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Falling In Love
So I was just watching this vid, which is pretty much everything great and awful about SPN wrapped up in one little ball o' pretty. (It's the 'Wayward Son' promo for, what, S3?) And I finally fell, wholeheartedly, completely and utterly in love with Supernatural.
I mean, it's been coming for a long time. I first started watching S1 and S4 simultaneously in September; since then, I've followed along with Season 4, and watched S1-S3 all the way through three times. But I've resisted falling in love with the show. I kept saying I was just filling in the gap in Torchwood, or I was a fan but I wasn't, you know, fannish about Show, or it was fun but not serious, I mean, Supernatural is WAY too cheesy to be taken seriously...basically, I was starting to sound like Jack Harkness denying that he has deep feelings for Ianto.
And sitting here watching that vid and listening to that cheesy song, I realized something:
That moment when you fall in love with a fandom? When you get, finally, what it's all about, why people adore this show/movie/book/anime, what the passionate possessive LUST for it is all about? What you fall in love with at that moment isn't really the show. It's the Platonic Form of the show, not the show itself; it's what that show could be, not what it is. It's what fanfic and reviews and recaps and picspam and vids and squeeing are all trying to capture.
And, so, yeah. I get it now.
So I was just watching this vid, which is pretty much everything great and awful about SPN wrapped up in one little ball o' pretty. (It's the 'Wayward Son' promo for, what, S3?) And I finally fell, wholeheartedly, completely and utterly in love with Supernatural.
I mean, it's been coming for a long time. I first started watching S1 and S4 simultaneously in September; since then, I've followed along with Season 4, and watched S1-S3 all the way through three times. But I've resisted falling in love with the show. I kept saying I was just filling in the gap in Torchwood, or I was a fan but I wasn't, you know, fannish about Show, or it was fun but not serious, I mean, Supernatural is WAY too cheesy to be taken seriously...basically, I was starting to sound like Jack Harkness denying that he has deep feelings for Ianto.
And sitting here watching that vid and listening to that cheesy song, I realized something:
That moment when you fall in love with a fandom? When you get, finally, what it's all about, why people adore this show/movie/book/anime, what the passionate possessive LUST for it is all about? What you fall in love with at that moment isn't really the show. It's the Platonic Form of the show, not the show itself; it's what that show could be, not what it is. It's what fanfic and reviews and recaps and picspam and vids and squeeing are all trying to capture.
And, so, yeah. I get it now.