CHOSEN ONE'S BRIDE

I'll preface this by saying my version of Season 1 is the show's Season 3, if that makes sense. I start there, so I just call it Season 1, 2 and 3 even though in the show and in canon, it's Season 3, 4 and 5.

Season 1:

Chapter One

Bonus Chapter

It sounds so self-absorbed to say, but I feel like a good portion don’t get it the way I do.

I don’t understand people when they say it’s cringe. Like, at all.

Sincerely, a mad person…

“genuine question not even trying to be petty (yet) but like how are ppl still saying dean is 100% straight after 15 seasons ??? like… based on what”

Based on Jensen Ackles being certain that the character he played for 15 years is straight. That’s what.

I understand people wanting gay representation in Supernatural. There’s nothing for the gay and queer fans, really. I understand where people are seeing “subtext” between Dean and Cas. But people who go red in the face saying that Dean is bi/gay… it’s a little too much for me.

It’s the same icky feeling I get when I go to the Shadowhunters fandom and girls are mass producing fanfics where Alec is bi/straight and has a girlfriend. That’s not his sexuality.

I talk about characters who I wish were bi/gay. I talk about characters who seemed bi/gay.

But I don’t agree with the “extremists” because I’ve seen how far people can go with it. The Destiel fandom are the most guilty. I’ve seen some harass Jensen at conventions, I’ve seen them slander him and call him homophobic. I’ve seen them try to insert themselves in his marriage with his wife. I’ve seen them wholeheartedly ship him with Misha and believe they’re supposed to be together. I don’t need to say why all of that makes me livid and uncomfortable.

There are fans who are respectful and know the difference between fiction and reality, of course.

The run-down is this:

• Season 6 was okay

• Season 7 was boring

• Season 8 is ridiculously forced

A lot of things weigh the show down post Season 5. Killing off side characters who actually matter (Ellen, Jo, Rufus, Bobby). Getting rid of overarching plotlines (demon blood, powers, John and Mary haunting the narrative, Michael vs Lucifer). Introducing piss poor love interests who are supposed to symbolise the perfect life but we have no fucking idea who these women are (Lisa and Amelia). Making the villains incredibly cringe, try-hard and not funny (Dick Roman, Lucifer occasionally and Crowley in some occasions).

Like give me Azazel, Alastair or Zachariah any day of the week over the villains in the later seasons.

The whole Sam and Amelia thing was the tipping point for me. The INCREDIBLY forced and quick enemies to lovers thing was strange. And the disruptive flashbacks—

Don’t even get me started. FLASHBACKS OF NOTHING, by the way. Sam looks at a car and he’s suddenly remembering back to a time that has nothing to do with a car. It’s so contrived. And the dog? It’s like, okay, how hallmark do we wanna go with this?

Lisa and Ben weren’t THAT bad because they were already an established pair. From Season 3. And the idea of Dean stepping up for a kid who, in my opinion, is biologically his, isn’t that unthinkable. What IS random about that whole thing is the fact that OUT OF EVERYONE, it was them who he went to and wanted protection by the angels for. As far as Dean knew, Ben wasn’t his, and Lisa was just some sex-based fling he had when he was younger. There’s nothing there. His best love interests were and always will be Cassie from Season 1 and Jo. Anyone who reduces Jo to a “sibling” — including the writers or cast — were blind or stupid.

I don’t know if Jensen and Jared were just uncomfortable with putting any kind of “want” into scenes with their love interests because they’re honest, loyal husbands but, I don’t know, a lot of it felt very stiff.

Besides all that, the constant wedge that is being pushed between Sam and Dean (where a lot of it feels out of character or blown out of proportion) was grating.

Oh, and while I like Garth and enjoy a more dorkier hunter, the episode where he was adopting Bobby’s way of speaking and his role in the community, was again… contrived. It felt awkward and none of it, including Dean’s anger, felt genuine. I understand why Dean would be pissed, but watching it play out, it just wasn’t done well. I feel like if they were gonna do it, Dean should have kept his mouth shut for the majority and then snapped and pulled the cap off Garth’s head and went in, in one moment instead of shooting him down every 10 minutes into the episode. It was all obviously just a thing to say “hey, we haven’t forgot about Bobby, look!” But it could’ve been done better, in my opinion.

I am a Negative Nancy, so people are free to attack me, but I hold this show to a high standard because it’s my favourite and has been since I was a teenager. If there’s anything I was obsessed with or nerded out over, it was this. I dress like Dean, for crying out loud. He heavily influenced me growing up. All of it did. So, yeah, I expect better from the writers and the production. And ultimately, on this rewatch, realised I was right to never watch past Season 5.

So, now, I’m rewatching True Blood — as if it wasn’t obvious.

I'm not the only one to think this, I'm sure, but the reason why Hal, Tom and Alex feel so different to Annie, Mitchell and George, to me, is primarily because for them, it isn't about being human.

Tom tries to improve himself, whether it's vocabulary or his know-how, sure. Hal tries to act more civilised and in-control, sure. Alex tries to... well, nothing, besides trying to resolve her own death and open the door. Sure, they have the job at the hotel. But this trio doesn't fight tooth and nail to have all that. We don't see them have go through the awkward parts of life. It's all quite simple and isolated. For example: they get the jobs no problem, or they don't date different people.

They're not agonising over the unreachable concept of being human, not like the original trio were. It consumed them. For Hal, Tom and Alex, being supernatural is the focus, in my opinion.

They don't fight outside forces tearing them apart, they fight amongst each other.

I don't know how else to put it into words. They obviously still try to be human, but there isn't so much desperation or effort. And I feel like they somehow didn't take advantage of the fact that these three aren't fixated on being human. They wanna change, they wanna fix themselves, but it's not to the same point as the original trio. They could've had more conversations (and better plots) surrounding the idea that they don't mind being supernatural, for the most part.

Tom IS the wolf and it works well for him. He's a warrior.

Hal is crippled by his hunger, but it doesn't drive him to murder every single time. He's capable of holding back and just feeding on someone.

And I think, if the show had gone on further and things had developed, Alex would have adapted to being dead if it meant she could still have a semblance of something with Hal.

Instead of a child, it’s a dog.

Down to the picnic blanket date stuff.

It’s the EXACT same.

Sam deserved way more than that shit. I’m not the only person to say that. I felt the same way years ago. But it’s just lazy writing. Total lazy writing.

I get it, he might have turned his cellphone off and just didn’t hear the messages, but come on…

Sam’s like a dog with a bone sometimes. You telling me that he felt helpless about not finding Dean and Cas, but didn’t help Kevin — who he actually knew was with Crowley?

Sam Winchester, who was showing up drunk and devastated, at the crossroads all the time, bartering with demons to get Dean out of Hell?

Did they just completely forget who Sam was?