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Revisiting "Supernatural" after all these years@netflixr12d
I recall when Supernatural first came out and it was a surprise hit. The reason why I say it was a surprise is because it first aired on "The WB" in 2005 and at that time basically everything on the WB was trash and destined for failure. I guess lightning only has to strike a couple of times in order for a network to keep chugging away and Supernatural was one of those bolts of lightning.
I probably don't really need to explain this one so I will keep this brief. Brothers Sam and Dean Winchester were brought up in a family of demon hunters and they keep the family business going after their mother and later father, are killed by demons. Each episode is kind of self-contained in that there is a complete beginning, middle, and end to each story contained therein, but there is also an overlaying story for each season, as well as one that develops and concludes (so I've heard) over the astonishing 15 seasons that this show was on the air.
Let's take a minute to admire how amazing it is for any show to go on for 15 years. Law & Order, CSI, and NCIS are a few that made it that far, but for the most part series die out long before this mark.
I loved Supernatural back in the day even though I was late to the party and just ended up waiting until seasons were over and buying them on DVD (remember those?) so I guess you could say I was a "binge watcher" before binge watching was really a thing that just everyone could do with streaming. I preferred to wait until the season was over and commercially available than to wait for it to air at a particular time of day on a particular day of the week.
At the start of season 2, Sam and Dean's Dad sacrificed himself to some demon that we, the audience, don't know a great deal about, in order to save his son Dean's life. This is recapped and build upon in episode 1 but from that point forward they only kind of reverence it every now and then.
This is one strength of Supernatural and probably a big part of the reason why they were able to keep it going for so long. If you join in during any particular episode, you are going tobe treated to a story that honestly, never has anything to do with anything that happened before this episode for the most part. Each episode gives you a brief lead-in as to why the brothers are where they are, and then they quickly get to summarizing how it is they plan to move forward to solve this particular paranormal problem in the little part of American they happen to be in at the time.
Forget about logistics, forget about how it is that Sam and Dean are able to traverse the country to quickly in one of the least fuel-efficient cars of all time and definitely don't concern yourself with how the hell the car is so perfectly clean all the time even though we never see it get washed.
Here is basically how every single episode of Supernatural works. Dean and Sam are moving on to somewhere in the car and one of them explain to the other why they are going to where they are going. They get into a sibling fight of sorts that gets a bit heated, then when arriving at wherever they were going to investigate they are brought back together by one of them seeing some sort of clue that leads them further on their quest to kill more demons and eradicate supernatural stuff from the human world at all times.
Then they become best buds again while they work as a team to gather the information necessary to find and eliminate this supernatural something or other. There are a few twists here and there such as the Vampire hunter they encounter, not the vampires, being the actual problem, or a spirit that is actually beneficial and therefore they let it go. But for the most part we spend 10 minutes setting up the episode and the brothers arguing with one another, 20 minutes acquiring data that leads to the discovery of the lair of said demon/supernatural other thing, and the last 10 to 15 minutes is spent on eliminating it and the brothers becoming best buds and high-fiving normally over a very sensible amount of beers at a local dusty side of the road bar.
To many, this might seem a bit boring but to the masses, it must have been just entertaining enough to keep them going. These days, since we are spoiled for choice about what to watch I like to keep Supernatural on deck because even though it is extremely predictable, it is always entertaining. Sometimes they will encounter a legend that you forgot exists, such as alligators in the sewers or a man who turns everything he touches into gold. They come up with something new all the time and I get truly amused when they brothers seem confused by something new but always say "check Dad's journal" which is like 150 pages long but somehow, always has something that is specifically about the very thing they are faced with. I guess Dad was very concise with that notebook.
I believe that Supernatural will go down in the annuls of history as a series that was for the everyman and it doesn't take a whole lot of brainpower to get involved in it. This doesn't mean that you are a dummy if you enjoy it, I'm just saying that for a lot of people, including me, we sometimes just want to switch off and have something entertaining in front of us that is easy to understand.
Supernatural is definitely that and I keep it on my "continue watching" part of my streaming services at all times because of this.
You can legally watch this series just about anywhere man. Including Prime, Peacock, Netflix, TNT and AppleTV
Now most people would advice against starting a 15 season series when you're in possibly the most important semester of your school career. That advice is indeed right. Yet like some things in life, the alternative is better.
So with that mindset, I started the series Supernatural on January 1st. I'm at the 3rd season and I'll tell you, I'm making some beautiful worthwhile mistakes at the beginning of the year😍✨.
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### Plot
> When Mary Winchester gets killed in a fire. It set her husband and his son's down a twisted dark path to find the truth.
On this path they learn a lot of things, but most of all, they learn just how evil the things that are hiding in the dark really are..
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What really spurred me on to check this show out was a YouTube clip I happened to fumble upon once.
Now this intrigued me....
This character, this portrayment of death, the reaper.
I began watching more and more and before I knew it my feed was filled with it.
After downloading the first season, I knew I had come across my new crack.
I'm a sucker for theology, mythology, histology, basically any 'logy' that involves probably magic and deep thinking.
Supernatural has them all!!!
One thing that I'm particularly infatuated at is the intricacies of their monsters.
The amount of thoughts and research about the lores surrounding them.
We're talking from angels and demons to minor pagan gods and sprites. The list of bad, evil and ugly goes far and wide that my curiosity levels are at an all time high!
Although the earlier seasons are a bit old (seen clearly given the video quality), and horror isn't really the main theme, the jump scares are just enough. In some episodes even more than enough...
I'm just at Season 3, so I can't really give a full on review, and I don't think that I can advertise this show enough.
All I can say is that if you're up for a little bit of evil hunting, then Supernatural is your best bet!
