You know what we didn’t get enough of? Cas and Mary dynamic. I think it’d be fun to watch this 30 something, time traveling hunter mother an Angel of the Lord.
Attention for all the family members I’ll bet my luck on one of the best fandom family I’m in.I’m gonna start a game of trustworthy. Guys, we are separated all over the world,I had NEVER met you guys, and we don’t know each other. Yet, spn linked us all together, No matter where u r , we are all the same.It’s just a easy game But we need cooperation and trustworthy Sometimes internet is just too convenient that we might forget how do people around the world communicated in the past So that’s why here i am , planning this game, to link us all together. . So please , repost this to your spn friends if you are interested and #projectunitespn !! We can do it RULES : 1. Pm me that you are interested in this game or send an email to inform me ( [email protected] ) 2. I’ll give you my address (guys I have complete trust in you, you don’t have to give me yours in case I’m some freaking stalker LOL ) 3. Please write a letter and send it to me, it can be anything, to anyone, for example a letter to the character, the actors our dear Misha, one of your friends, a drawing, etcetc. 4. I’m sorry but you’ll have to spent a little money to send it to me please accept my apologies 5. I’ll collect all of your letters and made a book out of it, then I’ll pay n send it to the producers of SPN. 6. Comment down below and count off from 1 if u r interested and see at last how many letters could I receive!!
Finally finished this monster (wink wink) of a piece, a tribute to Supernatural (although I know we missed out on a bunch of characters—maybe for another piece! Haha) Patreon commission for @shymeg . I’ve been watching SPN since the very beginning, so it was super nostalgic to go back and rewatch all 15 seasons in preparation for this. Whether or not you agree with how it all ended, I’m glad they ended on their terms, and not because of a cancellation (because man, it was on the bubble almost every year). Carry on, wayward peeps.
Will post the individual “rooms” in separate posts to better appreciate the details :)
Panel 1: Sam and Dean at Mary’s grave, with ghost John and Mary looking on, and their childhood home and Baby in the background.
Easter eggs in this panel—Dean wearing the Samulet, and “I lost my shoe” :))
We start off with blues and gradually the panels get brighter until we get sunrise/sunset colors. The scenes are also like rooms in a diorama, with Chuck-God as the puppet master.
Panel 2: At Harvelle’s Roadhouse, the hunter bar. Jo and Dean in one corner, Ash on his computer, Sam and Bobby drinking at the bar, Ellen running things.
Easter eggs in this panel—Jukebox playing “Simple Man”, stickers of “Jerk” and “Bitch”, “Family Don’t End With Blood” on the wall, Route 66 sign, and September 13 on the calendar. I threw in an “idjit” sticker too haha
We’ve still got some blues here, but starting to incorporate yellows and reds
Panel 3: At the Men of Letters bunker. Warding on the walls. Demon Dean looking on. Castiel. Crowley. Rowena. A spell in the works. Charlie doing her thing on the computer. Sheriff Jodi Mills with a shotgun. Lucifer Sam going through dad’s journal.
Easter eggs in this panel—Jerk and Bitch stickers again haha, the warding consists of not just warding but various symbols throughout the show, like the mark of Cain, angel repelling sign, etc.
Colors are more taupe and yellow and light as we move towards the final panel
Panel 4: Sam and Dean and Baby on the road. Carry On Wayward Son is the soundtrack. Iconic family motto as they drive on.
Colors are bright and sunny, either sunrise or sunset. The road extends beyond the “diorama” house, with some light spilling out (you can see it in the full piece)
Outside the diorama: Chuck-God the puppet master, Amara looming behind him in shadow, and Jack the Nephilim coming closer to defeat God
Hope you enjoy looking through the details of this mega piece as much as I enjoyed drawing them! <3
Finally finished this monster (wink wink) of a piece, a tribute to Supernatural (although I know we missed out on a bunch of characters—maybe for another piece! Haha) Patreon commission for @shymeg . I’ve been watching SPN since the very beginning, so it was super nostalgic to go back and rewatch all 15 seasons in preparation for this. Whether or not you agree with how it all ended, I’m glad they ended on their terms, and not because of a cancellation (because man, it was on the bubble almost every year). Carry on, wayward peeps.
Will post the individual “rooms” in separate posts to better appreciate the details :)
I honestly have no idea if this post is about to be hella long or moderate, but I feel like a lot of my feelings got aired out when I was reviewing each individual episode, so I’m just gonna dump the rest of my thoughts that I’ve jotted down while watching this season here. This is basically gonna be me saying, “Wow, this was interesting,” or, “This is similar to/different from later seasons because…” These are all coming from notes on my computer, so they’re half-baked. Nothing too fancy or analytical, but I’ll be doing one of these for every season.
