Listen Are There Any More Fans Who Are Literally Into Supernatural BECAUSE It Was About Monsters And

Listen are there any more fans who are literally into supernatural BECAUSE it was about monsters and horror and creepy folktales that they were already into? Cause that’s me.

My favourite thing about supernatural outside of Sam and Dean was the urban legends, the cases of the week where they would hole up in a motel and dig into the lore before going out in the fucking wild or into the strange local histories of small towns. I’m fucking obsessed with all this creepy shit. It wasn’t just about Sam and Dean for me- every podcast I end up obsessed with is about obscure local histories, folky monsters and secret societies.

Sam and Dean are weirdos. They are the things that go bump in the night just the same as the things they hunt. I LOVE them for that.

It makes me sad that the show attracts so many people that are like ‘ooh I skip over all the creepy stuff because I’m here for the drama and the homoerotic story I made up in middle school’ girl, I wasn’t gonna say it. But you’re appropriating goth culture. The creepy shit is literally the point here.

Go watch cutesy stuff lol. I wanna talk about cryptids and curses and backwood towns and ‘missing under mysterious circumstances’.

This is why the episodes of the week were so special.

I would actually say the less it focused on folkloric monsters of North America, the more boring it got. Like imagine Sam and Dean encountering MothMan and stopping a local disaster episode. Like, a Beast of Boggy Creek episode. A ‘Not Deer’ episode. Or even one with scary little cave gremlins, or ‘black eyed kids’. Even one where they explore a skin**lker case. (I’m obscuring it because the more I know about them the more genuinely terrifying they become lol) There’s just so many places they could have gone with scaling it down and making it more interesting, and keeping the brother dynamic going smoothly - which was when it was it’s most entertaining.

In the later seasons the writers kept making them talk about working cases but then interrupting it to play bullshit Angel demon corporate nonsense and inserting British villains. Like Red Meat was a fucking BANGER for a reason. It wasn’t set inside a magic building full of people strategising. It was in a cabin in the woods. It was the isolation that made it scary, the wilderness, vs a controlled environment, that made it feel like even though your characters are strong- anything could happen.