›'Supernatural' First Impressions: This is kinda fun, even if I am late to the party@namiks694d
Over the last week I have been starting a show I never thought I would, and much of this comes down to a rather established narrative surrounding it, one that is a bit exaggerated while still holding some truth to it: this is a show that was completely swallowed up by a mostly female audience towards its later seasons. Supernatural, from what I've heard from many fans of it throughout the years, took a turn into a more narrative-driven exploration, a divergence from its original single-episode narrative that had its characters roaming through one location and to the next with the intent of saving lives and dealing with the evils of the supernatural world. There was still a narrative within the show that kept things moving forward, one that would spring up here and there to keep the ball moving, not all that different to similar shows like Psych or The X Files. But as the show gained in its popularity, and the times changed, the show changed with it. I think the narrative that surrounded the show really put a lot of people off over the years, and myself included as I assumed the show was something totally different to what it actually is. I always assumed that this would be a show I have zero ability to connect with, and I have been quite wrong in that regard. This is a show that (so far) reminds me a lot of the style of shows I enjoy best, with elements of fantasy, horror, and episodes that feel fresh and unique one after the other.
Some of my favourite shows are the ones in which one episode has little connection with the last, in a way that each one focuses on a different location and different problem. While there may still be aspects of a narrative within that hint at something larger, they stand out on their own, and can almost be watched in any order, albeit for the few episodes that would then start to carry off into something more. The first season has a mixture of these two styles, and I really found myself appreciating it for that. Though I can see that the stage is being set for something larger down the line, and how the show addresses the idea of character development within such episodes, giving us deeper looks into those characters and how they came to be who they now are. And this is essential given the way the show starts off, not really giving us a major look into their pasts, and how they came to be these hunters that roam the United States in search of the paranormal, somehow managing to survive with no income from it. This is no case of Ghostbusters, after all, but instead a nomadic roaming through a more rundown America in search of revenge. And for a revenge story at its core, I think it's effective, giving snippets here and there that hold your attention while again focusing on telling different stories with various fantasy elements.
So far Supernatural has been a lot of fun, though I'm sceptical over how it may turn out later on as the seasons add on. Season one so far has been quite a surprise though. Keep in mind there may be some spoilers from here on.
Supernatural
The show dives into the action with Sam and Dean Winchester, two brothers that have been thrown into the chaotic life of dealing with the paranormal, an activity that has been passed down to them from their father after a lifetime of targeting from various entities. One of which killed their mother, and one killed Sam's girlfriend. This sets up the general story of Supernatural and is a recurring theme for the characters as the entire premise is one of revenge, as the characters roam through the United States of America in a vintage car in search of supernatural events, both saving other people from the odd events that plague them, as well as searching for the entity that caused the family so much harm in the past. A lot of the story is dripped to us in various episodes, with much of the emphasis of each episode really being about the strange beings they stumble across in their adventures. The nation seemingly riddled with paranormal events to which the average person is completely unaware of, even if they themselves are the targets. These episodes can range from the idea of vampires to nonexistent entities that only exist because a large number of people believe they exist. I quite like the creativity in many of the stories, remaining fresh and still distant from the rest. One of which was a simple episode about how two people entered a haunted abandoned asylum, to which it appeared the ghosts within were actually innocent and trying to find help from a more sinister spirit that tormented them in life and death.
It's this difference in its episodes that managed to quickly pull me in. I found it really engaging how it told these different stories while holding little elements of horror within them, all with snippets of comedy within the characters which are supposedly in their early 20s. The Sam and Dean combo is quite enjoyable to watch based on how different they are as characters, one a younger brother, the other the older one. And it's this that gives them more distinct characteristics. One in the pursuit of leaving this life behind, wanting to find someone to settle down with while struggling with the personal trauma of loss, wanting to get a regular job and return to education. Dean being broken to the point of no return, having little interest in anything beyond revenge and obeying their father who still trickles bits of information to them while he stays in hiding, pursuing his own moves. I like the differences in the characters given it allows them to stand out a bit more from each other, giving them a more personal tone that gives us something to connect with. Sam being more empathetic and wanting more out of life, and Dean being the more emotionless one. Their differences in character sometimes comes into play as they approach different events, one might be more direct, the other a little more stubborn and not attentive.
There's something about the earlier seasons that holds some soul to it, and I think some of this is the time period in which the show initially released around. It's a show that really screams of the earlier 2000s, and it's really evident in both the fashion and the music that ends up used. But it goes beyond that, one thing I found interesting was the more darker, earthly tones that the show utilises in its directing. It's a show that is quite dark, very high contrast. There's an odd decision of colour grading within it and it is very reminiscent of the era of the earlier 2000s when the "brown filter" was being plastered across most forms of visual media. I quite like this though, despite not always enjoying it elsewhere. I think this adds to the gritty and darker style of the show's narratives, to which a lot of the special effects side of things is also handled quite well, somewhat hidden by the lack of light. But the show doesn't utilise the special effects all that often; this is something I've appreciated a lot, as it seems more reliant on physical real locations for the show, and using practical effects or filmmaking techniques for the most part.
I'm curious as to how the show will progress from here, though I have been told to just stop watching from a certain season. I think I will do that as to refrain from spoiling the earlier seasons. And it's somewhat expected that a show that gains popularity from this era tends to lose its magic as it goes on. Especially when the show goes from film stock to digital!
›A brief overview of the SUPERNATURAL series/Breve reseña de la seria SUPERNATURAL [ENG/ESP]@yasmarit702d
Hello dear community of @Moviestvshows a pleasure to come today and tell you about this series that I loved since its first season until the 15th, because all his career was both interesting and suspense and excitement without a doubt, really a serious to entertain you a good time, it is supernatural, a series focused on the supernatural as its name says, in the mystery and the hunt for different monsters that inhabit the cities and which are responsible for some hunters of them.
