Hey, now. If you don't like Bela, you are misogynistic.

Bwah ha ha! I wonder if Mary, Ellen, Jo, Sherrif Mills, Dr. Visnyak, and the occult expert from the most recent episode aren't women? (Well, I guess technically Visnyak actually wasn't, but rather a genderless thing wearing a woman suit.) You'd think my rampant misogyny would make me dislike all the women on the show, yet weirdly the ones who are well-written don't seem to trigger it.

Look, women are all the same, and if you dislike one, you hate all of them, real and fictional. Stop fighting it.

Man, I hate what some people spout in the name of social justice. The term is pretty much irretrievably tarnished for me. It's not like the word feminism, which I think is important to reclaim and properly define. Social justice started off, pretty much, being slapped on to people overreacting to responses to fiction, whereas there could be a pretty sensible critique, there's just too much noise in with the signal now.

I was just coming in to see if there were any sneak peeks linked. I did see the trailer on FB. March 16 is way too far away and also my sister's 50th b-day party. Inconvenient!! On the other hand, once all the guests leave and the family goes to bed, I can watch it DVRd on their giganto-screen. Maybe I win in the end anyway. Nice.

I watched the first couple of SPNs, and while I liked it, it never made it into my regular play list. I actually don't remember when I picked it up again, but I'm guessing during S2, because I bought S1 so I could be up to speed. Because, much like with Fringe, when I picked it up again I was hooked but good.

I didn't love show on first viewing of season one, but then i went back and did a re-watch and found that i'd somehow missed a LOT of episodes. so...yeah. season two is still my favorite.

Season 2 was the one that pulled me in, after "Wendigo" and "Dead in the Water" completely failed to engage my interest. Looking back Season 1 was pretty hit-or-miss, though if I'd seen the pilot first and stuck around for "Phantom Traveler" and "Skin" after the two duds I'd likely have been a fan from the start.

Fucking hell, Skin. My loins do dirty things just thinking about Shifter!Dean looking over his shoulder to the music and the noise of the SWAT team.

Maybe not everyone has my buttons.

I looked through the ratings while looking up episode order, and guess what the most-watched episode ever was?

The racist truck episode.

Ratings quickly dropped off by a couple million viewers after that, which surprises me not at all.

if I'd seen the pilot first and stuck around for "Phantom Traveler" and "Skin" after the two duds I'd likely have been a fan from the start.

I didn't think they were duds at all. Wendigo had the "saving people, hunting things" line, and Dead in the Water had Dean saving a drowning kid (plus lots of vulnerable!Dean talking to the kid, and Amy Acker).

I just remember watching the pilot and loving the way the two of them bickered and snarked, and a total OMGWTF "I can't believe they really did that" moment when they killed Sam's girlfriend.

I love S2 just a bit more than S1, but I think that's usual -- a show generally needs some time to find it's rhythm. I didn't hate S3, although it was uneven and a shame that they had to fast-forward through the arc due to the strike. Still a lot of good stuff in there, for me.

Who am I kidding, I love it all. I'll even watch Bugs for the brotherly stuff, and Sam working out his daddy issues with the spider-loving kid, and I can't give up Route 666 because you get Sam boggling at Dean's love life *and* Dean's muscular naked back during sex.

Maybe not everyone has my buttons.

Maybe not all of your buttons, but a hell of a lot of them.

Kind youtube poster (Misha on Ringer): [link]