SUPERNATURAL is Super Weird | Billiam
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Supernatural's staggering 15-season run on TV has only recently come to an end within the last few years, so let's go back and check out its beginnings.
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The best part of Supernatural is that once they realised they'd hit the point of no return with ridiculousness they just leaned into it and kept being as wild as possible.
yup i like how he only watched season 1, 14 more to see how crazy shit gets
Thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis
I think that's cw's whole brand at this point 😂
Absolutely. I haven't watched the whole series but I definitely saw the point where they stopped trying to be serious, and I think it was a positive change overall.
Agreed!
I love how blatantly obvious it was that this show was meant to end after season 5 and that everyone involved was just like "nah, another decade"
lmao your quotes took me all the way out.. you're not wrong tho.
The original showrunner Eric Kripke literally left the show at the end of season 5 like “I’m done, this was only ever supposed to be a 5-season arc” and they STILL kept going 😂
Season 5 didn't go as planed because of the writers strike and Kripke was with the show still as a producer don't know why people are pretending he left the show.
@@dandylionsloth446 the writer's strike was season 3 when they had to drop to 16 episodes.
@@dandylionsloth446 because he left as showrunner?
My favorite part of the series is when Sam and Dean died half a dozen times each and the show really wanted you to think they were dead for real every time before just bringing them back in the next season premiere.
I loved that bit. The Winchesters were feared by basically every monster because they were seen as unstoppable, because Hunters don’t live very long.
Then we have canon acknowledgement that they die A LOT.
And the episode where they go to heaven and the angels are like "yeah no we keep wiping your memory and bringing you back you incompetent fucks. Daddy made yall the new jesus so keep going."
It's also because the show runners believed SEVERAL times the show was going to end so they wrote endings. Every time it was brought back they just wrote a way to bring back whoever they killed and made it work 🤷🏻♂️
@@JamesCPotter13 funny thing is they literally were unstoppable until the final few episodes for plot reasons.
@@garrickkthegreat5762 This is actually one of the worst aspects of the show. As soon as they don't have their literal plot armor dean immediately fucking dies on his next hunt, insinuating that he's not that great of a hunter without God directly interfering. Writers couldn't even have him live until his 50's or something, no, dies on literally his next hunt against creatures he has experience fighting.
I love that you picked up on Dean’s Most Consistent Character Trait. That despite posturing as a nerd-mocking jock-type Cool Guy he is in fact far, FAR more nerdy than Sam. Only in academia can Sam out-nerd Dean, in any other respect Dean is King Geek. This persists through all fifteen seasons.
one of my favourite parts like this is when he defended his petition of anime
He's also a heathen for thinking the Heisei era is better than the Showa era, but I'll let him slide for voicing Red Hood.
The real silver bullet for this is my favorite episode: LARP and the Real Girl. In which the two of them look for something spooky happening at a big organized LARP game. Dean winds up getting *super* into it.
@@James11111 Because of course adding physical activity to being a Huge Nerd would only excite him more. LARPing is ideal for Action Oriented dorks like him so long as they have strong enough suspension of disbelief. Which of course Dean has in spades because he deals with actual supernatural creatures, he has no disbelief to suspend, he just BELIEVES.
@@00Clank Just a shame his closet geek only remembered the speech from Braveheart. You'd think he'd have atleast gotten Aragorn's speech at the Black Gate too or something.
Here is what I'll say, Seasons 1-5 Supernatural is a different show from seasons 6-15 supernatural. They both have their positive and negative aspects, but otherwise what a wild ride of a show.
You can so obviously see in the season 5 finale where they originally intended on ending the show. My friends and I honestly thought it was ending and were all sad until the last little bit then we were just confused lol.
The first 5 seasons of Supernatural are one of my favorite pieces of long form serialized media in existence. There are some definite gems in the other seasons too but those first 5 were just such a great complete story.
Honestly I think till season 7 was good. I think that’s when the Leviathans we’re the main villains. After that it got annoying.
I don't know man, I've done a lot of season 1-10 rewatches, and I don't see a huge difference between 1-5 and 5-10, they don't feel all that different from each other
If you want to get granular, you can divide seasons 1-3, 4 & 5, 6-8 into individual blocks as well. And probably another separation past that, too. I haven't rewatched as much past 9.
Supernatural is one of those series that gets you really vested in the characters. Show definitely peaked in Seasons 4 & 5 but they had several enjoyable episodes in 6-15. The fact that it ran from 2005-2020 is also fun when you see how gradually the world changed technologically with them using flip phones in Season 1 to using iPhones and Androids in Season 15
I especially loved the one-off episodes from season 6-15 because it was just like the first few seasons where its just some guys hunting paranormal stuff.
