So, Supernatural again. I remain obsessed. I have had obsessions throughout my life, when I fall for something I fall long and hard.
As a wee girl it was ponies and horses. As a teen it was music. Then piercings for a few years (alongside the music), then bonsai trees for a a year-ish. Then my love affair with comics started and lasted, well, it's still there. It just got sidetracked by my often mentioned grief. Grief which is still there.
The comics fan in me is still there too, it's just fired into different avenues. I no longer buy lots of weeklies (as if I even could at the moment, since the fucking pandemic has stopped all distribution of weeklies for the foreseeable future), but I read Tiny Titans and other age appropriate comics to my darling rainbow son, and we play at superheroes and it's absolutely marvellous.
I'm pretty into my crochet and yarn too, but it's not an all living all breathing fannish obsession for me, it's more than that. It's a need to be creative, it's a way to calm my mind, it's a practical thing to do and it's soul soothing. As well as exciting and giddy and fun.
I guess Supernatural is my new fannish obsession. I've watched a lot of telly since we had our second, and I've enjoyed a lot but only Supernatural has clawed it's way into my very being. I have a section in my filofax dedicated to notes and thoughts about the show. It's under the section called projects. I'm such a fucking nerd.
I started making notes about the show from season 7, and now I'm rewatching my favourite episodes so I can understand them more and delve into the mythos more. And seperate it from all teh fanfic fanon I've devoured. Fanfic rambling belongs in another thread.
ANYWAY.
Season 1. I wrote about the Pilot, Wendigo and Dead in the Water already. What will follow is ramblings about the remaining season 1 episodes, plus Phantom Traveller agai, for some reason. Spoilers, obvs.
Ep 4 - Phantom Traveller. I thought this was a much later episode where Dean and Sam died in a plane crash and got resurrected. It wasn't. It did show us Dean's fear of flying though (I relate man, I really do). Although not explicitly stated, it's the first time the boys come across a demon. Again, I had assumed they knew about demons prior to this, but they really didn't. I think there just weren't many demons on earth at this point.
Ep 5 - Bloody Mary. Ahh this one is sooo good! The Bloody Mary Legend is taken, expanded upon, details are created and it just works so, so well. It's scary, and creative and it's got mirror magic in it. I have a note that Dean has good eyebrow action in this episode. Dean has enough of Sammy's guilt. Sam cannot see that Dean has ever done anything wrong. There is much angst. This is a really good setup for the brothers' angst and love and adoration of each other. I'll likely explore that in another blog post, along with Wincest. And fanfic.
Ep 6 is Skin. I watched it, I got a bit bored. Even with all the Wincest implications. It reminded me of an X-Files episode. Shapeshifters are not my cup of tea at this stage in the show.
Ep 7 is Hookman. It's a very strong episode, and feels like the show has settled into it's groove. the music so far has been pretty awful though. All modern American college rock stuff. It's not what Dean listens to. I have been told that this is because I'm watching on Amazon Prime and Amazon don't have the rights to the proper music. Not sure how that works but hey. Poor show Amazon, poor show.
What is interesting here is that the lady is hitting on Sam, not Dean. Dean is set up to be a womaniser, but isn't actually all that successful up to now. We don't see him actually scoring with any women, but he's shown as a letch. Later seasons show us that he is nearly always successful, and that he treats women with respect, but at this point in the show it could have gone either way.
Ep 8 - Bugs. A Native American takes no shit from Dean. There's lots of insects. Folk think the brothers are a couple. This is a fun episode. Not the strongest, but fun.
Ep 9, Home, I skipped. Although I probably shouldn't have as it's big on the brother angst and their relationship. John turns up at the end, apparently.
Ep 10. Asylum. I didn't watch this one either. I have very little thoughts on it.
