Grimm (Beating the mega-demons with the power of friendship)

  The series seems to be written by season, which means that the series aim shifts radically from season 1 to season 6, and I mean it. 


Season one seems to be the one most according to the series title, intending to bring the Grimm brother's tales to real life in a sort of supernatural cop show.

 This approach had charm, but it didn't have much future. As the seasons advance Grimm takes the fairy tales into the political ground, placing different kinds of monsters in the ministry and resorting to changed timelines, adapting world events to Grimm's logic.

 In my regard, the unfolding of the series is perfect up until season four maybe five, where the Grimm cop show from the first season is completely discarded and the Wesen politics take power.

 The series final was disappointing. It would have been bad enough to resort to the clichè apocalyptic prophecy, with the devil coming to the earth and such because the devil has nothing new to show us. It would be worst enough to have this OP devil, more OP than Kirito and Momonga together, being beaten with the power of friendship.

 The only thing that could aid this made on the fly, generic end with all the dramatic slow-mo deaths of characters that once were meaningful but lost all uniqueness was indeed the Shakespearean ending, with everyone dead. But no, that would have been sort of a good ending.

 So what did the directors, the writers, the editors I don't know who takes the fault for this monstrosity do? They bring them all back and they hug and say "Yay, we save the world! Go us!" and then, as a coup de grace, they put the "legacy" scene twenty years after that unsatisfactory, inconclusive ending with all the kids of the characters being a new team of brotherly monster hunters. Unbelievable. 


Supernatural (TV series)



Is quite hard to make a single devolution of a series that undergo such a profound transformation throughout the years, which isn't intrinsically good or bad.

 The series gets a definitive and quite visible change in season six (probably the worst one), the story shifts from character development, mythological monster potage focus to a broader paradigm of evil vs good, god vs the devil (quite literally) Since there's so much to cover a couple of dozens of plot holes were to be expected. In my opinion, the first half of the series is much richer and more interesting, more carefully designed that the other half. 

In particular, I'd stay with the first two-three seasons- while the monsters are new in every episode. Perhaps, the reader is questioning my objectivity. They may be saying "Hey William, If season 6+ is so bad, why did you keep watching?" I ask the reader to understand that when a series that is more or less of your liking prolongs through saying whole years one starts having a sort of empathy towards the characters and thus a bit more indulging with the scriptwriter.

The series about demons and angels are many, the ones using mythology (Christian or else) are plenty, and I can't even count the ones in which there's some kind of menace to destroy the world. Rather, the series' charm lies in the complex, and sometimes contradictory relationship Sam and Dean have between each other and with their conflicted family which is more treated in the first seasons. As an old Russian said: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its way" 


X (When porn filmakers decide to make a real movie)

 

Should've known I'd be squish from the poster

 A bunch of porn actors takes a trip to a farm owned by an elderly couple that happens to have cheap rent, only to find out that the elders weren't as nice as they seemed. Well, they didn't seem nice at all. That's the thing, the movie attempts to show how we are supposedly afraid of becoming old and decrepit or something like that.

If you find old people scary because of wrinkles this is totally your type of movie. Unless you don't like getting slammed like five sex scenes on the face, it's not for picky audiences. 

 The youth as always is characterized by stone-headed stupidity, especially the camera guy. Didn't he think that if he made his GF record an amateur porn movie she might be tempted to cheat on him? It was kind of under the nose. Like the whole movie from minute ten. Slow, predictable... It seemed to me that they couldn't afford to show the end at the beginning.

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