The filler have always been some of my faves ,especially in seasons 3-7 but I digress , i agree about the dramatic peakat4/5 and after that it eventually became jumping over what they did before?
It was great and I loved it. And it answered so many questions That didn’t need to be answered 🤷♂️ (like the story of baby).
But holy runon sentence Batman (me)
TLDR: i agree
Unpopular opinion: Season 4-5 was a slog to get through for me, especially since they went VERY heavy on angels and demons with almost no break and variety on other monsters. Especially if you binge it, the episodes on those seasons kinda blurred together. To the point that I can't wait to push through to season 6 to get back to more of the monster-of-the-week format like in earlier seasons.
@@imamfakhruddin1015 I can see that being an issue , and looking back those seasons didn’t really sprinkle a lot of that format in there at all? It was which angel is a dick lord 😂
Several enjoyable episodes… in 10 seasons… ?!?!?
I'm kind of sad they didn't go as far with the "urban legend" thing as they could have. I think those were my favorite episodes on the show.
The degeneration into a soap opera with the angels, demons and God going at each other wrecked it for me. That overly long arc bummed me out as much as the long conspiracy smoking man and aliens arc wrecked X Files for me. I preferred the stand alone episodes with short arcs.
yeah tbh i wish they never stopped doing that
Agreed. The one off urban legend episodes were always the best part of the show.
Yes totally! You learned something and it felt more grounded in reality because it was relatable and sometimes much closer to you. It also allowed forpre silliness and shenanigans between each other.
My grandma took me to a supernatural convention for my 16th birthday and the whole cast sang happy birthday to me and the guy who played the yellow eyed demon was soooooo nice. They actually even wrote about us in the official supernatural magazine and it was a highlight of my teenage life lmao
It’s also crazy to think I started watching the show with my grandma in middle school and had to finish it without her because she passed away. This show is older then some of the kids I’ve babysat
Me and my grandma watched the premier when I was nine and watched every episode until she died just after the season 3 premier. Kept watching for the rest of the series run.
Wow that's such an incredible memory to look back on of your beloved grandma. I'm sorry for your loss of her and I'm glad you two shared a love of this show together :)
Super dope
Awwe thats so sweet! The only reason I got into Supernatural was because my Grandma was watching it!
The shows older then me and I love it
god this might be an unpopular opinion but season 1 was always my favourite season of the show since it was much more horror focused than the others and hearing you talk about it made me feel all nostalgic again
Season 1 was imo the show at it's strongest
I agree. I miss when it was a more horror driven show
First 5 are solid then everything after is bad
I always say 1 and 2 for the same reason. The boys were much less experienced which meant they were out of their depths having to research every new threat just in time to survive. That mystery and horror shine in those seasons, but gets lost later on as they know the solution to almost everything.
tbf, it could only stay scary for so long. but i agree, more of those earlier feeling episodes would have been nice
This is one of those shows where the filler episodes are just as entertaining as most of the main story arcs. Meeting the Trickster*, The lucky rabbit's foot and The French Mistake are brilliant self contained stories.
oh i love the episodes with gabriel/the trickster! changing channels was my favorite episode for years
They are the best episodes!!
trickster/gabriel episodes are actually the best. mystery spot is my favorite to rewatch honestly.
Does it even have filler episodes? It's not like they're following a manga or book, so what's considered filler?
Probably episodes that have nothing to do with the main plot like the imaginary friend episode or the Cthulhu episode@@WallahNein
The best thing I've ever heard Supernatural get called is "Redneck Dragonball Z" where every season has to up the anti and make things bigger and everytime someone dies they get brought back stronger.
The comparison works especially well since both series had a planned structure, but popular demand and producers/publishers kept making it change.
(Several comments mentioned SPN was intended to only have 5 seasons, and network TV being...network TV.)
DBZ's writing process, even just as a manga series, was very off-the-cuff, an effect only multiplied by the process of making a TV show adaptation and the different translations/localizations of it.
Hence why their writing is so... like that. (I say this affectionately.)
I don’t see what’s redneck about it, but it is very dbz.
