Happy birthday, Supernatural, show and fandom, I love you

[citrusjava]

One year ago today, I got into Supernatural. And I was planning on doing a thing, but it turns out the whole fandom has a Supernatural birthday today too! :D
It's kinda awesome that SPN shares my SPN anniversary (ok, the other way around). The only likely conclusion is that some fans cast a spell last year, to bring new fans into the fandom, and I'm one of them. Thank you for not making me fall in love with a donkey, you guys!

So maybe I'll do a thing in the near future, today wanna tell my "getting into SPN" story :)

I was really into Sherlock, and going crazy over the lack of new episodes. And there was this show I was told was not a shallow misogynistic icky one, though it seemed to be. I'd tried watching a few episodes*, but it just didn't really catch me. But I had nothing to watch, so I gave it yet another shot, deciding to disregard the spoiler problem and start from season 4. After School Special. And then I stayed for anther ep, and another, watched five or so that night.

And I thought - this is great! It'll be like methadone, get me over the Sherlock cravings, and it's safe, it's not anything I'm gonna fall in love with!

Happy birthday, Supernatural, show and fandom. I love you.



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*the one with Amber Benson and a bunch of one around it, and Windego, as it turned out, but though it was sorta nice to unexpectedly stumble across a "Tara" episode, and the ep was sort of OK...

Comments

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

Me too, I *hate* spoilers, but at that point it was the last chance I was gonna give SPN, and the early seasons just weren't gonna cut it for me. So it was nothing to lose.

Early seasons often don't work for me, the first time around. Community, Doctor Who... I suspect Firefly would have and Revolution might become things I love when there are later seasons. Joining around season 3-4 often works for me, cause it's usually very easy to figure out what happened, and that's often the time where the relationships are complex and interesting to me, and the show went through the most obvious plots and either collapses or comes into its own. There are exceptions, many of those (Veronica Mars, Sugar Rush, Weeds), but when I can't get into a show, that often works . And then, once I find something to care about, I go back and watch the rest and usually love it.

By season 4, Dean was way more open, I seriously was sure that his macho bravado thing was this remnant of earlier seasons, and that no one was expected to believe it. That the writers, the fans, the actors all considered it this shell, for show, for the network, not exactly part of the character even, around the most amazingly beautifully vulnerable man on TV. That's what it looked like to me, coming in in the middle of season 4 :)

Sam having powers didn't surprise me, I was surprised to find out they didn't always have powers. I really like that generally hunters don't even have (official) powers. There's something very hands on, make your own destiny even though it's gonna crush you, look out for your own, about that, that's rarely on TV.

This is really fun to share, thank you {}

[applegeuse.livejournal.com]

This was really interesting to read, thanks for sharing! It's so different than how I approach a show, but what you said--about a show having come into its own more in later seasons than early ones--does make quite a lot of sense. And I can definitely see it in Community, or in a show like Parks & Recreation (the first season of that show was really hard for me to get into, ugh, it got so much better later).

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And I totally get wanting to start at the beginning, that's my plan A, cause I really really hate spoilers as well - it just doesn't always work, and I want to get to know those shows...

Sherlock, for instance, was fantastic from the first ep.