fannish things
May. 16th, 2013 07:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lagilmanUnlike PoI, I was moved to write down my reactions to S8e25 of Supernatural, "Sacrifice."
I suspect PoI didn't get that treatment from me not because it wasn't well done (I described it elsewhere as "LeCarre meets Clancy, only prettier") but because I don't feel as 'invited in' with that show - I watch and I enjoy and I occasionally flail and meta the storytelling, but it's not quite the same sandbox feel.
Supernatural is not only an open-to-all sandbox, it hands you a shovel and a pail as you come in...
(for purposes of comparison, Leverage was a sandbox, no shovel/pail. X-Files, way back when, was a sandbox with pail, shovel, and special castle-making tools...)
I suspect PoI didn't get that treatment from me not because it wasn't well done (I described it elsewhere as "LeCarre meets Clancy, only prettier") but because I don't feel as 'invited in' with that show - I watch and I enjoy and I occasionally flail and meta the storytelling, but it's not quite the same sandbox feel.
Supernatural is not only an open-to-all sandbox, it hands you a shovel and a pail as you come in...
(for purposes of comparison, Leverage was a sandbox, no shovel/pail. X-Files, way back when, was a sandbox with pail, shovel, and special castle-making tools...)
