A question for my readers

[feliciakw]

As we begin a new season of SPN, I find myself contemplating the future of my long and rambly commentaries. I've been doing them since the beginning of S4, so for three whole seasons. But the person who initially asked me to do them is no longer active on LJ, and others of my f-list have become busy with RL or have become disillusioned with the show.

This brings to mind a few questions.

I know that one or two of you read my long commentaries, but it seems that if anyone is inclined to comment on my thoughts, you'll do so in my initial "react-o-matic" style post immediately following the ep.

So. Have a poll:

[Poll #1780946]

Comments

[kerravonsen]

You didn't have an option for "Nope, because I don't watch Supernatural and never have...."
In principle, I'm all for long and thinky meta. However, I still won't be reading the long and thinky meta for a show I don't follow.
I'll just continue reading your other posts!

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

Oh, I totally understand. IIRC, you don't like horror-based stuff, so I didn't think you'd be interested in the show or reading my SPN-related rambles. (In fact, I'd be a wee bit surprised if you did.) :-)

No worries.

Thank you, though, for participating. :-) I don't do polls often, but I'm trying to suss out the expenditure of energy on my long commentaries.

[kerravonsen]

Yep; I mean, I can cope with a certain level of it, like Buffy (if Buffy would be classed as horror) and I can cope with gore if it is accompanied by clinical detachment (Bones) but Supernatural goes over my threshold, so despite the indication that the family vibes of the Winchester brothers are great, I'm not going to watch it.

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

You know, it occurred to me that if you wanted a flavor of the brothers without the gore, I (and Izhi, and Kalquessa) could recommend some of the lighter or more atmospheric eps. There are several in the first couple of seasons that are kind of classic ghost stories rather than heavy duty mytharc, and are more of the "things that go bump in the night" rather than the outright gore.

If you'd be interested. If not, that's cool.

(SPN gets compared to Buffy a lot, though I can't really speak to that point, as I could never really get into Buffy.)

Also, I hope your night went as well as could be expected under the circumstances, and that you finally got a little bit of sleep. I also hope you get a new CPAP soon.

[kerravonsen]

Thanks but no thanks.

I hope your night went as well as could be expected under the circumstances
As well as could be expected, I suppose. But "well", no.
Imagine you are flying from the UK to Australia (that's a 21-hour trip) in economy class, with a screaming baby. That's how my night went.

However, I am now in posession of a new CPAP machine, on hire for one month. As soon as I finish a quick lunch and get it set up, I am all for dreamland.