I think I need to add “Rewatch Supernatural” to my summer to-do list
Because I watched Seasons 1 through 6 in a blaze, and didn’t get into it that deeply week-by-week until mid-Season 7. And once I was there, I heard and saw all of the “SPN’s gone downhill since Season 5” and I kind of wrote it off, because, like, sure, the plots might not make as much sense and they’re clearly making it up as they go but the episodes are still fun and I’m still attached to the characters and whatever…
But it never hit me just how beautiful Supernatural was, how amazingly all the threads of free will, heaven vs hell, familly, destiny, and prophecy were woven through the show, even all the way back in Season 1. Not until just now when I read an amazing fic that brought be all the way back to Seasons 1-5 and forced me to compare it to the show as it’s been through Seasons 6-8, and it just…doesn’t.
They made magic in those first 5 seasons, and I know they’re trying, but so far everything’s kind of fallen short since then, especially in comparison. I guess all I can do now is hope that, with the show planned for a 10th season, they somehow manage to find a spark of that magic again.