Day 2: 30 Days of Supernatural

[ratherastory]

Day 02 - Your least favourite character

I've always liked what SPN does with its secondary characters (except possibly their tendency to kill them off in swathes). That being said, if I had to pick one, it would be the second incarnation of Ruby. I loved Ruby when she was played by Katie Cassidy, and as much as I wish Genevieve Cortese well in her life and endeavours and whatever, she just couldn't pull it off with the same skill.

Ruby #2 came off as whiny and vaguely spineless, and just lacked charisma. To the point where it was often difficult to believe that she could even hope to manipulate Sam. It was more a testament to how messed up Sam was than to her skills as liar and seductress.



There are a few female characters who got short-shrift, either because they were poorly-written or poorly-acted, and it was a bit of a toss-up as to who was going to end up in this space: Ruby, Bela or Cassie. I ended up going with Ruby because she stuck around, annoying me for an entire season. ;)


30 Days of Supernatural!
Day 01 - Your favourite character
Day 02 - Your least favourite character
Day 03 - Your favourite season
Day 04 - Your least favourite season
Day 05 - Your favourite episode
Day 06 - Your least favourite episode
Day 07 - Your favourite Dean crying scene
Day 08 - Your favourite Sam crying scene
Day 09 - Your favourite Dean death scene
Day 10 - Your favourite Sam/other death scene
Day 11 - Your favourite quote
Day 12 - Your favourite funny scene
Day 13 - A scene that makes you sad/cry
Day 14 - A scene that makes you happy
Day 15 - A scene that makes you angry
Day 16 - An episode that scared you
Day 17 - Your favourite SPN friendship
Day 18 - Your favourite SPN romance
Day 19 - Your favourite SPN song
Day 20 - Your favourite recap
Day 21 - Your favourite character entrance
Day 22 - Your favourite minor character
Day 23 - The character that is most like you
Day 24 - An episode you wish never happened
Day 25 - Something that you wish happened but didn’t
Day 26 - Your favourite SPN fanvid
Day 27 - Your favourite season intro episode
Day 28 - Your favourite season finale
Day 29 - Your favourite SPN fanfic
Day 30 - Anything SPN related

Comments

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

See, I actually find the end of s5 cheering and endlessly writable, in a depressing kind of way. I mean, Dean came back! He was totally awesome Dean again! That was so exciting. And Sam got hit with being overtaken by demon blood again in 5.14 in front of Dean, Dean holding him guilty for basically everything in his life in 5.16 and then telling him outright in 5.18 that he was going to say Yes to Lucifer and that Dean was saying Yes to Michael so that he'd be on hand to kill Samifer, and Sam didn't get angry or break, he hoped against hope and got Dean back. That was actually an arc of character development that I found believable as well as wish-fulfilling, for both of them. Even if 5.22 left them in a horrible place, they also both won victories in it, and that is something that they almost never get. Dean maybe even more than Sam, because when has he ever been able to both love Sam and let him go? Either he loves him by clinging, or he lets him go by convincing himself he doesn't care. In some ways they did a neat flip thing: Sam's redemption really happened in 5.18, Dean's in 5.22.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, agreed. I just can't re-watch the episodes between 5.12 and 5.18 right now. It just breaks my damned heart. :)

I will happily write fic about them, though!

And yes, I agree entirely that the arc at the end of season 5 was very fulfilling. I was simply hoping for it to be... maybe a bit less rushed.