Anniversary

[oselle]

As of this very minute, 9:20 p.m. on August 23rd, I've officially been a Supernatural fan for two years.

The exact episode was "Folsom Prison Blues." As you know, Dean suffers several photogenic poundings in that one and I looked up at the television and saw Dean getting a billyclub to the guts and I thought, Shit, this guy takes a beating on this show every damn week...and so prettily too!

And that was that.

Comments

[merylmarie.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary, you hopeless fangurl! (Takes one to know one.) :D

[oxer12.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary. :-)

I don't often get in on the ground floor of a fandom, and I can't remember what made me decide to watch the show from the beginning, but I did, and I'm glad! I was hooked from Day 1. I mean really, after seeing one episode of J2, who wouldn't be hooked?

[ariadnes-string.livejournal.com]

Mazel tov! I think it's your cotton anniversary--Impala-printed sheets, maybe?

It's been about 15 mos. for me--and I came to SPN in the most ridiculously convoluted way--through seeing a reference to wincest somewhere, and thinking WTF? But it ended in much the same way, with the pure beauty of the Dean whumpage...

(I remember seeing ads for the show when it started, and thinking it looked ridiculous--this from someone who had watched Dawson's Creek and Gilmore Girls off and on. When I finally started watching the show, I thought why didn't they ever promote the family drama that is its real calling card. As many have wondered before, I'm sure).

[oselle.livejournal.com]

why didn't they ever promote the family drama that is its real calling card.

I don't think the network wants to see it or promote it this way. The CW is known as a network with primarily a young female audience, which is a very lucrative audience to have, but of course they want young men as well. I'm sure they're happy that SPN has a large female audience, but I suspect that they consider Supernatural one of their few shows with appeal to male viewers and want advertisers to see it that way as well. If you'd never watched the show and had only seen some of its promo spots, you'd get the mistaken impression that every episode revolved around girls, guns and gore. Even the montages that lead off every season premiere tend to make the show look that way. I guess they figure that we female viewers already know what the show is really about, and they have to produce these rather misleading spots to tempt an audience that would be turned off by any suggestion that this is a "family drama."

[oselle.livejournal.com]

They do grow on a girl, don't they?

[oselle.livejournal.com]

I don't know what I'd do with myself without my fangirly obsessions. Probably have a cleaner apartment!

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

Happy Anniversary! :D

Hmm. It's really Pilot that caught my attention and Dean's "I can't do this alone." Heheh. What year was it for me? Perhaps 2006.

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Congrats! I think it was the moment Sam stepped on Dean's feet followed by that "Hello Agent Scully, Agent Mulder" comment by Dean to those two FBI agents and Dean smacking Sam upside down the head in the pilot episode that did it for me. But it was actually one particular fic that really, really hooked me into SPN!

[oselle.livejournal.com]

SPN premiered here in September 2005 (gosh, that seems so long ago!) so you're right, it probably first got to you some time in 2006.

[oselle.livejournal.com]

Which fic?

[layne67.livejournal.com]

This.

It opened my eyes to the "real" Dean ( I was a Sam!girl before that ) and gave me a new perspective on the dynamics of the boys' relationship ( and I don't mean the Wincset thing! ) and yeah, it totally hooked me into the show :)