How I Met…Supernatural
One thing I always love to hear is how people discovered Supernatural. Some of those stories are really amazing. I had the chance to talk to some other fans at last year’s con in Barcelona and this year in Germany and I swear I never get tired of it.
I have to admit I am extremely curious (somehow I must have ended up with some cat genes). That’s why I would love to hear about it how you discovered Supernatural, the Supernatural fandom and of course TheWinchesterFamilyBusiness.com from all of you.
To kick the whole thing of I will start with my story.
I literally got forced to watch the show (some slight violence involved). Don’t believe me? Just read on!
I have to start with the fact that I am a single mom in Germany. My two boys are half American. Their Dad lives around 250 km away from us. During school breaks they visited him. Once they came back home again I asked them how their trip was and what they did. I do have to say that my boys are both very talkative. But everything was slightly different when they arrived home in late August of 2007 after their summer vacation. At the time they were 15 and 16. They barely managed to say hello and both started talking immediately about a TV show their Dad had on DVD. Of course they had watched the whole season of it and both were sorry that they had to wait till their next visit to watch season 2 since it hadn’t been out yet. They kept interrupting each other therefore I didn’t get anything so I asked what that show was called and they said “Supernatural” “That show is great. You just have to watch it.”
My question: “Well, what is it about?” “It’s everything. It’s horror, it’s mystery, it’s crime with your music on it. It’s about two brothers looking for their father and while they do that they hunt supernatural monsters like ghosts etc.” Being a mom I of course wanted to know “How about their mom?” “Oh she burns on the ceiling in the very first scene which is a back flash to the time when the brothers were little kids.” “That solves everything. I am not going to watch that show. Not if moms get burned on a ceiling in order to kick off a show.” Somehow the conversation ended right there.
A few months later, it was October 15, 2007, my boys came into the kitchen. Each one of them grabbing one of my arms and they started to pull me into the living room. I asked them what was going on but didn’t receive an answer. Instead they shoved me on the couch and seated themselves extremely close to me still holding on to my arms and each one of them through a leg over my legs. I basically was pinned to the couch in a sitting position. Once they achieved their goal they started to talk again. “Remember the TV show we told you about. The one we watched at Dad’s? It’s coming on right now and you will watch it if you like it or not.”
Let me tell you by the time we saw that shadow in Sam’s apartment they didn’t have to hold me down anymore. And when we finally saw Sam’s brother I was like I know that guy. Saw him on Dark Angel and Smallville. I like him. And then came the scene that got me hooked. The one were Dean leaves the motel room, puts up his collar glances at the police and totally calm starts calling his brother. I went “That is so Han Solo.” Do I need to tell you that I always loved that character? (Years later I found out that Kripke wanted Dean to be a Han Solo kind of guy. Let me tell you Mr. Kripke you achieved that goal. Well done). I was completely sold to that TV show from that moment on.
We watched every episode of the first season which ended hear in Germany March 31, 2008. Oh that cliffhanger. It just about killed me until season 2 finally started here late summer, 2008. And sure enough they left me hanging with another cliff hanger just before Christmas. But my older one kind of made me a very nice Christmas present. He found the show on the internet and copied the first four eps of season three onto a DVD (the original American version which made it so much better) and then the three of us sat together on the couch watching it. Addicted as we are, that wasn’t enough, so he kept burning some more DVDs. And that is how we spent most of our Christmas vacation of 2008. Somehow he wasn’t able to find season 4. Until then none of us had watched a TV show on the net and we didn’t know that all the information is out there you just need to look for it. We just figured that season 4 hadn’t shown yet in the US. But guess what we did during our Christmas break 2009. We watched season 4.
And then came the year 2010 and thanks to the world wide economic crisis I got laid off at work for nearly three months. Suddenly I had a lot of time on my hands. One morning during the second week of January I sat in front of my computer at home and the Google sign just laughed at me “Try it! Try it!” So I went ahead and typed in Supernatural and hit enter. I was completely surprised at how many hits that short word had. First link I clicked on was a youtube video. It was the Paley festival 2006. And I immediately started to adore those two actors.
During those three month I checked very often some of the other stuff I came across on the internet. Needless to say that the first I did once I found the links for it was to watch season 5 as far is it had aired yet. Although checked some Supernatural sides for more information but the stuff going on on those sides made me wish I would have never encountered them. You know the Sam-is-better-than-Dean stuff or visa versa or the same thing with Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki. And during the end of March 2010 I came across a site that had none of the above instead it had very interesting articles and decent people posting comments there. And since then TheWinchesterFamilyBusiness.com became an internet home for me.
So that is my story and now I would like to hear some of yours. I am sure you got an interesting story to tell. It could be funny, sad, exciting what ever. I sure hope none of you made a more violent encounter with the show than I did.
I would love it if we could keep this story telling alive at least till the end of hellatus.
Yirabah, thanks for sharing your story. It was very interesting. For me, I had a different kind of exposure. When Supernatural first came on, I was unable to get it even though I lived in Virginia. We got all our television programs either by television antennae (local channels only) and satellite dish. Anyway, the station that carried Supernatural couldn’t be received at our home. It wasn’t until the satellite company started carrying local channels that I was able to watch Supernatural on a regular basis. However during the time that I couldn’t see it regularly at home, I was able to still see it because my former in-laws got the local station at their house. So, on Tuesday nights, my children and I would camp out at their house. Just like you, I was hooked from the beginning…the Chevy, the good looking lead characters, the plot, etc. just had me glued to my seat.
Now, Supernatural also was a blessing at one of the darkest times in my life. I lost my husband to cancer over 2 years ago. During the time he was sick, we both looked forward to the nights that Supernatural was on. It was our way to escape reality and forget about the world. My husband loved a great scary movie and he thought Supernatural succeeded without being too campy or cheesy. Since his death, I credit the show with reawakening some dreams that I had when I was young. I’ve moved from Virginia to California and started law school and although this may sound strange, it’s helped me with the grieving process, too.
As for finding this website, I have a similar story. I “googled” Supernatural and came across the website under all the entries. I started reading all the posted articles and comments and found them to be very interesting. Not as polarized as other sites. Finally, I felt comfortable enough to join as a member and start commenting myself and the rest is history. 😀
Love ur story sorry for ur loss…
I am sorry to hear about your loss. But I already heard from other people that the show helped them through a grieving period. I bet Kripke never thought of something like that when he came up with the idea of Supernatural. And I like it that your story is the first one on here.
I know the problem with the Virginia TV stations since my inlaws live in Pulaski County.
Thanks, Jessie and Yirabah.
I bet you’re right about Kripke. Who would ever think that a show about the loss of a mother and frightening situations would help other people deal with death in their own lives? It’s strange that it does, but the show does it well. (at least in my case)
I just want to add one more tidbit about what drew me to the show. I have to admit that I’m a lifelong Days of Our Lives fan (my mother got me hooked) and I remember Jensen Ackles on the show. He played a terrific Eric Brady. He’s a great actor. As for Jared Padalecki, I watched Gilmore Girls and loved him as Dean Forrester on that show. I never understood why he was under utilized on it, but I guess that was a good thing. He moved on to join Supernatural.