Random thoughts:
I don’t like the monster-of-the-week, episodic format that much, and a lot of those episodes this season felt average in quality for me. However, when you don’t have much else to focus on besides an arbitrary goal of the boys finding John to kill something they know nothing about, it isn’t so bad. Filler episodes suck more later because they’re often completely disconnected from the main story, which isn’t the case for most filler episodes in this season. Plus, the main stories later have more involved goals for the season than this one did, which made the filler episodes later more annoying. For example, if Sam and Dean want to hunt a Tulpa at a haunted house because John is off doing something somewhere, that’s fine. Kill the time. But if Sam and Dean really need to figure out a way to kill God, like, now before Chuck decimates every fleck of existence he’s ever created, maybe don’t waste my time with an episode about a wood nymph, you know? If the stakes are higher, then the quality episodes shouldn’t appear with less frequency. All I’m saying.
The tone, acting, and writing of these characters is so different. Like, when you know a show intimately, these kinds of differences between one season and the next are natural to you. It’s not like I wasn’t aware that the boys looking for their father feels a lot fucking different than the boys having a kid, but when you actually let yourself be aware of how much the show has changed, it’s kind of crazy. Like, if I just think about it offhand, I’m like, “Yeah, this is Supernatural.” But if I break the fourth wall a bit in my mind, it’s like, “Damn, I really did watch these characters and their actors mature for fifteen years, didn’t I?” Crazy.
There are so many episodes that end with the Impala driving down the road. Like, an aerial shot of it. And if the very last scene isn’t that, then it’s probably the scene right before the last scene. Until the last few episodes, that is.
I don’t know why I’ve written this down, but it’s easier to remember episode titles in season one because you can match it to the creature without having to remember the plot. Like, “Oh, the Wendigo episode.” I’ve also said in this same note that the folklore plots died out later on in the series, which is true.
A quote from my notes: “The show really does feel better with Cas, huh?” Look, I’m not gonna say that the S1 finale didn’t slap, because it did. However, I will say that Cas can brighten any episode up, so, had he been in the series from the beginning, the season finale may not have been the only S1 episode to slap. Not that there weren’t other episodes that were good, but you know. Also, this isn’t to say that Cas should’ve been around the whole time because him coming into Dean’s life when he did was exactly perfect.
They do this later, too, but a handful of episodes in the early seasons will be like, “Here’s a girl. Now, one of you Winchesters, go bond with her this instant.” And it’s weird? You don’t need to bring a girl in just to make googly eyes at one of the boys? You could just give her the story she was supposed to have but minus all the flirting?
So, Sam is meant to be the central character for the first five seasons, right? Yes, Dean is supposed to be his equal; yes, he went to Hell and had that whole storyline; yes, he’s Michael’s vessel, but it was always reallyabout Sam, you know? Sam was the one who had the connection to the biggest, baddest thing imaginable (at the time), that being Lucifer. Sam was the one chosen for Lucifer. Sam was the one with the psychic abilities and the one to drink demon blood and the reason Dean sold his soul. Dean is obviously a main character with his own story, but Sam was meant to be the special one, yeah? But even so, Dean is such a beautifully complex character becausehe wasn’t special. You can see that, even in S1—that his specialness came from his lack of central focus. It’s almost like the plot was saying, “Sam,” and Dean went, “I’m gonna cause problems anyway,” and that’s awesome. I don’t know if that makes sense, but I just feel like Dean is the most interesting character in the entire series, and he wasn’t even the one S1 picked out as special.
Sam’s psychic abilities seemed a lot cooler when you didn’t know as much about them. Like, yes, Sam having those abilities for the purpose of housing Lucifer is cool and all, but it felt so much more mystical when it just seemed like something Sam could do for some reason. Not that that would’ve been a better payoff than what we get—it’d be stupid for the story to say, “I know a demon chose you to be the vessel of Lucifer himself, but the psychic thing you can do? Just a coincidence”—but it’s some food for thought.
John is barely fucking there even though his existence permeates the entire fucking season. I thought he was so much more present than he was in this series. They treated him like they treated Cas. “We said his name a few times, that’s good right?” No. No, it isn’t.
I hate the pattern the episodes have in S1. It goes: location name, bad thing happens in said location, Sam and Dean talk about said thing, they go to said location, they research and maybe flirt with some random girl, they fight, they drive away in the Impala. Like, nearly every episode is like that.
