What!? You haven’t seen Supernatural?! Christ, are you living in a f**king cave?!
I am a big time genre TV fan. B5, Trek(s), BSG, XFiles, Smallville, Heroes, TrueBlood, Terminator and all things Whedon flows through my veins.
So, how did I miss Supernatural?
*sigh* I can only blame Smallville.
See, I have a love/hate thing with that show. I love the idea, but HATE 90% of the implementation. That 90% is pure WB/CW formula teen drama pap. And when I saw another genre show coming out of CW, I immediate thought “here we go again” and passed on what I thought was going to be a cheap knock off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
As seasons moved by, I noted that the show continued and never really got what I would call “bad” press from those places where reviews matter to me. Even so, I figured that if I am missing something, I am likely not missing much. Six months ago, an eFriend started pushing me toward checking out the show as something “I think you will like”. After much nagging on his part(and a fair bit of forgetfulness on mine), I put the show in my list of things to watch and finally got around to viewing it with SheGan.(who likes “creepy” stuff…me included, I assume)
After the first episode, I was blown away!
Seriously…it was probably the best pilot to a series I’ve seen since Lost. I was immediately hooked on the characters and meta-story… and couldn’t wait to see the next episodes. I was shocked something this good could have strolled out without huge fanfare…at least in the Geekly quarters. But here it was and I dedicated myself to watching as many episodes as I had time in the week.
I’ve recently caught up to the finale of season 4 and now I want to talk about it a bit.