I was bored a couple years ago and was browsing the guide on tv. I came across this show called Supernatural. The info said it was in Lawrence, Kansas. Which I was born there and I still live like 45 min from it. So i turned it to it and i was like ok this is cool, 2 hot brothers especially Dean-right then i would forever been Team Dean lol. And it was scary, funny, dramatic, yet simple pure entertainment. Plus the plot was real different from what else is on tv. Well after a few months it was summer and my family and i were at Best Buy. And what do i see? Supernatural seasons…i must have really liked the show because next thing i know i am buying the 1st season and finishing it in less than a month. can u say addicted lol. well then i bought all the rest of the seasons and have watched almost all the seasons over like 5 times. I am starting em over now…just started season 3 again. and that is how i met Supernatural!!!!!!
Jessie you were actually born there. That is so cool. Whenever I tell someone that I used to live in Kansas (FYI Milford and Fort Riley) and that I worked a few times in Lawrence people always go awwh.
And I haven’t found a fan yet that doesn’t own the dvds and hasn’t watched them multiple times. I myself just started last night with season 1 again.
How I met Supernatural. Well, I live out here on the West Coast of Canada, a few hours (and a ferry boat ride) away from Vancouver. I am always on the lookout for stuff filmed “locally” as I have friends in the industry and keep my eyes open for stuff they may have worked on.
When Supernatural came up as a new show, my local TVWeek Magazine made mention that it was filmed in Vancouver. So I put in on my “to check out” list. I saw the first 1/2 to 2/3 of the season but for some reason it was moving around alot. On, not on, preempted, different channel, etc. I lost track until 2 or 3 episodes into Season 2. By 1/2 way into season 2 I was addicted.
I hadn’t even begun to look around on the internet until after S2 ended and my friend said “have you seen the S1 and S2 blooper reals on YouTube?”
That did it, I went into obsessed mode, reading everything I could find.
Season 3 started and with it came the writers strike. While I was killing time during that break, I had already reached a point where I was moving away from most of the fan sites. Then I encountered this absolutely AWESOME review by one Alice Jester, posting on Blog Critics. I consumed everything she had written and posted comments.
As Alice’s reviews progressed, she found she couldn’t do what she wanted with pictures, etc in her reviews and started The Winchester Family Business.
I happen to have the title of “First Poster” as I was the first to follow her from Blog Critics to TWFB and leave a message here. Things have just kept rolling along from there.
That is very kind of your friend to inform you about something so important as the bloopers. Tell her thank you very much from the other side of the world. I enjoy the things you put up here. But I do have to admit I had some problems with your last puzzle.
I will do. Thanks. And that puzzle was a prototype, so I’ll work on it a bit more and see if I can’t incorporate some clues!
I found the shows on a “staycation.”
I got up and sat down on the couch and my mom said that she was going to check this show out because she was tired of all the stupid morning shows. It was Supernatural. I think it was “Scarecrow.”
The brothers were fighting about their father and what they should do and then they split up and we met Meg. My mom and I had NO idea who their father was or why they were looking for them or what the hell was going on really, but we knew that we liked it.
It was on TNT and it was a ton better than the damn View or whatever other morning crap.
I found it driving me crazy. Who were these guys and how is it they kicked so much ass? So, I scoured the internet for places to watch it from the beginning and found a few. I then compulsively got caught up. The more I watched, the more I liked. Then I was hooked beyond belief.
I found this place randomly searching for others who liked the show, but also found too many sites that tried to pick between the brothers or the actors or whatever. I am a Sam and Dean kinda gal, so I don’t do well with those who want me to pick. I don’t really prefer Jared or Jensen. They’re both great in their own ways so I don’t wanna hear how one is “better.”
Then I saw articles and well written ones at that talking about different aspects of the show and realized maybe I found my corner.
My story isn’t nearly as entertaining as yous, I know. No one had to sit on me to make me watch it! I have to admit I wasn’t quite awake through the first couple I saw, but it found a way to capture me—even before I’d had my coffee!
At least you watch it before your first coffee. I watched my bloody valentine right after my first morning coffee. That opening scene made me wish I watched it before I had my coffee.
I liked your story since it is one of those that tells me how you can fall for our show even if you join in the middle somewhere and still get caught up with it without knowing the back story. And you don’t sound old enough to have a couple crazy sons like me.
I think both boys can grab you and make you go “huh, what’s this!” It’s a shame it doesn’t get more press than it does, though that’s sort of changed this past season more or less.
No, no children here. I have a kitten, but no kids! He’s watched it with me, but I don’t think he cares. Unless there’s food involved, he’s not really that interested.
As for food and this show, I’ve eaten stuff through it wondering why I’m eating when there’s well, gross stuff going on on the screen. But hey, it wouldn’t be our show without gross out factor sometimes.
I’ve been a couch potato “par excellence” my whole life, so I always try to check out new shows when they first come on in the fall. When I saw the preview to Supernatural, I knew just from that first time I would be hooked. It’s scary, funny, sad, and it’s got two really cute guys, what more can you get from tv? I knew Jared from Gilmore Girls and Jensen from Smallville and Darkangel, and I liked them both.
Living in Montreal, I had Fox at the time, and when the show moved to CW, I nearly cried, cause for a while my cable provider didn’t carry that channel, so I missed a few episodes from season 3. Now I pay extra on cable just for CW, and I do it just for Supernatural, it’s worth it. That show brings me such joy. My work colleague keeps saying I’m obsessed, and yeah I guess I am. I bought seasons 1-4 as a package two years ago, and season 5 when it came out, and I’m keeping season 6 on my DVR until I get the DVDs. I’ve watched and rewatched so many times I think I know them by heart by now.
As for TWFB, I got my hands on the TV Guide from December (I think it was) and it mentioned the site, I’ve been hooked ever since, and I’ve read almost everything that’s been written. Finally, people who understand how good this show is!
So, bravo to all the writers, keep doing what you do best for fangirls (and guys) all over the globe.
Yupp our show is worth spending some money on.
Sylvie thanks for joining this faboulous site, hope to hear more from you in the future.
My English is very poor so sorry if not well understood.
My story is similar to yours my 15 year old son began to insist you watch the DVD series conosco I already told him and was certain I knew the TV. but gave no importance.
One day I sat with my son to see her so he felt he shared something with it. When I saw it I loved it when Sam saw his eyes when I fall. I felt her pain and suffering and there succumbed. but I never got addicted to leave me even more than my son I have pictures, I see all the videos I am fans of all groups, I have a small group on facebook. I saw all the chapters of each season more than twice. To me this is an addiction is part of my life and now to be out of work is my only hobby. I can not live without seeing some of Jared or Spn per day. My only dream is to someday go to a convention is hard because I live in Argentina is far away and I have no money but I’m dreaming!!
Keep dreaming Verowinchester it makes live so much better and you never know maybe one of these days one of your dreams my come true. As I said before when I was laid off I did the same thing and spent a lot of time with SPN.
OK, here comes my first comment ever on this site!