Without demons in the mix that often, the tone of S1 is really different when you compare it to every other season.
Dean is a lot more emotionally vulnerable in this season. I mean, he’s not sitting down with Sam to talk about his feelings all the time, but his emotions are definitely closer to the surface. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that he hasn’t had to emotionally shut down to protect Sam yet. Obviously, he represses things because of the way he was raised, and because he had to raise Sam; however, he still had John to lean on at this point. So, he hadn’t developed that habit of hiding his feelings and leaning on no one but himself yet as he did when he lost John. Because of that, he was able to be scared and tell Sam that he was afraid of losing his family and stuff like that. He becomes a way darker character in after John dies, and he more or less only leans fully on one other person for the rest of the series, albeit in a different way.
John saying in 1x21 that he wants Dean to have a home after Azazel is killed is the saddest thing I’ve ever heard. For one, because John is aware that he deprived Dean of a real home, and by extension, is aware that Dean is damaged because of that. But also, it’s sad because Dean has lived 26 years of his life up until now without ever having a home he felt safe and loved in.
Dean running from a potential fight with Azazel in 1x22 is super interesting because he’s fighting to be a part of his family rather than simply fighting for them to be saved. Dean doesn’t want to die, isn’t willing to die. That’s something that definitely changes later. Big time.
Filler episode rate:
By my count, which admittedly might be wrong, there were 7 episodes that were primarily main story episodes this season and 15 monster-of-the-week/filler episodes.
Now, in the early seasons, it isn’t as easy to separate the filler from the main story because almost every episode will deal with character conflict that’s tied to what’s going on with the main story. However, I called it a filler if the primary plot was just a random hunt. For example, I called “Scarecrow” a filler because, even though Meg was introduced after Sam and Dean have a big fight, the main plot is hunting a god.
My bottom 5 episodes in order:
These next two sections are based on my ratings of these episodes from my reviews of every episode. I’ve just ordered them, with one being my least favorite/favorite episode this season.
5.) 1x07: Hook Man
4.) 1x03: Dead in the Water
3.) 1x02: Wendigo
2.) 1x13: Route 666
1.) 1x08: Bugs
My top 5 episodes in order:
5.) 1x14: Nightmare
4.) 1x06: Skin
3.) 1x15: The Benders
2.) 1x21: Salvation
1.) 1x22: Devil’s Trap
My top episodes for Sam:
This section and the next will just be me bringing up some good points of development for Sam and Dean throughout this season. I mean, of course they develop almost all the time, but these episodes are some of the best/most interesting. At least, in my opinion. If you want to read more about my reasons, check out my reviews. Just search for “spn s1 reviews” on my blog.
1x05: Bloody Mary - Sam’s psychic abilities got alluded to for the first time during this episode, but it also told us how much Sam blamed himself for Jessica’s death.
1x10: Asylum - Sam’s resentment for Dean is voiced, and though he’s under the influence of a ghost while he talks about Dean, some of it is supported by development in other episodes this season.
1x14: Nightmare - Sam bonds with Max over their shared abilities and pasts. We also get to see that Sam initially related his own trauma when growing up to Max’s, even though he acknowledged that Max had it worse at the end. It’s an interesting point of development that Sam saw his upbringing that way.
1x19: Provenance - Through Sarah being a part of this episode, Sam reveals that he sees himself as dangerous because the abilities he has has put the people he loves in danger in the past.
1x21: Salvation - Sam reveals that he’s willing to die, and by extension, risk his family to get the job of killing Azazel done.
1x22: Devil’s Trap - Sam has to choose between losing his family through getting his revenge or losing his chance at revenge to save his family.
My top episodes for Dean:
1x06: Skin - Dean’s abandonment issues are touched on for the first time.
1x09: Home - Dean shows fear when faced with returning home and dealing with the trauma of what he went through the night Mary died.
1x12: Faith - This is the first episode that we see a serious internal conflict in Dean about the worth of his life, which is interesting, because we can see in later episodes that he doesn’t want to die. However, his attitude in this episode seems to suggest that he doesn’t see his life as valuable.
1x18: Something Wicked - Honestly, this isn’t my favorite episode in the world, but it’s the first flashback episode of the series; in it, you’ll see the reason behind Dean’s feelings of responsibility regarding Sam.
1x21: Salvation - Dean insists that nobody will die to kill Azazel, showing that he wants to be a part of his family rather than just saving them.