In this case, the Winchester family, formed at the beginning by John Winchester (Jeffrey Morgan) and his sons Dean (Jensen Anckles) and Samuel Winchester (Jared Padalecki), which focused on hunting the variety of monsters that appeared from vampires to werewolves, ghosts and repulsive specters, especially demons, each case was different from the other and some more dangerous than others, however, it had become a family business and therefore had to continue with it.
Since they were very young the Winchester brothers lost their mother to a yellow-eyed demon, so the main hunt became to find and kill him, but as the years passed it seemed difficult to find him, for this reason, while they succeeded they focused on helping others and to collaborate in something more to humanity, Although Samuel or rather Sam did not always want to be in that business, he wanted to focus on medicine, there was a time when he achieved it, but after his father disappeared, his older brother Dean looked for him and they set out together again on the path of hunting monsters.
Both go through different difficulties, especially death, but with the help of Bobby Singer (Jim Beaver), who despite being a simple drunk hunter who lost his family, his knowledge and support makes him more than a friend, he becomes their dad. But not everything is made so easy, as they progress through the hunting events, they encounter stronger demons and begin to make deals to save each other's lives or to keep their loved ones safe.
But like everything in life, they lose loved ones and play with God's rules to bring them back, I would say that one of the seasons that excited me the most was when the participation of God and darkness is introduced, being these brothers and their family fight that affects all humanity, as well as the intervention of the angels especially Castiel (Misha Collins) is such a fun and at the same time interesting way especially when he gets along with a demon named Crowley (Mark Sheppard) , really their dynamic changes everything and wraps the story more to suspense.
Each season is magical and involves you not only with the hunts they are having but with the introduction of each supernatural species that exists up to leviathans, mythical species of history, as well as the arrival of Jack (Alexander Calvert) who will become a son for them, each character provides a different moment that gives the taste for understanding a little more really the history of these brothers and how they fight not only against these monsters but to have a life, a family and know what awaits them in the future.
Genre: Fantasy, action, supernatural drama, mystery and adventure.
Created by: Eric Kripke
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Katie Cassidy, Lauren Cohan, Misha Collins, Mark A. Sheppard, Mark Pellegrino, Alexander Calvert
Original language(s): English
No. of seasons: 15
No. of episodes: 327 (episode list)
Production company(ies): Kripke Enterprises
Wonderland Sound and Vision (2005-13)
Warner Bros. Television
First aired September 13, 2005
Last broadcast November 19, 2020
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Hola querida comunidad de @Moviestvshows un gusto venir hoy día y hablarles de esta serie que me encanto desde su primera temporada hasta la 15, pues toda su trayectoria fue tanto interesante como de suspenso y emoción sin duda alguna, realmente una seria para poder entretenerte un buen rato, se trata de supernatural, una serie enfocada en lo sobrenatural como su nombre lo dice, en el misterio y la caza de diferentes monstruos que habitan en las ciudades y de los cuales se encargan algunos cazadores de ellos.
En este caso la familia Winchester conformada al principio por John Winchester (Jeffrey Morgan) y sus hijos Dean (Jensen Anckles) y Samuel Winchester (Jared Padalecki) , los cuales se enfocaron en cazar la variedad de monstruos que aparecían desde vampiros hasta hombres lobos, fantasmas y espectros repulsivos, sobre todo demonios, cada caso era diferente al otro y algunos más peligrosos que otros, sin embargo, se había vuelto un negocio familiar y por ende habían que continuar con ello.
Desde muy pequeños los hermanos Winchester perdieron a su mamá a causa de un demonio de ojos amarillos por lo cual la caza principal se volvió en encontrarlo y asesinarlo, pero a medida que pasaban los años parecía difícil encontrarlo, por tal motivo, mientras lo lograban se enfocaron en ayudar a los demás y poder colaborar en algo más a la humanidad, aunque Samuel o bueno dicho mejor Sam no siempre quiso estar en ese negocio, quería enfocarse en la medicina hubo un tiempo en lo que lo logro, pero tras desaparecer su papá, su hermano mayor Dean lo busca y se vuelven a encaminar juntos en el camino de la cazaría de monstruos.
Ambos pasan por diferentes dificultades, sobre todo por la muerte, aunque con la ayuda de Bobby Singer (Jim Beaver), quien pese ser un simple cazador borracho que perdió a su familia, sus conocimientos y apoyo que le brinda lo hace ser más que un amigo, lo hace ser su papá. Pero no todo se les hace tan fácil, a medida que avanzan con los eventos de caza, encuentras demonios más fuertes y comienzan a hacer tratos para salvar la vida del uno u otro o poder mantener a salvo a sus seres queridos.
Pero como todo en la vida, pierden a personas queridas y juegan con las reglas de Dios para traerlas, diría que una de las temporadas que más me emociono fue cuando se introduce la participación de Dios y de la oscuridad, siendo estos hermanos y su pelea familiar que afecta a toda la humanidad, así como la intervención de los ángeles sobre todo de Castiel (Misha Collins) es una manera tan divertida y al mismo tiempo interesante sobre todo cuando se lleva bien con un demonio llamado Crowley (Mark Sheppard) , realmente su dinámica lo cambia todo y envuelve la historia más a suspenso.
Cada temporada es mágica y te envuelve no solo con los cazas que van teniendo sino con la introducción de cada especie sobrenatural que existe hasta leviatanes, especies míticas de la historia, así como la llegada de Jack (Alexander Calvert) quien se convertirá en un hijo para ellos, cada personaje brinda un instante diferente que da el gusto por entender un poco más realmente la historia de estos hermanos y como luchan no solo contra estos monstruos sino por tener una vida, una familia y saber que les espera en el futuro.