I found out about it accidentally. I wanted to see Scrubs online (that was also the only time I watched that show online (A)). I clicked on the link of the episode, but instead of Scrubs, I got an episode of some other show. It was episode 1 of season 2 of Supernatural and the first thing I saw was the recap of season 1. I didn’t know what show it was, but I was immediately interested (at that time, the show was at the end of season 4). From that on, I planned to start watching from the beginning. It actually wasn’t a great idea, because before that I couldn’t watch horror without being scared at night, and I was also in the middle of my schoolexams. But it turned out to be great: it was a great distraction of the exams and the show made me less scared of horror. I guess that had something to do with two very handsome and interesting guys.
How I found out about this site: actually not so long ago! I visited other fandomsites, and on one of them came the news that Supernatural had won the tvguide cover. In that article there was a mentioning of thewinchesterfamilybusiness.com.
I never imagined Supernatural would become such a great part of my live and interests, especially not because it can be pretty scary or nasty sometimes. Supernatural made me less scared of a lot of things and learned me lessons about family, religion and endurance.
If my English isn’t how it is supposed to be, please don’t blame me but the scholing in the Netherlands (A)
A very warm welcome to you Veer80 and thanks for coming out of the lurking.
I whole heartedly agree on SPN beeing a distraction and the lead actors being very handsome. Kripke sure gave us some eye candy there.
The english teachers in the netherlands don’t seem to be as bad as you think and we like this to be an international site.
The show was recommended to me by one of the kids in school, ‘Tis brilliant, Miss, seriously….’ Course, I was like ‘Yeah, yeah, I’ll have a look’ and completely forgot about it (cos let’s face it, what do kids know?? Ahem…)
So one night, during midterm, not being able to sleep after eating too much chocolate, I started channel surfing and happened upon Sammy locked in a cage. I watched the last 15-20 minutes of [i]The Benders[/i] and then spent the next few hours googling it. I found out they were on Season 5 so the next day, I hit Amazon and got the first 4 seasons and I’d them all watched by the time school reopened, (I don’t hang about). First half of season 5 soon followed and by then, Sky were showing it and they weren’t that far behind so by mid July I was all caught up.
At this stage, I was well into the show so I went online, mainly for recaps and analysis. I came across Alices review for [i]Mystery Spot[/i] on Blog Critics and that was it. I read all her reviews in one sitting, almost went blind (thanks for that Alice, I’ll be sending you my opticians bill any day now) and got linked onto this site.
On the way to a school match one day I was talking to said student about the show and a few other kids joined it. Turns out they were fans too so for a show that isn’t shown on local TV in Ireland, isn’t really advertised on Sky and is on at a really crappy time, it has built up quite a following, which is great.
At what stage did I realise it was important to me? Um, well it was the first time I was moved enough to comment online (which can be really intimidating!) so that was one sign but I was convinced when Season 6 started. At the time we just had dialup at home as the broadband hadn’t been set up yet, so downloading new episodes wasn’t an option. There was no way I was waiting until Monday to download so, for the first four episodes, I ended up driving for over an hour every Friday evening to my brothers house, in order to be able to download it the next morning. Now obviously, I loved spending time with my nieces and nephew as well but…..
So that’s about it. Thrilled I found the show, thrilled I found this site because being able to discuss, debate, (argue!) and generally having a support system really adds to my enjoyment of the show.
Not to long ago I read an article that said that SPN is a show for young teenage girls. Seems the guy writting it never come across one of us Tim. Women who passed that age by, oh let’s say, a day or two.
I enjoy it how this show is able to connect the young once and the not so young once.
And FYI my oldest one has a SPN party going in his room right now. They just starting season 5 today. My boys are really good at getting everybody who dares to enter our place hooked to the show.
Really? When I started watching this show, based on the content and the way the boys spoke and acted I could of sworn it was written for young men. Shows what I know!
My sons, now 18 and 19 would agree with you that it is a show for young men
I suppose they would, but so far it seems the large portion of fans I’ve encountered are female! Go figure.
Mine isn’t a very fascinating story, but here goes:
The summer before season 1 started, I read a small blurb in Entertainment Weekly about new shows. Supernatural was one of them and was described as “a blue-collar Buffy.” Since I was a big Buffy fan, I decided to give the show a try and watched it when the pilot first premiered. Even though I’m not a huge horror fan, I was instantly hooked. It was one of the shows to kick off my first year at college and one of the few shows to survive my new irregular schedule. I loved the characters and had to know what was going to happen next for in the story. I watched it regularly until the writers’ strike. Since I wasn’t involved in the online community, and never saw Supernatural advertised, I didn’t know it had returned and never caught the season 3 finale when it originally aired. It was actually during my study abroad the July before season 4 that I even knew Dean’s fate. (I was up late and came across a block of American shows the local station aired). It reaffirmed my love and I became a weekly watcher for season 4 and beyond. Though it was a little awkward when I had to explain to one of my professors how I knew who Lilith was. 🙂
As for this site, I was doing random googling in the computer lab and came across Alice’s reviews on Blog Critics. When she moved here, I followed which brings us to today.
Youtube searches for previews and music videos based on Supernatural led to Comic-Con and Paisley Fest panels which led to an adoration for the show’s cast and crew.
Since then, I have gotten 2 close friends, a brother, sister-in-law, and my mom into this show. Hopefully more will be on the way. 😉
That was more than I planned to type, but there it is.
Funny how this show managed to draw so many of us into the internet community. Like you I adore the whole cast. I absolutly enjoy getting the behind the scenes informations until SPN I only got something like that on TV when they showed a behind the scens docu of a movie.
Why did you have to explain to your professor about Lilith? Are you studying by any chance theology?
Keep up the good work and spread our addiction.
Lilith came up in my Human Sexuality class when we were discussing how various religions approach sex and gender roles. The comparisons between the Old and New Testaments eventually came up.
Though I [i]do[/i] have an interest in theology and mythology that Supernatural fueled by giving me reasons to do my own research on Azazel, Castiel, tricksters, etc.
You want a boring story, here goes:
I love horror. I am a fan of Buffy, Angel, American Gothic, the Crow (original movie only and the tv series), and Dead like Me.
Chick shows like Gilmore Girls are not my style. 8)
I have watched Smallville from day one. But I have always hated Lana Lang. I hated every storyline of hers. I believe that Clark belongs with Lois and hated the way they put him with Lana. Long story short, I HATED Jason Teague. OMG did I hate him. I think back now, and I am ashamed of myself. 😆 Anyway, when he was killed, I was so happy.
When I saw the new shows for Sept 2005, ‘Supernatural’ looked good because it was a horror show. So I watched ‘the Pilot’ and was hooked, but ‘Dean’ looked familiar to me. So I looked for some articles and found that he was the dreaded Jason Teague. But, I got over it and am a DeanGirl til the bitter end.
As for this wonderful site. I had a piece of crap computer and never searched the web or anything in the beginning of the whole SPN fandom. But then I got a new one and found Supernaturalwiki. There I found a whole world of SPN sites and one of them was the WFB, and the rest is history.
Like I said, BORING. :zzz :zzz
I think it’s funy that you hated the character on Smallville (I never watched it) and then Jensen won the role of Dean and you love Dean. That’s kind of amusing—so not a boring story!