That's genius
The core premise of Supernatural as you laid it out is so strong. Estranged brothers brought back together on a roadtrip to find their dad, avenge their mom, and deal with spooks and stuff on the way? Excellent. The show went off the deep end and up its own ass frequently in later seasons, but the core was strong.
i loved it when it stayed *kinda* grounded. It had a nice "monster of the week" rythm to it. Brothers arrive, notice strange stuff, learn about legend, kill legend, say one-liner, leave for next week
@@ich3730 same! I stopped watching during season 10 and I'd go watch those types of episodes when they were posted on Netflix. Those episodes were more fun for me.
@@ich3730 I never got big into it but I watched 3 or 4 seasons on Netflix. Gave me r rated live action Scooby Doo vibes
@@ironbacon Funny you say that...in season 13 there is a crossover with this show and Scooby-Doo. They get sucked into a Scooby-Doo cartoon lol.
Exactly! Which is why I was so disappointed when they brought back the mom, because her death was crucial to the emotional core of the story. My interest kind of died after she came back.
Went to a supernatural convention a few months back. Crowley is probably the nicest guy I’ve ever met. He walked through the crowds during his talk and interacted with every baby he saw.
The first time I met Mark, I was volunteering in cosplay (as the twelfth doctor), and when I approached to talk, he said I was the wrong Doctor, then proceeded to lecture me on why Smith (Eleven) was better. He made me promise to put together an Eleven cosplay before the next con we'd both be at...so I did. I was standing in line a couple of months later, talking to a girl in front of me wearing a TARDIS dress. I had told hery story, and then she got called up. He happened to glance behind her, saw me, and went "oh, not you!". TARDIS girl and I laughed, and when I went up to see him after her, he was really nice. Funny guy for sure.
I remember watching a Q&A with the main cast and the writers a few years back. Someone in the crowd asked the writers why they gave their sole female lead character a cheap death instead of letting her exist like other characters off screen. Crowley literally kicked his feet up and gave the head writer the biggest shit eating grin. You just know this guy actually cares about people.
I didnt read "convention" for some reason so I thought your comment was some dark joke about a a Supernatural episode I didnt watch where Crowley takes babies or something x3
Either really nice or really oh no
he was scouting new talent
It's so weird hearing people go into the origins of Supernatural and talking about it like it's, y'know, an actual TV show, after having been in the fandom and knowing exactly what it became 😂
Seasons 1-5 were so fucking good. It’s crazy cause as a kid I didn’t realize how much the writers overlapped with Buffy/Angel. Just thought the shows were non-tangentially good
Oh my god the nostalgia. The baby-faced brothers back when the story was horror Americana and not God vs Satan and whatever shenanigans they got into after 5. Watching you react to this is gonna be a trip. Have fun!
I love the western comparison. It's crazy to think that a genre we almost never see today, was at one time, popular enough to run for as long as a crime show would run nowadays
I think Westerns aren't that rare. I mean, the mandalorian is a perfect example of a recent western that blew up.
As a Minnesotan, the two episodes that scared me were the Wendigo one because they say the creature is more common here, and there's a family of literal nutjobs kidnapping and hunting/murdering people in MN. The line that sticks with me is sam in a cage telling dean they're just people
Freakin’ humans man 🙄
I mean there's a lot of meth heads around Duluth I could totally see some of them going "Most Dangerous Game"
YES! Minnesotan here. My mom LOVED this show so naturally I eventually was obsessed and we watched it when I was really young loool
Season 1 to 5 are the real show for me. Te rest, (even if I still enjoyed it a lot) feels more and more like fanfiction with every passing season.
VERY true, in my humble opinion.
Personally, I went a little shorter. Seasons 1 and 2 are when the show feels like it brought it's A-game, as there aren't really high stakes, but it genuinely feels like it's the end of the world. Plus, I kind of hate that the show eventually got rid of the muted colors and grainy visuals, as I feel it tied in to the dark melodrama style of the show at that time.
but it was a damm good fanfiction
If it was really fanfic where’s the destiel content? All I see is queer baiting and we all know fan fic is braver
@@garbagegremlins4707 Yeah. I really feel like Cas' declaration of love for Dean in S15-E18 was forced. It never felt natural, just happened all of a sudden. It was really out of character, in my opinion.
Jim Beaver is also in the Boys and this show. Both the characters have pretty much the same name. Robert Singer in The Boys and Bobby Singer in Supernatural.
Robert Singer is was also a writer of the Supernatural show (I believe) and is the main inspiration for Bobby Singer’s name…
Started watching SPN in 2021 with the person who is now my roommate, after the whole… incident in November 2020. Fell head over heels in love with the show over the course of a year but also began an epic love hate relationship. We finished it back in September of this year (2022). There really are not words to describe the effect this show has on you if you’re unlucky enough to actually get attached to it. Truly, the Most Show of All Time.
