i have seen every and all episodes of supernatural except for one - the very last one. i have never watched 15x20 ever because back when it aired, i heard spoilers about what happens and i thought to myself "if i don't watch it, it doesn't happen"
till this day it has not happened. and i'm glad about it whenever i read a post about that damned last episode. but i will always be wondering about it. maybe... one day... i'll watch it. just maybe.
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Am I that mentally unstable to want as much Supernatural as possible? 16th season? 20th season? I'll be watching this stupid show till I die. I'd do anything to see Cas again. ANYTHING.
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I actually can’t breath I just finished spn and my eyes are so fucking red like it hurts so much I can’t what was this. And the message at the end from j2 like are you joking no oh my god my heart hurts
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Does Dean wink at Cas when Cas leaves the room after he says “Well, Cas, not for nothing, but the last person who looked at me like that, I got laid” or did I imagine that?
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David Simmons, “There’s a ton of lore on unicorns too”:
Postmodernist Micro-Narratives and Supernatural in TV Goes to Hell: an Unofficial Roadmap of Supernatural
started writing this mostly as a reflection on the above chapter from TV Goes to Hell. the show from its initial outset is based around a particular formula. the brothers often rely on a postmodern patchwork of stories to 'solve' their monster-of-the-week. on this show, everything can be real all together, all at once: from alternate myths and histories, to movie monsters, to urban legends, cultural gods, and folk tales. this cultural melange gets 'tamed' through the frame of the show's monster-of-the-week format itself, where everything gets solved to fit a singular narrative: identify the monster, find a way to defeat it, and successfully eliminate it (there are rare exceptions to this formula: bugs is the standout)
there's a tension between the characters' research, drawing from unofficial sources, local legends and civilian accounts versus the show's format demanding, in a sense, that fear of the unknown (really a fear of difference) be conquered through the simplified logic of its formula. unofficial sources and beliefs become incorporated into an official narrative, so to speak. they gain legitimacy and authority through our heroes use of them, not the other way around. magic is evil when a witch uses it, but somehow the rituals and spellwork our heroes use to defeat them don't count. you feel me. and that same logic applies to what monsters count as real and what doesn't. on this show, everything becomes real when our protagonists are able to see it and kill it.
(1.01, 'Pilot')
so a common show critique i see tends to separate the more episodic plots of the early seasons (1-3) from the more serialised grand epic narratives of 4-5 onwards. well my argument is this - nah, that impulse was there from the start! the mystery of the show was always going to dissipate, because explaining away the mystery was always a part of its initial premise. the concept that - 'the monster under your bed is no longer scary when you can name what it is and learn how to kill it' - turns into -> a fear of death? heaven and hell and everything else in between are now real, tangible places! fear over external, powerful forces meddling in your lives? demons, angels, leviathans, god himself! now all real and tangible beings! the air of horror and mystery shrouding s1-2 was never gonna last. the murky horror was always a means to a defeatable end.
(5.19, 'Hammer of the Gods')
anyways. there's an obvious mythological hierarchy in this series and it's very funny to me. all gods and spirits and monsters, even the ones predating christian mythology, fall under its ruling (white, judeo-christian) narrative authority. the postmodern embrace of multiple narratives is a ruse. all incompatible things lead to a universal truth. the show doesn't dispell the existence of differences; rather everything is to be combined, united under a totalising front, despite the contradictory nature of that impulse. this narrative then, down to its bare bones formula, is a civilising mission. civilisation barreling in, banishing fear and uncertainty from the light. and in order to stay in that light, one must submit to its complete authority. by this show's logic, uniformity ultimately requires the subjugation of difference.
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DEAN
He took you to a freakin' baseball game?
ADAM
Yeah. Why? What'd Dad do with you on your birthday?
— Supernatural 4.19 Jump the Shark, written by Andrew Dabb and Daniel Loflin
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