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Things of mine you might want to check out:

Hells Half Acre's Supernatural Time-Line: Preseries, S1-S5, S6-S7 - The only accurate Supernatural Time-Line on the Internet....in my opinion.

Master List of my Fanfic

If Clothes Could Talk - a catalogue of Sam and Dean's clothes throughout the seasons (this project is ongoing - S1-5 complete)

This journal is public with an occasional flocked post. My friending policy is pretty standard - strike up a conversation and tell me you want to friend me and I'll most likely friend you back (if you say you want me to).

She returns! I cracked open a can from the media and rolled the "what should I do tonight" dice, and for once it came up Supernatural - so here we go...

Just like last time, this will be a quick and dirty rewatch, where I'm not going to be pausing much to actually write out my thoughts in a coherent matter - so more in the style of how I rewatched S1 and S2 WAY back in the day.

Also, if anyone knows the URL for when you want to post but have the classic posting format, please let me know what it is? They don't give me an option to switch back to the classic view anymore.

15x02 Raising Hell

( More daytime ghosts! A good time isn't had by all! )

15x01 Back and to the Future

I'm still alive!

Let's do this, but old fashioned style where I mostly give overview thoughts. It's been three years since I watched these episodes, so this will be interesting... my memory is fuzzier than when I usually would have done my rewatches just a few months after the end of the season.

( Very short thoughts as I watch... )

I gotta say that it's pretty nostalgic to see my timeline freak out over the Supernatural universe again.

I don't have a means to watch the show, but I have to admit that I find myself more curious than I thought I would be. And from the promo I've seen leading up to it (and the people behind it), I actually think there are a characters that I'd possibly fall in love with and that the show might be able to draw me in the way Supernatural did with good characters and relationships.

As you all know, I still haven't done my S15 rewatch or clothing catalogue. It was easy to put them off when we were in the grips of a pandemic, and while I went through a sort of rollercoaster of employment shenanigans over the past 2.5 years or so. While all that is happening though, you also fall out of routines and it's hard to get back into them. In truth, I don't actually watch much TV anymore. My new way of watching things is either a)forcibly being shown something while I'm at my friends house, unable to say no, because my friends don't know how to NOT watch TV and it's just easier to go along with it. b)Watching one or two episodes of some reality show or easy low-stakes rom-com show, while I knit - something that I can look away from and don't have to follow to closely.

Anyway, if anyone is still reading this here LJ in the year 2022, please let me know what you thought of the Winchesters in the comments! Remember that positives and negatives should balance! :)

Current Mood: curious

It occurs to me that LJ is owned by Russians.

I don't pay for it. Right now I'm not using it, except for the clothing catalog. I'm backed up for everything else at Dreamwidth under the same name.

Some people have been deleting in solidarity and I understand that. I do NOT want to have redo 8 years worth of work on that clothing catalog.

So, it will stay up for as long as I have access. If something happens to it though, don't worry, I have document backups of my entire clothing catalog, though you'd miss out on all the fancy linking. But you can always reach out (maybe via dreamwidth), and tell me to send over a pdf copy. In the future, that might be how the legacy of my clothing catalog lives on - just a gigantic pdf titled "Sam's Shirts" :P

It's a hard situation, which I won't speak on, because this is post is going to be crossposted to LJ... which can technically be censored. So, yeah... this is just a note to say that ironically, right when I'm about to have time to work on the clothing catalog in about 2 weeks, who the hell knows what's going to happen to it. :P

The good news is that I'm still alive!

I believe I last posted on the main feed over a year ago now, ending in some foolish promise to get S14 clothes posted by February and then to start in on S15.

I HAVE been working on S14 clothes, but I still have some new entries to publish before that's done. I have also at least PURCHASED the S15 DVDs, so... all hope is not lost? Back in the spring, someone offered to help me if I needed it, and I was like "no no, I want to do it myself - I have the whole summer" - and then....

I think I explained that in 2020, it was hard to get stuff done because there was a global pandemic and I also started a new full time job. Well, surprise surprise, in 2021 there was still a global pandemic, and my company got bought by another company, and my job was stressful for other reasons.

