absolutely! i really enjoyed the later seasons :D im glad i didnt listen to advice i got to stop at the end of s5. older sam&dean mean a lot to me and i really enjoyed their dynamic in the later seasons
its actually been pretty weird to start my first rewatch of the show now bc its such a different vibe going from the late seasons to s1 😭
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Did you not write anything for S12Ep4? I can't find it in your blog 🧐
this is so strange! i know i wrote my log for this episode bc i really liked it and i remember posting it but i cant find it anywhere on my profile either..
i had to look up the episode bc i thought maybe id accidentally skipped it somehow but its the psychic girl episode, and i know i wrote my log for that so idk what happened? maybe i accidentally deleted it somehow…
(edit: ive come to the conclusion after searching for ages that it must have just been one of those annoying things where tumblr ios goes to post something and then it doesnt post or save it ୧(๑•̀ᗝ•́)૭)
i dont really pay attention to whats popular bc i try to avoid it, so idk if my opinions are agreeable.
sam and dean—of course—they are the predominant ship i care for, id say the other ships i like are to a smaller degree.
other then that, i like sam/castiel the most of any outside-of-wincest ship. i do dabble in sam/crowley just because theyre fun.
most of my liking for sam and castiel centers around demonblood!sam. i enjoy the idea of an angel meeting such a deep believer while they have demon blood coursing through their veins, that they were cursed with rather than having with their own volition. cass having some kind of moral dilemma of not understanding how he can be expected to forsake someone as sweet as sam for having evil in him that was forced upon him, while also hating that sam is participating in furthering it.
i find sam/lucifer corruptly enjoyable as well and i love to read fics of them, but i dont like them as a ship in the sense that id want them to ever actually be together in the show lmao. i just find their dynamic and connection deeply interesting and i think especially in s5 its super intriguing.
all in all, most of the ships i like are sam-centric 𐔌*ˊᵕˋ*𐦯
what are ur interests outside of spn? and what got u into it in the first place?
i should honestly do a little about me post bc my intro isnt a usual intro post 😭 theres no info about me in it. so, ill make one of those soon so u know more about my interests outside of supernatural :D
i got into supernatural with no context other than the fact a friend of mine loves it and has been watching it since it was airing. i had heard of it from them but knew nothing about it, mainly bc they wanted me to watch with no spoilers so i avoided any until i started the show. so i basically just started watching bc my friend wanted me to get into it so they had someone to talk about it with lmao
Have you been checking out the gag reels for each season? Or are you saving those for later?
i havent seen any of them yet! i only found out about them a few seasons in, so i thought id save them all till the end instead of going back and watching ones from seasons before.
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Dude the speed at which you're watching the series is insane! I say this cuz I was on s4 when you first started watching the series lol I'm only now on s7 of my rewatch so I'll maybe catch up to you?? Maybe??
Anyways what are your fav episodes so far? As in which episode in each season do you like the best?
im definitely watching fast, im so hyperfocused on the show, i cant help myself 😭😭 im almost finished with s7 now… i think the thing that helps is that im honestly so excited to rewatch it already that im not scared by how quick im going through it.
season 5 and season 2 have been my fav seasons overall.
i feel like ive forgotten some episodes that i really liked… i mainly skimmed through the ones i tagged favorite. almost every season, i thought of 5-7 eps i adored.
so far my fav episodes of each season (i forced myself to pick only one or two) :
season 1: ep9—Home + ep11—Scarecrow + ep12—Faith
season 2: ep1—In My Time Of Dying + ep9—Croatoan + ep22—All Hell Breaks Loose Pt.2 (this was the hardest to narrow down)
season 3: ep11—Mystery Spot
season 4: ep14—Sex and Violence + ep17—It’s a Terrible Life
season 5: ep16—Dark Side of the Moon + ep18—Point of No Return
season 6: ep11—Appointment In Samarra
season 7 (so far): ep10—Death’s Door + ep20—The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo
The Born-Again Identity would have been my fav for s7 if it didnt end the way it did and if the ep was more sam focused bc i found sam and lucifer really interesting.
i think across all the seasons, my favorite episodes are — All Hell Breaks Loose Pt.2 , It’s a Terrible Life , Dark Side of the Moon , Point of No Return.
theres a few i loved i feel like ive definitely forgotten to put in… ill 100% need to rewatch to fully soak everything up though and i feel like it could change over time. (most of my favorite eps are very sam+dean dynamic focused bc thats my favorite part of the show!)