Also, this roommate and I and our other roommate are now rewatching Lost, which I grew up with, and it’s been very fun lol.
"Unlucky enough to get attached to it" sums up the experience as a late viewer lol. I forced myself through the last few seasons after former roommates forced me through the others on rerun TNT. There were just enough glimmers to make me plow through lol.
I remember starting this show at 9 years old with my dad and watching it with him every week till I went away for college. It’s honestly insane to think about how long it lasted and the cultural impact it had
I watched it with my dad too, great memories
Same I remember watching the pilot all the way to season 5 finale on TV and figured that’d be it and it’d be a cult classic show. Was surprised when season 6 promos started but stopped watching ritually since Season 5 ended so well.
They had originally planned for just the first five seasons which is why those five feel like a complete story and the rest are just a new story season to season but when they were offered more money to make more they said hey why not and kept going. The cast and crew seemed to just love making the show so much they were just doing it for themselves at that point.
The "OH MY GOD!" joke has to be one of my favorite jokes in the entire series, so it's inclusion was much appreciated. Like earned.
One of the things I liked most about this show was just how off the rails it went at times, and how aware of its critical mass level of batshittery it could be. The repeated shark jumps are some of the best things about it.
I agree
It’s the way fangirls keep this show alive for years. Gotta love their commitment 😅
And I love how they ended it by giving those same fangirls a massive middle finger.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio not sure what you mean. you mean by having them both die?
yeah... those fan girls...
@@erubin100
They both didn't die, just Dean. Sam lives out the rest of his life and has a family, eventually dying of old age. He gets to see Dean again in Heaven and the both go on to have Heaven adventures or something like that, idk what people do in Heaven.
My last gf was obsessed with it. Most basic person I've ever met. Bitch made me realize I was gay
I never watched Supernatural, but I was always happy that it's fanbase seemed to enjoy it so much. It always seemed like a fun time.
The fact that this is just the beginning of the show is crazy. This is like the tutorial zone for what Supernatural becomes. I'm a little bias from nostalgia, but the early seasons are genuinelly great American television. Forget everything you think you know about the show from the fangirling-hot topic show it became.
Hoping the future videos will be a bit longer. There’s not nearly enough supernatural content on UA-cam and your video style is perfect for shows like this.
Everyone's sharing their spn stories so... I watched the entirety in 18 days. Like six months ago. It was intense, I'm a changed person now.
Are you doing alright?😂
Yeah no that is impossible. I did the math. That is 8 days non stop viewing without sleep or eating. Each episode is 40 minutes and a season is about 20-22 episodes and their are 15 season 30. Technically it is 8.7 which basically makes it 9 days. So you sat there for 18 days watching supernatural nonstop for twelve hours a day?
@@bitchface235 at last someone has discovered my treacherous lies. I actually watched the first two seasons before that. But to answer your question, yes I basically did sit there watching supernatural for twelve hours a day. It was a dark time in my life lmao.
@@Alexander-wf3mt I dont doubt it lol. I was mostly giving you shit but rereading my comment it is hard to see the sarcasm. I know the feeling. I started watching Gotham a couple days ago and i have been marathoning it non stop from like 5am till 8pm cuz I been sick for like a week and Im already on season three and Gotham has the same number of episodes and each one is the same length as supernatural so I sure you prolly burned through it real quick qnd like me you we're like "wait what day is it?
as an old spn fan i would definitely enjoy watching you talk about each season lmao some of the plot arcs that show goes through are just ridiculous
supernatural gets absolutely bonkers in the later seasons, i would love to see a lot of long form videos on them.
You talk about supernatural in such a calm way... its incredible
Considering I haven't really been "into" Supernatural for years now, and bailed on the show long before the series actually ended, I am surprisingly, hilariously excited to watch this and any subsequent videos you might make on it lmao
My dad has seen the entirety of it, and while he doesn’t necessarily agree with some of the more religious aspects of the show due to him being a Christian, he’s overly a big fan of the show to the point of tricking out his Mustang with some Supernatural-themed accessories (I swear, the car interior looks like it came from the show despite it clearly being an entirely different make and model).
That's amazing. My dad is also absolutely obsessed with this show too, despite him also being Christian. Who woulda thought?
If you spent any time on tumblr in like 2011 you have almost seen the entire show (from that point) in gifs, lol. That's why I always avoided it. So much fandom all around that I didn't have much control over seeing because it was close friends of mine. I tried watching it once and it seemed so silly but I can guarantee some stuff I like is silly.
