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Kitt
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09-05-2000
| Saturday, June 28, 2025 - 4:00 pm 
Eric Dane is very wooden physically in this, I don’t know if it’s the ALS or an acting choice, but it does seem noticeable, although I also had that in my mind. E3 and I am still conscious of it when he’s on screen, and yes, it is a bit sad.
Oh it’s very strange watching Jensen in this. He’s obviously not the Dean that I love, or the (public) Jensen that I am intrigued by and quite familiar with, but he certainly does look a lot like both of them! I’m glad they didn’t give him a Dean haircut, as that helps, but he swears and I get nervous, lol, as Dean doesn’t swear and Jensen rarely does, as he’s quite careful with public image. After the horror of his dialogue in e1, the character is now much more believable and more of a regular (tv) cop/hero type character and if anything he seems quite normal now. Weird.
(Jared in Walker was very much a mixture of Sam and Jared, so there was no adjustment period for that.)
Farscape… still going slowly due to limited tv time and quite a few other shows on lately, but every few episodes I really want to post about it but it’s too late, and then the next morning I’ve forgotten what I wanted to say! There’s something very intimate about the dialogue between Crichton and anyone, he’s just one of those people and it really draws me in. So I am enjoying it very much, and get scared about their fates just how you said I would, lol. (Puppets, what puppets!?) Excellent show and I am still surprised I barely heard anything about it when it was on.
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Sanfranjoshfan
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09-16-2000
| Saturday, June 28, 2025 - 8:00 pm
Let me know when you reach s04!
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 3:26 am
From January to June, Supernatural is Number 15 in the Nielsen Rankings of all streaming shows across all networks!!!
I hope those boys get some good residuals!
https://deadline.com/2025/07/nielsen-streaming-first-half-2025-rankings-bluey-supernatural-south-park-1236456896/
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Sanfranjoshfan
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09-16-2000
| Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:06 am
Supernatural is the best show that no one I knew watched when it was airing....or after it ended, except for one fierce Supe-fan(atic) with whom I binged all 328 episodes with.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 12:04 pm
I think it got quickly cast as a teen show, as it was on the CW, when really it is an everyone show.
And I bet the press about Jensen has also prompted some people to start watching. Countdown is up to episode six now, and to my totally unbiased eyes  he is the standout star of the show. And after the first episode - where he was given some really hammy lines and must have been told to amp up the "Jack the lad" factor - he's now acting like a slightly Dean-ish version of an action hero and he's pretty good. Still not sure about the writing, but the acting is definitely up to par.
If you're going to binge it all after the finale you'd probably do better than me and be more able to follow the plot.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-16-2000
| Friday, July 18, 2025 - 11:55 am
"I think it got quickly cast as a teen show, as it was on the CW, when really it is an everyone show. "
Yes, when it started, teens flocked to it....but remember, it was on for 15 years so by the time it ended those same teens were in their 30s! Original fans grew up with this show....in high school when it began and parents with children when it ended. At some point, I realized that Supe was the only CW show I watched where the characters were actual adults.
I think the fact that it ended on such a high note with a finished story ensured it didn't get the criticism that show finales like "Lost" did. So many shows just get canceled and miss the "longevity boat" that's created by having a great ending that was no less compelling than the premiere episode.
I know the final few seasons, when Supe was on the bubble of renewal, subsequent seasons were okayed one season at a time which carried the possibility of the series ending without a great wrap up finale arc. Had it ended with a cliffhanger, I doubt it would have the popularity it has now! Now it can live indefinitely as a fully realized story.
I am a bit nervous about a season 16 possibility. The finale of the show was perfect as far as I'm concerned. I've seen too many returns/reboots/reimagined efforts to bring back a popular show just fall flat. (The Winchesters...?)