i think its a complex question tbh... i cant really give you a definitive answer bc i dont have one, but ill explain my thoughts on dean's behaviour with sam. (im only on s7 of my first watch, so i cant say this analysis applies to the whole show and i cant remember absolutely everything thats happened since im on my first watch)
i think there are a lot of parentally-installed ideas in dean’s head from john that carry into his relationship with sam in toxic ways. but most of those ideas come from abuse dean himself received. ideas like him being sam’s protector, and that its his responsibility to stop bad things from happening to sam. sometimes those beliefs manifest in dean doing things that override sam's own autonomy or ability to act for himself.
when sam does things that get him hurt, i think it triggers a deep fear in dean that he’s failing at the one main job he believes he has in life, protecting sam. when dean gets angry, it more often then not seems tied to that fear to me. he sees certain choices sam makes as sam putting himself in danger, which makes dean feel like he's failing him and not protecting sam well enough. its not completely fair sometimes, and there are moments where sam is unfairly blamed for being purposefully manipulated and taken advantage of.
dean carries a huge amount of guilt about sam leaving college and losing the chance at a normal life with jess. it comes up multiple times in the show, even as recently (for me, on s7) as when osiris puts dean on trial, sam is one of the main people dean feels guilty about. dean has never been able, so far, to shake the feeling that he’s the reason sam didnt get to live a happy life, even though we know azazel was always going to pull sam back into the hunting life anyway.
theres definitely a deep codependency between them, and its toxic a lot of the time. but its also a dynamic that would be hard for them not to develop given how they grew up. even other hunters constantly tell them that nobody gets to leave the life or be happy and normal, so eventually the boys stop believing thats even a possibility for them. it reinforces that idea that all they have is each other.
they grew up constantly moving schools, with their dad absent most of the time, leaving dean to parent sam. they've never had a stable outside-of-family community or friendships, which is extremely important in healthy development for kids. so, naturally they end up relying almost entirely on each other.
i do think there are points where dean goes a bit off the rails, and there are many times i really disagree with his actions or just the way he goes about doing things.
dean sees himself as sam’s protector and caretaker who cant open up to sam because he's supposed to be strong and stoic for him. sam sees dean as his brother and best friend, someone who is supposed to be a companion and someone he can confide in. that difference in how they view the relationship is where a lot of their arguments come from imo.
sam grew up resenting authoritarian figures because of john, meanwhile dean was raised to act as sam’s guard dog. so they clash a lot when sam doesnt listen to what dean thinks is right or when dean starts acting too authoritarian toward sam. sam doesnt want dean to be his dad, but dean's been taught his main purpose is to protect sam no matter the cost, even if the cost is sam disliking him.
when sam is in danger, dean seems to fall back into a trauma response he 100% got from john. he was punished growing up when bad things happened to sam, so sam being in danger triggers that fear again—that if he isnt constantly helicoptering sam then sam will get hurt and it will be all dean’s fault.
those are the moments i think dean ends up being the most toxic side of himself because he overlooks sam's opinions and personal ideas of whats good for himself, he thinks he needs to be the strong "logical" one and do what he believes is right for sam, even if sam disagrees.
i dont think that dynamic is very healthy for either of them, but definitely not for sam, who has had his autonomy taken from him in multiple storylines, like azazel and lucifer, there's been many moments where people try and tell him who he is or that he's supposed to follow orders and be who others need him to be, a vessel for evil.
i think the continuous stripping of sam's personal autonomy and the amount of times he's been told that he was born to be a certain thing is overlooked and very traumatic for anyone. dean making decisions for sam as if he cant decide for himself whats good for him isnt a healthy part of their relationship at all.
but, overall id say dean typically tries his best, but he definitely has times in the show so far where ive heavily disagreed with his choices, and i dont think dean was ever brought up to be someone who could always be healthy in his relationship with sam.
im curious about how other people feel about it though, and im always interested in reading peoples takes on whether they definitively would say yes or no to dean being abusive towards sam. i can see the perspective of both sides, but i mostly sit in the gray area.
honestly im not completely sure what the whole samgirl and deangirl thing is fully intended to mean 😭
i love sam the most because i relate to him and i feel like in every situation i typically, not always but most of the time, side with him because i get him and feel really connected to sammy. but im more attracted to dean so. idk what that makes me.
im a samboy in the sense that id say i love him the most and relate to him the most out of the two. but im a deanboy in the sense that im most attracted to dean :p