Well, SPN fans are crazy determined, which I guess could count. We don't keep winning TV Guide covers and People's Choice awards by accident.
I admit, I'm kinda wavering on Goal 2 started, for instance. Anyway, I was wondering if the major arcs can be broken down this way, and if there is or isn't a pattern (I suspect there isn't, due to things like Goal 2 spanning 2 season and Eve being killed early--just enough of non-finale major achievements to keep things a little different).
I'm still thinking about each season's goal. And I do think "avenging Mary's death" started with John, the night of the fire, or shortly thereafter, and the boys inherited it. That was their raison d'etre their whole childhood.
None of the seasons have only one goal, either. Not really.
Like, S3's goal would be getting Dean out of the demon deal, coupled with figuring out how many monsters they let out of hell, and S4's would be figuring out what the hell the angels want with Dean, and stopping Lilith. Etc.
The actors have been pretty safe (I think Jensen's biggest scare was from a DOOL fan, actually), so they really--we indulge in some outre kinks that many other fandoms engage in, we have a few fun horror stories, but I am not quite sure what we did first or more that puts SPN that far up front, to be honest.
Except for Misha - remember there was that thing with disgruntled fans organizing a plan to embarrass or even attack him at cons during the hiatus after Season 6. I know Creation Con in Nashville ratcheted up the security in response to that particular brand of Crazy.
I don't think Sam and Dean worked on avenging their mother's death until after they found their father, though. So that's why I delayed it. It's simplistic, I accept.
In terms of a sequence of tasks (not emotional arcs), I see it something like:
- Find John
- Avenge Mary (spanned seasons)
- save Sam from being a monster (spanned seasons, resolved?)
- Save Dean (failed)
- defeat Lilith (failed)
- save world from Lucifer
- save world from Michael
- save world from Raphael (mid season)
- save world from Eve (mid season)
- save world from Castiel (mid season)
- save world from Dick
- close gates of Hell
Sound approximate?
Except for Misha - remember there was that thing with disgruntled fans organizing a plan to embarrass or even attack him at cons during the hiatus after Season 6. I know Creation Con in Nashville ratcheted up the security in response to that particular brand of Cr
I'm actually counting that as less than, off the top of my head, than Hannigan experienced that scared her away from events, or Roy Dupuis having a hand stuck down his pants that kept him away from LFN cons.
None of it's
great,
but Supernatural doesn't have any exceptional amount of it.
Things I want to scream at tumblrs I had wanted to follow:
- Ask *Misha*, father of two young children, if he wants to be a regular. And ask him in private, not an interview or in front of an audience at a con. Why would I petition his employers to work him harder if I have no idea what he wants to do? He really did intend to quit the first time.
- Of fucking COURSE Cas will be back before the end of the season (as will Benny--Amelia, whatevs). Stop acting like 6 or whatever Cas-free episodes is the end of the world or the show is unbearable. I know you feel that the show is more than Sam and Dean, but Cas isn't the only other answer, and HE HAS NOT BEEN WRITTEN OUT. Also, I don't need Dean and Sam to talk about their offscreen BFF in Cas-free episodes either, honestly. Just, relax.
Man, I'm a sap. I cried.
But seriously: the Winchesters are wizards???
But seriously: the Winchesters are wizards???
There were bits that I outright enjoyed (anticipating the reaction to damage to the Impala, for example), but on the whole I think at the moment I'm still at the "hmmmmmmm...." stage and I need to mull all the implications over.
Henry - went to Hogwarts. . .
I should have just stayed at work later and made more headway on all the drawing I'm going to have to do tomorrow.
I don't think they're wizards any more than Sam or Dean are when they perform a spell. He, and the other Men of Letters, were simply trained to use all the magic extant in the world.
I think it makes a lot of sense when you add Cupid's part to it. And the whole thing struck me as very bittersweet.
