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Judging by some lj-cuts in my flist (and some episode reactions I couldn't resist from reading), everyone's hating on SPN quite a lot these days. Just how bad is season 6, guys? I stopped watching halfway during S4, partly because of boredom and partly because I was the opposite to everyone else - I liked Ruby v.2 (admitely somewhat because I adore Genevieve Cortese) and disliked Castiel quite a lot. I don't know, I'm beginning to think it was the right thing to do, 'cause I can still remember the good times instead of just being mildly bitter about it.

SIGH. Remember Tall Tales everyone? How much FUN it was? Or when Dean beat up the Impala? or Meg and how CREEPY season 1 was and how GOOD the first few eps of season 2 were? And the AS;ODFJLJ worthy S1 finale?

AH, THE GOOD TIMES.

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It used to be so good! Remember the GIANT SEMI TRUCK THAT SMASHED THEM ALL TO PIECES? The first two seasons, sigh, those were the glory days.

My nephew wants to be a creepy clown for Halloween and we were having so much fun reminiscing about ELaC the other day. I know it wasn't a popular ep at the time, but it's always been one of my favorites, in between the creepy MotW, Ellen and Jo, the minivan, "fingered a clown," the last scene between Dean and Sam, beating up the Impala (*sniffles*)... I miss my show, but I'm glad that I quit in time to remember the good days.

My mileage: season 6 is making me really, really unhappy. The boys aren't the boys. Sam is -- I don't know who, or what, Sam is. Dean has suffered immensely and it's only episode 5.

All I can guess is that somebody decided the boys hadn't earned their decent, mutually satisfactory afterwards yet. And I don't know why, but the unmitigated bleakness and harshness of this season is a MAJOR turnoff. The most recent episode -- ugh. Sam did a monstrous, despicable thing. I am utterly repulsed.

I've only watched bits so far. Watching SPN was great fun when I could mock it with my sister but she's away and watching it alone makes me depressed, there's just endless bad narratives and stupid plots and lazy acting. Ugh.

I kind of want to know this, too. I watched all the way to the end of S5 and kind of wish I hadn't -- I feel like it became totally different show post-S3. There were good elements to the new show (I liked Castiel actually, and the ridiculous amount of meta, and yeah, Genevieve Cortese was awesome), but the emotional core was just ... gone. Sam and Dean have not really been Sam and Dean for a long time, and that makes me sad. :(

Oh, the good old days. *clings*

I like (not loooooove) Castiel but the angel storylines are boring and are still going on. I'm in the middle of s5 but I don't have much pushing me to go forward.

sorry for the 2nd comment, but I remember when Supernatural used to scare me. I asked some online friends if it still had the horror element (that drew me to the show in the first place) and they said it's pretty much gone.

I stopped watching mid season 4 as well. It's just more evidence for my theory that no show should be longer than 4 season, lol.

OH THAT SEMI. I remembered I JUMP and literally went OH MY GOD WHAT. I miss that WOW factor the show used to have in the first two seasons, and how it catered to the fans without being obnoxious and how it was a show about brothers killing creepy things and making eyes at each other. SIGH.

I've always loved ELaC! It's a creepy fun episode with lots of character insight, and Jo, oh, I've always adored Jo. :D That little scene when they fight for the non-clown chair always kills me XD

Yeah, I keep on saying I'll catch up eventually, for the sake of completion, but at the same time I don't want to end up hating the show, like a lot of people in my flist seem to do now, so who knows.

That's what I was worried about when I heard Sera Gamble was the new showrunner -- she's always been about the melodrama-tinted angst, and the show has gone so serious and dramatic since S4 that that is the least thing it needs. I guess everyone was expecting sort of a return to the simplicity of S1, mostly monster of the week eps and creepiness. SIGH.

I heard something about vampires? I'm not sure if I even want to know. I keep on telling myself I'll someday catch up, but I'm not sure I want to put myself through it, and end up hating the show.

I think there's always been that, but it was fresh and exciting enough that not many cared, or that we all looked past it. Now - well, no one needs that much angst and pain and doom mixed up with badly written plots anymore. And I guess the actors are also getting a bit fed up with the show? Which is sad.

After they killed the YED, it got a bit weird, but yeah you're right, it was after S3 that it just got BIZARRE. I think a large portion of fandom was expecting S6 to be a sort of return-to-basics thing, and that it'd be nice and creepy and like S1, but come on, it's Sera Gamble, she of the melodramatic angst. It would've been nice though.

Yeah, after a while it just gets you apathetic, doesn't it? Way too much angst, not enough creepy. Oh man, you remember Bloody Mary? It was SO SCARY. And the mytharc was so interesting back then, I remember that ep when they see Papa Winchester for the first time, with Meg and all - oh, that was so good.

But Friends was still sort of funny! XD Now I'm trying to think of shows I like. MMM... Bones is sort of lame now, yes. Buffy I like nonetheless, but yeah, not as good as in the beginning. Okay, you're probably right!

I think comedy shows are a bit different. Friends was amazing, and so were shows like Boy Meets World, Home Improvement, Seinfield, the Nanny, etc....and they lasted for ages. I think with comedies, it's more about the lives of the characters than it is about storylines and plots, so we sort of grow with them, and it never gets old.

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