Género: Fantasía, acción, drama sobrenatural, misterio y aventura
Creado por: Eric Kripke
Protagonistas: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Katie Cassidy, Lauren Cohan, Misha Collins, Mark A. Sheppard, Mark Pellegrino, Alexander Calvert
Idioma(s) original(es): Inglés
N.º de temporadas: 15
N.º de episodios: 327 (lista de episodios)
Empresa(s) productora(s): Kripke Enterprises
Wonderland Sound and Vision (2005–13)
Warner Bros. Television
Primera emisión 13 de septiembre de 2005
Última emisión 19 de noviembre de 2020
I still can't believe I watched all 15 seasons of Supernatural in less than two months... I did the math a few days ago and I watched each season in about 3 days, so do the math because I'm not good at math. I don't know how many times I dreamed of the series, or with monsters, or with the apocalypse, but I do know that finally, I could understand all the memes that I had been watching for a long time, and that is the reason why I decided to watch the series, I mean, nowadays my information retention capacity is very low, that's why I watch such a long series, but I wanted to throw myself into this adventure and I can say that I fulfilled it satisfactorily, although I am going to take a vacation from long productions, I will only watch Naruto and Evangelion, which are my lifelong comfort series, the next long series I will watch will be One Piece, but it will be next year that I will start watching it.
Supernatural, there is so much to say about this series that I don't know where to start, well, I will do it from the beginning, or before from the beginning, in the world of Supernatural there are monsters of all kinds, ghosts, gods, any kind of creature that ever existed, mythological, of legend, whatever, and those creatures usually have a job and it is to torment humans, then there are human beings who call themselves Hunters, or Hunters, among those Hunters we have the Winchester family, John, the father, Dean, the older brother, and Sam, the younger brother. One day John disappears and Dean goes in search of Sam so that together they are in charge of hunting monsters and thus begin the search for the whereabouts of his father, starting this series that marked a whole generation.
The series is incredible, and I still can't believe it ended just two years ago, I thought it was at least 10 years old, but no, only two years have passed since the last episode, and I don't know, it makes me nostalgic, even though I finished watching it just a few days ago. It makes me laugh a lot the fact that I'm just finishing watching the series, and I find out that a spinoff of the series about Mary and John Winchester, Dean and Sam's parents, is about to be released or has already been released, and no, I'm not going to watch it, my brain is saturated with Supernatural, I don't want to watch any spinoff yet.
Aún sigo sin creer que vi las 15 temporadas de Supernatural en menos de dos meses... saqué la cuenta hace unos días y veía cada temporada en aproximadamente 3 días, así que hagan ustedes las cuentas porque yo no sirvo para las matemáticas. No sé cuántas veces soñé con la serie, o con monstruos, o con apocalipsis, pero sí sé que finalmente pude entender todos los memes que tenía mucho tiempo viendo y que son la razón del que decidiera ver la serie, o sea, actualmente mi capacidad de retención de información es muy poca, por lo que veo series tan largas, pero me quise lanzar esta aventura y puedo decir que la cumplí satisfactoriamente, aunque me voy a tomar unas vacaciones de producciones largas, solo veré Naruto y Evangelion, que son mis series confort de toda la vida, la siguiente serie larga que veré será One Piece, pero será el año que viene que la comience a ver.
Supernatural, hay tanto que decir sobre esta serie que no sé por dónde empezar, bueno, lo haré desde el principio, o antes desde el principio, en el mundo de Supernatural existen los monstruos de todo tipo, fantasmas, dioses, cualquier tipo de criatura que haya existido, mitológica, de leyenda, lo que sea, y esas criaturas normalmente tienen un trabajo y es el de atormentar a los humanos, entonces existen seres humanos que se hacen llamar Hunters, o Cazadores, entre esos Hunters tenemos a la familia Winchester, John, el padre, Dean, el hermano mayor, y Sam, el hermano menor. Un día John desaparece y Dean va en busca de Sam para que juntos se encarguen de seguir cazando monstruos y así comenzar la búsqueda del paradero de su padre, dando inicio a esta serie que marcó a toda una generación.
La serie es increíble, y sigo sin creer que haya terminado hace apenas dos años, yo pensé que por lo menos tenía unos 10 años de haber terminado, pero no, solo dos años han transcurrido desde su último capítulo, y no sé, me da nostalgia, aunque yo la haya terminado de ver hace apenas varios días. Me da mucha risa el hecho de yo apenas estoy terminando de ver la serie, y me entero de que está por estrenarse o ya se estrenó un spinoff de la serie que trata sobre Mary y John Winchester, los padres de Dean y Sam, y no, no la voy a ver, tengo saturado el cerebro con Supernatural, no quiero ver ningún spinoff todavía.
This is a horror, drama, and fantasy series that will cover many other topics in its 327 chapters of almost 1 hour each, I repeat, I don't know how I saw all that in less than two months, I mean, I know I have no life, but to that point, it hurts, it hurts a little. Most of my favorite chapters are the most intense and the lightest to watch, that is, there are moments when it is almost impossible to breathe when watching everything that is happening, and at other times it is impossible to breathe, but because you can't control your laughter at the ridiculousness of what you are seeing. There are chapters for all kinds of tastes, there is no doubt about that.
There are 15 seasons, and it is almost physically impossible for me to write about everything that happens, so I will talk a little about the story arcs of the series. About halfway through the series, I came to think that Supernatural was the perfect example that you can get to produce long series where you can do practically whatever they want no matter what because they have the financial support and the public likes what they are seeing, I say this because although the series maintains its essence during the 15 seasons, which is nothing more than two brothers against the world, everything that happens around them is so illogical and unreal that it makes no sense or rather, it seems untrue that everything has been raised so from the beginning.
While the basis of the series is the fact that monsters exist and some people hunt them, in this case, Sam and Dean, it is not that they do it just for the good of others, well, yes they do it for the good of others, but they have a history, a beginning that led them to that, and that is that when Sam was 6 months old, a demon was in his room, Mary, his mother, saw it, and the demon, who had yellow eyes, killed Mary, and that's how for the first few seasons everything is going to revolve around the hunt for the Yellow-Eyed Demon. I think about how that was the beginning, and Sam and Dean end up facing various ends of the world, and it seems unbelievable that it all evolved that way.
