Nick C's Behind the Screens

The CW joined the early renewal bandwagon today by announcing the green-lights for its top-rated (by their standards) series.

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There was nothing about this episode that was not beautiful, from the opening shot of the freeway interchange to the last haunting image of a photo consigned to the flames, and the individual performances of thee actors were each in their own way heartbreaking and profound. But for all the artistry, this was an episode remarkably lacking in substance.
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Ever since Supernatural let the metafiction genie out of the bottle, they can’t seem to shove it back in. This week we get to see the “first annual’ Supernatural (novels) convention, taking place in a real life haunted house. This means we get to see Chuck and Becky the Fangirl, as well as a cast of twenty or so in various Supernatural-themed costumes. Oh, there’s also ghosts, but they’re simply a narrative device.

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Sam and Dean get stuck in TVLand, but not Pleasantville. They’re being zapped around by their old nemesis, the Trickster, who wants them to get on with the apocalypse (as do many viewers), but his version of getting on with it involves accepting certain angelic offers and then killing each other. Unsurprisingly, he turns out to be an angel. Surprisingly, he was always one. Dean and Sam are not amused, but they’re the only ones who aren’t.
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So Sam, Dean, and Bobby meet this guy, right? And the guy is a poker player. Anyway, he makes people bet years instead of money. And…that’s about it. Oh wait. Also, he has this girlfriend, and she commits suicide via poker because she’s tired of out-living her family.
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Childhood urban legends bite people in the ass. Sam and Dean meet the cutest little Anti-Christ to ever grace the screen. Castiel gets turned into an action figure. Supernatural fails to make any Good Omens references, despite the entire plot being indebted to it.
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Sam and Dean  act like brats, and then meet Ghandi and Paris Hilton. Ghandi tries to have Sam for dinner; Sam is mortified. But they manage to kill Paris Hilton, to everyone’s relief. There’s also some ham-fisted attempts at social commentary on celebrity culture and sibling relationships. Bad Supernatural, bad! Anything featuring Paris Hilton’s decapitation shouldn’t be so dreadfully dull.
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Dean goes Back to the Future, and his life continues to suck. Bobby’s dead, the world is overrun by zombies, his brother is being worn by Lucifer to the prom, Castiel’s become a sex cult leader, and future Dean is a jerk. On the upside, though, he gets investment advice from the Prophet Chuck. (more…)

Dean and Castiel pretend to be FBI agents while trying to find God, though they make time to visit the local whorehouse. Sam feels guilty for starting the apocalypse and getting addicted to blood and spends some quality time with his dead girlfriend, who turns out to be Lucifer,  in between working as a busboy and setting a barmaid’s heart aflutter by being tall, dark, handsome stranger with a mysterious past.

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The top DVD in the world right now for the SCI-FI genre is TRUE BLOOD, and there is no denying that.  There is also no denying that Season 3 of HEROES is the 2nd most popular SCI-FI series on DVD right now.  However, coming in at number 3 is SUPERNATURAL which is having a better year in DVD than anything on The CW.

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