Supernatural 10.5 "Fan Fiction"

[unfeathered]

Just hit the 200th episode of Supernatural tonight, almost exactly 18 months after I started watching the show for the first time last year in lockdown. I realise I haven't posted anything else about it since but, boy, do I love this show. I REALLY wish I'd caught it when it first aired so I could have shared the excitement and discussions with everyone else.

And this episode? Utterly perfect. Obviously, as an am-dramer myself, I was going to enjoy this am-dram story, but oh, there was so much there. A different take on the obligatory 'musical episode', and yet another different way for the show to break the fourth wall, and an utterly delightful way for the show to celebrate everything it's accomplished. All (well, most of) our beloved characters there even if not with their original faces, and a beautiful way for Sam and Dean to learn about themselves. Far too many lovely little moments to mention, but I have to give a big shout out for the "Carry on my Wayward Son" which made me tear up a little, and also to that little glimpse of Chuck at the end there. Gorgeous.

I haven't got any Supernatural icons, so you get Giles singing with his guitar instead, because that's the same sort of emotion for me. :-)

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[unfeathered]

Ha, well if you were only going to watch one episode, I guess that was a good one to watch! Really interesting to know that it still worked going in with around the same level of fan knowledge I had when starting from the beginning last year. Though I suppose it *was* probably written with non-fans in mind to some extent, being the kind of episode non-watchers might tune into just because it was a 'special' one, if you know what I mean?

But yes, exactly, Supernatural is the first show I've seen that really, really seems to love and embrace its fandom. There have been so many episodes that deal with this already, right from the first introduction of the idea of a series of books having been written about the boys, but each one brings something new and plays around so entertainingly with all the fannish conceits, the fanfic, the slash, conventions, megafans, all of it. I guess a part of it is the timing of if all - Supernatural seemed to come in right at the peak of online fandom - but it didn't have to embrace it quite so thoroughly as it has, and I love the way it's done so. :-)