Esta es una serie de terror, drama y fantasía que abarcará muchos otros temas en sus 327 capítulos de casi 1 hora cada uno, lo repito, no sé cómo vi todo eso en menos de dos meses, o sea, sé que no tengo vida, ¿pero hasta ese punto?, duele, duele un poco. La mayoría de mis capítulos favoritos son los más intensos y los más ligeros de ver, o sea, hay momentos en que es casi imposible de respirar al ver todo lo que está sucediendo, y en otros momentos es imposible respirar, pero porque no se puede controlar la risa de lo ridículo que es lo que estamos viendo. Hay capítulos para todos los tipos de gustos, de eso no hay duda.
Son 15 temporadas, es casi físicamente imposible para mí escribirles sobre todo lo que sucede, así que hablaré poco sobre los arcos argumentativos de la serie. Cerca de la mitad de la serie llegué a pensar que Supernatural era la muestra perfecta que se pueden llegar a producir series largas donde se puede hacer prácticamente lo que se les de la gana sin importar qué pues tienen el apoyo económico y al público le gusta lo que está viendo, digo esto porque a pesar de que la serie mantiene su esencia durante las 15 temporadas, que no es más que dos hermanos contra el mundo, pero todo lo que sucede alrededor de ellos es tan ilógico e irreal que carece de sentido o mejor dicho, parece mentira que todo haya sido planteado así desde un principio.
Si bien la base de la serie es el hecho de que los monstruos existen y hay gente que los caza, en este caso Sam y Dean, pero no es que ellos lo hagan solo por el bien del prójimo, bueno, sí lo hacen por el bien del prójimo, pero es que tienen una historia, un inicio que los llevó a eso, y es que cuando Sam tenía 6 meses de haber nacido, un demonio se encontraba en su habitación, Mary, su madre, lo vio, y el demonio, que tenía los ojos amarillos, mató a Mary, y es así como durante las primeras temporadas todo va a girar alrededor de la caza del Demonio de Ojos Amarillos. Pienso en que ese fue el inicio, y que Sam y Dean terminan enfrentándose a varios fines del mundo y parece mentira que todo haya evolucionado de esa forma.
There is a breaking point in the series and it is when it comes to seem that everything is monotonous and more of the same, monsters here, demons there, witches, vampires, werewolves, then the unexpected happens and they add angels to the series, fuck, the introduction of the angels with Castiel was one of the best moments ever in Supernatural, no one can say otherwise about that; although I must say that after they added the angels everything got out of control and they started adding more and more strange and mythological creatures, from dragons to pagan gods, they even mixed gods from pantheons of all kinds, Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, and I forgot the others, but I think there are more than 5.
There is one warning I must give you, and that is that at some point in the series people who die do not stay dead, that is, at any moment they will come back to life, and this happens until the last chapter, yes, people will keep dying and keep coming back to life, it's horrible, it got to a point where I was trying not to suffer so much for the death because it was more than likely that they would revive the character in the next chapters, and yes, they revived them, and I didn't know how to feel, because fuck, let them die, change the story, don't revive them anymore, I got upset again, watching the series I almost stopped watching it because of that, but no, I had already seen 13 seasons, it didn't cost me anything to finish watching it.
Another thing the series has is the excessive amount of times they will use the magic of Deux ex Machina for everything, from solving situations that got out of control to making sense of the nonsense it is becoming because as they will do over and over again, they will go against sense and logic many times, even against the nonsense that the series itself puts on the table, then they do not know what to do, at least that's how they make use of Deux ex Machina and out of nowhere everything is solved; it's enjoyable at the beginning, but at the end, it tires, it tires too much, and I wish it wasn't so.
Hay un punto de quiebre en la serie y es cuando llega a parecer que todo es monótono y más de lo mismo, monstruos por aquí, demonios por allá, brujas, vampiros, hombres lobo, entonces sucede lo inesperado y es que agregan a los ángeles a la serie, joder, la introducción de los ángeles con Castiel fue uno de los mejores momentos que han existido de Supernatural, nadie puede decir lo contrario sobre eso; aunque debo decir que después de que agregaron a los ángeles todo se salió de control y comenzaron a agregar más y más criaturas extrañas y mitológicas, desde dragones hasta dioses paganos, incluso mezclaron a los dioses de panteones de todo tipo, griegos, egipcios, romanos, y se me olvidaron los otros, pero creo que son más de 5.
Hay una advertencia que debo darles, y es que en algún momento de la serie la gente que muere no se queda muerta, es decir, en cualquier momento volverá a la vida, y esto sucede hasta el último capítulo, sí, la gente seguirá muriendo y seguirá reviviendo, es horrible, llegó un punto en el que trataba de no sufrir tanto por la muerte porque era más que probable que revivieran al personaje en los siguientes capítulos, y sí, los revivían, y no sabía cómo sentirme, porque nojoda, dejen que se mueran, cambien la historia, no los revivan más, me molesté de nuevo, viendo la serie casi dejo de verla por eso, pero no, ya había visto 13 temporadas, nada me costaba terminar de verla.
Otra de las cosas que tiene la serie es la excesiva cantidad de veces que usarán la magia del deux ex machina para todo, desde resolver situaciones que se salieron de control, hasta para darle sentido al sinsentido en que se está convirtiendo, porque como harán una y otra vez, irán en contra del sentido y la lógica muchas veces, incluso contra los sinsentidos que la misma serie nos pone sobre la mesa, entonces no saben qué hacer, al menos es así que hacen uso del deux ex machina y de la nada todo se resuelve; se disfruta al principio, pero al final cansa, cansa demasiado, y desearía que no fuera así.
