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

[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.