On the contrary NancyL, I like it. It proofs that good looking cast is not the only thing that draws one to a show.
I myself not much on soap operas, never seen an ep of days of our lives. I surfed into Gilmore Girls a few times and the only good thing in there was Dean.
Yirabah, if Jared and Jensen were FUGLY, but that was the only difference in the show, I would still watch it.
You could have the prettiest cast *cough* Gossip Girl *cough* but if the writing is crap and the characters suck, it would still be a terrible show.
Hey NancyL, not so boring, kinda sounds like me actually. I LOVE anything horror, whether it’s TV, movies or books, I will always gravitate towards it. Mentioning American Gothic made me reminisce on how good of a show that was, and of course it died a quick death.
Ah well, thank God SPN is still around, because I would have hated losing that one too soon.
Agree with you on the whole Lana Lang storyline, I absolutely couldn’t stand her!
Sylvie, and then the kicker was, we kept getting teased with Lana dying, but she always seem to get healed.
Then she got the ‘kryptonite powers’ or whatever it was and when she got close to Clark he would get sick. I figured that TPTB would find a way to keep them together, but then she had to leave and I did the happy dance.
My teenage daughter started watching the show during season 1. I had seen a few ads and passed it off as another cheesy teenflick. In fact, she was told to watch it downstairs because I didn’t want to have to listen.
I finally decided to watch ep 3 of season 1 to see what she was going on about. The show was better than expected, but I didn’t think too much about it. By the time Faith showed I was completely addicted and have been ever since.
The show and many of the better fanfic writers have provided something to share with my teenagers when sometimes it was hard to find common ground on anything else.
I am a professional, but have a very blue collar upbringing. There is something very satisfying about the core values at the center of this show.
The show and the music that came with it have been a critical distraction and release valve.
Something that I swore I would never stoop to watch has become a very unexpected part of my life. And this from a person who follows essentially no other TV…
Teenagers can be sometimes … well you know what I mean. Hopefully those discussions are peacefully.
When I got home from the con in Germany last month both my teenagers were standing in the hall way and drilling me with questions. It took me over an hour to even make it to the bathroom. I loved it.
Hi Yirabah
I’m Canadian so, of course, my Supernatural story will involve hockey. (Snicker, snicker..)
My husband and I share a spot on a co-ed hockey team. Way back in Season 4, it was his turn to play, and mine to stay home and tuck in our young daughters. I had a few minutes to kill before Battlestar Galactica started on the SPACE channel, so I decided to watch the show that was still on.
Truth be told, I thought it was a commerical at first. Some gorgeous guy, who was descending into a hole, saying “Please, nothing grab my leg. Please, nothing grab my leg.” I was mildly intrigued, but did some more channel-surfing. I returned just in time to see Cute Guy #1 Now Out of the Hole, talking to Taller Cute Guy #2 about his time in Hell, and how he had tortured souls and liked it.
That had me Hook, Line and Sinker. I love shows and stories that deal with issues of love, live, faith, sacrifice, death, the hereafter.
It was coming up to March Break so I raced to the library to get the DVD’s. Unfortunately, they only had the Season 2 set, so I watched a few of them, completely out of order. And then when the Season 1 became available I watched a few of them. Dumb, dumb, dumb to watch out of order, but who knew?
I was also searching the internet for information, and tuning in to new Season 4 episodes. My workplace was going through tremendous upheaval, so as a treat I bought myself Season 1 & 2 and watched them in order this time. Much more satisfying. And then my wonderful husband bought me Season 3 as a surprise “Love You” present.
I am now totally obsessed and am teased by my children (who love to do their own Eye of the Tiger sing-along), my husband and the people I work with. I confess I’m probably a DeanGirl, for reasons I’m not entirely sure of, except that he reminds me of my husband, and a few other special people I know.
As for finding the WFB, I stumbled on it somehow, and am grateful I did. I took the leap from lurker to commenter after this season’s Family Remains episode. And at Christmas made the leap to writer. In fact my first article “Why Happily Married Middle-Aged Women Love the Winchesters” examined my own devotion to the show, through my slightly warped outlook on the world.
I find SPN tickles my muse, both the philosophical and satirical. And getting a chance to be creative with words again, after a number of years away from that, is quite gratifying.
But now, I’ll shut up. I really do talk too much. (Maybe Dean reminds me of me!)
Being German I always thought those comments about canadians and hockey are exaggerated. And here you are telling me I was wrong.
SPN seems to teach a lot of us to be brave and therefore the more shy once (lurkers) dare to join the community.
When we first saw that eye of the tiger scene me and my boys had to rewind it over and over again and couldn’t get enough it.
I loved your article and hope to see more of them in the future.
Hi Yirabah,
In the interest of full disclosure, I should make it clear that not all Canadians are quite as hockey obsessed as we are (my 2 daughters also play!). Although, even as I write this, about 7+ million Canadians are watching the final game of the Stanley Cup series. (It looks like Boston is going to win. Too bad for Vancouver, the home of Supernatural. Perhaps the Bruins laid some nasty mojo on the ice!)
The truth is I do like to play with our national stereotype a bit.
Thank you too for your kind words about my article. I have written more articles, and they’re all archived under my name in the Writers section. (sorry for the public service announcement.)
Thanks for encouraging us all to reminisce a bit. Have a great day!
How I met Supernatural…Well, my mom and sister started watching the reruns of TV summer of 2010. I remember seeing bits and pieces that I now recognize as “Asylum” or “Nightmare”, but at the time, I held out. It’s hard to believe, but I hated the show at first sight. “The lighting’s weird!” “This is gross!” “This is boring!” On and on I went.
Then, January of 2011 was my Regents exam week. I was home from school that Tuesday. So I was on the couch listening to my iPod and reading a book while my mom folded towels and watched-what else?-Supernatural. All of the sudden, I happened to look up. It was the scene where Dean talks to dead Sam in AHBLP2. I knew the basics of the show- or at least I thought I did; I knew they were brothers, but I thought Jessica was their sister, lol- and was VERY confused as to why one of the main characters was dead. And Jensen’s acting actually made me tear up a bit. My heart broke.
So, I went online, Googled the show, and now I’m here, 5 months later and devoted as could be. I wish I could’ve gotten into the show sooner, but I’m glad I did.
Now that is the first time that I hear somebody say they actually hated the show. Cudos to your bravory to admit to it. But at least the acting abilities caught your eye. I am glad you made it on here.
I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything. My favorite book, artist, and other favorite show, Criminal Minds, I hated before I loved. I’m like that with people too, lol. Why? I don’t know. Just the way I work, I guess. (But now, I’m about as devoted as a fan can get. I write some fanfiction and know more about the show and the actors than my mom and sister now.)