Dean is unbearable, he's a character that represents so many bad things that I'm surprised they keep him that way for 15 seasons and only make him look human about 10 times during the whole series. Dean is what a fuckboy would be, a friend with sex rights, someone to have a good time with, to have fun and that's it, because the moment things start to turn into a series you realize that Dean is behind the Chinese wall and it's impossible to get to him, I mean, I'm not saying he doesn't have his traumas without his traumas, I'm not saying he doesn't have his unresolved traumas and that makes him that way, but he's just too much, he's desperate, more than once I wanted to hit him over the head with a bat to see if he would react and start to change, but no, even if they shoot him, stab him, bleed him and leave him on the verge of death, he's still the same, so Dean, I don't like you.
Outside of Dean's character, I must say I love Jensen, fuck, I enjoyed his performance like you have no idea because it's 15 seasons, 327 episodes, so we will see a lot of things we wouldn't see in a short series, and among those many things we will see will be to see many versions of Dean, where Dean stops being himself for things I won't tell you, or just moments where Dean makes a fool of himself, there is a chapter where they are facing a ghost that makes people die of fear, making them scared by anything, and in that chapter, Dean will be afraid of everything, and you don't know how many laughing attacks I had watching Dean making a fool of himself, Jensen did it amazing and only for moments like that is that I got fond of Dean, although I still dislike him, as they say about unbearable people, Dean is an acquired taste, someone you learn to love despite everything.
On the other hand, we have Sam, Samuel, as Rowena calls him, pinche Rowena, I'll talk about her later. Sam is a cutie, he is the ideal man that your family would love to meet, who your grandmother would come to love more than you, he has those puppy dog eyes and a look that softens even the kidney stones you don't know you have. Sam is the complete opposite of Dean, and I think that's why I love him, he has his bad things too, he's too soft sometimes and always wants to do the right thing, even if this is something unhealthy, and yes, that can become a big problem and it's something to accept, but I don't care, I prefer Sam, he's my favorite brother, Dean doesn't deserve him, let him be mine.
As with Jensen, I love Jared's ability to make and break Sam's character at his whim, well, according to the whim of the direction and the scenes and the story and the moment and all that stuff that demands something different all the time. I think Sam does it more than Dean does, to have different kinds of facets and moments where Sam stops being Sam even though he's still himself, and it's almost impossible not to admire how well Jared does it, Sam will be bad, he will be heartless, he will be horrible, and yet he won't stop being Sam, and we will love him, even if he destroys us inside.
Dean es insoportable, es un personaje que representa tantas cosas malas que me sorprende que lo mantengan así por 15 temporadas y solo lo hagan ver humano unas 10 veces durante toda la serie. Dean es lo que vendría siendo un fuckboy, un amigo con derechos a sexo, alguien con quien pasar un rato agradable, de diversión y ya, porque en el momento en que las cosas comienzan a ponerse series te das cuenta de que Dean está detrás de la muralla china y es imposible llegar a él, o sea, no digo que no tenga sus traumas sin resolver y que eso lo haga ser así, pero es que él se pasa, desespera, más de una vez quise pegarle con un bate en la cabeza para ver si así reaccionaba y comenzaba a cambiar, pero no, aunque le disparen, lo apuñalen, lo desangren y lo dejen al borde de la muerte, seguirá siendo lo mismo, así que Dean, me caes mal.
Fuera del personaje de Dean, debo decir que amo a Jensen, joder, yo me disfruté su actuación como no tienen idea, pues son 15 temporadas, 327 capítulos, así que veremos una gran cantidad de cosas que no veríamos en una serie corta, y entre esas muchas cosas que veremos será ver muchas versiones de Dean, donde Dean deja de ser él mismo por cosas que no les diré, o simplemente momentos donde Dean se deja en ridículo a sí mismo, hay un capítulo donde se están enfrentando a un fantasma que hace que la gente se muera literal del miedo, haciendo que se asusten por cualquier cosa, y en ese capítulo Dean le va a tener miedo a todo, y no saben la cantidad de ataques de risa tuve viendo a Dean dejarse en ridículo a sí mismo, Jensen lo hizo increíble y solo por momentos así es que le agarré cariño a Dean, aunque me siga cayendo mal, como dicen por ahí sobre las personas insoportables, Dean es un gusto adquirido, alguien que se aprende a querer a pesar de todo.
Por otro lado, tenemos a Sam, Samuel, como le dice Rowena, pinche Rowena, de ella hablo después. Sam es una preciosura, es el hombre ideal que tu familia amaría conocer, a quien tu abuela llegaría a querer más que a ti, tiene esos ojos de cachorrito y una mirada que te ablanda hasta las piedras de los riñones que no sabes que tienes. Sam es todo lo contrario a Dean, y creo que por eso lo amo, tiene sus cosas malas también, es demasiado blando a veces y siempre quiere hacer lo correcto, aunque esto sea algo insano, y sí, eso puede llegar a ser un gran problema y es algo que se debe aceptar, pero no me importa, prefiero a Sam, es mi hermano favorito, Dean no lo merece, que sea mío.
Al igual que con Jensen, amo la capacidad de Jared de hacer y deshacer el personaje de Sam a su antojo, bueno, según el antojo del directo y de las escenas y de la historia y del momento y de todo eso que exige algo diferente todo el tiempo. Creo que Sam lo hace más que Dean, el tener diferentes tipos de facetas y momentos donde Sam deja de ser Sam a pesar de que sigue siendo él mismo, y es casi imposible no admirar lo bien que Jared lo hace, Sam será malo, será desalmado, será horrible, y aun así no dejará de ser Sam, y lo amaremos, aunque nos destruya por dentro.
