Supernatural

Supernatural is a show that slowly broke my heart. I loved Supernatural. LOVED it. You won't find a bigger fan of that show than I was in high school. My life was forever changed by that show, and more specifically by Dean Winchester. I wanted to be him more than anything else in the world. But beyond season five (Hell during season five) it began its slow process of ripping my heart from my chest. The writing quality went downhill not only when Eric Kripke left, but after Kim Manners's passing. That really hurt the show. I still watched though in the hopes that the writers would bring the show back to it's former glory, and there were moments where they succeeded. However, the new writers began to ignore previously established lore, milk the drama between Sam and Dean to the point of ridiculousness, and, worst of all, forget that the quality of the writing of a good show is largely determined by how the its plot naturally follows the actions of its characters and not by forcing the characters to act unnaturally to get them where the writers in charge want them to go. A story needs to be pushed forward naturally by the characters actions. Similar shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel were much better at this. AOS, for the most part, is good at following this rule, but the writers of Supernatural got lazy.

The episode that finally forced me to stop watching altogether was "Fan Fiction". It was marketed as "an episode for the fans". Going into it I must have known I wasn't going to like a musical episode that took place in an all girls school where the fans are represented as by the teenage girls putting on the theatre production based on Sam and Dean's lives, but it seems I didn't realize just how much I would disdain it. Now I know that a lot of fans love that episode, but I honestly saw it has a slap in the face to many of the fans that have stuck by the show for so long. The episode "for the fans" only seemed to reference the crazy teenage girl fans. I get that that's the joke, and it's not exactly implying that all Supernatural fans are crazy teenage girls, I just was hoping that the 200th episode would have been more of retrospective of the show. To me "for the fans" means for the fans that bleed Supernatural. That loved it for its characters, themes, and atmosphere rather than the fans that were mostly watching because they have the hots for Sam, Dean, and Castiel and have all their "ships" planned out with them. Those fans are the worst, and to have the 200th episode by centered around them made me fully realize that Supernatural was no longer being written for fans like me. My hope for the show's return to glory was gone.

I still watch episodes from the early seasons every now and then though. I even heard that the new season has been pretty good, so I might even start watching again. Can anyone up to date with the show verify this?

Supernatural is also a big reason why I started video editing. There was a big community of Supernatural fans that made music videos out of clips of the show. I made a few that, disappointingly, were taken down for copyright infringement, but for a few years I worked on so many that I became a pretty good editor and now do it partially for a living (when I'm not acting or screenwriting).

I also REALLY wanted to play young Dean Winchester. I even managed to track down an Impala and take a few pics with it:

http://instagr.am/p/7yjj7BDlsf

...and I went ghosting hunting and got a few pics too:

http://instagr.am/p/8_zmbtjlhz

http://instagr.am/p/BJ0pMObgkkG