I tried watching a few times from the early seasons, and really really didn't connect to the show. I was suspicious of it in advance, because the trailers were very sexist and the leads were way too good looking, it looked like it was going to be shallow and the sort of "the popular kids now also have super powers". Gave it a chance, several, really, but never found anything deep to make me care. Cause most of the deep, fascinating things about the characters develop in arcs, and without knowing what to look for, the subtext, subtleties and partial declarations can be easy to miss.
I gave the show one last chance and tried jumping forward to the middle of season 4 - chose After School Special cause it sounded like it might have some sort of Buffy vibe to it, the horrors of school - and stayed for another ep, and another... when I was done I looped back to the beginning, and I think perhaps rewatched till I reached that time's canon, early season 8.
I like that the reason I gave SPN another chance was that I had a big crush of Sherlock, and was going crazy with no new episodes. SPN had so so many episodes, no way there wouldn't be enough. And I'd said, at the time, that it was a good rebound show, methadon for Sherlock, not the sort of show I'd fall in love with :) Weeell :)
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I tried watching a few times from the early seasons, and really really didn't connect to the show. I was suspicious of it in advance, because the trailers were very sexist and the leads were way too good looking, it looked like it was going to be shallow and the sort of "the popular kids now also have super powers". Gave it a chance, several, really, but never found anything deep to make me care. Cause most of the deep, fascinating things about the characters develop in arcs, and without knowing what to look for, the subtext, subtleties and partial declarations can be easy to miss.
I gave the show one last chance and tried jumping forward to the middle of season 4 - chose After School Special cause it sounded like it might have some sort of Buffy vibe to it, the horrors of school - and stayed for another ep, and another... when I was done I looped back to the beginning, and I think perhaps rewatched till I reached that time's canon, early season 8.
I like that the reason I gave SPN another chance was that I had a big crush of Sherlock, and was going crazy with no new episodes. SPN had so so many episodes, no way there wouldn't be enough. And I'd said, at the time, that it was a good rebound show, methadon for Sherlock, not the sort of show I'd fall in love with :)
Weeell :)