1x22: Devil’s Trap - Dean shows a darker side of himself in an attempt to get John back, and his fears of being unneeded by his family are revealed as well as his fears of losing his family.
Well, that’s all I’ve got for this season’s review. I’ll rate this season in my series review that I’ll write once all this is over, but my impressions right now are that the first season of Supernaturalwas all right. It didn’t necessarily walk in a straight line, but it still felt like there was a definite destination. And, on top of that, the season ended in one of the most banger ways an SPN season has ever ended. The monster-of-the-week stuff has made most of the episodes this season ones I would probably not revisit, but S1 is definitely still special.
We’ll see if this changes later, but for now, my rating (and average, based on my ratings in my reviews) for S1 is ★★★☆☆.
Nowwe’re getting the real shit going. Actually, everything surrounding the actual plot in this episode was sort of bland unless you’re a first-time-viewer, and then I’m sure the Colt stuff sounded super cool. I mean, it iscool, but not for the third time (which it is, for me).
What I liked: I like that John wasn’t a dick the entire time. I loved that Dean stood up to him and Sam came to understand him a bit better. The vampire getting whacked by the Colt looked cool. That’s all I’m saying here, more below.
What I didn’t like: I get that the boys’ relationship with John is strained, but a couple of the scenes in this episode just felt awkward. Like, to the point that watching it was slightly uncomfortable. Also, the scenes with the vampires in their hideout were completely unnecessary and super boring.
Character notes: I think John’s development this episode is what I enjoyed the most, even though Dean standing up to John was amazing for more than one reason. I know the entire fandom collectively hates John Winchester because of his abusive style of raising his children, and I’m not saying that’s wrong, but this episode did show us that he is aware of it. He knows he did wrong by his boys. How much that matters is up for debate considering he still tried to strongarm them out of helping with Azazel afterward, but I still think this episode had interesting implications for John. Sam understanding his pain and anger, as well, was a step in the right direction. We didn’t get a lot of time with John, so who knows if he really would’ve changed after Azazel was put down or because his boys needed a father, but seeing Sam bond with him through trauma was good.
Favorite scene: It’s probably obvious at this point, but Sam and John’s conversation about Mary’s death and how John raised Sam and Dean.
Favorite moment: I love, love, love the moment right after Dean calls John out on his bullshit of wanting them to stay out of the final fight. It’s toward the end while they’re waiting to trade Kate for the Colt. Both John andSam give Dean this look of surprise that’s so vindicating because neither of them expected Dean to have the bravery to say what he did, and Dean proved them wrong.
Iconic quote: “We’re stronger as a family, Dad. We just are.” This has major try-me-bitch energy coming from Dean, and I stan.
Can I keep it a buck and say that this episode was kind of crap for the 20th episode out of 22? SPN does this later, too, but for them to serve me an average episode right before the season finale in the first season is rude. The character work was good, though, and that’s what matters. At least John is finally here and we can get down to business.
They really should’ve found more reasons to bring back Missouri, huh? What a waste. Well, I’ve got to say, this episode is better than I remember it being. I think a lot of that can be attributed to this being an episode where stuff feels like it’s finally starting to go down, but regardless, I enjoyed it a lot.
What I liked: Dean, for one thing, but I’ll save that for later. I think it’s really good that SPN didn’t neglect its own rules with this episode; spirits stick around when they’ve had violent deaths, and Mary’s was as violent as it gets. I mean, I guess that didn’t happen with Jess, but let’s just ignore that. The overall plot for this episode was good hype-up material for what’s coming next. John coming back, mysteries about Sam’s abilities being addressed, information on Mary’s death—all of these actually managed to get me excited to continue my rewatch despite knowing, not only what happens next, but how it all ends.
What I didn’t like: I know it probably wasn’t that feasible to do since the circumstances surrounding Mary’s death were set to come up later, but it still would’ve been nice if the boys could’ve had a moment to breathe with their mother before she destroyed herself. Not, like, talking with her or anything, but drawing that moment out a little bit would’ve been nice. Or, at least, having a conversation between the boys at the end about it.
Character work: I know this episode focused on Sam a little bit more than it did Dean because of Sam’s psychic abilities, but I lovedwhat we saw from Dean in this episode. I actually don’t remember this getting addressed enough in the series, but it’s really intriguing to see/hear how Mary’s death affected Dean so much more than it did Sam because Sam was only a baby when it happened. I’ll talk about this scene a bit more in the next section, but you can really feel it when Dean calls John and asks for him to come help them. It’s also in Dean’s expression when they see Mary at the end—Sam is emotional when he sees her, but Dean is shocked. Some of that may have to do with the fact that Sam had realized who she was already, but I think it also has to do with the fact that Dean has been pushing away any memory of Mary’s death since it happened, and seeing her shook him.