I'll just talk about Sam and Dean, I'll just say that most of all the characters you get to love and hate at the same time, for example, Crowley, the king of hell, Castiel, the angel, Rowena, the cursed witch, and I laugh when I write that; Jack, the Nephilim, although he comes out in the later seasons, so you won't remember him at first. There are characters that we will hate forever and ever, like Lucifer, that bastard, the devil he had to be; and we have Charlie, who is the most beautiful thing and my favorite character in the whole series, Charlie is the younger lesbian sister that Sam and Dean never had. We'll also have Jody, Chuck, Ketch, Bobby, impossible-to-forget Bobby, Ruby, Metatron, Kevin, and Amara, and I'll stop mentioning them because I'll never finish and I feel like writing about each one of them, but I won't. I know I told you that this is a series that will never end.
I know I told you that this is a horror series, but I didn't feel fear at any moment, the strongest thing I felt was the suffocating intensity of the intense moments they give us, I wish the series had more moments like this, because there are very few and not all season finales leave you wanting more, well, for those who watched the series while it was being broadcasted, but there were many moments where I didn't even realize that one season had ended and another had begun because as the story arcs lasted several seasons you didn't feel the difference between one season and another.
Solo hablaré de Sam y Dean, solo diré que a la mayoría de todos los personajes se les llega a querer y a odiar al mismo tiempo, por ejemplo como con Crowley, el rey del infierno, Castiel, el ángel, Rowena, la bruja maldita, y me río al escribir eso; Jack, el Nefilim, aunque él sale en las últimas temporadas, así que no se acordarán de él al principio. Hay personajes a los que odiaremos desde siempre y para siempre, como Lucifer, ese desgraciado, el diablo tenía que ser; y tenemos a Charlie, que es la cosa más hermosa y mi personaje favorito de toda la serie, Charlie es la hermana lesbiana menor que Sam y Dean nunca tuvieron. También tendremos a Jody, a Chuck, a Ketch, a Bobby, imposible olvidarse e Bobby, Ruby, Metatron, Kevin, Amara, y ya dejo de mencionarlos porque no termino nunca y me dan ganas de escribir sobre cada uno de ellos, pero no lo haré.
Sé que les dije que esta es una serie de terror, pero yo no sentí miedo en ningún momento, lo más fuerte que llegué a sentir fue la intensidad asfixiante de momentos intensos que nos dan, ojalá la serie tuviera más momentos así, pues son muy pocos y no todos los finales de temporada te dejan con ganas de más, bueno, para quienes vieron la serie mientras se iba transmitiendo seguro fue así, pero hubo muchos momentos donde ni siquiera me daba cuenta de que una temporada había terminado y otra había comenzado, pues como los arcos argumentales duraban varias temporadas no se sentía la diferencia entre una temporada y otra.
I will not watch this series again for many years, I enjoyed it very much, but I overloaded myself with it and I must detox, not only before watching the spinoff but before watching any other long series. If you don't think to watch all 15 seasons, don't start it, it's a series that must be watched in its entirety, because fuck, it gets better and better, more illogical, but better, and it's something you can't leave halfway through, I understood it in season 8 when I wanted to stop watching it and no, I couldn't, so here I am several days after watching the last chapter writing this.
There is something very particular with the series, but it's more about me, and that is that I love to see the bad guys win, to see how disastrous everything can become if they are given a lot of free time in the world, and it's something I didn't get in the series, I mean, we do get to know about their plans and everything they want to do to dominate the world, murder all humans and stay living a paradise of only monsters, but no, we never get to see it, well, we will see it twice, but I will not talk about that because they were not permanent situations, I will only say that they will love the hippie Castiel, it is the weirdest thing we will see; then, there always comes the moment when Sam and Dean beat the bad guys, save the day, and everything almost always thanks to a deux ex machina that falls from the sky, many times almost literal, and no, that made me not love the series as much as I could get to love it.
I don't want to write anymore, so I'll leave this up to you here. Supernatural is a perfect series to pass the time, nothing too difficult to watch, so you can put it on in the background while you try to do something else because you will fail like you have no idea and you will end up watching the series anyway; it is a series that tells us that family is more important than the rest of the world, that doing good is very difficult, but you have to do it anyway, that it can be very easy and very simple to stay away from compromising things and situations, but that at some point we will have to make a decision and that will be to get involved for the greater good; it's a series that reminds us that many times the real monsters are humans, a la Scooby Doo, and I stop writing or I can add a thousand more words just talking about the giant amount of references in the series, from Paris Hilton, Lady Gaga, the Kardashians, who are a different kind of bloodsuckers; Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, The Wizard of Oz, among hundreds of other references, to Taylor Swift, my dog, Dean singing Shake it off was epic. Bye now.
Definitivamente no volveré a ver esta serie en muchos años, me la disfruté muchísimo, pero me sobrecargué con ella y debo desintoxicarme, no solo antes de ver el spinoff, si no antes de ver cualquier otra serie larga. Si no creen ver las 15 temporadas, no la comiencen, es una serie que debe verse completa, porque joder, cada vez se pone mejor, más ilógica, pero mejor, y es algo que no se puede dejar a medias, lo entendí en la temporada 8 cuando quise dejar de verla y no, no pude hacerlo, así que aquí me encuentro varios días después de ver el último capítulo escribiendo esto.
Hay algo muy particular con la serie, pero es más sobre mí, y es que a mí me encanta ver a los malos ganar, ver qué tan desastroso puede llegar a ser todo si se les deja mucho tiempo libres en el mundo, y es algo que no me dieron en la serie, o sea, sí nos llegamos a enterar de sus planes y de todo lo que quieren hacer para dominar el mundo, asesinar a todos los humanos y quedarse viviendo un paraíso de solo monstruos, pero no, nunca llegamos a verlo, bueno, lo veremos dos veces, pero no hablaré de eso porque no fueron situaciones permanentes, solo diré que amarán al Castiel hippie, es lo más raro que veremos; entonces, siempre llega el momento en el que Sam y Dean vencen a los malos, salvan el día, y todo casi siempre gracias a un deux ex machina que les cae del cielo, muchas veces casi literal, y no, eso hizo que no amara la serie tanto como podría llegar a hacerlo.
