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Saturday, November 29, 2014

Supernatural

***SPOLIER ALERT*** this post will contain some spoilers so beware.

I have resisted talking about my all time favorite TV show long enough! I started watching Supernatural back in 2005 back when the CW was still called the WB and Smallville (my other great TV love) was still airing. I was obsessed from the beginning. I tuned in every Tuesday at 9pm (till they moved it to Thursday halfway through the season which was awesome because then it was on after Smallville) and then rented the DVDs from the video store to binge watch and fill the void the season finale left me with. So this show is very near and dear to my heart.

The show centers around the Winchester family who at the beginning of the show live a normal life. Mary and John have two sons, Dean who is 4 and Sam (Sammy) who is 6 months. Tragedy strikes right away in this show as the Yellow Eyed Demon (Azazel) is in Sam's nursery and it kills Mary and burns the family home down, leaving John determined to find and kill the thing that murdered his wife. He raises Sam and Dean to be hunters. Flash forward 22 years Sam is at Stanford going to college living with his girlfriend Jessica (Jess) and attempting a normal life. But that all goes to hell in a handbasket when Dean shows up and informs Sam that their father is missing and he needs Sam to help him find him because he's worried something's happened to John. So Sam agrees to go on this one hunting trip with Dean and help him find their Dad. They successfully finish the hunt their Dad went AWOL on and afterwards Sam goes back to his apartment only to find Jess pinned to the ceiling on their bedroom with a bloody nightgown before bursting into flames and burning their apartment down. The same MO as the thing that killed his and Dean's mother. So now Sam joins Dean to find their Dad and this:

The show is set up with a "Villain-of-the-Week" style and has a bigger plot slowly unfolding in each episode but

Plus there's so many amazing characters to meet. There's Sam
Dean
Bobby Singer
John Winchester
Castiel
Crowley
Ruby
Meg
The Trickster God (AKA Gabriel)
Lucifer
Chuck
The sexiest car that ever exsisted, the Impala (AKA Baby)
Just to name a few (of my personal favorites).

Supernatural is well known on Tumblr for being a show with lots of "feels" and a bit eccentric fandom. And I'm positive everyone and their brother has heard of Destiel or Wincest by now. (Though Cas doesn't show up until season 4
and personally I'm a Wincest shipper and believe any long lasting canon relationship is doomed because this show is about the brothers and the giant clusterfuck that is their life. So all pairings are basically crack-shipping. Sorry I just have a lot of feeling about ships...)
Anyways like I said this is my all time favorite show. I got Caitie addicted to it and I don't think she has ever forgiven me for the emotional trauma I have put her through. Plus we have a gif for everything in this fandom. Seriously.
So if you ever have considered watching Supernatural. Run. Run very far. This show will ruin your life, take up all your free time, and you'll start writing and reading fanfiction at 2am and wonder why you can be a productive and functioning contributing member of society.
It's an all consuming addiction! So flee for your lives!
...unless you're into that sort of thing. Then definitely watch it!

Also this show gives you the best life advice I have every had
Which is the title of the list Caitie and I have of what we would do to survive a horror movie which was posted on May 7th, 2014.


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