[fandom] Supernatural glee
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escritoireazulMy favorite things about Supernatural.
I. The music.
This shouldn't shock, I'm a big fan of cheesy horror and have been for years. I'm also a big fan of music which is obvious and shameless and wonderful. There has not been one episode go by without a song I really like and usually one I love. They use all my favorites, the ones which produce ecstatic glee each time I hear them, now because they remind me of Supernatural as well as earlier reasons.
The soundtracks I make for my writing could be Supernatural soundtracks, people, and this makes me happy. It's possible I should worry, but mostly I just feel this makes me made of shiny and awesome things.
Come on! "Bad Moon Rising"! (Which just came on the radio. LIFE IS AWESOME!)
II. The brother relationship.
I love the way Dean and Sam interact. From the beginning, one of the things I most enjoyed was the way their relationship felt so real to me. I could believe they were brothers, and they have issues, and they're not always going to get along, but it's right. Angry one second, wanting to protect the other against the world the next, that's real to me, and I love it.
III. Actually, the whole family interaction.
There's so much anger and hurt and love and affection and rage and disappointment and frustration and just real family interactions, believable mood swings, and it makes me so happy.
IV. The hotness of Dean and Daddy Winchester.
No explanation needed here, really. Hot, plus guns and monster hunting, becomes super hot.
V. The way the timeline is so screwed up, which looks like basic math errors. I am hyper-sensitive about this in my own writing, I keep such detailed timelines it's obnoxious, but oh, I love the mistakes in Supernatural. They make me laugh.
VI. Dean.
Yeah, the hotness, but not just it. The way he works so hard to keep the family together, the way, for him, this isn't about revenge as much as doing what's right and saving people, the way he was okay with dying because he did his job, the way he's so protective of Sam but still drives him away, and oh, the gun porn. Definitely the gun porn. Plus he's gone through all this crap but he's not all that angsty about it, he just gets the job done.
VII. Synchronization.
These guys just know. Sam and Dean share looks, Dean and John share looks, they can toss weapons one to the other without really looking, they fight together well (not with each other, though they do that, too, but fighting together against something else), it's almost like a dance, the way they've learned to work together, the way they mirror each other's actions and expressions.
VIII. Folklore.
Okay, yeah, sometimes it's crap and it makes me giggle, but I love what they do with the folklore, the way they try to weave in the old stories and sometimes put a bit of a twist on them. (I hate that we didn't get to actually see werewolves.)
IX. Road Trip.
Horror + road trip + hot men with guns = happy Carla
X. Cheesy horror.
I. Love. Cheesy horror. This show gives me a good dose of it.
I do have problems with the show (some of the folklore, definitely the presentation of gender, etc.), but it makes me happy anyway. Plus, and this really has nothing to do with the show except it's the reason this happens, I'm able to squee with one of my sisters and watch it with her and just share the joy. I don't usually get to do in person shared joy over fandom things.
I. The music.
This shouldn't shock, I'm a big fan of cheesy horror and have been for years. I'm also a big fan of music which is obvious and shameless and wonderful. There has not been one episode go by without a song I really like and usually one I love. They use all my favorites, the ones which produce ecstatic glee each time I hear them, now because they remind me of Supernatural as well as earlier reasons.
The soundtracks I make for my writing could be Supernatural soundtracks, people, and this makes me happy. It's possible I should worry, but mostly I just feel this makes me made of shiny and awesome things.
Come on! "Bad Moon Rising"! (Which just came on the radio. LIFE IS AWESOME!)
II. The brother relationship.
I love the way Dean and Sam interact. From the beginning, one of the things I most enjoyed was the way their relationship felt so real to me. I could believe they were brothers, and they have issues, and they're not always going to get along, but it's right. Angry one second, wanting to protect the other against the world the next, that's real to me, and I love it.
III. Actually, the whole family interaction.
There's so much anger and hurt and love and affection and rage and disappointment and frustration and just real family interactions, believable mood swings, and it makes me so happy.
IV. The hotness of Dean and Daddy Winchester.
No explanation needed here, really. Hot, plus guns and monster hunting, becomes super hot.
V. The way the timeline is so screwed up, which looks like basic math errors. I am hyper-sensitive about this in my own writing, I keep such detailed timelines it's obnoxious, but oh, I love the mistakes in Supernatural. They make me laugh.
VI. Dean.
Yeah, the hotness, but not just it. The way he works so hard to keep the family together, the way, for him, this isn't about revenge as much as doing what's right and saving people, the way he was okay with dying because he did his job, the way he's so protective of Sam but still drives him away, and oh, the gun porn. Definitely the gun porn. Plus he's gone through all this crap but he's not all that angsty about it, he just gets the job done.
VII. Synchronization.
These guys just know. Sam and Dean share looks, Dean and John share looks, they can toss weapons one to the other without really looking, they fight together well (not with each other, though they do that, too, but fighting together against something else), it's almost like a dance, the way they've learned to work together, the way they mirror each other's actions and expressions.
VIII. Folklore.
Okay, yeah, sometimes it's crap and it makes me giggle, but I love what they do with the folklore, the way they try to weave in the old stories and sometimes put a bit of a twist on them. (I hate that we didn't get to actually see werewolves.)
IX. Road Trip.
Horror + road trip + hot men with guns = happy Carla
X. Cheesy horror.
I. Love. Cheesy horror. This show gives me a good dose of it.
I do have problems with the show (some of the folklore, definitely the presentation of gender, etc.), but it makes me happy anyway. Plus, and this really has nothing to do with the show except it's the reason this happens, I'm able to squee with one of my sisters and watch it with her and just share the joy. I don't usually get to do in person shared joy over fandom things.