On top of that, I'm not going to lie to you - my interest in Supernatural waned. It had been waning for a few years, as the writing in the later seasons was a little frustrating for me - I still had fun watching it, of course, and it was a great tradition to keep up with my local IRL friend. I still listen and enjoy a podcast about the show too - and am probably also going to check out the official podcast Rob & Rich started. BUT, that being said, I'm in the minority of people who didn't like the finale (either of them)... it just wasn't to my personal taste, which I sort of knew was going to happen, but it was still somewhat of a disappointment. It's like when your drunk uncle says something inappropriate at the wedding - you all knew that's what was going to happen when you invited him, but you're still going sigh and be disappointed in him.

I think because the final season didn't necessarily bring me a lot of joy, it's hard to motivate myself to finish up posting S14 clothes so that I can start in on a S15 rewatch. On top of that, LJ audience has been waning since 2012, and there's not much motivation to post in terms of engagement.

These aren't excuses - this is just an explanation. These are unavoidable things that affect my ability to get things done.

Today, they announced that the Prequel was getting a pilot, so I realized I should probably post and maybe apologize a little. I still do intend to get the S14 clothes up, and to do a S15 rewatch, because I want to complete the project that I started.

But... BUT.... I'm likely starting a new job soon (yes, again), so, I'm being honest that I might not be speedy (understatement). BUT, BUT...I also don't want to be making another one of these posts in 2023, so that's some motivation.

Will I watch the Prequel? I don't know. Obviously, I love the Supernatural Universe as it were, and I love Robbie Thompson as a writer... but I also feel like the problem with the later seasons was that they retconned too much, and I fear setting a prequel in the 1970s and telling a completely different story of Mary and John is just going to annoy me rather than entertain me. Perhaps I'll watch it, but I won't turn it into PROJECT LAND, like I did for Supernatural. I won't commit to anything. I've got very limited space in my mind these days for caring about fictional characters, to the point where I'm genuinely only watching 1 new-to-me show at the moment, and I'm only watching it because my friends like to have something to watch together when we hang out.... and it's a good show, but even then, the only way I can agree to watch it is if I watch it in a sort of emotionally detached way. I'm just too drained from life in general to care about fictional drama as well.

It's not ALL bad news though, lately I've been getting the itch to write fanfiction again, so even though it's been 2 years, I may dust off my AO3 account and possibly write just one more installment for the Demented'verse. We'll see, I think I've promised that before too, and probably so long ago that anyone I promised it to has forgotten.

Anyway, I hope you all are well!

Current Mood: guilty

1 week late by tradition! But still January, so I'm counting it as a win.

I finally bring you the final episode of my S14 rewatch - a whole year after I initially intended to be finished.

The new goal will be to get the clothing catalog updated by the end of February... we'll see how well I do at that. Once the clothing catalog is updated, I'll track down a S15 DVD (if they're out yet) and do a S15 rewatch.

Let's jump into it!

Moriah

( You and your brother, out of all the Sams and Deans in all the multiverse - you're my favourite )

And we're done! Thank you to those who have stuck this out with me. I'm sorry that 2020 really made things so difficult for me to get things done. Overall though, I'm doing okay - but thank you all for understanding that I couldn't keep up my same efficiency as before during a global crisis.

Current Mood: accomplished
Crossposts: https://hells-half-acre.livejournal.com/575104.html

Happy 2021!

Now that the holidays are over, it's back to work! Which means I will FINALLY watch the final 2 episodes of S14 and update the clothing catalogue in the next few weeks - and 2020 is firmly behind us.

Unfortunately, much like the rest of 2021, we're starting off on a bit of a rough note - because this episode was written by BuckLeming, who couldn't write their way out of a paper bag, let alone a box.

Jack in the Box

( But I know that kid's not right, and now Heaven's got its hooks in him? We don't have a choice. )

CUT SCENE

Spoke too soon, it's not over, there's a cut scene... let's see what it was and why it was cut...

( Deleted Scene 22 )

Okay, NOW I'm done. Sorry for being snarky.

Let me know any stray thoughts in comments.

Current Mood: apathetic
Crossposts: https://hells-half-acre.livejournal.com/574789.html

I'm still alive!

Trying to do every two weeks at the very least, because every week wasn't working. I can't believe it's been over a year since I started this rewatch and I'm still not done. I'd say "I'm the worst" but I think the actual correct answer is "2020 is the worst"

The good news is that I still have a job and it's paying me fairly well - the bad news is that it takes up a LOT of my time. I've been working part time for the past two years, so switching to full time has been an adjustment.

Absence

( Mary Winchester is complete. You and the Winchesters may not be, but she is. )

If there's anything else you'd like to discuss in comments, please let me know!

