Why I am addicted to Supernatural...

[growyourwings]

Sent a rambling email to fickleone yesterday morning.  She and I have often wondered how two respectable, normal(?) mature women can get so obsessively addicted to a little-known TV show.  I was in an SPN-happy mood yesterday and did a stream-of-consciousness ramble about it..

..This fandom is just so perfect.  No wonder it's addictive like crack.

So many dimensions to this addiction...  (Man, I just re-read through this list before I sent it off--added to it--and *man* there are *really* a lot of reasons--no wonder we are addicted.)

--Great stories/plots (in canon)
--Great monsters-of-the-week
--Interesting to learn about myths and urban legends
--Great cinematography
--Cool car!!!!!  Never thought I'd love a car so much that I'd get upset to think that it might have "died."
--Absolutely f**king fantastic music!
--Great writers--and fun to get to know them.  We are *fans* of the writers!
--Great show creator.  Another Joss.  Love the Kripke.  He's a fanboy himself.
--Great family-love and devotion in canon
--Great gag reels
--Great stories (in fandom)
--Great actors (professionally)
--Great guys (in real-life)
--Great characterizations of both Sam & Dean and J & J (in fandom)
--Great supporting characters (in canon)
--Great support characters (in RPS fandom--Chris, Steve, Chad (I really like Chad in RPS supporting roles), Mike, Tom
--Hot actors (in canon/RL)
--Really, really *nice* and down-to-earth boys (in both fandom & RL)
--Really professional, creative, and nice crew and cast on the whole show
--Sandy
--Sandy & Jared
--Jared & Jensen friendship and chemistry
--Steve Carlson
--Jason Manns
--Genre show--so there's the conventions (would never get *that* with Grey's Anatomy for example)
--Merchandise to feed the addiction.  (I mean really--I'm COLLECTING TRADING CARDS!  --and organizing them in a book for f**k's sake.   *shakes head at self*)
--Great fans
--Creative and talented fanfic writers
--Creative and talented fanvidders
--Very active fandom
--*GREAT* meta writers
--The fact that the canon storyline lends itself to great meta.  There are so many layers.  I mean really, a show can be analyzed by it's color-scheme?  *AND* it makes sense?

I'm sure there's more.

Then dragonfly who did one of my all-time favorite SPN vids, Carol of the Supernatural, has done another great one called Bellum Supernatural.  Check it out!