I wouldn't be worried about some kind of crossover miniseries storyline with Supernatural and The Boys or The Umbrella Academy.....or The Walking Dead!
https://www.techadvisor.com/article/2263516/supernatural-season-16-revival.html
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Saturday, July 19, 2025 - 12:39 am
Yes, it’s definitely something people can recommend without reservation. The Negan and Maggie show S2 is just now airing here, and I was thinking how excited I was for TWD in the first few seasons, and how now I’m not even sure I would recommend it, at least not without a lot of warnings. Nothing like that with Supe, even those leviathan episodes were mostly good, the only reservation I’d really have is the number of episodes!
I don’t think S16 is happening soon, if ever. The boys confirm they’d be in if something good enough was written, but there never seems to be any semblance of a script or real idea. As much as I’d like more episodes I think the story is over, and probably should remain so.
Yeah, if the Umbrella Academy was still on they could have jumped into a timeline where the boys were still alive and that would have been excellent…. Not quite sure where they’d fit into TWD ;).
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-16-2000
| Saturday, July 19, 2025 - 11:33 am
"The Negan and Maggie show S2 is just now airing here, and I was thinking how excited I was for TWD in the first few seasons, and how now I’m not even sure I would recommend it, at least not without a lot of warnings."
Ya know, when TWD was first announced I was elated to learn that there was going to be a zombie TV series! When it started, I loved it....even loved FTWD....never missing an episode of either of them.
That excitement has waned a great deal because of so many follow-up not-nearly-as-good shows that don't come close to the original. (It's like eating my Grandmother's homemade chocolate cream pie vs a cheap frozen off-brand version!) I still watch the spinoff shows but not with the great expectations I used to have for TWD. I think I do it more out of loyalty and appreciation for the originals than anything.
I think the only new twist that would excite me would be something like a Supe crossover with the original cast....a twist that will never ever happen.
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Hmmmm....To be honest, after really thinking about that, I realized that should never happen. More than likely, it would just sour my memories of both series rather than add anything worthwhile to either.
I think I'll just rely on my "What if they had done..." TV fantasies rather than wanting an actual return, spinoff, or reboot.
Supe is great....and for me, watching it week by week for 15 years and then binging it five years over just a few months was all I needed.
Not every show (even great ones) need a spinoff, reboot, or prequel. Some of them are just perfect already.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Saturday, July 19, 2025 - 4:09 pm
For me, TWD got a bit too shocking around the time of the cannibals, and then the Glenn event, and my mind just opted me out of the obsession I had out of self-preservation. Like you, though, I have watched every show and every spin off out of a sense of loyalty as much as anything. This Negan show is the weakest, I think, but I’ve never been able to forgive him, and never particularly cared for Maggie, so that might be a lot of it. I still enjoy the Darryl show because, well, Darryl.
Might have been funny if a Supe episode was in the TWD world with clues that only TWD fans would see, but no TWD cast. Like in the abandoned Alexandria. Can’t think how they could be there and not be in an alternative world though. Maybe with the slice thing Jack made to different universes. And now I’m thinking of a different show where they used a knife to slice down through the air and go between universes and I can’t think what show it belongs to…
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Jimmer
Board Administrator
08-29-2000
| Saturday, July 19, 2025 - 8:13 pm
I liked Glenn a lot and then when that happened I was like nope I’m done. I just couldn’t watch those stupid characters any more.
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Kitt
Member
09-05-2000
| Sunday, July 20, 2025 - 1:30 am
They really lost a lot of viewers, I think, by not understanding that people can’t stomach graphic content on screen with people they have grown an attachment to in the way they can the same characters drawn on paper in comic books. That scene with the bath tub with the cannibals, when I realised what was going to happen my body stood itself up and started walking itself away without any conscious decision by my brain, it was just too horrific.
Euuuurgh. Going to have to go and look at Jared Padalecki photos to get the thought out my brain…
Oh, the other show I was thinking of was His Dark Materials, where everyone had an animal familiar. Would have been great to see the boys pop up there each with an animal attached .
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