So, I watched Supernatural.
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kiki_eng[I did this a few months ago, and finished up about the same time that the sixth season started; I've only seen the first episode of the new season and will catch up at some undefined time in the future. (I may have gone through five seasons of hour-long American television in a month, so... I'm still a little burned out, and it was all nicely wrapped up and things.)]
Let me tell you about Supernatural. It is a show about men who hunt bad things down with shotguns and rock salt and other assorted weaponry. It's wonderful.
There's this fantastic creature of the week thing with all of this amazing Americana stuff encorporated. It is kind of like the X-files that way and makes me happy. Also: the many, many hotel room sets are fantastic. I loved watching for what the designer people reused and the ways they found to entertain themselves.
There are some kind of ridiculously slashy Winchester family dynamics and moments. There are bits of "Woah, show: really?!?" or *sealclap of glee*, I suppose, depending on your fannish makeup.
The "we are bros" aspect of the show is hilarious. There is a conversation early on that goes something like "we do not talk about our feelings, for we are men" and then they proceed to talk about their feelings at great length throughout the show. Sometimes they cry. Feelings, they have them. Also: manly swaggers. The manly swaggers are hilarious, they are like the ensemble power-walk, except with more shoulder action and plaid. It is almost as good as when Cas gets added to the show and his voice changes. It's like a deep-voice pissing contest or something.
Castiel is awesome. He is pretty, has really, really blue eyes and a suit and trench coat as a uniform. (I AM ALLOWED TO BE KIND OF SHALLOW, OKAY.) He's also a really fun character, because he's essentially the bad-ass alien on the show - woobie wrapped up with hilarious and deadly.
Gabriel's pretty similar in that respect, though he's a lot better with earth customs than Cas is. He's the trickster, which pleases me immensely, because I love that archetype and that plot line -it is classic and wonderful. (I would like him back, please.)
I loved Bela for her amorality and fucked-up-ness. I loved Ellen for a number of the same reasons that I like Bobby, for being crotchety and no nonsense, and I loved Jo for her evolution, for her growing up. I liked Gabriel's death; I thought Jo's and Ellen's was shit.
I love the fantasy bit. I love how American some of this is. I love the mythology and the way they've played around with the Judeo-Christian stuff. I am still all sorts of weirded out by the episode that they took on a bit of my culture in, though. It was weird - I'm really not used to seeing it mentioned in anything like mainstream media and the boys fucked up on their research so there was a lot of "What. What are you doing." It was an interesting experience.
I loved the way the apocalypse arc wended into the show, how it halved the monster of the week focus in various episodes and then slowly took over. I'm interested to see what sort of formula/plotline the show adopts going forward.
Apparently Sam has no soul now? I am kind of excited for this, because it means that he must be some sort of awesome woobie vampire (again).
...though, um, I really like my alternative season six idea, because it would be awesome. It goes like this: Sam does not come back, Dean buggers off, and the show becomes, essentially, the Cas and Bobby show. They are book geeks together and kick ass.
That wraps up or touches on most of my canon feelings at this point, I think. I remain incredibly impressed by some of the vids in this fandom and, having now seen the show, want to know where the epic AU fic wherein John dies in the nursery instead of Mary and she ends up raising the boys instead is, because (I don't know if you noticed, but) that woman was fierce. I could see her coming to terms with the realisation that hunting's a non-optional trade and then proceeding to raise her children into less (or at least differently) fucked-up human beings and better hunters. There could be awesome scenes with her hanging out with Ellen at the Roadhouse.
Let me tell you about Supernatural. It is a show about men who hunt bad things down with shotguns and rock salt and other assorted weaponry. It's wonderful.
There's this fantastic creature of the week thing with all of this amazing Americana stuff encorporated. It is kind of like the X-files that way and makes me happy. Also: the many, many hotel room sets are fantastic. I loved watching for what the designer people reused and the ways they found to entertain themselves.
There are some kind of ridiculously slashy Winchester family dynamics and moments. There are bits of "Woah, show: really?!?" or *sealclap of glee*, I suppose, depending on your fannish makeup.
The "we are bros" aspect of the show is hilarious. There is a conversation early on that goes something like "we do not talk about our feelings, for we are men" and then they proceed to talk about their feelings at great length throughout the show. Sometimes they cry. Feelings, they have them. Also: manly swaggers. The manly swaggers are hilarious, they are like the ensemble power-walk, except with more shoulder action and plaid. It is almost as good as when Cas gets added to the show and his voice changes. It's like a deep-voice pissing contest or something.
Castiel is awesome. He is pretty, has really, really blue eyes and a suit and trench coat as a uniform. (I AM ALLOWED TO BE KIND OF SHALLOW, OKAY.) He's also a really fun character, because he's essentially the bad-ass alien on the show - woobie wrapped up with hilarious and deadly.
Gabriel's pretty similar in that respect, though he's a lot better with earth customs than Cas is. He's the trickster, which pleases me immensely, because I love that archetype and that plot line -it is classic and wonderful. (I would like him back, please.)
I loved Bela for her amorality and fucked-up-ness. I loved Ellen for a number of the same reasons that I like Bobby, for being crotchety and no nonsense, and I loved Jo for her evolution, for her growing up. I liked Gabriel's death; I thought Jo's and Ellen's was shit.
I love the fantasy bit. I love how American some of this is. I love the mythology and the way they've played around with the Judeo-Christian stuff. I am still all sorts of weirded out by the episode that they took on a bit of my culture in, though. It was weird - I'm really not used to seeing it mentioned in anything like mainstream media and the boys fucked up on their research so there was a lot of "What. What are you doing." It was an interesting experience.
I loved the way the apocalypse arc wended into the show, how it halved the monster of the week focus in various episodes and then slowly took over. I'm interested to see what sort of formula/plotline the show adopts going forward.
Apparently Sam has no soul now? I am kind of excited for this, because it means that he must be some sort of awesome woobie vampire (again).
...though, um, I really like my alternative season six idea, because it would be awesome. It goes like this: Sam does not come back, Dean buggers off, and the show becomes, essentially, the Cas and Bobby show. They are book geeks together and kick ass.
That wraps up or touches on most of my canon feelings at this point, I think. I remain incredibly impressed by some of the vids in this fandom and, having now seen the show, want to know where the epic AU fic wherein John dies in the nursery instead of Mary and she ends up raising the boys instead is, because (I don't know if you noticed, but) that woman was fierce. I could see her coming to terms with the realisation that hunting's a non-optional trade and then proceeding to raise her children into less (or at least differently) fucked-up human beings and better hunters. There could be awesome scenes with her hanging out with Ellen at the Roadhouse.
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Date: 2011-01-27 08:26 pm (UTC)How are you uncertain about Sam? Are you undecided about whether or not you like it or whether it's accurate or...?