Watching ‘Wynonna Earp’ all over again because I love it that much. And I want to learn more about the story.
First impressions on a second watch on the first episode that I never picked up on my first watch:
Clock turned 12, Wynonna turned 27 and became the Earp Heir. That’s how she was able to defeat the Revenant without Wyatt’s magic gun - peacemaker. Because it’s not about the gun, it’s about the Heir and the supernatural abilities they hereditarily acquire. In ‘BtVS’, Buffy doesn’t even get a special weapon until almost the end of the show. It’s not really necessary. It’s just a cool tool to have in their arsenal anyway.
Champ came on to Wynonna even though he was dating Waverly. What a fuck boy. Wynonna led him on to get information out of him about what happened to her uncle, which was the only reason she was in town. I’m used to female protagonists using their feminine wiles to get their way. Xena and Buffy did that too. Anyway, Waverly comes barging in with a shotgun to save Champ from the skank she thinks is trying to seduce him and her dialogue cracked me the fuck up:
WYNONNA: “You’re in this with me now, ‘Champ’. And no-one else is gonna save you.”
WAVERLY: “Oh! Except his girlfriend, you skank! Why don’t you slip into something more comfy, huh? Like a coma!”
What a great way to bring this character in. Loud and proud. Brash and crash. That’s absolutely Waverly! She loses a lot of that as the show continues. Her self-confidence and self-assertiveness diminishes bit by bit when she finds out that’s she’s not an Earp. And so her Earp-like behaviour sort of just fades out as the episodes go by. But of course, it was never her being an Earp why her behaviour was like that. It was her mom. As her dad said, the best parts of Waverly came from her mother. As fucked up as that woman was - she was a survivor because she was resilient and determined to do what she believed she needed to do. And they’re all behavioural traits and characteristics of Waverly. She is her mother’s daughter, absolutely! So all of that so-called “Earp behaviour”, for her, actually had nothing to do with being an Earp at all. And I also believe that if Wynonna looked inside herself a little more she’d also realize the very same. Hereditary supernatural abilities aside, much of her behaviour and personality isn’t because she’s an Earp and certainly isn’t because she takes after Ward or Wyatt in the gene pool. That’s Willa. It’s not Wynonna.
A few scenes later when Waverly realizes it’s Wynonna:
WAVERLY: “What are you doing in town? I mean, besides my boyfriend?”
WYNONNA: “I wasn’t gonna ‘do’ anyone, least of all, that man-child. I’m trying to find out what happened to Curtis. Oh, and you can do better.”
WAVERLY: “Well, small town, limited dating options.”
WYNONNA: “Yeah, I remember.”
I like the foreshadowing here to the next episode when she meets Nicole and feels attracted to her. It’s like: Yeah, limited dating options unless you go bi babe. That’s the great thing about being bisexual. You have a much wider scope for love and romance than others.
Also I love how much Wynonna does not approve of Champ but approves of Nicole once she knows she’s dating Waverly. She just brushes off the fact that Nicole is a girl and is like “Much better, baby girl.”
Andras always made sure to put as much positive focus on WayHaught as possible with the way the people surrounding them reacted to their relationship. Initially surprised, which is expected. But immediately supportive, which isn’t always how it goes down. But it reminds me of Willow’s coming out scene to Buffy. How Buffy is taken aback by it but is then supportive. Some may say “that’s not realistic” that that would happen - at least not straight away. But who cares?
I don’t want to see blatant homophobia on my TV.
Anyway, since this watch is more about learning the lore of the Earp Heir and focusing more on Wynonna I’m gonna try and keep WayHaught talk to a minimum. That’s going to be a challenge and a half. Of course I could just not cover it. Even more challenge because I am freaking obsessed with this show now. It’s shorter than what I’m used to but it’s still a significantly decent sized show that ends properly. No cancelled and left on a cliffhanger bullshit. I hate that. I know they tried to do that with it but the fans went damn hard to bring it back. You know, as fans, we really shouldn’t have to put in that kind of effort just to have something we watch continue. The industry is backwards. It takes what works and is successful away and lets something that’s done to death and completely decomposed creatively go on and on and on and on. I mean Riverdale got 7 fucking seasons and you could tell by the 4th season that they had nothing left and they were just pulling episodes out of their ass for the sake of just milking that shit for all that it was worth. They never let an actual good show go on for that long because they can’t control the narrative. The fans do instead. And there was so much fan service in that last season of ‘Wynonna Earp’ that you couldn’t not be proud of it. Fan service is much better than network service but I would still rather have it be the creator’s vision predominantly because the storytelling is the most important and if you go trying to please people that’s when things go wrong and the storytelling suffers. There was a few things in that last season that was clearly contrived and biased but it was still conclusive. It was still a proper ending. You rarely get that now. You’re lucky if the show lasts long enough to get that because the TV network/streaming service couldn’t give a toss these days. Cancellation benefits them because they can just write it off, redact contracts and move on to something else that they’ll do the very same with unless it’s fully in their creative control what it is. And it’s almost always a soulless, heartless, AI-made pile of piss what they’d rather have you watch instead.
Nah, the really good shows are all done. They become cult classics and a timeless, nostalgic revisiting show which just all the more proves how fucking good they are. But because of the way the art/entertainment industry is now - even decent shows don’t have half a a chance to become good or even great shows with compelling storytelling and memorable characters. There’s plenty of room for it. They just don’t care because as I said,… There’s more financial profit in throwing everything at the wall for consumption and then just dumping it when it gets eaten up. It’s like attempts to discover and fund cancer cures. There’s more financial profit in letting the bitch kill people and pretend as if there’s no way to prevent that when that’s not true. That’s probably a bad and insensitive analogy to use, but fuck it, I feel that way so why the fuck not? I just don’t bother with the “new” and “fresh” because I know exactly what will happen. Some say that’s counterproductive but I say that it’s counterproductive to put your time, money and faith in something produced and distributed by the very same fucktards that axed the last thing you loved watching. I’d much rather put my efforts into supporting something that might be done but has a community that is in solidarity with my beliefs and existence. That makes sense to me and seems smart.
You know because we’ll never get the cure otherwise.