Favorite scene: So, my favorite scene, despite the fact that the boys seeing their mother was beautiful—and maybe it’s because Dean is my favorite character, I don’t know—was when Dean called John at the gas station, about a third of the way through the episode. The fear in Dean’s voice during that scene is phenomenal—hats off to Jensen for that one. Not only are you seeing the trauma Mary’s death put him through, but you’re seeing how much Dean leans on his father. It’s an interesting scene because, for most of the series, Dean fights tooth-and-nail againstleaning on people. This scene was a good reminder that he wasn’t always that guy—that, even though he was looking after Sam, he still needed someone to look after him and wantedsomeone to look after him.
Favorite moment: Both because it was an important reveal and because it looked awesome, my favorite moment this episode was when Mary shifted from being a silhouette of fire to looking like herself.
Iconic quote: “Boy, you put your foot on my coffee table, I’m ‘a whack you with a spoon!”
It’s episodes like this that remind me why SPN can be plain ol’ goodsometimes—not something that’s only good to long-time fans, but just good. Gotta say, I’m excited to keep watching.
Well, this is the start of everything, isn’t it? It’s almost like I can’t review this episode because it’s infallible since it’s main function is just to introduce characters and themes. That being said, I’m ranking it a 3 out of 5 because I knowwhat a 5 out of 5 episode looks like from SPN after this point, and frankly, the pilot episode isn’t it.
What I liked: Most of it, to be honest. The tone the pilot episode sets up is insane when you compare it to the tone the last season has (yes I said last seasoninstead of last episodebecause the tone for the series finale didn’t fit any tone SPN has done ever, but that review will be a momentwhen I get to it, I’m sure). Back to tone, I really love the grungy and simplistic take this episode has. Not to mention, remember when SPN was actually kinda scary? Not like I’m-gonna-have-nightmares kind of scary but this-makes-my-skin-crawl-and-my-heart-beat-a-little-faster kind of scary.
If we’re talking plot here, I’d say opening up the show with a ghost hunt is probably the best way to go. It served to lay a foundation that was pretty solid, especially considering the show references ghost hunting as “old school” or “a basic hunt” a few times later on.
What I didn’t like: Honestly, the reason I haven’t ranked this episode as 5 out of 5 is simply because, comparatively—coming from someone who’s seen the show in its entirety—the monster-of-the-week thing bores me a bit. Again, since this is the introduction of everything, nostalgia kicks in, and I love it for existing… but the actual plot is standard.
Character work: This isn’t really relevant for this first episode, which may sound weird since this episode gives us the basic foundations of our characters, but that’s kind of why it’s difficult to talk about. I’ll say that the bits the first episode decided to show us about these characters—John’s questionable parenting, Dean’s attachment to his family, Sam’s complicated relationship with hunting and his father, etc.—were exactly the right attributes to highlight. It’s a very basic understanding of these characters but arguably the most important characteristics the audience needs to know about at this point.
Favorite scene: All right, my favorite scene from the pilot is the last scene of Act Two where Dean and Sam are arguing on Sylvania Bridge about Jessica and John before running away from the possessed Impala. This isn’t the funniest scene from the pilot, nor is it the most iconic, but I like how it clearly tells the audience what these characters’ motivations are at this point while alluding to the trauma that lies underneath the surface.
Favorite moment: Gotta be that last “we got work to do” scene. Talk about epic.
Iconic quote: “Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.”
That’s all I got for this first episode. It is what it is; I mean, a pilot isn’t really something to criticize because it’s supposed to get in, get out, and tell you what the show is going to be. The pilot of SPN did that, so… good.
Guys, we’re on ‘hellatus’. AGAIN! As in, no more SPN until January! And just as they left us on the worst cliffhanger! I mean, the mid season finale was absolutely legendary, I just wish there was more to it!
Now we have to wait for five weeks and six days to find out what that footprint thingy was (I’m betting on dinosaur), whether Jack will save Mary, and when Sam and Dean will get out of ‘the bad place’. I bet they won’t even show anything remotely related to Lucifer and Cas’ captivity until a few episodes in just to piss us off!
i wanna get out. this job, this life, i hate it. i want a family, i wanna be safe. you know the worst thing i can think of? the very worst thing? is for my children to be raised into this like i was. no, i won’t let it happen.