Current Mood: accomplished
Crossposts: https://hells-half-acre.livejournal.com/574548.html

Okay! Obviously mid-week doesn't work for rewatches, since I didn't factor in needing to cook dinner for myself and then getting too sleepy.

So, weekend rewatches! I will try to be good and finish these in the next 4 weeks, given that I only have 4 episodes left of this season.

Also, here's a tip: If you want to fix your DVD player, just buy a new DVD player and then your old one will magically start working again and you'll have two DVD players.

Game Night

( Just because God's not with us, doesn't mean we're alone. )

ANYWAY....

COMMENTARY

( Alex is so cute here )

Let me know if there's anything about this episode that you'd like to discuss in more detail!

Current Mood: accomplished
Crossposts: https://hells-half-acre.livejournal.com/574274.html

I didn't do rewatched last weekend, because I wanted a little bit of breathing space after the finale. I wanted to actulaly feel like the show was over. I got my timeline up on the SuperWiki and I ordered a new DVD player.

I was all set to do rewatches this weekend, but I was busy with work and experiencing my (extremely limited) social life yesterday, and then today I got smacked in the face with a case of "absolutely exhausted and can barely keep eyes open". I save the rewatch for after sunset, thinking that it made sense to do my TV watching at night... but I didn't realize how SUPER tired I was going to get, even though I slept in this morning.

Anyway, this is all to say that I'm going to aim for Thursday now.

I know I keep making excuses as to why S14 rewatches are literally taking me 1+ year(s), but I'm also just trying to be transparent. The last couple of years, I've been working part-time, but these days I'm working until 7pm each night and also for a little bit on Saturdays - and while it's infinitely better for my bank-account, finding time for my hobbies has been a challenge.

I'm hoping to do better if I can be disciplined enough to do rewatches on Thursdays, since I was able to set aside Thursdays when the show was airing to walk to my friends' place and devote 3+ hours to dinner, Supernatural and a Quick Reaction.

Crossposts: https://hells-half-acre.livejournal.com/573979.html

Just a note that I just posted the Season 15 Timeline on the SuperWiki

I'll update this LJ with it too, but probably not until tomorrow.

Also, I realized while I was posting it that I completely forgot to timeline one of the episodes, sadly, it's a BuckLeming episode and I really don't want to watch it again right now, so I'm going to leave it until I do my S15 rewatch sometime next year - and in the meantime I'll vaguely hope that someone else does the work for me.

I couldn't actually get many (read ANY) dates out of S15. They got to wise to my ways, I guess.

Crossposts: https://hells-half-acre.livejournal.com/573839.html

My final quick reaction. I've drank a lot of wine, just to make it special (also, I just wanted another glass of wine).

So, I'll do my disclaimer, just to be extra sentimental: I've written this up after drinking a lot of wine and taking very crappy notes. Nothing is meant to be 100% accurate, but I do my best. Don't correct me unless I specifically ask you to. Also, I like to keep things as positive as possible here, so please don't comment unless you can balance your negatives with positives.

And with that, let's get into the reaction... though, I'll do a little spoiler here: I liked it.

( Like an echo in the forest... )

I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did, but if you didn't, please remember my positivity rule - I know I kind of broke it myself last week, but I'm back on the positivity train tonight.

Supernatural has meant a lot to me over the years. I met the friend that I spend tonight with at a Supernatural convention in 2010... and it was through her that I met half my friends in this city. Supernatural also reintroduced me to my love of writing, and I've written two first drafts of two novels since then... one of which is actually halfway decent, and also 160k words, and one of these days I may actually get it edited.

It's also given me immensely fun (for me) projects over the years. And while I know that I'm a whole year behind on my clothing catalogue, I plan to have the S15 Timeline up on the weekend if I can.

It's been fun.

I will see you back here for rewatches as I continue to make my way through S14. I won't be done with Supernatural for a bit yet. ;)

But, this is indeed, my final Quick Reaction for Supernatural. I hope you enjoyed it. :)

Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Music: Life Goes On by BTS
Crossposts: https://hells-half-acre.livejournal.com/573684.html

Mine did.

It did this to me once before and then worked fine the next day, so I cancelled my order for a new one... but it's frustrating, because maybe it'll work fine tomorrow again, but tomorrow might not have time to do a rewatch. I should just order a new one regardless, I guess.