My journey to Supernatural began because of an actor that has nothing to do with the show, oddly enough. Several years ago, I was extremely bored while my husband was out of town for three weeks. I ended up watching a bad TV movie, the name of which I can’t remember, staring Christian Kane. I was sure I had seen him somewhere before, but after checking out IMDB, I realized that I hadn’t. But I saw that he had been on Angel. Since I had a couple of weeks until my husband came home, I decided to buy the series and watch it while I had the house to myself. The next time he was out of town, I bought the boxed-set of Buffy. I watched both of these series obsessively for a while, and then started to read reviews and fanfiction. In my readings in that fandom, I kept seeing things like, “Who is more badass? Buffy and Angel or the Winchester brothers?” As soon as I found out who the Winchester brothers were, I had to buy all the available seasons of Supernatural. This was the summer before season 5. I was never able to get my husband to watch Buffy and Angel with me, and I had watched 4 seasons of Supernatural probably 3 times through consecutively before I could get him to watch it. Now, he’s hooked as well, and we watch an episode of Supernatural before bed every night. My love of Joss Whedon shows is strong, but pales in comparison to my obsession with Sam and Dean.
My journey to Supernatural began because of an actor that has nothing to do with the show, oddly enough. Several years ago, I was extremely bored while my husband was out of town for three weeks. I ended up watching a bad TV movie, the name of which I can’t remember, staring Christian Kane. I was sure I had seen him somewhere before, but after checking out IMDB, I realized that I hadn’t. But I saw that he had been on Angel. Since I had a couple of weeks until my husband came home, I decided to buy the series and watch it while I had the house to myself. The next time he was out of town, I bought the boxed-set of Buffy. I watched both of these series obsessively for a while, and then started to read reviews and fanfiction. In my readings in that fandom, I kept seeing things like, “Who is more badass? Buffy and Angel or the Winchester brothers?” As soon as I found out who the Winchester brothers were, I had to buy all the available seasons of Supernatural. This was the summer before season 5. I was never able to get my husband to watch Buffy and Angel with me, and I had watched 4 seasons of Supernatural probably 3 times through consecutively before I could get him to watch it. Now, he’s hooked as well, and we watch an episode of Supernatural before bed every night. My love of Joss Whedon shows is strong, but pales in comparison to my obsession with Sam and Dean.
Christian Kane might not have anything to do with Supernatural but sure enough with Jensen Ackles since those two are close friends and both are in “The plight of Clownana”. The third one in that group is Steve Carlson. Who some might know from SPN conventions. And he is actually one of my favourite singers and sonwriters. You might like to check out the six degrees of Jensen Ackles even so it is dated back in 2007 http://supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Six_Degrees_of_Jensen_Ackles
Love it that you managed to get your husband hooked too.
I’m late to this party, and my story isn’t very interesting and it’s been told here before, but here goes.
I was a fan of Smallville and watched it religiously as I adored the story of the relationship of Clark and Lex and how poor Lex was slowly turning evil because of his evil father and the mistrust of people he considered his friends. Forget Lana, as she was just a waste of space as far as I could see. It was the drama of Lex, Lionel and Clark that hooked me to that show. (and Michael Rosenbaum was absolutely awesome as Lex).
Anyway, in season 4 of Smallville this new guy Jason showed up and I just knew I’d seen him before (good looking guy, wow!) then remembered he was Eric on Days of Our Lives when I watched that soap. Then Jason turned evil and was mashed by a meteor in the season finale.
The next season, Smallville was followed by a new show called Supernatural and one of the stars was the guy who’d played Jason. But I have to confess that for 2 and a half years Supernatural was playing in the background while I futzed around on the computer not paying much attention at all to it. I do remember when the Impala got blindsided and they all looked dead and I thought, well I guess that’s the end of that series and I’m glad I didn’t get interested as it was a crummy ending. I was such a brain dead dummy!
Then A Supernatural Christmas was aired. Well, I’m not a fan of mushy Christmas stories so I paid some attention to the Santa Claus who dragged a poor kid’s dad up the chimney!!! My kind of Christmas show! Ha! Anyway, I PAID ATTENTION finally to the show and was blown away by the story of the two brothers, didn’t know why it was Dean’s last Christmas and found I was very interested to find out. The ending with the exchange of gifts and the last Christmas Sam was giving Dean just brought me to tears and the hook was in and hasn’t gone out yet. My eyes well up even now after seeing that scene over and over with all of my rewatches.
I had to know what had gone before when I was ignoring the show so immediately ordered seasons 1 and 2 and the love began
between the two brothers and me, the fan.
I found I needed my fix every day so I would rewatch 2 shows each night and do so to this day. I have my little drinkie and watch two episodes of the show I love more than any other ever! 😛
As to the WFB I found Alice’s blog elsewhere. The one about how a little show that could succeed in spite of it’s network ignoring it. From there I got on the WFB where I find the happy home I love without all the hate and backbiting on most of the other sites. Can’t stand the Dean vs Sam crappola posted by shallow unpleasant fans.
Yes, I too am obsessed by Dean and Sam and thank the powers that be who created and produce and act for this awesome series.
And I love all these stories about how this obsession began for others. 😉
and I quote, ‘Forget Lana, she was just a waste of space as far as I could see.’
Bevie, YOU are my new best friend. 😉
I am wondering what kind of stuff you were doing on your computer that it managed to keep you from watching what was right in front of you. But it looks like it that if someone is somehow in the close vicinity of Supernatural the show will get them sooner or later.
I am glad you enjoy this story telling as much as I do.
Just surfing or playing games or emailing. I had to turn my head to see what the TV was showing and that’s how I missed out on the best show ever.
And nancyL – I got so I actually hated that character every time she showed her face on Smallville. Absolute nauseating! I was so happy when she was gone, but dang it! she kept coming back!!! 😡
LOL, she was like a roach, no matter how many times you squashed her, she still wasn’t dead.
How did I discover Supernatural? Quite by accident. In January of 2010 I decided to take a day off of work. Fortunately TNT was running a Supernatural marathon that day. (I tried to add the smiley face here but I can’t make it work.) My husband had the TV on but wasn’t exactly watching. I was puttering around the house doing my thing and hearing this strange show coming from the TV. I asked my husband what he was watching and he said “I don’t know, some show called Supernatural” I replied with something like “it sounds dumb” and I went about my business. Fortunately he kept watching. At one point I walked into the room at the same time Sam and Dean were killing the monster of the week. Dean made one of his smartalec remarks and Sam didn’t see the humor. I liked what I saw and I wanted to see more. With one little scene they had me, although I have absolutely no idea what episode it was. I clicked record all on the DVR and walked out of the room. Later in the day I sat down to watch and picked Mystery Spot. I was hooked right then! I loved the relationship between the brothers, I loved the humor and I loved how they successfully pulled off Ground Hog Day. I was really struck by the look on Dean’s face when Sam had the Trickster who said the joke is on Sam, “watching your brother die over and over again. You can’t save him”. There are no words to describe that look yet it spoke volumes. Then top it off with Sam’s expression at the end when he left the motel room. Absolutely heartbreaking. Plus, I HAD to know what Sam had to save Dean from. You can only imagine my joy when I learned later that week my sister-in-law had all 4 seasons on DVD. I didn’t even know there were 4 seasons. I still didn’t know new episodes were being aired. I am now the proud owner of all 5 seasons and looking forward to season 6 being released.
I must say that I have thoroughly enjoyed season 6. I enjoyed trying to figure out what was wrong with Sam. Of course I was way off base but I think soulless Sam was brilliant. I know many do not agree and were anxious for the two to be “our” brothers again. I knew Sam would get his soul back so I decided to just sit back and enjoy.
