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Post by fflurcadwgawn on Jun 17, 2018 13:42:07 GMT
I know that there are a LOT of Supernatural fans around.
I just started watching the first season. I've waited this long because let's face it, I HATE HORROR. Even though I study RL cases as a career cultural anthropologist focusing on American mortuary practices in rural communities. I have to be in just the right kind of mood for it. That pilot episode A, really freaked me out, and B, reminded me a LOT of the first book in the Case Files series. If it's a super scary episode I will watch it with the commentary on and read the captions.
Some of the episodes aren't half bad and I'm trying to focus more on why the writers chose those stories to tell and the sibling rivalry and banter instead of the horror aspect. Plus I already have a plot bunny that won't leave me alone because my home community is home to one of the most severely haunted cemeteries east of the Mississippi (and most of it is misidentified animal activity because it's smack in the middle of state forest).
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Post by josie on Jun 17, 2018 17:09:56 GMT
I also don't like horror... but tried it back around when it started because Jared Padalecki was in it. I got to season 3 before I decided he wasn't THAT cute  Now I just watch the "fun" episodes. Changing Channels, Fan Fiction, The French Mistake, etc. It means there are some things I don't get, but at least they do make sense - I'm guessing I'd be totally lost if I tried to jump back in now  |
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Post by Shane on Jun 17, 2018 18:59:53 GMT
Somehow, I've managed to never see an episode of this show. Given its popularity on the old HDA, I felt like I was letting the side down a bit. I like ghost story authors like M.R. James and J.S. LeFanu. I'm also a big fan of The X-Files, which had horror-themed episodes.
The British series Ultraviolet was a good (albeit short-lived) show about modern-day vampire hunters. Wooden stakes were replaced by carbon bullets and, in a nod to their lack of reflection in mirrors, vampires were invisible to security cameras and couldn't be recorded by audio equipment.
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Post by fflurcadwgawn on Jun 17, 2018 21:55:54 GMT
The X-Files is downright tame compared to Supernatural. :look
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Post by cheryl on Jun 17, 2018 22:20:26 GMT
I have no idea what this show is about even though I’ve watched about 3 episodes. I just remember thinking that they were pretty darned close to how I would picture Frank and Joe to look in real life, and hence all I know is that they’re handsome!  |
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Post by Shane on Jun 18, 2018 14:59:22 GMT
The X-Files is downright tame compared to Supernatural. :look 90% of 90s television is tamer than what came after. In addition, The X-Files was a science-fiction/thriller show rather than horror, which made its nastier episodes stand out for me. Same with Ultraviolet, which aired in 1998. Although it's about vampire hunters, the word vampire is never used, and the protagonists fight them in the lab as well as in the field. It's closer in tone to The X-Files than Supernatural, based on what I've heard of that show. |
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Post by fflurcadwgawn on Jul 1, 2018 11:17:01 GMT
I got past the first season and just finished Folsom Prison Blues in the second season.
The writing is great and the chemistry between Sam and Dean comes off as genuine. There are still quite a lot of episodes that I wind up watching parts of through my fingers with the sound off, and the pilot was really unnerving, but I'm glad my friend told me to give it a chance. Oddly enough I've also figured out how to sit through horror withoutbeing freaked out for a week.
My one pet peeve is that I supervise an active cemetery for a living, and sweeties, it takes my crew the better part of a morning to dig a grave with a backhoe when we have to coordinate a burial. There is no freaking way you can dig a grave in a short amount of time with shovels. Also, the modern ones are shallow compared to popular belief.
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Post by Shane on Jul 2, 2018 20:44:53 GMT
My one pet peeve is that I supervise an active cemetery for a living, and sweeties, it takes my crew the better part of a morning to dig a grave with a backhoe when we have to coordinate a burial. There is no freaking way you can dig a grave in a short amount of time with shovels. Also, the modern ones are shallow compared to popular belief. |
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Post by JD on Jul 3, 2018 4:17:06 GMT
*Looks for something to pummel Shane with*
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Post by fflurcadwgawn on Jul 3, 2018 15:51:27 GMT
Eh, it's a big undertaking to work in the dead end of the death industry, but someone's gotta do it. |
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Post by Shane on Jul 3, 2018 16:28:20 GMT
Well, just don't give the job tomb-e. I prefer something in the de-crypt-ion line.
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Post by Rokia on Jul 31, 2018 2:36:30 GMT
::thwaps Shane with the whip of smiting::
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Post by fflurcadwgawn on Aug 1, 2018 16:01:39 GMT
.......I just started Season 8.......
*ducks*
Once you get past the first season or so the horror aspect gets a LOT tamer. The only episode I've had nightmares from is the Lily Dale one, mainly because it's super close to my hometown and they make certain historical figures from that, that I've studied academically for a long time now, as poltergeists. Yeah, that was a bit unnerving.
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Post by mamabear on Oct 19, 2019 21:52:48 GMT
Supernatural is my all time favorite show! I'll try not to give anyone spoilers. Obviously I've seen all the episodes, and most multiple times. I'm so sad that it's ending. 15 seasons just isn't enough!
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Post by mamabear on Nov 23, 2020 5:27:06 GMT
Aaaand, it's officially over. No more Supernatural. I just feel so empty now. :-( Has anyone watched the finale?
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