The Road So Far
#6. Supernatural (2005-____)
CW, Drama
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Two years ago, my friend was pushing another friend through his favorite show Supernatural. My first episode was in the middle of Season 3, and I had a huge laughing fit when the first villain, hell first non-Winchester character, I see on the show is Harmony Kendall. Well, it's Mercedes McNab playing an evil vampire, but still! They had no idea why I got the giggles and I tried to explain, but they were clueless having never seen Buffy. It was a good episode, though I was taken quite aback by how much blood and gore and violence the show depicted. I wasn't used to that (still not in some cases) and it was just very raw. I didn't think I could get into it further, but I heard new episodes were still airing and I thought I should try it out. My friend warned me that the next episode was a "meta-episode" or filler. "The show's got great drama and story, but there are a lot of episodes where the story doesn't go anywhere and it's a lot of humor." He also said something about a Trickster episode and grimaced a bit. Like The Trickster sucks.
The first clip I presented is the first three minutes of my first brand-spankin-new episode and it was the greatest television episode of 2009. Okay, I would pay $10 to see House's two-hour Season 6 opening,"Broken," in theaters, and Friday Night Lights', "The Son," is a heartbreaker with some of the finest acting ever and "Tomorrow Blues" an excellent second series finale, Scrubs' "My Finale" was crazy good, ER's, "And In The End" was a beautiful cap on fifteen years of excellence... but they're all huge drama pieces, and mostly openings/finales ("The Son" wasn't). It was the best comedic episode of 2009.
"Changing Channels" in Season 5 of Supernatural was the best entry I've ever had into any show since Lost's pilot episode. It was like if Community, Quantum Leap, Monty Python, and Scrubs had a love child with the movie "Stay Tuned" then added a heaping dose of, I don't know what, but that ending. This is still my favorite episode of Supernatural. And that's a good thing.
Thanks to reruns on TNT, I mostly caught up with the show. I still haven't seen most of Seasons 1-3, but I'm cool wit that because... eh, they're not amazing. There's a lot of great episodes in there, and holy crap the story arcs and finales and supporting characters introduced and used are incredible, but they have even worse episodes than some other demon-hunting shows. If you thought "Beer Bad" and "Doublemeat Palace" were bad, you haven't seen "Bugs" and "Route 666."
For the most part, it's high quality character development, action, comedy, mystery, lore, and long plot. There are Sam and Dean Winchester, the two main characters throughout the run. There's no big ensemble, but there are a good few supporting and recurring characters throughout. John Winchester, Bobby, Castiel, Rufus, Crowley, Ruby, Ellen, Ash, Jo, Henrickson, Chuck (who's really more of a Morgan). The plots are excellent and the ramp-ups (and finishes) to the finales are high calibre. "Carry On My Wayward Son" will be tied to this show forever in the minds of any who've watched.
The show's just incredible. When it's low, it's really low, but its many highs are top-tier entertainment and storytelling on network television.
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Pyre GIR (9:26:57 PM): You lack a basic grasp of human nature that can only be learned through living
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