Ep 11 - Scarecrow. A pagan themed horror story with the Norse vanir. This is so up my street it's practically set up home with me. I found the depiction of the Vanir initially insulting, but as I thought about it more, it felt right. Yes they are the agrarian Gods, but no one said farmers should be nice. Farmers deal with a lot of shit, they see the violence in everyday life and they know what the results of a good and bad harvest is. Bring prideful, selfish, bloodthirsty Gods into that and of course they will demand these bloody sacrifices.
Sam leaves Dean for the first time on screen (Stanford was off screen) and it does read like a couple's break up. He meets Meg. Who I dislike. Also notable for Sam going to save Dean before the girl. Wincest innit.
Ep 12 - Faith. Dean get electrocuted and nearly dies. Sam takes him to a faith healer to fix him. We meet a reaper for the first time. I stopped this 15 mins in as I couldn't be arsed. Bad fan.
Ep 13 - Route 666. It's a possessed truck! Possessed by a racist who is killing the people who killed him and covered up his murder in the 60s, the murder that happened because the racist was murdering the black folk. The racist also set fire to a church which killed a children's choir, so predictably I went a bit squicky at that. Overall though, a great episode.
My notes say that I started developing a crush on Sam around this episode. Dammit, I'ma Dean girl! I've clearly read too much slash. Other notes for this state that...
- Cassie is Dean's love interest in this, she's an ex of his, he had a an actual relationship, Gods alive, and she's OK. The actress could have done with some better material, but she did OK with what she had.
- There is minimal drinking at this point. By season 6 Dean is clearly an alcoholic, but here, they don't drink so much.
- Sam is allowed to drive the car.
- The way they get rid of the truck is pretty inventive. I approve.
- There's a good slashy moment in the car at the end. All the looks, IIRC.
Ep 14, Nightmare. This kicks off the psychic kids storyline. I've always felt like this storyline had something lacking at the start. It's a bit piecemeal. I can't quite put my finger on it because actually this episode works pretty well. I think I find the way that Sam reacts to Max and delivers the exposition jarring. It's a bit too much telling us how things are rather than letting the story show us. Maybe? Hats off to whoever decided to put the boys in priest garb, because they look very attractive in it.
Ep 15 - The Benders. Really fucking creepy. Gave us the 'Demons I get, people are crazy' line. That sets the tone for the rest of the show. Dean's voice is now gravelly, and not the weird breathy thing that it was in the earlier episodes. Dean is notable for looking basically the same here as he does in season 15, minus a few crow's feet. Whereas Sam looks totally different.
Ep 16. Shadow. I skipped this. Turns out to be the one where John comes back (and no doubt continues being a fucking horrendous father) and Meg gets revealed as a bad guy. I just don't like this Meg. The actress just doesn't do as much with her as the second Meg actress did.
Ep 17 - Hell House. It's the Tulpa bringing Mordechai to life, and it's the ghostfacers. Another group I could have sworn came in much later in the seasons. Dean is being delightfully butch in this ep.
Ep 18 - Something Wicked. I skipped this because it was about sick children.
Ep 19 - Provenance. About a a haunted painting. Glorious. Wonderful. One of the best of the season. Sam gets laid, Dean doesn't. See my earlier point about how Sam gets more women than Dean.
Ep 20 - Dead Man's Blood. It's the first lot of vampires on the show. The brothers didn't know vampires existed beforehand. The colt is introduced, the vampires seem like they've been pulled out of Buffy and John is back.
Ep 21 - Salvation - this was mostly overshadowed by my hatred of John. I have no other notes.
Ep 22 - Devil's Trap, the finale. I love the idea of a Devil's Trap, but am constantly bemused by how they always manage to get the demon in the trap. Sam draws a trap on the car, much to Dean's temper. Azazel possesses John temporarily, and JDM does a great job of acting Azazel. The brothers argue about their actions and how they should take deal with Azael. Then the final scene is a demon ramming the family off the road and they are all knocked out and bloody. Dun dun DUN.
The opening song was not Kansas' Carry On My Wayward Son and for that Amazon deserve to be beaten. If it's their fault.
