is.
My reaction to episode 5 was to get bored and set up my first RSS feed. I have news feeds set up on twitter and need to figure out a workable replacement.
My reaction to episode 6 was to get distracted and make... you know that Eddie Munson 'this IS music' meme? Yeah, I made one with the Goncharov OST. 2 days ago, that might have been funny, but this has been too fast moving.
The twist was pretty good and it grabbed my attention for a bit, but then the spirit who was fueled by vengeance for 10 years relents because of two after-school-special lines about breaking the cycle of violence. Yeah, while alive the person only ever experienced 'closed fists' and two sentences is going to make him give up a decade long vengeance quest? Not even a hug to let him experience one second of calm and the human kindness he craves?
That's one of the problems with the show, here is such a simplistic approach to complicated things... like Carlos' one second of therapy changing his life.
Anyway, I do like how they face a variety of baddies because they are all being called there. It avoids some of the pitfalls of urban fantasy. My original series I am working on uses the same basic idea to avoid the same problems, but it's more artifact based.
The show hasn't been picked up for a 'back half' so the first season will remain a half season. That could mean 2 very different things. It could mean the show is over, or it could mean the execs want to give the writers time to really pull together a good season 2 rather than going right into writing more episodes. The pilot had major revisions very late in the game. The show is underbaked and maybe they are giving them time to get it right... either that or they are axing it.
I'll keep watching. It's got a lot of things I like, but it's just not clicking for me.
My reaction to episode 5 was to get bored and set up my first RSS feed. I have news feeds set up on twitter and need to figure out a workable replacement.
My reaction to episode 6 was to get distracted and make... you know that Eddie Munson 'this IS music' meme? Yeah, I made one with the Goncharov OST. 2 days ago, that might have been funny, but this has been too fast moving.
The twist was pretty good and it grabbed my attention for a bit, but then the spirit who was fueled by vengeance for 10 years relents because of two after-school-special lines about breaking the cycle of violence. Yeah, while alive the person only ever experienced 'closed fists' and two sentences is going to make him give up a decade long vengeance quest? Not even a hug to let him experience one second of calm and the human kindness he craves?
That's one of the problems with the show, here is such a simplistic approach to complicated things... like Carlos' one second of therapy changing his life.
Anyway, I do like how they face a variety of baddies because they are all being called there. It avoids some of the pitfalls of urban fantasy. My original series I am working on uses the same basic idea to avoid the same problems, but it's more artifact based.
The show hasn't been picked up for a 'back half' so the first season will remain a half season. That could mean 2 very different things. It could mean the show is over, or it could mean the execs want to give the writers time to really pull together a good season 2 rather than going right into writing more episodes. The pilot had major revisions very late in the game. The show is underbaked and maybe they are giving them time to get it right... either that or they are axing it.
I'll keep watching. It's got a lot of things I like, but it's just not clicking for me.
