Archive of ‘television shows’ category

03
Apr
2021

Lo and behold, I have more opinions on Walker.

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I’m still not going to watch the Supernatural series finale. Ever.

However, I do have a few opinions about Walker as they relate to Jared Padalecki’s acting.

I feel like he didn’t take enough of a break between Sam Winchester and Cordell Walker, and it really shows in… well, everything. I also feel like he’s trying to carry the show as both lead and executive director (producer? not quite sure how to word this), and it’s coming across in nearly everything that Walker does. There are characters that Jared can act well, such as Sam, but a lot of that might have had to do with being paired up with Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester) and being able to play off of him. All in all, I feel like Walker is going to do a slow burn at some point and… not be renewed, and a lot of people are going to think that’s entirely Jared’s fault. Jared is trying so hard not to be Sam in Walker, though. That much is rather obvious.

When it comes to the show that Jensen has moved to, I will not be watching that as long as Jim Michaels has anything to do with it. Such a shame, too… I wanted to follow Jensen’s career, but I can’t follow him to The Boys in good faith right now. If Jim actually leaves the show at any point I might be more open to it…

I still miss what Supernatural had the potential to be with the final two episodes, too. I really do.

16
Mar
2021

I’ve found the server that is just right for me.

categories: personal, television shows; word count: 283 words

I’d been a member of it for months, but I only recently began interacting with other people on it.

It’s a Supernatural server dedicated to two things: good discourse about the show and great fun.

I didn’t know that I would fit in to a server as well as I did until I began chatting on it, making friends that would follow me elsewhere to other social media platforms (such as Twitter), and immersing myself in a group of people that I fundamentally had a lot of things in common with. Admittedly, due to migraine medications my nuance about the show is a bit rusty — it’s also harder for me to come up with some of the words that I want to use, that I would otherwise have used, so I’ve stuck to the mainchat in the server (and the “salt chat”, which is a particular favorite of mine) and made it clear to anyone who might be curious that before I get into more detailed conversation, I need to be able to find the words that I would want to use better first. That may come with time, being on Gabapentin for as long as I have been, or I may continue to be at the level that I am now… which isn’t totally undesirable because, as I always say, “it could be worse”.

I don’t have to worry about “being too much of a fangirl of the show” on this server, though.

This server encourages discourse on the show from nearly all walks (and all “ships”) as long as it is kept civil.

I was known as the “Heller secretary”, and now I am the “office manager”, an adorably hilarious upgrade.

09
Mar
2021

I made a minor mistake here, folks… my bad.

categories: personal, television shows; word count: 299 words

I didn’t queue a post to go up today, even though I have posts ready for the next several days.

For some reason, composing and scheduling a post for today —this day — nearly managed to slip my mind.

In relevant news, I kept informed about the virtual panel that Supernatural actors Jared Padalecki (Sam) and Jensen Ackles (Dean) held. Upon finding out how it was transpiring, I actually regret having done so, even regretting the effort that I made to stay on top of how it was going. Almost no mention was made of fellow co-star and lead Misha Collins (Castiel) to the point that it became clear that the subject of him was taboo.

It’s becoming clearer that the executives want to sanitize the show, making it about two brothers who traveled the country hunting, forgetting that for a decade they had a sidekick in the form of an angel of the Lord. That’s a fairly big thing to… forget, or miss. But the fact that no questions seemed to be permitted about Castiel’s confession of love to Dean, or even his fate, did not escape me. I could tell that the omissions were intentional. The show executives did not appear to want Castiel talked about, and the only reason that I say “appear to” here is because I would be delighted to be proven wrong. But do I think I’m going to be proven wrong? No, not quite. This is why, as I’ve said, I’m staying in it for the “Supernatural family” and the fans. I’m not going to give the executives another dollar of mine if this is really how things are going to go.

I have regrets about how I spent some of the day that panel was on, and keeping informed was that regret.

07
Mar
2021

The problematic optics of CW’s Walker: part four.

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This problematic optic may not be as widely known by those who… don’t live in Texas, haven’t lived in Texas for awhile, or don’t know Texan history, but the Texas Rangers were widely held to be racist during their original tenure. So it blows my mind that a producing company would want to remake a show whose occupation was deeply core to the show itself when this information isn’t difficult to find at all. To be honest, this seems like another attempt to rewrite Walker himself and the Texas Rangers… oh, look, they’re not racist any more, they “reformed”, or however people say it to themselves to help themselves sleep well each night.

Congratulations, though, seriously, on rebooting an old show whose occupational histories are literally racist.

06
Mar
2021

The problematic optics of CW’s Walker: part three.

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One of the things that Walker desperately tries to push, or make the audience see, is the “good cop” image.

In a world with Black Lives Matter and after the deaths of so many African-American men at the hands of law enforcement, this is another thing that has made me… for lack of a better way to say it, not watch the show. This is not something that we need right now. My feelings on law enforcement aside — I support defunding the police, do not like how our law enforcement system is set up in regard to police, and think the best cop is one who is no longer working — this is not a show that needs to air right now while so many tensions are still high. But the executive producers were, and are, desperate to push the idea of a “good cop” onto viewers… and, well, anyone who might even remotely watch the show. It’s bad enough that we are still in the midst of a global pandemic and shows are still being produced (why can’t we wait the pandemic out and then get on making new shows?), but now we have the show that the CW has sunk the most money in to advertise desperately trying to show us an example of a “good cop”… and to be honest, they aren’t even getting that right. (As it also stands, Texas Rangers are also inherently racist. There’s that to deal with.)

Barely out of the gate, Walker was renewed for another season, but I don’t see it lasting an awfully long time. Either that or I see it being drug along like a dead horse because the CW is desperate to make this as popular as Supernatural was. And Supernatural originally came over from WB. The CW could never conceive of a show like that on their own, and it became evident with some of the decisions that were later made in regard to the show (#SaveCastiel season seven when they wanted to kill him off, dumping character Charlie Bradbury dead in a bathtub purely for shock value having had a literal Nazi kill her).

These are also sentiments widely held by people who question the CW on… well, pretty much everything.

05
Mar
2021

The problematic optics of CW’s Walker: part two.

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Jared Padalecki is one of the executive producers of Walker.

That in itself is not a problem.

However, where inspiration was allegedly drawn for the show… is a problem. It’s a big problem.

Executive producers have admitted that they drew inspiration from Walker from the pain and suffering that migrant children caged at the United States-Mexico border are experiencing. They drew inspiration for a completely unrelated show from the pain and suffering of these children at the border. For some reason, they thought that this was good information to… put out there regarding the show. Every time I hear about it, see it, or have to tell someone about it, I am bothered that much more by how awful that truly is. That alone would have gotten me not to watch or support Walker, because not only is that disastrous from an interview standpoint, but the fact that it is now public knowledge makes it even worse. I’m sure that the caged children down at the border really appreciate being used as a PR gambit by the executive producers of Walker, because like I said… that’s all that really has to be said. And quite frankly, I find it sickly abhorrent.

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