I can’t believe Supernatural is doing a Leviathan story
I'm catching up on Supernatural episodes, and I can't believe they're doing a Leviathan run. Every time they say "Leviathan," I think, "Nooooo! Run! This is the storyline that killed Dark Shadows!"
I used to love Dark Shadows reruns on the Sci-Fi Channel when I was in high school. And the show was going fine up until someone decided to do a Lovecraftian storyline about some eldritch monster called Leviathan.
It was all very complex and Lovecraftian with bits of The Omen and even new actors (Dark Shadows used the same actors constantly, to the point where it strained suspension of disbelief a little bit, when one man would be told by his wife that his kid was not really his kid, despite the fact that his kid looked exactly like every other Collins boy before and since.)
Anyway, the Leviathan story was supposed to be complicated and there was some unseen culty threat that no one could quite pin down. It went on for *ages*, until it became clear that even the writers didn't know what was going on or how to get out of it. Finally, the *entire cast* wound up mind-controlled members of the creepy death god cult. Every single person on the show. Then there was no conflict, because everyone just went around being cult members. Then the show ended, because it was like, "Seriously, nobody is doing anything. They're just all being in a cult and there's no way out of it."
They never did get out of that storyline. This was a show where people time traveled by reading the I Ching, and they couldn't deus ex machina their way out of that storyline.
It was almost epic how fail it was.
So now, whenever the Hardy Boys say "Leviathan," I go, "Noooooo! Run, before it's too late!" November 1st, 2011 by Betty Valentine | Comments Off
I used to love Dark Shadows reruns on the Sci-Fi Channel when I was in high school. And the show was going fine up until someone decided to do a Lovecraftian storyline about some eldritch monster called Leviathan.
It was all very complex and Lovecraftian with bits of The Omen and even new actors (Dark Shadows used the same actors constantly, to the point where it strained suspension of disbelief a little bit, when one man would be told by his wife that his kid was not really his kid, despite the fact that his kid looked exactly like every other Collins boy before and since.)
Anyway, the Leviathan story was supposed to be complicated and there was some unseen culty threat that no one could quite pin down. It went on for *ages*, until it became clear that even the writers didn't know what was going on or how to get out of it. Finally, the *entire cast* wound up mind-controlled members of the creepy death god cult. Every single person on the show. Then there was no conflict, because everyone just went around being cult members. Then the show ended, because it was like, "Seriously, nobody is doing anything. They're just all being in a cult and there's no way out of it."
They never did get out of that storyline. This was a show where people time traveled by reading the I Ching, and they couldn't deus ex machina their way out of that storyline.
It was almost epic how fail it was.
So now, whenever the Hardy Boys say "Leviathan," I go, "Noooooo! Run, before it's too late!" November 1st, 2011 by Betty Valentine | Comments Off
