Re: Supernatural five minute preview clip from comic con--slightly spo
Oh, Dawn Ostroff wanted to cancel Supernatural at the end of season 2, aragorn. That's common knowledge. Eric Kripke, the exec producer, was quoted about this in one of his TV Guide interviews. It was the suits at Warners Studios, which produces the show, who stepped in and put their foot down. SPN makes quite a bit of cash for them overseas. They've sold it to over 50 markets now. It doesn't make CW much money because it doesn't hit the 18-34 female target demo well enough, but it makes money for
Warners big time. Dawn Ostroff has been quoted as saying that "she doesn't get it" [the show]. To her, only soapy trash like Melrose Place, Gossip Girl et al will lure in young women. She doesn't seem to want the young male viewers, and SPN commits the sin of having a lot of over 35 viewers.
Do you recommend this show to me and why?
Oh yes. Be forewarned--the first half of its first season is fairly weak and stand alone episodic,(the pilot is good, though) but once you get to the end of season one and into season two, the improvement is striking. Watch out for an episode called "Route 666." It's laughably bad.
Even the writers acknowledged later in a bit of meta that it sucked.
Most shows don't get markedly better as they age. Supernatural
has, that's why it's worth sticking with. If you enjoy consistent, extremely strong characterization, you'll like Supernatural. If you like seeing events actually affect characters and change their behavior, you should watch Supernatural. It's
very unlike Smallville that way. If you like humor, Supernatural (especially after Ben Edlund joined the writing staff in season two) has some of the weirdest humor around. In fact, it's fairly psychotic in its humor from late in season two and especially into season four. Five words:
bipolar suicidal live teddy bear 
SPN will whiplash from "open a vein" drama to psycho humor Ben Edlund style. IMO, so much funnier and grown up than Buffy ever was.
Ever. No, there's not always some ancient scroll telling them what to do. The brothers fuck up. A lot. As anyone who watched this last season will tell you.
There's great acting by the two leads, who are totally believable as brothers. They act like guys really act (within the bounds of network tv censorship of course) instead of how chicks think guys should act. However, Padalecki--who plays the younger brother--was fairly stiff in his role during season one. I don't know if he got an acting coach between seasons one and two, but anyone will tell you that he improved tenfold in his work. Also, there is a story arc that ties together nicely between seasons one and four. Little hints are dropped along the way that don't even seem like hints at the time. The writers did a great job with that.
A little bit of SPN's psychotic brand of humor, aragorn. Something not too spoilery for the overall story arc. It's a clip from season two's "Tall Tales." Curtis the frat boy tell the story of the night he was abducted from campus.
Slow dance
So, if you've dabbled in season four, what eps have you seen?