Ya no quiero seguir escribiendo más, así que dejaré esto hasta aquí. Supernatural es una serie perfecta para pasar el rato, nada muy difícil de ver, así que la pueden poner de fondo mientras intentan hacer otra cosa pues van a fallar como no tienen idea y terminarán viendo la serie de todas formas; es una serie que nos dice que la familia es más importante que el resto del mundo, que hacer el bien es muy difícil, pero que hay que hacerlo de todas formas, que puede ser muy fácil y muy sencillo alejarse de las cosas y situaciones comprometedoras, pero que en algún momento tendremos que tomar una decisión y esa será involucrarnos por el bien mayor; es una serie que nos recuerda que muchas veces los verdaderos monstruos son los humanos, a lo Scooby Doo, y dejo de escribir o puedo agregar mil palabras más hablando solo de la cantidad gigante de referencias que hay en la serie, desde Paris Hilton, Lady Gaga, las Kardashians, que son un diferente tipo de chupasangres; Harry Potter, El Señor de los Anillos, El Mago de Oz, entre otras cientos de referencias, hasta Taylor Swift, my dog, Dean cantando Shake it off fue algo épico. Ya, chao.
›The TV Shows I Love: Supernatural And Scandal@kemmyb1525d
There is this feeling of wanting more when movie lovers, including yours truly, watch movies and they come to an end after two to three hours. We want more! This is the beauty of television shows. The captivating, fun ride does not end after two hours. Viewers are entertained with more plots, twists and turns, giving room for more character development.
I have watched so many TV shows that it is difficult to remember some of them but for the purpose of this contest, I will focus on genres I love namely: fantasy/horror and political thriller. Here are two of my favourite TV shows:
Fantasy/Horror: Supernatural (2005-2020)
This is a well-loved American fantasy TV series about two brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester, who battle evil in different parts of the world. If you love to watch horror/mystery/fantasy genres, then this TV series is the ideal one.
This is one of my favourite shows because of the plot, the twists and the mystery in every episode. One thing that is particularly captivating about this series is the feature of almost every supernatural being known to man like ghosts, witches, vampires, wendigos, lycanthrope (wolves), zombies, demons, hellhounds etc. The series also covered the themes of time travel, hell, purgatory and heaven.
The series creators did splendidly by ensuring there is a lesson to be learned in every episode. Life issues were captured and resolved in this series.
Apart from the two brothers, one character I particularly enjoyed watching is Lucifer played by Mark Pellegrino.
His performance was outstanding due to his wits, his cruelty were punctuated with funny quips and his bravery was alarming even when he faced the powerful brothers who could probably vanquish him to hell. He believed he was unconquerable and proved a tough villain for the protagonist brothers. His role started from the 5th season and extended to the final season.
This series is so addictive, filled with captivating scenes, the battles, the gore, and at the heart of it are the comedy scenes. The brothers are so funny that their comedic acts are a perfect balance with some of the horror scenes. The cast was great and their performance was excellent.
If I was asked to pick one of the brothers as my favourite, I'll settle for Dean Winchester. He's tough, funny, a quick thinker and more realistic than Sam. And if there is a creature I would love never to lay eyes on, it would be the hellhounds! They were fierce and worse, invisible!
I enjoyed this series more because I binge-watched it right from season 1 to season 12! The series ran for 15 seasons! Good thing it did not stretch as long as Grey's Anatomy, another longest-running TV show. If I can spare the time, I'll probably watch it again.
Political Thriller/Drama: Scandal (2012-2018)
Another genre I get excited about is political thrillers. Any show focused on the White House and Oval Office, I am always up for it!
Scandal is one of Shonda Rhimes' creations that pushed Kerry Washington into the limelight. It's about the President of the United States (played by Tony Goldwyn) who got involved in a sex scandal with one of his staff, a situation similar to Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.
The White House requested the retainership of Olivia Pope as their fixer or crisis manager to 'handle' the scandal. As it turned out, Olivia (played by Kerry Washington), the main character of the series, had worked formerly in the White House and was in an active relationship with the President. Scandalous or what?
Every episode in this thrilling 7-seasons series captured the political games surrounding the White House, the chase for power, the cover-ups, the happenings in the corridors of powers vis-à-vis what they report to the general public.
One interesting part of this series is the role of an activist that Olivia Pope played for those who couldn't afford her services. The first three seasons were gripping and great. Realistic, and modern societal issues were addressed such as feminism, metoo, race and discrimination. However, from the fourth season, the series descended into the realm of soap opera regarding Olivia Pope and her relationship with the President.
Another part I found more thrilling is the B6-13 intelligence, a classified group headed by Eli Pope, Olivia's father. B6-13 constituted the power behind the Oval office. I think this goes to show that behind every power seat, there's always another power in control.
The cast of this series was superb! Jake Ballard (played by Scott Foley) is one character I so much admired.
The smooth and brilliant way he handled national secrets after he took over as Command of B6-13 gave me so much thought on global incidents and the way the press spins different, acceptable stories.
Also, I loved how Bellamy Young gave life to the role of First lady, FLOTUS. Her acting was great and I loved how her character rose to become the first female President of the United States.
I applaud the creators of these series and I'll definitely recommend binge-watching them. That's the best way to watch a TV series in my opinion.
Which TV shows do you love? This is my entry to the Movies & TV Shows Contest. Why not join in on this fun and talk about your favourite TV shows.
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You can legally watch this series just about anywhere man. Including Prime, Peacock, Netflix, TNT and AppleTV 
Although the earlier seasons are a bit old (seen clearly given the video quality), and horror isn't really the main theme, the jump scares are just enough. In some episodes even more than enough...