This was the first show I had watched where I cared about the actors as much as the characters. Before, I used to not remember names and only called actors by their character names. Supernatural had me even watching convention videos. I loved this show so much! 😭
SAME
It's too bad Dean is a homophobe :/
@@efnfen He wasn't a homophobe; he was just blindsided by Castiel's confession in a questionably written series finale that we are pretending never happened. 🙃
@@hope-cat4894 Jensen Ackles is a homophobe irl
@@efnfen No he's not u don't have to take my word for it of course. He was on a gay men's magazine sometime in the 90's I believe and him and his wife own a LGBTQ+ friendly company. Also they made sure to put a non-binary character as part of the mij cast in the new show they own called 'The Winchesters'. Him and his wife also go to many LGBTQ+ fundraisers. He even hung out with some friends at a gay bar. Being a gay person myself I would never support someone that Is homophobic. I do agree he was pretty harsh about Destiel but that was quite a while ago as when him and Misha we're talking alone in his trailer about the confession he was all for it even video taped the whole thing that had more dialogue. Even commented that when he saw Misha act out the scene for the first time he got chills and whent speechless. I understand if u met him and had a complicated experience then by all means u can not support him but I've really appreciated what him, Misha, and Danneel have done for our community. And I know for sure Misha wouldn't continue being friends with him if he was homophobic since he's very outspoken about his beliefs. There is evidence of course lol I don't want u to think I'm just making it up.
Supernatural was my favorite show back when I had no friends and back before it got a huge following online. I loved the monster of the week style episodes but after they stopped the apocalypse and still tried raising the stakes afterwards- the whole thing started to feel bloated and dumb
Yeah I stuck it out until season 10 or 11, whenever the Brits showed up. It was just so dumb to me that they decided to keep going past the last threat that I finally couldn't take it anymore.
@@freakyfro99 SAME. If they would have ended it with season 11 finale I would have been fine with that fr, bc I completely lost interest when they brought the other men of letters thing into it. Everything just felt even more off-putting and just too forced.
I actually like when jack brings fresh blood and castiel a role again. Who is the best.
I wouldn't give up cassifer for anything.
i actually like the other seasons I think it was natural to face god as the final enemy
Supernatural is very interesting in how it compares to Lost. The Lost writers wanted so badly to not let the show go on and on, and seasons 6-15 of Supernatural show exactly why.
As much as people say Supernatural should have ended much sooner, I always loved going back to this series once per year and watch the new season. The characters and the whole road trip style of it just made it so enjoyable for me. The show has great humor and a vibe that I am gonna remember fondly for the rest of my life. I literally grew up with it and I actually felt sad when it ended. It might not be a series that I think has the best writing or storytelling or whatever, but its just that one series I always had time for when a new season dropped, just to see the Winchesters and some of the great side characters do their thing one more time. Even on its worst moments, it still was an enjoyable ride for me.
I used to love Supernatural when I was a kid, being an Australian, it made me feel like I was on an American road trip!
I've always thought that it should have ended at season 5 as it felt like a perfect ending for the story, and when I rewatch it I stop at 5. Season 6-8 still had some highlights but from 6 onwards is were it started feeling like a CW show, 9-15 were just pure CW.
I watched supernatural since I was like 13, and man, Jared and Jensen had such great chemistry THEY CARRIED that show through everything
I used to watch this show SOO much! It definitely shouldn't have gone on for as long as it did but the early seasons are some of my favorite moments in the show.
Actually Kripke never thought of a team of reporters but 1 reporter. Then he realized it was Night Stalker and switched to the brothers.
The finale/not-finale that was the end of season 5 was mind blowing to teenage me.
I made friends because of this show, i had/have crushes on the characters from this show, i was so interested by the lore of this show I did research of what most all of the mythology it was based on if I wasn't already familiar with it.
I think what lost was for you this was for me kinda sorta, but more spooky and more leather clothing.
My favorite part of Supernatural are actually the convention scenes.
Jensen Ackles is at a convention for The Boys, and Misha Collins, the actor who played Castiel, shows up behind him.
The audience starts SCREAMING like the building is on fire! And Ackles is completely startled!
This is what happens when shows almost become self sustaining entities. The CW didn't keep Supernatural because is kept growing in ratings (no show could maintain height popularity for that long) but mostly because they were scared of what the fandom would do to them if they ever actually brought down the hammer. Getting the fandom ok with letting the show go was a process that took several years and multiple seasons to get to.
