Supernatural

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Call it Kolchak: The Night Stalker, The College Years or Buffy the Vampire Slayer for Boys, but the horror series Supernatural delivers some of the most satisfying small-screen scares in recent memory. The premise is deceptively simple: brothers Sam and Dean travel the darker corners of the American landscape in search of their father, who's gone missing while hunting the malevolent forces that lead to the death of their mother. In the course of their search, the siblings encounter a host of otherworldly creatures, including vampires, ghosts, and witches, as well as such distinctly American phenomena as the urban-legend favorite the Hook ("Hookman"), monsters from Native American mythology ("Wendigo"), and fearful figures from children's games ("Bloody Mary"). Supernatural's integration of elements from American pop culture and folklore, combined with its skilled cast and crew (creator/co-writer Erik Kripke delivered 2005's Boogeyman, while director/executive producer David Nutter is a veteran of The X-Files and Millennium), and better-than-average attempts at atmosphere and suspense place the series well above the other spookshow programs that arrived on networks at about the same time (Invasion, Night Stalker), and should hold considerable appeal for fans of frightful fare.

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Alright. Here it is. Our official SPN thread. No longer will we have to torture our other members(as infrequently as we all visit) with our nonsensical ramblings about clearly the greatest show ever to combine pop culture, classic rock, muscle cars, hot guys and American supernatural folklore- I suppose the acting is okay too.

To encourage discussion some questions:
How do you want the series to end?
What is your favorite episode(s)? why?
Pop culture reference?
Music in episodes past, current and future? i.e. I'd like to hear more Led Zeppelin in future episodes
What supernatural situation/ folklore would you like/have liked to see the boys take on (I doubt there'll be time now that Ol' Lu is comin')?
Favorite characters(main or minor, good guy or bad)?
What characters would you like to see come back?
What characters would you like to see go?(or would have liked to see go away in earlier episodes before they were actually disposed of?) i.e. Ruby.

Also: share some art you like or chance a fic or two.
Now, let us have at it.

Huzzah!

Let the Jared farting montages commence!

"It smells like sulfur!"

"I had sulfur for lunch."

No one will watch SPN with me right now because I'm too excited for season 5. All I talk about is how awesome I want Lu to be and my mom is all religious and "blargh! get away!". She likes the show but she doesn't like the religious turn it took especially with God not being the one calling the shots and it turns out to be douche bag angels. I think it's a great twist but I can tell my mom is all "Blaargh!Hiss!".

Oh, my parents totally do not like the show. They don't like the plot, the characters, and the religious twist now. Of course, they didn't know anything about it until I said something and I automatically hear, "OMG! How dare you?!"

My mom likes the show and she LOVES Jensen/Dean. She and I used to watch every Tuesday, back when it was on on Tuesdays, but time became an issue so she stopped watching it and now I'm pretty sure she doesn't like the sudden religious twist it took. When I started talking about it- because I was complaining about Cassy being a dick- I could feel the eye rolling she was doing. Now I'm super excited for Lu and she's, like i said, "BLAGH!HISS" about it.

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I'm watching Countdown to Armageddon on the History Channel and I can see so much of what they are talking about happening in season 5. It furthers my excitement to see if they take any of those turns with the idea of the four horsemen and the Anti-Christ and stuff. They were talking about Jesus battling the Anti-Christ and all I could imagine was Dean fighting Sam.

That leads me to this question, it's asked of the boys a lot at conventions: "How do you want the series to end?"
I kinda agree with Jared when he says a Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid ending going out with a bang or Dean killing Sam.
I also agree with Jared when he says he wants to see an Evil Sam. I'd love to see an actual Evil Sam and not just a being-manipulated-by-Ruby Sam.

Also to encourage further discussion some other questions:
What is your favorite episode(s)? why?
Pop culture reference?
Music in episodes past, current and future? i.e. I'd like to hear more Led Zeppelin in future episodes
What supernatural situation/ folklore would you like/have liked to see the boys take on (I doubt there'll be time now that Ol' Lu is comin')?
Favorite characters(main or minor, good guy or bad)?
What characters would you like to see come back?
What characters would you like to see go?(or would have liked to see go away in earlier episodes before they were actually disposed of?) i.e. Ruby.

As reference to the music, I was sorely disappointed that in the episode entitled When the Levee Breaks they did not once play that song... and it's one of my favourites of Led. *growls* Or did I miss it?

Seriously, if I could film it, I have a idea for a Supernatural music video for the song... picture at the beginning a desert landscape, storm clouds just barely over of the looming mountains in the horizon, dark and forboding shapes against the brillant, blinding blue sky. Sand blowing, unyielding. A sexy woman, trudging thorough the bursts of sand to the beat, apparently lost. Then the lyrics start: near pitch and torrential downpours.

... well, something like that... it later involves the brothers, the Impala, and demon slaying... *shrugs* Half-baked, I know...

No, it wasn't played once. Most of the episodes don't actually have their namesake playing in them I've realized.

Suxors... that's just stupid... <_<

Oh, randomness... here's a link to an artist who does Supernatural comics... I rather like her chibis of them as well: Xanserviera.

Yeah, but I've used song titles for things because the title works but the actual content of the song doesn't.

Awesome work.

I'm going to share a fic. It's pretty well written. It's Wee!Chester so Sam is 5-6 and Dean is 10. It's pretty cute. It's a nice quick little read: The Great Noodle Incident - TraSan

I'm off work tomorrow. I'm hanging out with a friend of mine early in the day, but I told her that I have to be home before 9. She asked me why. I told her that Supernatural season 5 premiere comes on. She looks at me and says, "You people." and laughed.

I watched season 4 yesterday. A couple episodes I skipped, but I'll do a complete watch later.

I watched all the important episodes of season 4 (ie the ones i like). I'm going to watch like the last two before the new season starts tomorrow.

I've come up with new names that we now know Sam, Dean and Cassy by in the house.
Sam - Naive Nancy...or Idiot
Dean - Captain Dilhole. Pig
Cassy - DJ D-bag. and Dick.

My mom watched the first episode where you're actually introduced to Cassy and she's decided she likes him. apparently she hasn't actually seen Cassy prior to two days ago.

My mom was teasing me by saying "what if there is a power outage" and i was like "don't even say that! you'll be driving me to the bar and they WILL be putting it on. I will see too it!"

I actually had a power outage yesterday. And then, today, I find out that someone spliced my internet and cable and did it wrong. I was so afraid that I wasn't going to get to watch it tonight. But the cable guy just left and everything is safe.

it's not so much a power outage I'm worried about. I'm worried about the channels crossing over again like they did last week. A girl that sits in front of me in one of my classes was saying that last night she ended up watching brothers and sisters because her channels crossed over which is the same thing that happened to me last thursday. Brothers and Sisters was on instead of SPN.

I'm so stoked, yo. I really just want to see Lu. I will find kripke and punch him if he's not.

9 hours and 14 minutes!!!

w00t!!! I can't wait! Is it just me or did the summer fly by?