Michelle Rowen
Friday, September 19, 2008
Winner, status, and SupernaturalThe winner of the copy of Demon's Hunger is Bobbi. Please send your mailing address to michelle@michellerowen.com and I'll get the book in the mail to you asap. Enjoy!
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My Blaze is all done and delivered to my editor along with my suggestions for a new title. It was a fun write. Hope it reads that way. Now I'm working on the short story for the Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance which is due on Monday. I had my story all set in my brain and now, 12 pages in, another hero has shown up who was supposed to be the villain. But he's not the villain. He's the damn hero. This annoys me because now I have to rewrite the first 10 pages to make it match. But in the end, I trust the muse. She knows. Plus, the new hero is WAY hotter than the first one.
Monday I start my YA edits. It's all good.
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So, last night was a VERY important night in the fact that it was the Supernatural season premiere. And yes, I will be discussing it here in all its glory so HIDE YOUR EYES if you haven't seen it yet, because here there be spoilers.
***SPOILERS***
So, after worrying all summer about Dean's fate -- the last we saw of him he was trapped like a ripped up fly on the web of Hell (or whatever that was) -- we find ourselves back with the premiere episode. How would Dean be rescued after spending ALL of last season trying to avoid this very horrific fate?
Luckily for Dean, and not so much for the viewers, the writers employ a deus ex machina of sorts (or really, quite literally) and magically export Dean from hell with barely any memory of how torturous it was. Not saying that I want my darling, pretty Dean to be damaged mentally by the experience, but how about a half an episode? You know, for payback for last season? Angel had to suffer 100 years in a hell dimension for turning into Angelus for Pete's sake. It took him, like, six episodes to recover from that!
But Supernatural is not Buffy. Never has been, never will be.
Anyhow, Dean wakes up in his coffin and easily digs himself out of the grave finding himself in the middle of what looks like an explosion or something. He wanders off to a gas station to drinks some water and get some skin mags (love that Dean is still Dean). I kind of thought he was still in Hell here, and that it would be looping madness or something really weird would happen, but nope. Dean's back. He's alive. And he's feeling and looking just fine. (I love you Jensen!)
He goes off to find Sam and Bobby. Bobby freaks out when he sees him until he begins to believe something freaky has happened. Sam freaks out too. They set about figuring out what happened. They go to a psychic (note to casting people: why do nearly all supernatural babes look like clones of each other? That same generic hot brunette look seems to be the preference which makes it hard for me to decide if I've seen the character before. Anyhow, my problem, I suppose.) The psychic tries to figure out what demon pulled Dean out of hell leaving behind a nasty hand print scar that looks like it should have some Ozonol applied to it. Psychic-chick sees the face of the puller-outer and her eyes melt. Cool! We don't have to put up with this new bimbo now.
Demons in diner get all angry with Sam and Dean but after Dean hits the possessed waitress in the face (another generic brunette. No comment on the excuse for hitting women thing which bugged me profusely last season) she doesn't reciprocate and S&D leave.
Sam goes to visit yet another generic brunette who turns out to be Ruby's new host body (I sooo preferred the other actress) and they chat, blah blah blah. Sam and Bobby go to summon the puller-outer because that seems like the wisest choice being that he's given to burning out the eyeballs of anyone who sees him. Sure. But that's Dean for you.
We learn that Sam has been practicing his psychic mojo and can now vanquish a demon with a fiery look. Woot.
We learn that atheist Dean was pulled out of hell by an angel who tells him God has an assignment for him. Or something like that. The angel is kind of hot, actually. I like the angel action, not so happy about how easy it was for Dean to escape hell, although I'm thinking he'll be paying for it in the eps to come. Some indication that he does remember what happened in hell (screaming and stuff) so he'll be dealing with some nightmares at the very least.
Overall, a very meh premiere, but since I judge Supernatural on a completely different level than, say, I did Buffy, I think it was great! I also judged Jean-Claude Van Damme movies unto and against themselves. A 9/10 JCVD movie was not the same as a regular 9/10 movie. Such is the case with Supernatural.
I love this show for the brothers, not for the super original and inventive storytelling.
My guess? God's will is for Dean to destroy Sam. Brother vs. Brother.
Now, could we PLEASE get a decent female character on this show??? PLEASE?????
