*external screaming* hello i was never super into it on my own, but my friends were, so we'd watch together. and OH JESUS CHRIST DID IT GO DOWNHILL
okay am I the only one who was SUPER FRICKIN' PISSED over that like....fangirl who was alllllllllllll into Sam, and they just. made fun of her 24/7? like.....that's.....not what fans are generally like, and yet this is how you choose to represent them that, and a gay couple that cosplayed as Sam and Dean that was pretty apparently just so we could laugh at Sam and Dean's discomfort at "oh god they're gay but they're dressed as us"
new SPN, but it focuses only on Charlie all Charlie all the time she gets a supernatural creature girlfriend
Yeah the way they treated fans was a little =/ I started leaving during the whole "Jensen didn't do something right when the crowd booed a fan" fiasco but I barely remember that??
It was something about, a female fan asked about the gay subtext regarding Cas and Dean at a convention, and the crowd booed her and people were all up and arms when Jensen said something like "don't boo but that wasn't a great question" or something like that???
I mean ://///////////////////////////////// @crowd :///////////////////// @Jensen because?? discussion of gay subtext that exists is a fine question imo--esp when it's blatantly ignored and made fun of by people writing the show and such but also :///////////////////////// @fandom because............Chill
I mean... if I remember correctly, he didn't even say that exactly? He told the crowd to stop booing and he told the girl to not ask that, and the two sides of the argument were a) he told her not to ask that because she was getting verbally abused and was probably upset and b) he told her not to ask cause the discussion was somehow not appropriate. The girl came forward on tumb and said she held no ill will towards Jensen and took the side of A. I'm starting to remember it more clearly now.
Yeah, a friend and I had a running joke where one of us would sigh about what a great show SPN was, and the other would reply "shame it only lasted five seasons," and we would both nod gravely. If someone who wasn't in on the joke went "uh, it's still on?" we'd just repeat "SHAME IT ONLY LASTED FIVE SEASONS" a little louder. I started losing interest a few eps into S6 and then ragequat when they killed Bobby off.
ohhhhhh. well if it was a then like, that's....at least showing concern for well being of fan, which is fine what are you talking about, Bobby is alive and well and living in ignorance is very healthy, thank you
I don't remember where I stopped watching... I think it was season 8 around? About halfway through it maybe?? I liked the Purgatory arc, so if that wasn't season 5, for me it's "shame it only lasted 6 seasons" :P
The show definitely had some terrifying fans, I feel. like the people who thought the actors were dating and tried to get one of their wives kicked from a con
or the fans who sent feathers to the show writers cause they were afraid cas was gonna get written off, and feathers are highly allergy-triggering things??
Nope! I mean hell, I've even seen that mentioned by people before - it was a comparison between how Homestuck depicted its fans and how Supernatural depicted them (I don't remember who wrote this, but I do remember going "yeah, that's exactly on-point!"). Talking about how the Supernatural fan-avatars are depicted as being just - too intense, too enthusiastic, too creepy; how the fangirl wasn't just all into Sam, but how she also wrote Wincest and curated a fan-site about that type of content, and how she got into a relationship with the author-prophet (and then basically vanished); how the gay couple was basically just there to go "yeah, that makes us Uncomfortable" and it's hard to tell if the show means people cosplaying as the actors or people cosplaying while gay. And how Homestuck went in completely the opposite direction there - Calliope's the avatar of the fandom, yeah, but the feel you get from her is that Hussie thinks she's adorable and loves her enthusiasm even if her theories aren't always right, and he wants nothing more than to see her keep producing content and theorizing, and he's delighted that she's getting so much out of his work. Whereas the feel you get from Supernatural is "please stop breathing on the art". Or at least that's the feel I get from it, anyways; they can protest that they like their fans just fine, but...that's not what they've demonstrated, in the show. (I can cheerfully believe that Jensen and Ackles adore their fans! I just...don't believe that the show does.) Yeah, I was very "UM" about Season 6 to begin with, and I never really got less so. (Heck, I was increasing levels of "um" when the whole thing with the angels got introduced to begin with, because it didn't feel like a plotline that could be done without needing to carefully rewrite everything in order to keep it from contradicting the previous worldbuilding? And it honestly sorta felt like the writers were just...shoving stuff in that looked interesting, after a bit - I'm especially thinking about the part where Trickster/Loki/Gabriel meets with the other gods and oh hey, guess what, the gods eat people. Because of course they do, never mind that none of the deities mentioned in that episode are ones who traditionally required human sacrifice! And never mind that this meant that maybe the Abrahamic god wasn't actually the one who'd made the world, and just maybe there might be a way to prevent the apocalypse without having to play along with what the angels wanted!) Oh, granted (although I'll admit that I didn't really know about...any of them, really). But the show still feels, to me, to be very hostile in how it's depicted its fans.
I stopped watching when they killed Spoiler Kevin , but I'd been losing interest and that was the last straw. Not even just because I liked him but because the writers rehashed the same damn plot over and over again for drama. (Sam wants to be Normal! He can't! Dean has manpain because someone close to him got killed! They fight and make up! THE BROTHERS AREN'T ALLOWED TO HAVE FRIENDS BECAUSE SOMETHING WILL GO HORRIBLY WRONG, THEY'LL ALWAYS BE MISERABLE AND HORRIFICALLY CODEPENDANT) I got tired. Also Charlie deserved better.
Also a lot of the female villains were just. really fucking great characters but handled or ended TERRIBLY Bela and Naomi especially :( (idk if you can call Bela a villain but she was an antagonist)