Anyway, sorry that it's now going to be over two weeks since my last rewatches. At this point, I guess I'll be closing out the series before I even make it to Game Night in S14.

Yarr... I feel bad about the amount I've slacked off when it comes to rewatches this year... and now this.

Anyway, I'll go see what external DVD player I can get shipped to my house during a pandemic, and hopefully I'll be back next weekend.

Crossposts: https://hells-half-acre.livejournal.com/573279.html

.... so.....

... I'm not going to lie... I hated that. These are my least favourite writers, and it appears they wanted to go out with a bang - making sure to remind me of every single reason I hate them on their way out the door.

I know I have rules around here about staying positive, but I kind of feel like I don't want to summarize this one for you. I don't think I can summarize and not lose my temper and turn this into a rant. So, even though it's the penultimate episode (though now I'm confused about that), I think I'm just going to do lists:

( No summary, just lists. )

~~Alright, everyone please give me more positives in the comments. If you liked the episode, I want to be happy for you.~~ ETA: Actually, I take it back, people liking this episode pisses me off more. If you liked it - I'm happy for you. But please don't tell me.

Current Mood: aggravated
Crossposts: https://hells-half-acre.livejournal.com/573116.html

Yikes... how am I supposed to sum up this one based after taking bad notes and drinking multiple glasses of wine?!?11

I guess I'll just get into it...

( Human disorder incarnate )

Very emotional episode. Let me know your thoughts!

Please remember that I like to keep this journal positive! So if you are furious and want to rant - please go elsewhere. Thanks!

Current Mood: blank
Crossposts: https://hells-half-acre.livejournal.com/572692.html

Back to rewatches!

I might try to do two today (ETA; Just realized that the next one has commentary and is quite heavy... so, not going to do two today). Welcome to November, btw! I'm so totally not going to be able to finish S14 rewatches before S15 ends - they even gave me an extra 7 months and I still failed!

Also, I just figured out why I have Teddy Bear's Picnic stuck in my head...

Don't Go Into The Woods

( Well I'm two...enty. I'm twenty. I'm twenty-two. )

If there's anything specific about this episode you would like to discuss in more detail, please feel free to leave a comment. I'm often much better at analyzing if I'm given direction and something to respond to.

Current Mood: content
Crossposts: https://hells-half-acre.livejournal.com/572658.html

Hello!!!

Jumping right in, because it's once again already 11pm, and I'm already tired.. this working until 7pm, having dinner, watching the show, and then writing it up, isn't easy to pull off every week - but I have a TRADITION DAMN IT.

Episode....

( I was obsessed with fractals )

As usual, let me know what you thought in comments!

Current Mood: busy
Crossposts: https://hells-half-acre.livejournal.com/572196.html

Hello!

It's already 11:30pm, so I'm going to get right to it...

( But can she kill them with a pencil? )

Let me know what you thought in comments!

Current Mood: content
Crossposts: https://hells-half-acre.livejournal.com/572085.html

And we're back...

Sorry for my absence last week. I'd promise to be better, but we all know that I'm not a person of my word now :P

Once again, I'm mostly doing these rewatches to catalogue the clothes, so this rewatch analysis will be a little bit thin - I do apologize for that, and if there's anything you want to discuss in more depth, feel free to leave a comment to prompt me about it.

( I'm looking for my partner - the tall man... hair? He has beautiful hair? )

That was ridiculously short for something that I put off for two weeks. I'm sorry! I'll try to at least do them more often.

If there's aspects you have thoughts on that you'd like to discuss, please leave a comment.

Current Mood: good
Crossposts: https://hells-half-acre.livejournal.com/571716.html

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Welcome + Fic and Time-line

Rewatch: Raising Hell (15x02)

Rewatch: Back and to the Future (15x01)

The Winchesters

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Um, hello. This is awkward.

Rewatch S14: Moriah (14x20)

Rewatch S14: Jack in the Box (14x19)

Rewatch S14: Absence (14x18)

Rewatch S14: Game Night (14x17)

... give me one more week!

Updated Timeline on Wiki

Quick Reaction: 15x20 Carry On

Rewatches - So, guess whose DVD player broke...

Quick Reaction: 15x19 Inherit the Earth

Quick Reaction: 15x18 Despair

Rewatch S14: Don't Go Into The Woods (14x16)

Quick Reaction: 15x17 Unity

Quick Reaction: 15x16 Drag Me Away (From You)

Rewatch S14: Peace of Mind (14x15)