As for how I discovered this website, that also was quite by accident. I really don’t know the answer. I also somehow discovered Bardic’s Descant and became a fan of hers so I was very happy when she joined this site. I have never been to the sites referred to where things are not happy and I have no desire to go looking. This one is awesome. My thanks to everyone for your articles and your comments. It makes the show itself even better.
Does your husband share your obsession? Have you ever asked your sister-in-law why she never told you about the show before? You might want to have a talk with her about that.
Nope, my husband does not share my obsession but he does like to watch it with me. However, he does not get traumatized if he misses an episode or two. I would just die! As for my sister-in-law, I will have to have a chat with her. Thanks for asking.
This is my first time ever commenting on a fan-site and it has taken every ounce of courage to write this and hit send.
My saga begins in 2009 when my two grown children, knowing I was a fan of shows like Buffy and Angel, wanted me to watch a show called Supernatural. I don’t honestly know why, but the first episode did nothing for me. But my daughter was persistent, so I sat down with her and watched Wendigo and was entertained, then Dead in the Water and I was hooked. Seasons 1-6 have compelled me with the dead-on acting, witty writing, awesome photography and directing, and unbelievable risk-taking. This show will tackle any taboo subject, crazy meta, hilarious comedy and down-right tear-jerking family drama.
While my husband and children watch every episode and love the show they are not as “obsessed” (their word) with it as I am. I admit I watch every episode many times, analyze and re-analyze, read reviews and analysis on-line, watch con videos, and music videos, etc.
I was beginning to think I was headed for a psychiatrist’s couch or a straightjacket until I read Pragmatic Dreamer’s article Why Happily Married Middle-Aged Women Love the Winchesters. Though I am far past middle-aged, I felt like I was not alone; that other people feel like I do about the show and the characters.
I have visited many dicey sites, but TWFB seems the warmest and most welcoming site on the web.The depth, breadth, and quality of the writing by the staff and commentators of The Winchester Family Business continues to impress and amaze me.
Thank you for all you do and I apologize for the length of this reply.
Hi Marilyn,
Congratulations on your first posting!! Fun isn’t it? And, oddly liberating. I warn you though, it gets addictive too, just like the show!
I’m so thrilled and excited and pleased to know my article struck a chord with you. (Reading your note almost made me cry!)
I wrote that article because I was starting to wonder about my own sanity, so I’m very happy to know it confirmed your own! (Or, maybe it just let you know it was okay to be obsessed like the rest of us. Either way, I’m really glad to hear it meant something to you.)
Happy watching, reading, and commenting!
Pragmatic Dreamer 🙂
Welcome marilyn to the commentators. You will like it and as pragmatic Dreamer said it can get addictiv too.
I did a happy dance here upon reading that someone else got forced by their kids to watch the show.
Hey Yirabah, interesting topic! So, here goes my story: came home late one night, couldn’t sleep and turned the tv on. Zapped through the only 4 channels I had then. On one of it a huge truck was chasing a cool looking car. Zapped away for I’m not really into car races. Zapped back for the other programmes sucked. Foggy night, some ruins, that cool car with a cute driver, the truck crashes into them … wow! It took me a while to find out what that show was, I wasn’t online then, and the channel kept changing airing times. I missed most of the episodes but was intrigued. One of the eps I got to watch was the S1 finale – and it made me think that that was the end of the show. Shocking! I wanted more! Since there were no infos available anywhere, I really did think it was over, but kept checking out teletext just in case if there might be some more. And there was, the channel actually continued airing S2 right after the S1 finale. And I was hooked. Unfortunately, after S2 finale it was cancelled, and I did the only thing I could: get internet, and buy the S1-3 DVD box. I watched all 3 seasons during 1 week while vacationing in my grandpa’s house, all alone in a little village in the mountains. No, it didn’t freak me out, and I don’t even like horror. I loved SPN! Next thing, I had to get an adsl-flat rate-internet connection, for Croatian tv had no interest in continuing the show. Ever since I’m watching it online.
And since I’m not a native english speaker, had to finally learn how that internet works so I could read the reviews and episode guides. Found Bardic’s decant, and somewhere a link to TWFB, can’t remember where. Never really read any other sites but supernatural-tv. By now I’m perfectly okay with TWFB, thank you very much, kind writers 🙂
I have never followed any shows, and don’t like horror, my kind of shows/movies are “China Beach”, “Northern Exposure” and “You rang, mylord”, “Fried green tomatoes” and “Into the wild”. Though today I have more than 30 channels, I don’t really watch tv nor surf the net. But am every week turning on my PC to watch SPN, and then read TWFB, even comment. I can’t believe I’m doing this, but this means one thing for sure: it’s a great show!
Last fall croatian tv has finally aired S3, but at an ungodly hour. It has absolutely no promotion (as far as I know), and I haven’t met anyone who knows about it, or watches it. I told all my friends about it and they shake their heads about my obsession, but noone wants to watch tv on friday nights at 1 a.m..Talk about the television company buying a golden hen for a cow.
Freebird good to hear from you again.
What a waste of money of that television company. Your right about that golden hen so.
Some TV stations make it really hard to follow some shows. Here in Germany they manage every now and then to mess everything up. For example this year they were showing season 4 on Mondays but every now and then they aired a season 2 episode in the middle of it.
Yeah, I’ve been away for a while, and living 100km/h right now. Missed so many articles here 🙁
I know about the German tv, I watch them too, for I was born and raised in Germany. They also messed up the episode ordering right from the beginning. Really. When there is so much bad tv out there, what a shame!
Well, but it’s not so bad to be part of an underground cult following, now is it 😉
Greetings to Germany!
Lara
Hi Yirabah!
Great to hear from you. I didn´t remember why I loved the show right from the start in Germany in October 2007 but now I do. Here goes my story…
In october 2007 my baby boy was…. yes half a year old and I remember watching the pilot/teaser terrifed for what happend to the baby. Because my little one was sleeping upstairs in his baby cot. Seeing the boys grown up and looking so handsome plus in interesting story keept me hooked.
After seeing the final S3 I looked in the internet and found in youtube “Lazarus Rising” and told my hubby “Dean is alive agine”.
I looked in diverent sites and ended up on Jasminka and her analyis of Deans time in hell. Since then I here and inted to stay. Season 6 is the first one I watched online every Saturday morning, because it runs on Saturday at 3am. Season 1 to 5 was my christmas present from my husband and thanks god he likes to watch Supernatural too, but dosen´t see the point in watching the same epidsode 5 times.
I am so happy you made it on here too Junkerin. Told you before you must have an amazing husband but why doesn’t he like to rewatch the episodes at least 5 times? Maybe you should point out to him the pretty young ladies. Oh wait, there isn’t one in each ep.
