growyourwings | Comic Con and SPN (Reply)

...and back to SPN thanks to

mrsr58 who keeps me on the SAA bandwagon. She just posted a link to this great article about SPN and Comic Con...

Faithful Followers of Cult TV [that's us!]

Some SAA-pertinent parts of the article..

On the mainstream-entertainment radar, the CW network's “Supernatural” is just a blip, a scrappy little TV show that is routinely clobbered in the Thursday-night ratings by “Grey's Anatomy” and “CSI.”

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In the ever-expanding fan universe, the TV shows that make the most noise are often the ones most viewers have never heard of.
“I think the fact that we are not an out-of-the-box hit actually helps,” said “Supernatural” creator Eric Kripke. “Everyone feels like they're in on this very, very cool, wonderful thing that the general public doesn't know about. It makes them feel like insiders, and who doesn't want to feel that way?”
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Comic-Con is sold out, with more than 124,000 people expected to attend. [um...just....wow...all those people]

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[and more on the SAA obsessiveness...]

How much more? How about subscriptions to “Smallville” or “Stargate Atlantis/Stargate SG-1” magazines, just $39.95 for six issues a year? Or $47.99 for a “Firefly” hoodie? Or tickets to star-studded conventions dedicated to “Supernatural” or “Battlestar Galactica,” where deluxe-admission packages can run as high as $439 for the weekend? (Parking and hotel fees not included.)

And YES!!!! for the below \O/

Really. In the extreme-fan universe, the diffuse love of 16 million “Grey's Anatomy” viewers can't hold a candle to the laserlike beam of the nearly 3 million devoted who watch the underpromoted, overlooked “Supernatural.”.

We just RULE.

Ok, this whole article is just terrific GO READ IT HERE.

I'll just end with this description of US, the devoted fans...