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supernatural backstory grumping
beware unhappy and otherwise disgruntled thoughts. I am deeply, deeply unhappy with the direction they've taken the backstory in. And, for that matter, the direction they've taken the front story in.
Okay, because here's the thing about Supernatural - it isn't clean, it isn't sensible, it isn't systematic, and it isn't known. There's no Watcher's Council in this world. Remember back in Season One, when the Winchesters didn't know that demons were real? Remember when Dean thought that vampires were a myth?
Families wised up to the existence of the paranormal when something - usually something bad - happened to them. And then they went out looking for it, and learned as they went along. Hence the journals. In a world like that, there's no knowing what's truth and what's myth until you see the claws. Everything is still fundamentally uncertain, and trial, error, and experience are the only ways of learning to deal.
So the show keeps forgetting that, and trying to give us networks of hunters. Not working for me, guys.
At that level, I hate the idea of Mary being from a hunter family. It's just a little too ironic, too much of a gotcha. Oh, hey John we know you've scrambled and bled and suffered to make sense out of your world again in the wake of this discovery, but your in-laws know everything about vampires! Silly boy you should have just asked them! Ha ha ha.
But I'm also becoming deeply irritated by the fact that all hunters seem to work in the same way any more. Mary's father was pretty much the exact man that John Winchester became. Same voice patterns, same attitude, same way of dealing with the unknown. This is boring, stupid and just plain unrealistic. The supernatural world we've seen has always been a hodgepodge. So too would hunters' ways of dealing with it. The academically inclined would become loremasters. I can see families taking up transcendental meditation, or scrying - defensive preparation, and attempt to see the evil before it saw you. I can see people delving into shamanism, or getting ordained by the Church and fighting demons that way. Everyone would do it differently. I don't see why Mary's father and Mary's husband have to be carbon copies of one another. Failure of the imagination, show.
This is my major gripe with the angels thing. SamnDean used to be not that much better off than the rest of us in the cosmic knowledge department. They'd figured out where to look, but they still had to do the research, trial, and error gig before they could get anything done or know anything for sure. I miss the research.
Okay, because here's the thing about Supernatural - it isn't clean, it isn't sensible, it isn't systematic, and it isn't known. There's no Watcher's Council in this world. Remember back in Season One, when the Winchesters didn't know that demons were real? Remember when Dean thought that vampires were a myth?
Families wised up to the existence of the paranormal when something - usually something bad - happened to them. And then they went out looking for it, and learned as they went along. Hence the journals. In a world like that, there's no knowing what's truth and what's myth until you see the claws. Everything is still fundamentally uncertain, and trial, error, and experience are the only ways of learning to deal.
So the show keeps forgetting that, and trying to give us networks of hunters. Not working for me, guys.
At that level, I hate the idea of Mary being from a hunter family. It's just a little too ironic, too much of a gotcha. Oh, hey John we know you've scrambled and bled and suffered to make sense out of your world again in the wake of this discovery, but your in-laws know everything about vampires! Silly boy you should have just asked them! Ha ha ha.
But I'm also becoming deeply irritated by the fact that all hunters seem to work in the same way any more. Mary's father was pretty much the exact man that John Winchester became. Same voice patterns, same attitude, same way of dealing with the unknown. This is boring, stupid and just plain unrealistic. The supernatural world we've seen has always been a hodgepodge. So too would hunters' ways of dealing with it. The academically inclined would become loremasters. I can see families taking up transcendental meditation, or scrying - defensive preparation, and attempt to see the evil before it saw you. I can see people delving into shamanism, or getting ordained by the Church and fighting demons that way. Everyone would do it differently. I don't see why Mary's father and Mary's husband have to be carbon copies of one another. Failure of the imagination, show.
This is my major gripe with the angels thing. SamnDean used to be not that much better off than the rest of us in the cosmic knowledge department. They'd figured out where to look, but they still had to do the research, trial, and error gig before they could get anything done or know anything for sure. I miss the research.