 Ooh, that's a hot mug, guys. Hey guys, I'm back. Apologies for taking so long to get back here. The trip to the UK was incredible, and admittedly the work has already built up on me, but now I am actually doing my first video in a month. I realize that, apologies. But I just finished watching the first episode of The Winchester's, and aside from the obvious confusion of how this show is kind of coming to be, I thought I'd give my two cents about it and see what you guys had to say. Now, first off, I will kind of say something that a lot of people have also been saying is that the continuity of the show doesn't really make sense. Pretty clearly established that John did not do any kind of hunting until after Mary died. Like, it was the basis of the show for the first five seasons, even into the retcon seasons. That was pretty adamant. And this episode, the first thing they do is they completely throw that out the window. I'm still kind of waiting for it to be established, and that's not even the worst bit, because at the very end of the episode, is Dean Winchester just writing his notes into this journal, was like, when is this taking place? Is this before you die? What timeframe is this supposed to be? What's going on here? Sam's obviously not gonna be there, it's just you. So let's talk about the good first. Now I will say, actually, the camera moves more in this first episode than I think it did in the entirety of season 15. There is a lot more of a dynamic kind of setting. There's a lot more rotation using of lifts and just adding an atmosphere to the crypts that they go through, to the city that they go through. It will give the camera work credit on that end. They actually did a decent job of making it kind of fun to watch, at least. It wasn't stale, wasn't a lot of just static camera talking. The effects, for the most part, were actually not too bad. Now that's something to be said, considering the state that CW is in right now. CW spent so much money on their superhero shows without actually having the numbers to warrant it that it has come to bite them in the ass. One of the first things that Discovery did when they bought Warner Brothers is like, we need to get rid of the CW to the point where they actually sold it for $0. And I can see that effect into the CW because we might not see the CW soon. Like the CW is on the verge of not existing very soon. That is also kind of in the effect of this show too. We'll see how long that actually goes for. I like the music. The music choice has always been good with the show though. I was happy to see a lot of alumni pre-season 12 to 15 come back, like Robbie Thomas is back. He wrote a lot of really great episodes for season 11. He wrote, Don't Call Me Shirley. He is the main kind of show developer here. And they did bring back a few other directors. Admittedly, the guy who did the pilot did a lot of work out in Vancouver for The Flash and other superhero shows. He never directed Supernatural, which I also have to admit, I don't know if that was a budget. I will say that Jensen Ackles kind of did Vancouver dirty, considering Vancouver was the home of Supernatural for 15 years. No mention whatsoever about them not shooting it out here. It shot it in Louisiana or LA, one of the two. It was cheaper to shoot it here. Felt that was really unfortunate that they didn't come back to do this here because I guarantee you, everyone would have been up in, like would have been totally up for it for them to come back out here. But now kind of the talk about the unfortunate, this whole episode moves like it's got ADHD. There's a lot of story being told, a lot of like quick, quick, quick, quick. There's a lot of bits that could have actually been maybe spread out into different episodes because the relationship between John and Mary is essentially they bump into each other, talk about licorice, look and there's something there. He just so happens to be at this spot when this demon comes up behind him and she's there and a lot of very good conveniences in this episode. The amount of conveniences throughout are innumerable from the barrel full of holy water. Every other interaction with a monster that happens in this episode, right up until they fight the Ruger thingy at the end and John's just able to one chop it. It was a lot to kind of take and accept as even as a supernatural fan, which immediately there's a lot of those references throughout this entire show or sort of this episode. Some of them are okay. Some of them are really like, like it's so on the nose it hurts. Something that actually I will say probably my biggest complaint is the camera lighting. Now I like the camera work. I thought the movement was good, but I don't like the filters they've got going on. It's like watching a high budget soap opera with this super high fluctuation of lights behind people, the blurriness, the very breathy sort of angelic kind of like filter that is over everything. I didn't like when supernatural went this way and it seems that they've kept that, which I guess we're gonna get that for the rest of this show for however long it lasts, but that wasn't something I enjoyed either. Now is this a respectful to both novice and hardcore supernatural fans? It's essentially just a supernatural greatest hits in like five seconds. They played, I love the change of the world by 10 years after I think about three times. I think it was the only song they could afford. Again, I am very curious of what they're gonna do with this because with one half being the narrative that still is yet to be explained as how this is happening and the other being discovery owning Warner Brothers and wanting to absolutely exercise CW from any kind of existence, those two factors are going to be interesting to watch for two very different yet both converting reasons. So I don't know, I think I'm going to give the opener of supernatural. Sorry, oh my God, I'm just so used to that. I'm gonna give the opener to the Winchester's a very generous three out of seven. Really, I was gonna give it a two but I can't be that harsh on it so far. I have to still see it as it goes. It was very reminiscent of the last five seasons which if that's what you were a fan of for supernatural the last five seasons, you'll enjoy this probably-ish. Again, we had to see a lot more development from the characters rather than being random Scooby-Doo characters. We had to see a lot more chemistry between John and Mary for that to be actually believable. We actually need to have these monsters be more than a Scooby-Doo threat. They take down two demons, no two, two three demons, a roo-roo-roo giant werewolf thing and they also now have a box which is essentially just the ghost buster collecting the ghost box thing. Those are my thoughts about this. What did you guys think? Let me know in the comments below. I'm kind of curious to see what you guys think. Are you going to follow along with this? I'm very much on the fence considering my timeline and trying to go back to watching supernatural season seven but I don't know, it's hard for me to decide whether to watch this show or not. I might give it at least one or two more watches just to see, just out of respect. But I can't really confirm or deny whether I'll commit to this or not. Anyways, guys, I hope you enjoyed the review. Sorry again for being gone for so long. 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