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That is the show--show not called "Happy brother or angel romance with great big immortal social circle and holiday dinners". Why the fuck would anyone want to watch that?
That's when I turn to fic. There are certain things I adore in fic that I would never, ever want to see happen in the source materials. It's funny, but what would scratch a particular itch in an AU could well turn me off a show for good if it happened in canon. This is true for more than just SPN.
I still feel it all on rewatch -- I cry every time in Heart and AHBL2 and when Jo and Ellen die and Swan Song and all that. But "scared" is a very particular thing for me, I guess, separate from angst or horror or tension. Scared is edge-of-my-seat stuff, and I didn't get a lot of that even on first watch.
The Benders is a good example of when I was scared -- there were a lot of jump scares, and a real sense of not having any idea what was going to happen because it was so outside the realm of the usual case for them.
Yeah -- I get scared for their hearts, not their bodies, ya know?
I get scared of how sad Dean will get, what lengths he'll go to for Sam, and what lengths Sam will go to in order to "redeem" himself.
Precisement.
Hm. I know there have been episodes of SPN that I was really glad I watched during the day because they would have given me nightmares if I'd seen them right before bed (alone in the house and dark out adding to the scariness, of course) but I can't remember what episodes those were, much less what specific moments were scary.
The feral siblings under the house was the official scariest for me. It wasn't anything occult or extra-normal, it was just dirty old human meanness and warped-ness. There's a remove of sorts, you can tell yourself in some tiny safe sliver of your mind that it's fantasy, that's fake blood, that's CGI and lighting and prosthetics when it's ghosts and demons and vampires. Scary and metaphorical, and very affecting. But ultimately, there is a step away from reality.
Feral children? All too horribly real and possible. Still makes me shudder. It's why Missy is the very worst of the Benders. The men I can watch like Creature Feature, but Missy? Makes my skin crawl.
What Beverly said.
I get scared of how sad Dean will get, what lengths he'll go to for Sam, and what lengths Sam will go to in order to "redeem" himself.
Also what ita ! said, with a strong side order of being very, very scared indeed when the boys' relationship is threatening to fracture. That hits me hard, even though I know the show won't go that way permanently.
For me,
when the boys' relationship is threatening to fracture
that makes me what I would call worried and anxious, instead of scared. I think I'm just splitting hairs semantically, though. Show gives me constant anxiety.
Feral children? All too horribly real and possible. Still makes me shudder. It's why Missy is the very worst of the Benders. The men I can watch like Creature Feature, but Missy? Makes my skin crawl.
A former co-worker of mine used to be a census taker. She once told me her supervisor's story about going to a ramshackle home wayyyyy out in the woods to deliver a questionaire and being paced by feral children in the underbrush to either side of the path on her walk back to her car. It was basically like one of the stalking scenes in The Hills Have Eyes, although the lady made it out safely.