It's a good first season with some truly great episodes in. I am very much looking forward to re-watching season 2.
As a wee girl it was ponies and horses. As a teen it was music. Then piercings for a few years (alongside the music), then bonsai trees for a a year-ish. Then my love affair with comics started and lasted, well, it's still there. It just got sidetracked by my often mentioned grief. Grief which is still there.
The comics fan in me is still there too, it's just fired into different avenues. I no longer buy lots of weeklies (as if I even could at the moment, since the fucking pandemic has stopped all distribution of weeklies for the foreseeable future), but I read Tiny Titans and other age appropriate comics to my darling rainbow son, and we play at superheroes and it's absolutely marvellous.
I'm pretty into my crochet and yarn too, but it's not an all living all breathing fannish obsession for me, it's more than that. It's a need to be creative, it's a way to calm my mind, it's a practical thing to do and it's soul soothing. As well as exciting and giddy and fun.
I guess Supernatural is my new fannish obsession. I've watched a lot of telly since we had our second, and I've enjoyed a lot but only Supernatural has clawed it's way into my very being. I have a section in my filofax dedicated to notes and thoughts about the show. It's under the section called projects. I'm such a fucking nerd.
I started making notes about the show from season 7, and now I'm rewatching my favourite episodes so I can understand them more and delve into the mythos more. And seperate it from all teh fanfic fanon I've devoured. Fanfic rambling belongs in another thread.
ANYWAY.
Season 1. I wrote about the Pilot, Wendigo and Dead in the Water already. What will follow is ramblings about the remaining season 1 episodes, plus Phantom Traveller agai, for some reason. Spoilers, obvs.
Ep 4 - Phantom Traveller. I thought this was a much later episode where Dean and Sam died in a plane crash and got resurrected. It wasn't. It did show us Dean's fear of flying though (I relate man, I really do). Although not explicitly stated, it's the first time the boys come across a demon. Again, I had assumed they knew about demons prior to this, but they really didn't. I think there just weren't many demons on earth at this point.
Ep 5 - Bloody Mary. Ahh this one is sooo good! The Bloody Mary Legend is taken, expanded upon, details are created and it just works so, so well. It's scary, and creative and it's got mirror magic in it. I have a note that Dean has good eyebrow action in this episode. Dean has enough of Sammy's guilt. Sam cannot see that Dean has ever done anything wrong. There is much angst. This is a really good setup for the brothers' angst and love and adoration of each other. I'll likely explore that in another blog post, along with Wincest. And fanfic.
Ep 6 is Skin. I watched it, I got a bit bored. Even with all the Wincest implications. It reminded me of an X-Files episode. Shapeshifters are not my cup of tea at this stage in the show.
Ep 7 is Hookman. It's a very strong episode, and feels like the show has settled into it's groove. the music so far has been pretty awful though. All modern American college rock stuff. It's not what Dean listens to. I have been told that this is because I'm watching on Amazon Prime and Amazon don't have the rights to the proper music. Not sure how that works but hey. Poor show Amazon, poor show.
What is interesting here is that the lady is hitting on Sam, not Dean. Dean is set up to be a womaniser, but isn't actually all that successful up to now. We don't see him actually scoring with any women, but he's shown as a letch. Later seasons show us that he is nearly always successful, and that he treats women with respect, but at this point in the show it could have gone either way.
Ep 8 - Bugs. A Native American takes no shit from Dean. There's lots of insects. Folk think the brothers are a couple. This is a fun episode. Not the strongest, but fun.
Ep 9, Home, I skipped. Although I probably shouldn't have as it's big on the brother angst and their relationship. John turns up at the end, apparently.
Ep 10. Asylum. I didn't watch this one either. I have very little thoughts on it.
Ep 11 - Scarecrow. A pagan themed horror story with the Norse vanir. This is so up my street it's practically set up home with me. I found the depiction of the Vanir initially insulting, but as I thought about it more, it felt right. Yes they are the agrarian Gods, but no one said farmers should be nice. Farmers deal with a lot of shit, they see the violence in everyday life and they know what the results of a good and bad harvest is. Bring prideful, selfish, bloodthirsty Gods into that and of course they will demand these bloody sacrifices.