Hi, I have finally been shamed into writing on a blog, (lurkers?). I also love this topic, so here goes . . . My 28 year old daughter introduced me to Supernatural while visiting last Thanksgiving. I was more interested in spending time with her, and she really wanted me to watch the show, so we did, and by the time she returned to school, I was hooked, not yet obsessed, just intrigued. In January my daughter and I went on a rode trip. She just finished her 4th year as a doctoral student and was interviewing for internship positions, 8 sites in 5 cities. We spent two weeks together, flying and driving to several cities where she had interviews scheduled. We also watched Supernatural at every opportunity. She only brought seasons 1-3 with her, never dreaming we would finish them, so we had to buy seasons 4 and 5. We also had to buy a DVD player, as one hotel did not have them available. Best story is the night we got into Houston, late, checked into our hotel and discovered we would not be able to play our DVD (some restricted thing on TV). We called around, found a new place, checked out, moved to new motel, which is when we discovered they usually rented the rooms by the hour!! Very creepy place, but we could watch our DVDs. We didn’t take our clothes off, and tried not to touch anything. We did, however, enjoy our Supernatural fix for the day. At this point we realized we had lost sight of the big picture, her interviews, and we were both officially obsessed Supernatural fans, and proud of it.
Having Supernatural Obsessed Disorder, I began reading everything I could find on the web, which is how I found TWFB. I love this site!!! So many others have too much Dean/Sam girl stuff and hate for any differences. I was a little worried about myself (I had changed from a soccer mom into a stalker mom) until I began reading the articles you write and post from others. I have never been much of a TV watcher, and couldn’t figure out why this show. I am more comfortable now, and have started to share my obsession with my friends, going so far as to buy several season 1 DVDs to give away. My husband, while not obsessed, really enjoys the show and has watched all 5 seasons 2 times, and we are beginning season 1 again. We have had many wonderful discussions about faith, God, love, family, loyalty, hell, evil, and on and on, directly because of this show.
My daughter will begin her internship this September at a hospital just North of Seattle, and more important, very close to Vancouver. I planned on surprising her with tickets to the Vancouver Convention being held just before she begins her internship. Being new to the fandom, I had no idea how quickly the tickets would go. I went to buy us tickets (gold, so we could do everything!!!) and discovered they were all gone. We also wanted to do the location tour, also gone. WOW. Supernatural fandom is an amazing group of people. We will make a convention soon, and what we look forward to the most is meeting and talking with other fans.
Jily4 a very warm welcome to the commentators to you too. I am actually surprised that my curiosity got so many out of their lurking spot and dare to comment for the first time. Never the less it makes me absolutly happy.
To visit VanCon is one of my dreams too. Maybe one day.
Since I live in Germany and our Conventions are organized by someone else I don’t know much about Creation. But usually there is someone who has to give back their ticket because of some weired reason and then shortly before the con some tickets might be available again. I suggest you keep checking on the creation webside, their twitter or facebook. Anyone stateside might know more about that and give you some better information.
Talking live to other SPN fans is one of the best things ever. You will absolutly love it.
One of my first comments on the cbox after my first convention was: I caught a virus in Barcelona. I don’t need a doctor to get it diagnosed. I know what it is. It’s called the Con Virus.
so this is my story too … I made an errand on youtube in 2008 and found by accident a vid of comic con where fans shouted at Jared and Jensen “I love you” and one said “I got it first” and the other said “I got it louder”. it was fun and I thought “who are these men ?” One night later, I was stuck on Supernatural. I watched all the episodes in almost three weeks. I can say that I didn’t sleep a lot in these times. I discovered that the show was way better in english than in French (french translations suck A LOT) and I saw the episodes two or three times to understand, bought a dictionary, searched a lot in urban dictionary etc … Now, I can watch an episode (mostly) without help. I discovered a side of this country we doesn’t know in France, and I like the culture.
This is the first time in my life that I am a fan of something. This show is with me everyday of my life. It’s so well written, that it gives me shivers sometimes. I always say that it’s the most realistic show about human condition I éver seen. I can speak about it like two hours without pause, so I make it short. This show is an entire beautiful, painfull, funny, emotional tidal wave. It’s well written (Ben Edlund, I love you), so well played it’s insane, and … well, it’s the best. I buy all the DVD sets, and when my son is old enough, I’m going to make him sit and watch it with him because for me, it’s an experience all in its own, something very special. Like nothing else I know.
I come here everyday because it’s the only place I know where I can read and write (a little) about Supernatural without cringe. I’m happy to have found this site.
And in some points, I can say that Supernatural help me when life is a bitch, and change me. I don’t know what I’ll do at the end of the show. The end is coming, I know it, but it’s in me for so long, I don’t know.
Trust me the french translations is not the only one that sucks. At one point the german version translated “Don’t forget my pie” with “Don’t forget my burger”. That sure is a big No-No for any SPN fan. And the voices don’t do Sam or Dean justice.
Isn’t it freaky how this show manages to get so many of us “normal” people to turn into fan girls (boys).
Quite thinking about the end of our show. Enjoy the ride while it lasts.
Yirabah, that is a crime. 😮 (damn, I need a pissed off face) Dean can live without burgers, but he has to have his pie!!!!!!!!! 😆
What a wonderful topic Yirabah. I’ve loved everyone’s stories.
For me, my love for this show was kind of a perfect storm scenario. I’ve always loved fantasy and scifi and love comic books. So of course, I was watching Smallville. It just seemed like a no brainer for me to watch Supernatural when it came on afterwards.
My obsession for this show really didn’t set in though until toward the end of Season 3. Things at work started to get rough and I was unhappy and well pretty darn depressed, so I began to neglect work a tad and surf the net. It started with LiveJournal. I had an account and on a whim I typed in Supernatural. And wow, the communities I found. It was then that I found this wonderful thing called fanfic and I was addicted. Seriously, addicted.
Finally, I decided that I needed to start doing this at home because if I kept this up, I was going to get fired. I upgraded to high speed Internet access at home and I was off. I just couldn’t get enough of Supernatural at that point. It was filling a hole for me that real life wasn’t. I bought all the DVDs and began surfing sites that talked about the show. But there was only one site that I felt at home at and it was this one. The wonderful and thoughtful articles and the respectful comments and amazing people has kept me here.
By Season 5, I had to admit I was thoroughly addicted to this show. It was difficult not to gush about it all the time. At one point, my hubby jokingly commented that I needed an intervention. But I won’t hear of it. I have often said that I don’t watch this show for the pretty. There is a ton of pretty on TV right now. What show has ugly people on it? No, I watch for the wonderful writing and amazing acting (which seems to get better and better every time). The pretty is just a bonus. 😉
My addiction hasn’t waned over the years. I think I’m more addicted than ever. I recently got a Droid and picked up Twitter. And who did I add to my account first? Not my friends but Misha and Jim Beaver. I think they heard my squee three states over when Jared got his Twitter account.
But the icing on the cake for me is that I will finally get to meet my favorite stars in October when I go to the convention in Toronto. In all the years that I have loved this show, I’ve never been to a convention. I’ll tell you, it has been my light at the end of the tunnel since I bought the ticket in January. I can’t wait.
So that’s my story. Not terribly dramatic and a little long winded. :zzz
Jeannine long time no talk. It’s good to hear from you again.
You are absolutly right about the things that make this show good. I just want to add a few things to that. I also admire the work of the special effects team (would love to be a fly on Ivan Haydens shoulder for at least a day) and the lighting team. Nearly all their picks of directors and oh I could go on.