Is that true? I doubt a show would go on just for a fandom if it's not making money or ratings in some way. Even if most of its money is no longer coming from the general public. It was the CW's lifeline for a long time. Could be wrong but I doubt they refused to pull the plug because it'd hurt the fans' feelings if it was too soon. Tons of fans seem to think it went on way too long lol
@@washedblue that's not really the point I was making. The point is that the show stopped GROWING far before it ended. The fandom sucked inward and crystalized until it was basically bulletproof. Sorta like the people who still watch new simpsons episodes. Most of us wonder who's still into it but the people who are into it are REALLY into it.
I truly doubt the CW deferred a multi-million dollar decision because they were afraid of the fan reaction. If SPN started losing money at any point we'd have seen how quickly it got cancelled. Obviously it was turning a profit the entire time.
I love supernatural season 1 & 2 are by far my favorites, but everything up through 5 is amazing. 6-15 are not bad but the show never has the same level of writting and is much lighter in tone, almost being its own thing. Ill always miss it.
The supernatural cast is so funny they had these goofy clips behind the scene cuts for the holidays and it was cute
I'm watching it in full currently for the 5th time 🤩 Trying to see how fast I can binge it this time around. (Yess... I'm one of "those" fangirls)
Also, besides the spin-offs, there's a podcast that Rob Benedict (Chuck/God) and Richard Speight Jr. (Angel Gabriel/Loki) started this year. Each episode is an hour long break down of each Supernatural episode. It's great!
Same here. I've watched and re-watched the entire series half a dozen times. It's just one of those shows that feels really comfortable and familiar and there's a lot of nostalgia tied to it for me as well.
I checked out after season 5, The shows creator at that point had told the story they intended and then left the team and So I was like "okay so the shows over now" even though it was still going, honestly. After that it was just a case of "Show too successful to let end"
I think they did the same thing to The Mentalist.
You should watch the rest. It's really good. I highly enjoyed every episode of every season.
@@ramaloki if you’re talking about supernatural then oh man you’re gonna witness supernatural is not supernatural anymore and they’re only gonna waste characters.
You made the right decision. After s5 I continued watching as the show got worse and worse. I eventually checked out midway through s9
Season 9 is still ok compared to the rest
I rewatched this show (all 15 seasons) with my boyfriend during covid in 2020. I enjoyed all the spooky, ghost-hunting I remembered, and we had a lot of fun with the outlandish later seasons. This show has a special place in my heart.
Love the idea that you needed to watch supernatural in order to be prepared for a scooby doo video
Angel aired it's last episode on May 19, 2004, while Supernatural first aired on September 13, 2005, so there could've been a potential crossover if Angel had gotten another season.
i love when Sam said 'it's orbing time' and then promptly orbed all over the place
I've never watched supernatural
Watching this, I have realized i need a lost-esque deconstruction of Supernatural from Billiam. It is always so nice to see his take on media, especially something he isn't super familiar with and is only invested in the first season due to a hack connection with a scooby doo crossover (which is good)
I always though this show started as a serious show , watched a few episodes from the first season . Then years later caught it on tv , much later in the show I was like wtf happened
Season 4
OH MY GOD! Before 2020, I had only seen three episodes of Supernatural: The French Mistake, Scoobynatural (I had to see it for myself before I even watched the whole show) and a third episode I couldn’t identify because it wasn’t a TV I could use the remote for. I watched it for the first time as it was ending. I caught the penultimate and final episodes as they aired, as I crept close enough to finishing what was available on Netflix at the time that the gap in knowledge was manageable. It was THE BEST. I love this show so much
The French Mistake? The episode that destroys the fourth wall?
@@crystalcolden9158 yep. you could argue it was the definitive episode that completely changed the tone of the show for years to come.
Great video nice to see the 1st season through fresh eyes.....also more Scooby-Doo yeeeeeeee
love to hear more about your thoughts on the show, especially regarding its later seasons. when in season 2 some ultimate demon killer is introduced and you realise there's 15 more seasons to go, then things get funny
I’m extremely delighted and excited to watch Billiam watch this show! Similarly, I did not watch Supernatural growing up but I always heard bits and pieces about it from my school friend who was obsessed with it. After the show ended she proceeded to explain the entire finale to me with absolutely no context and it was the most fun and confusing conversation about a TV show I ever had. I think about a year later I checked out the show, planning to only watch maybe a season or two, and then proceeded to binge the entire show in a few short months. Honestly the more over the top the show got (especially in seasons 6 and 7) the more I enjoyed it. I seriously look forward to you talking about this madness since I love your vids so much!
