You All Knew I'd Give In Eventually.

[rionaleonhart]

TODAY, I WATCHED MY FIRST EPISODE OF SUPERNATURAL ON A WHIM. It was not the first episode of Supernatural - it was the twelfth, I believe, called 'Faith' and dealing with FAITH HEALING OF EVIL - but it was my first, and I found myself liking it almost immediately because it turns out that sibling relationships as a focal point of a series are basically my favourite thing ever. I had not realised how much I love siblings in fiction! (This, er, isn't anything to do with incest. I'm not really an incest fan (although, as far as I can tell, every single Supernatural-watcher on my friendslist 'ships Sam/Dean, so perhaps further watching will sway me); I just really love close sibling relationships.) Also, Dean made an 'I ♥ MY CAR' comment fairly early on, and the Top Gear fandom has made me adore 'I ♥ MY CAR' comments for all the wrong reasons. And it made a blatant attempt to toy with my emotions and actually succeeded, which was terribly impressive when I'd known the characters for less than an hour.

I shall probably be watching more!

I was, however, enormously distressed to find out that Dean Winchester, contrary to what I was led to believe by my inexplicable WHY IS DEAN WINCHESTER TRYING TO KILL ME IN MY SUBCONSCIOUS, I DON'T EVEN WATCH SUPERNATURAL dream some months ago, does not actually go by the pseudonym 'June Carter'. SAM EVEN GAVE A FALSE SURNAME AT ONE POINT. IT WAS NOT 'CARTER'. I WAS DEVASTATED.

June and Eric Carter, Supernatural writers. They are the perfect false names and you know it.

Comments

[rionaleonhart]

Perhaps it was something to do with the fact that the accents in Firefly are weird and I cannot understand half the things the characters say? Perhaps I should give it another try at some point. With subtitles.

ALSO YES, TOMORROW WILL BE AWESOME.

[th-esaurus.livejournal.com]

RIONA, THAT IS THE LAMEST EXCUSE I HAVE EVER HEARD. Their accents are not weird. Also, Simon/River is WAY BETTER in creepy incest terms than Dean/Sam. PSHH.

Oh, Simon/River. My heart sings for yooooou.

I might need to go shoe shopping btw. Um ;__;

[rionaleonhart]

WHAT? IF I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE CHARACTERS SAY, I AM NOT GOING TO ENJOY THE SHOW AS MUCH. I THINK THAT IS PERFECTLY REASONABLE.

It's all right; I forgive you.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

NOOOOO, the pairings of Firefly are Simon/Kaylee, Mal/Inara, Kaylee/Serenity and Inara/Kaylee! None of that crazy space incest nonsense.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

What about Simon/Jayne? Or River/Jayne? Or River/Kaylee? Or River/Inara? Or Zoe/Inara? Or Zoe/Kaylee? Or Wash/Zoe/River/Serenity psychic fourway (which is canon, btw)?

[th-esaurus.livejournal.com]

The only one of those pairings I approve of is Inara/Kaylee.

SIMON/RIVER FOREVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Crazy space incest fans with your crazy space incest.

RIVER/EVERYONE BUT SIMON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Simon and River have weird accents? I didn't notice.

[rionaleonhart]

I just have trouble deciphering the accents of any of the characters on Firefly. I have no idea what the problem is.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Huh. It's not exactly Standard American English, but it doesn't sound that different to me. But accents throw some people more than others.

BBC America has started running little, "If you can't follow what they're saying with the accent, here's the closed-captioning button," spots. I don't have trouble with those accents at all. Although, because of the shows I watch, a Northern accent's starting to sound more normal to me than a London one.

[rionaleonhart]

It is a bit odd; I watch plenty of American television, and Firefly's the only series that's given me real problems. Maybe I just didn't have the sound turned up enough.