It's been really fun. It's also a chance to take a step back and let myself say, well, I don't remember that ep at all, so maybe it wasn't that great... :) Whereas sitting in front of the tv in the moment, I am completely glued. O_O Even meh episodes are riveting as they occur. It's only two or three years later that I'm like whuh??? So it's interesting to do a retrospective like this. In the last week I've touched back on EVERY SINGLE EPISODE, and it is actually pretty interesting to watch as the show changes.
I can say, there was a shift after Kripke left, which is, that the first five years do develop along a single arc, and then, post Kripke, that sense of forward pull is a little more absent. As fans we want to reach equilibrium where the Boys are happy and Hunting and maybe have a few friends. But the writers have chosen to keep the show Tense by having the Boys become more and more estranged. I really hope that s10 will be a season where some of that is worked out. Star Trek was always able to make a more episodic storyline work out, but nowadays, the long arc is preferred. Hm. I could stand a season 11 where it was just monsters of the week! :)
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Date: 2014-10-07 10:38 am (UTC)I can say, there was a shift after Kripke left, which is, that the first five years do develop along a single arc, and then, post Kripke, that sense of forward pull is a little more absent.
As fans we want to reach equilibrium where the Boys are happy and Hunting and maybe have a few friends. But the writers have chosen to keep the show Tense by having the Boys become more and more estranged. I really hope that s10 will be a season where some of that is worked out. Star Trek was always able to make a more episodic storyline work out, but nowadays, the long arc is preferred. Hm. I could stand a season 11 where it was just monsters of the week! :)