{"id":1018,"date":"2008-10-03T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T20:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2008-10-03T23:20:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T03:20:01","slug":"supernatural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"Supernatural"},"content":{"rendered":"

My love for Supernatural is well documented in Paradise Syndrome<\/a>, where my alter ego deems it to be the best show evah.\u00a0 In truth I can objectively say it is not the best show on TV.\u00a0 Sometimes I find myself irritated with the writing and the whole mytharc and sometimes I feel a certain amount of immaturity is on display, mostly the fault of show creator Eric Kripke, who makes it clear in interviews that he’s kind of a boy who likes gore, rock music, fast cars\u00a0and not much else.<\/p>\n

In the past I haven’t even bothered recommending this show to people because I know it is an acquired taste (helps for that taste to run towards an appreciation for hot dudes).\u00a0 But every so often an episode comes along that is so genius I want to have the show’s babies.\u00a0 These episodes\u00a0usually center around the character of Dean Winchester, who is made of awesome (or as some astute bloggers say, awesome is made of Dean Winchester).\u00a0 Dean is very flawed and sometimes he annoys me but this is good because characters who are too perfect can be\u00a0irritating, as\u00a0they are clear Mary-Sues<\/a>\u00a0(except for Samantha Carter from Stargate who manages to be awesome in spite of her perfection).<\/p>\n

Much of the credit for Dean Winchester’s awesomeness must be given to Jensen Ackles, the actor who portrays him.\u00a0 Besides being crazy hot, JAckles is also crazy talented.\u00a0 He manages to elevate everything he is in despite… actually no, he made Dark Angel good but couldn’t help out sinking ships like Dawson’s Crap and Smallsuck.\u00a0 (Nothing can save Smallville anymore, seriously, just cancell that thing already.)<\/p>\n

Supernatural is currently in its fourth season and until yesterday’s episode I wasn’t impressed with this year’s storyarc.\u00a0 But the most recent episode brought it all together, so much so that it even harked back to the general mytharc from previous seasons.\u00a0 Well done show, well done indeed.\u00a0 Ironic that it should be\u00a0a time-travel episode that does it, because the whole concept of time-travel makes me squirm uncomfortably.\u00a0 I still have reservations about the whole touched by an angel thing going on this season but damn if\u00a0Dean’s single manly tear of missing his mommy didn’t make me get over those reservations once and for all.\u00a0 JAckles, truly you can do no wrong.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty cheap generally speaking so I usually download things if I don’t catch them on the tube but there are some shows that deserve to be purchased on DVD.\u00a0 Everyone knows about my loyalty to Star Trek but those freaking DVDs cost your firstborn so no go there.\u00a0 So far the only shows I have deemed worthy of purchase are Stargate SG1 (oh Daniel Jackson, you and your constant ascending), Stargate Atlantis (who knew McKay would turn out to rock so hard? – in fact I may have to write a completely seperate post about his rocksaursness) and Supernatural.\u00a0<\/p>\n

4 niqueheads for Supernatural and 5 niqueheads for Dean Winchester as played by Jensen Awesomeckles<\/p>\n

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My love for Supernatural is well documented in Paradise Syndrome, where my alter ego deems it to be the best show evah.\u00a0 In truth I can objectively say it is not the best show on TV.\u00a0 Sometimes I find myself irritated with the writing and the whole mytharc and sometimes I feel a certain amount […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[56,43,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.niqueworks.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}