I love Supernatural. I started watching in 2015 on tnt morning weekday mini marathons. My dad died a year later and Supernatural somehow got my family through. My mom started watching too. I found out it was still on aire and my mom and i watched every new episode when it aired. Even my brother and sisters began watching it. Seldom has a tv series united my entire family. It was always there. And then it ended. Heart breaking. It's been on a while, so some seasons are better then others. The brotherly love and devotion to family was consistent throuout and maybe that's what drew us to it. The new series is something. Not quite the same, but I'll take it i guess
Supernatural has that thing that helps people go through the hard times in our lives. this is also my escape when I'm having a hard time in life
Kim Manners was a director. There are multiple palyfest for the show. He's part of the panel for the 1st Palyfest 2006.
Im literally rewatching Supernatural right now. The timing on this video was... supernatural... to me... at least... subjectively :')
For the longest time when it was out in the early days I was convinced it was a spinoff of Smallville. Since dean's actor left Smallville and boom almost immediately we got this show airing right after or before Smallville.
I was obsessed with supernatural as a teenager, love hearing your quirky commentary on it do more pls❤
I remember seeing bits of season one when it first aired on tv, damn that feels like it was so long ago. The world felt...bigger then.
I'd maintain the first five seasons are pretty good. Wraps everything up in a nice little bow then it... keeps going.
Supernatural had been a favorite of mine. You can blame my older sister. I remember when seasons one through five or so aired, I loved them and their kind of folklore aspect. Afterwards I kind of lost interest for a few seasons (college 😆) and then jumped back in and out, disinterested mainly due to the overarching storyline. But it's still one of my favorite shows. However "Burn Notice" is probably my favorite show.
I miss the monster hunting aspect. The exploration of these creature's lore and such.
*[SPOILERS]*
But in later seasons they get a little lost in the sauce with more theological aspects of the world. To the point where it goes from a Von Hellsing feeling show to more a modern divine comedy type odyssey. Like Paradise Lost, Dante's Inferno, or... Hellava Boss?
It focuses on Heaven and Hell. Exploring their own lore and concepts on it. Which does feel like a different show with the same loveable characters. I get that they felt the need to keep raising the stakes in the story. So you can only go to a cosmic level at some point. So the monsters of the week start to disappear.
Both takes of Supernatural are so good in their own right. I feel like fand usually have a favorite side. I liked the original von Hellsing bad assary the most. But the later seasons added such amazing characters, so I can never say one is firmly better than the other.
The one golden through line of the series are characters and their dynamics. Which was always my favorite part. I vibe with the brotherly love, even when they are frustrating and chronically keeping something from the other. Which is usually out of love for their brothers, because they want their brother to experience some peace of mind in their chaotic lives. Which is always peril.
The thing I liked about supernatural is that even though it had a limited budget it wasn't scared to go big. Angels? You got them. Hell? You got it. Heaven? You got it. Celestial beings fighting one another? The apocalypse? God himself? They have it. I love and can respect that and the actors make an amazing job completing the absence of a big budget with big and laid out personalities
Do this, but with the show “ONCE UPON A TIME”
Stay tuned for December….
@@billiam yaaasssssssssss. I’m moist already!
Billiam is just the early 2000s version of BasicallyHomeless
I always loved the special episodes in the later seasons.
An episode where dean becomes a dog. An episode where the boys go to heaven.
An episode where they are in a TV show. And my personal favorite the Scooby Doo episode.
I know it was a little more "monster of the week," but I really remember liking the first season or two of Supernatural. It felt more like every episode was it's own b horror movie.
Supernatural was the first show I watched over and over on netflix then followed all the way to the end.
I'm sorry this happened to you. I'm giving this a thumbs up for your pain and suffering because that is the only way UA-cam allows me to console you in this troubling time of having watched this show in its entirety.
Supernatural was my favorite show for a period of time, and I have to say it's amazing how hard it fell off after the OG showrunner left. Like it's a pretty simple premise but apparently he was only guy who knew how to make the show work.
The Supernatural Billiam intro is also very good.
Honey, you got a big storm coming 😎😉🤣
just a fun fact: when you were comparing SPN to westerns and called sam and dean cowboys, jared and jensen are both from texas and jared is now the lead in the reboot of walker texas ranger so right on the money
this and doctor who were 2 of my favorite live action shows. i didn't get into it until i saw reruns of it on tnt like a decade ago. season 4 is what got me into it.
but i really wish they continued the anime. i really liked it.
