This is probably totally uninteresting for all of you, so feel free to just skip it! *g* As most of you are undoubtedly aware, I write episode reviews and other essays for Supernatural. I opened this journal around the time Croatoan aired, so that’s when my reviews here began, but actually I started writing episode commentaries from Scarecrow on. Unfortunately all those earlier reviews and essays were lost when the former Buffyworld Forums, where I used to post them, closed its doors.

Luckily enough, I keep copies of everything I write on my computer, so I decided to retroactively re-post my earlier reviews here in my journal, so I have a complete collection online, for myself as well as for people who love to go back and read up on older episodes or simply for newcomers to SN. Of course I made the mistake to re-read those reviews first and realised that not only my English back then wasn’t quite as decent as it is now, the reviews itself were a lot less structured and insightful.

So, over the last couple of weeks, I started reworking those older reviews to match them more with how my current reviews look like, added them to my journal and dated them back to the day the episode aired, so they didn’t clutter everybody’s flist. While reworking the reviews, I tried to keep them as free as possible from hindsight, but I am sure they are influenced by how I see episodes now, in comparison to how I saw them the first time around. Anyways, S2 and S3 are now complete, but my S1 reviews are totally useless and need some more work, so I will add those over the summer hiatus as I go along.

I also opened a new category for my writings over at Salt'n Burn, to have my art and my reviews together in one place. Instead of coding the massive amount of text into my site, I just linked to the respective review/essay here.

So, yesterday I received an eMail from Amazon, telling me that my SN S1 Companion would be delayed for about 2-3 weeks and of course the post delivery knocked me out of bed this morning, delivering my Amazon parcel with the book in it .. huh? *lol* Being the obsessed fan that I am, I naturally dropped everything else today to just breathe through the whole thing and let me tell you, I had fun! ♥

( No Rest For The Wicked )

I know that I keep this journal usually strictly for art and reviews and such but I am unhappy and I need to vent about the ongoing SN S3 reports. *lol* No spoilers ahead apart from the common knowledge about the fact that there will be cast additions.

( Ranty thoughts )

Now, I started watching 'Heroes' because it became such a buzz and I wanted to see what it's all about and I find that this show irritates me. As you might know, it's a show about a bunch of people, discovering they have some sort of superpower and are probably destined to save the world together. Now, I am not saying the show is bad in any kind, in fact it has a neatly developed seasonal arc going for it, with slowly linking the characters together episode for episode. Now, what irritates me is that the show feels so 'unreal' to me, presumably because I can't relate to the characters at all.

I came to think about how interesting it is, that two shows (Supernatural and Heroes) can root in a supernatural background but the one feels completely real and true to me despite of vampires, shtrigas and shapeshifters while the other feels completely unreal to me although it's set in a matter of fact world only with some Superheroes in it. Shouldn't both shows arise the same initial disbelief in me?

Sam and Dean feel completely genuine to me, tangible, characters I can relate to and that I respond to on a very emotional level. Even with Sam having 'superpowers' of his own with the visions, he never looses his authenticity as a person to me, while the characters in 'Heroes' although being normal humans as well, come off as figures from a comic and have something oddly sketchy to me. That's probably intended but I can't quite put my finger on it, where the difference is between Sam and for example Isaac, the painter who paints visions about the future.

I wonder if this is just a personal issue, something that simply derives out of the fact that I am not able to relate to the characters in the way I do with Sam and Dean or if it is something in the writing/story itself. *is confused*