Just one more thing. I enjoy the bonus too.
I wish you lots of fun at Toronto Con.
Hi Yirabah! Ooo, I like this idea. And I’ve loved all these stories!! You all have interesting and different experiences.
Mine is, sadly, not that unique but that has never stopped me from sharing it 😀
So, a local channel started promoting SPN here (Finland) in -06. With the whole “Scary got sexy” -gimmick and I absolutely hated it! I remember seeing the adds and being all “Pretty boys hunt monsters! Sheesh, what a Buffy-wannabe!” Buffy was at that point the it-show for me, and I ‘thought’ I was massively obsessed with that one. With watching it and taping episodes, yes taping shut up, and rewatching 🙂
Then SPN season 1 started and I remember my hubby used to watch an eppie here or there and said it’s ok but I just wouldn’t watch it, the pretty boy show I called it. Boy, talk about ignorant right? 🙂
Well, it was the spring of 08 when I happened upon AHBL p.1 while channel surfing and kept watching bits and pieces while I surfed other channels. But it started to grow interesting more and more. Ofcourse the last 15 mins I was glued, and SO sure Sam was going to prevail. I mean what show kills of one of it’s (of two) leads?!! I was chuckling along and then WHAM! SAAAAM!!! My god that ending slayed me. I had to know (like OMG-RIGHT-THE-FECK-NOW-SAAMMMYYYYY!!!) if this was the last eppie, and thankfully I learned through the telly that it wasn’t. THEN, after an excruciating weeklong wait I finally got the part 2 which sealed the deal. I called myself allkinds of lovely, christian names for letting this show fly under the radar for me so long. Later I hopped online and started to find out if there were anymore seasons around, and found season 3 which I watched at some pretty lowsy website with the most worse film quality… And at the end of that season I was truly freaking out and ‘scouring’ the net for info of the 4th season. Once that worry was eased, I started to look for any kind of info about SPN. So, during the summer of 08 I found out that there are actual fan communities and pretty much found out about fandoms in general. So far my internetting was mostly about playing games and talking with friends and family so I had no idea folks. It was a brave new world 😀 Also ordered the first 3 seasons DVDs and watched them all straight through. There just weren’t enough hours in a day and also that pesky work -thing kept interrupting 🙂
I happened upon a review of Alices at Blog critics and really loved her style. She kept talking about this other website ( I don’t remember the name of it sorry, it was prior to this one, but equally amazing) she had but I didn’t check it out at first. I was too paranoid to comment since I felt a little… well heh, paranoid to post stuff online, beeing a newbie and all. I still don’t comment anywhere else… Well, I do have a lj account but mainly so that I can read SPN fanfic, lol. Which is amazing. Sadly, LJ also brought to my attention the whole Sam vs Dean “squabble” which is just wrong in my book. Now I’ve read (too) much of that crap that I know what places to avoid. But I still kinda wish I hadn’t found out about it, it just dims the love a little. 🙁 So it is a double edged sword, there are so many wonderfull things about SPN fandom and then there’s the sour side which makes you pull your hair out. Thank Chuck, we haven’t had much of that here at WFB and thank you Alice. You rock so much, there aren’t words. You’ve brightened my life with this kickass site
Oops. The rest of the comment disappeared somewhere. Ah,well, there wasn’t anything important, besides the squeeing 😀
Well, that was it folks. Sorry for the length and possible grammar mistakes. This was fun thanks again Yirabah!
And let’s spread the SPN LOVE!!! *Throws confetti* 😆
Super I am glad another cboxer found its way on here.
Even if you think your story is not unique I think it is since it is your story and you can pin point exactly at what scene you got hooked.
And once more I can only agree. I love all those stories.
How I met Supernatural? One word: Castiel
I had been browsing through internet articles and saw BuddyTV doing a list of best new character additions and Castiel the angel was number one on the list and caught my eyes. I didn’t think much of it at first but then a few days later I was on youtube and saw Castiel again in a short clip in multi-fandom video, and I thought, okay, I totally need to check this out! So I went to look for his first intro scene and the moment he walked through the barn doors amidst sparks and gunshots, I was totally sold!
I was always fascinated by angels, so seeing a show actually doing angels justice and not just happy fluffy angels, I was SO GLAD!!! And besides, Misha’s acting and chemistry with Jensen just blew me away, he was so unique and so special!
I had been a sporadic viewer of Supernatural as I grew up watching the WB so in between Smallville and Gilmore Girls, I’d catch some Supernatural episodes. I had been longtime fans of both Jensen and Jared and I did like the show, but it just didn’t really have a hook to draw me in, but I found Castiel, and that was the day I became an obsessive fangirl going all crazy!!!! And that was about 2 years ago when Season 5 was airing!
I guess you can call me a Cas-girl because it was really Castiel and the whole expanding mythology and angels arc that got me really intrigued. To me, Supernatural became at that moment more than just another cute teen horror fantasy show on the network, it was grown-up, it was grand and majestic, and it was awesome! A show has to learn to grow and expand, become so much more than it was before, and Superatural had done that which made me very proud! So many shows fail to grow out of its original plot and fade away but Supernatural soldiered on in ways that few shows could. And I know that some were not thrilled with angels, seeing it as a detriment to the brothers’ story but SPN needed a growth, it couldn’t stay a simple show of two boys finding their Dad, the characters had to grow and the angels/heaven arc is a natural way.
Castiel and his relationship with the boys, what it’s taught him and also what and how it’s impacted Sam and Dean are just so dynamic and beautiful to watch. The journey they all went on, from just being two boys who are hunters, to two boys and an angel taking on all of heaven and fight for free will is simply so fascinating and brilliant! Not to mention I have never seen an actor mesh in so well with an established duo the way Misha was able to do with Jensen and Jared! Their chemistry was just off the charts!
I hope to see more growth for the show in the coming season!
A true Castiel-girl. I like that. You are right. He should get more attention.
The show may have lost a few viewers due to the angel story but it also won a few because of it. Thank you for reminding us all of that fact.
I agree that Dark Angel became a lot more interesting once they added Alec to it and I am sorry the show ended so early.
You mention something here I already heared from various people. How their english improved a lot thanks to SPN. Guess this is another thing that Kripke didn’t think of when he created the show that it once will be educational in foreign countries.
Chelsy I am so glad you made it on here. Watch it, before you know it you will be a doing comments on a regular basis.
Your right it’s a great obsession to have. No let me correct this. It’s the best obsession to have.
I met Supernatural when I saw an ad for the pilot on channel 10 (Australian). At first I didn’t watch it but then my next door neighbour raved about it so I caught an encore screening later in the week. The moment Sam said “We’ve got work to do” I knew I would stick in for the long haul. Thus begun the obsession of a lifetime. Since, I have not missed an episode, own all the dvd’s, gotten signed pictures and talked my friends to death about it. I would wait up to watch it and have trouble keeping in the squeeling while everyone else was asleep. I’ve yelled and cried and thrown things and even made my parents watch A Very Supernatural Christmas on Christmas Eve. It is quite literally part of who I am – and I wouldn’t change that for the world.