I also jumped on the Supernatural bandwagon very late. Mostly because part of the fandom is fucking crazy. ("Crazy" in that some of them seriously think that Jensen and Jared are totes in love IRL and that their wives are only beards to keep their love hidden from the normals.) But now I am up to season 8 on Netflix. Cas just keeps getting better and better ^_^
Also, if you have a couple of YouTube hours to waste, all of the cast members are hysterical. There's a lot of footage of them at conventions interacting with each other and fans. Misha Collins is awesome on his own but he's funnier when he's on a panel with Jensen.
If you have a geeky show with attractive male leads, there is unfortunately going to be some crazy in the fandom. That style of show attracts what you can characterize as the female neckbeard. Some of them, light on the same social skills that male neckbeards are, fail to grasp that while it's A-OK to write incredibly smutty gay fanfic regarding the characters, it's tacky as all hell to confront the (by all accounts) nice guys who get paid to portray said characters and force them to talk about that sort of thing politely in public settings. (They're not idiots. They know it exists. I'm certain they do, even if they did not explicitly consider and accept "A sizeable portion of your fanbase is going to write enthusiastic, voluminous and explicit gay porn about your character and/or yourself" as a likely outcome of taking the role in the first place
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Also, in watching television (and I am totally doing it wrong, I am sure), gag reels are not so much funny as blindingly illuminating how much of this television is shot in very tiny pieces. Seriously, it's so itty-bitty. The pieces are eensy. And then, when I go to watch actual episodes again, I am not watching story so much as I am watching cuts and different camera angles. It's enough to make you dizzy. Also, forty-three is quite late in life to realize that holy shit, television is made like a ransom note.
Have you gotten into the seasons where the metafictional lunacy starts showing up for filler episodes? Like, conventions and shit? Or, for that matter, two seasons previous to the current season, an episode named "The French Mistake"?
I kind of think the show should have ended after season 5 or 6, but that's just me.
You should become a fan of Jim Beaver on facebook, both because he's awesome and because it turns out that's he a fairly serious film historian. He writes big long reviews of classic movies that are always entertaining to read, and he's working on a biography of George Reeves. He's a surprisingly good writer.
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Also, if you have a couple of YouTube hours to waste, all of the cast members are hysterical. There's a lot of footage of them at conventions interacting with each other and fans. Misha Collins is awesome on his own but he's funnier when he's on a panel with Jensen.
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You should become a fan of Jim Beaver on facebook, both because he's awesome and because it turns out that's he a fairly serious film historian. He writes big long reviews of classic movies that are always entertaining to read, and he's working on a biography of George Reeves. He's a surprisingly good writer.
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