Sam leaves Dean for the first time on screen (Stanford was off screen) and it does read like a couple's break up. He meets Meg. Who I dislike. Also notable for Sam going to save Dean before the girl. Wincest innit.
Ep 12 - Faith. Dean get electrocuted and nearly dies. Sam takes him to a faith healer to fix him. We meet a reaper for the first time. I stopped this 15 mins in as I couldn't be arsed. Bad fan.
Ep 13 - Route 666. It's a possessed truck! Possessed by a racist who is killing the people who killed him and covered up his murder in the 60s, the murder that happened because the racist was murdering the black folk. The racist also set fire to a church which killed a children's choir, so predictably I went a bit squicky at that. Overall though, a great episode.
My notes say that I started developing a crush on Sam around this episode. Dammit, I'ma Dean girl! I've clearly read too much slash. Other notes for this state that...
- Cassie is Dean's love interest in this, she's an ex of his, he had a an actual relationship, Gods alive, and she's OK. The actress could have done with some better material, but she did OK with what she had.
- There is minimal drinking at this point. By season 6 Dean is clearly an alcoholic, but here, they don't drink so much.
- Sam is allowed to drive the car.
- The way they get rid of the truck is pretty inventive. I approve.
- There's a good slashy moment in the car at the end. All the looks, IIRC.
Ep 14, Nightmare. This kicks off the psychic kids storyline. I've always felt like this storyline had something lacking at the start. It's a bit piecemeal. I can't quite put my finger on it because actually this episode works pretty well. I think I find the way that Sam reacts to Max and delivers the exposition jarring. It's a bit too much telling us how things are rather than letting the story show us. Maybe? Hats off to whoever decided to put the boys in priest garb, because they look very attractive in it.
Ep 15 - The Benders. Really fucking creepy. Gave us the 'Demons I get, people are crazy' line. That sets the tone for the rest of the show. Dean's voice is now gravelly, and not the weird breathy thing that it was in the earlier episodes. Dean is notable for looking basically the same here as he does in season 15, minus a few crow's feet. Whereas Sam looks totally different.
Ep 16. Shadow. I skipped this. Turns out to be the one where John comes back (and no doubt continues being a fucking horrendous father) and Meg gets revealed as a bad guy. I just don't like this Meg. The actress just doesn't do as much with her as the second Meg actress did.
Ep 17 - Hell House. It's the Tulpa bringing Mordechai to life, and it's the ghostfacers. Another group I could have sworn came in much later in the seasons. Dean is being delightfully butch in this ep.
Ep 18 - Something Wicked. I skipped this because it was about sick children.
Ep 19 - Provenance. About a a haunted painting. Glorious. Wonderful. One of the best of the season. Sam gets laid, Dean doesn't. See my earlier point about how Sam gets more women than Dean.
Ep 20 - Dead Man's Blood. It's the first lot of vampires on the show. The brothers didn't know vampires existed beforehand. The colt is introduced, the vampires seem like they've been pulled out of Buffy and John is back.
Ep 21 - Salvation - this was mostly overshadowed by my hatred of John. I have no other notes.
Ep 22 - Devil's Trap, the finale. I love the idea of a Devil's Trap, but am constantly bemused by how they always manage to get the demon in the trap. Sam draws a trap on the car, much to Dean's temper. Azazel possesses John temporarily, and JDM does a great job of acting Azazel. The brothers argue about their actions and how they should take deal with Azael. Then the final scene is a demon ramming the family off the road and they are all knocked out and bloody. Dun dun DUN.
The opening song was not Kansas' Carry On My Wayward Son and for that Amazon deserve to be beaten. If it's their fault.
It's a good first season with some truly great episodes in. I am very much looking forward to re-watching season 2.
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