I fell off watching Supernatural as it became harder to watch as it aired and it was getting a bit long towards the end there. I really liked it. I plan on going back and actually watching it through some day. There were definitely some missteps for me over the long course of the show, but when it worked it worked well.
There was a point in time when CW realized they were just making what was basically American Tokusatsu shows and just ran with it.
I used to watch it with my mom in 2005 when I was ten. I remember it being on the tv at a lot of my familie's friends homes just playing in the background. I'm working on watching all of it in order now.
My friends in middle school were obsessed with this show. Like middle and highschoolers we’re keeping this show alive. My only thoughts when my friends brought it up was “how is that show still on?”
Great show, seasons 1-5 are probably the best. The rest are varying in quality but after season 11 it takes a major decline. But still much loved memories
While I really didnt like the way the show ended and how some of the really strong characters were written out, this is still one of my favourite television series. The early seasons grabbed me instantly with how they blended horror so well into a network show. As a big fan is the x files, the monster of the week style episodes were a big reason I stayed tuned in even through the later seasons when the main plot lost its momentum.
Great video! I’ll just say that there are certain points in the later story where characters make major decisions or have major reactions that are completely out of character and then will contradict themselves sometimes 5 minutes later
I do kind of wish we were in the universe where it ended at season 1 and we just had this show about the futility of trying to pull yourself together and fight for yourself and those around you cuz life will still take you out but I'm also glad I got to see 15 years of what we got
First 2 seasons genuinely have excellent scary episodes. Phenomenal tv horror. The only season that everyone acknowledged as trash entirely is the leviathan season.
Supernatural is one of my comfort binge shows, along with house. I've watched it through 3 times.
Supernatural is easily one of my favorite experiences for watching the really good first part of a show, dipping out for several seasons, and then coming back to a manic dumpster fire. Really has a lot in common with GoT in that regard.
I think that a great way to get whiplash would be to watch only the first and last season of supernatural, I'm curious as to what that does to a person
Time for a part 2 to 14 for each other season just for Billiam to see how nuts this show gets and how they not only jump the shark but the shark is a robot with a flamethrower strapped to each fin and a minigun on it's forehead.
Supernatural is one of my favorite shows ever. I've never finished it. I adore seasons 1 and 2, and that first five-season arc is really good overall. Season 7 (or whichever has the leviathans) is probably my favorite overall. I always wish they had done a season focused on Eastern mythology - creatures from Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Zoroastrianism, etc. A lot of people like to dump on everything past season 5 but I personally think it's still great after that, just really different tonally. After Jack is introduced, I'd say it goes downhill fast though. I think that's season 9 but I'm not certain.
Loved seasons 1 to 3. Unique monsters/spirits and the mystery of solving how to stop them was fun to watch. I watched after season 3 (till season 10) but it wasn't the same...
When you said, "Comment below, when did YOU stop watching walking dead?"
I laughed so loudly, my Fiancee came downstairs to check on me.
Answer:
The fact that I cannot place exactly where I stopped, is a testament as to why.
Love your work, Billiam; thanks for Creating!
I used to be obsessed with this show and used to catch it on tv and then binge it when I was a teen. I got bored after season 10 it started going downhill and i couldn't continue
I caught the show back when it originally aired with my younger sisters.
We loved seasons 1 - 5.
My favorite episode was the Scarecrow pagan god.
My sister's favorite was the episode where Death has a meal with Dean, and the sequence of his introduction (it had a really fitting song, can't remember the name at the moment.)
Anyway, I dropped the show after Sam fell into Lucifer's cage.
My sisters continue watching until the very end.
I remember seeing a few on and off episodes here and there and wondering "How is this the same show!? lmao?"
It was fun, different; but fun nonetheless.
Edit: 1:58 Holy shit! is that [the actress who played] Agent Shaw in "Person of Interest"?
Man, 4 or five more episodes will be perfect. The show was great for a bunch of seasons, then not bad for a few, then awful for a few and then it ramped up got good for while and ended on a fairly high note. Im looking forward to Billiam's reaction to the less great seasons
Supernatural is still, to this day, my favorite TV Show. My wife and I have watched every episode.
You should definitely watch more of this show. The first 5 seasons are such a great contained story. The other 10 seasons aren’t all terrible but the quality varies and they get so ridiculous and unhinged.
I love this show through the ups and downs but the first 5 are actually fantastic