...I've Never Had This Dream Before.

I didn't watch one episode of Supernatural and then entirely forget about it, by the way. I have now watched 'Route 666', 'Malleus Maleficarum' and 'Dream a Little Dream of Me', because the two most recently-aired episodes are always a brilliant place to start watching things, shut up. I have to admit that 'Malleus Maleficarum' made me wonder whether I might be too squeamish to really carry on with this show - I almost turned it off about ten minutes in - but it seems that the Carters Winchesters are able to make me keep watching an episode through any amount of blood and maggots (my inner pedant is wincing at this, but 'any amount of blood and number of maggots' just sounds clunky). This bodes well! Although I would still appreciate it if the blood and maggots were toned down a little.

(And I really, really liked Elizabeth. Hearts. She and Cameron should hang out some time. Blast, I hate it when I fall for single-episode characters.)

I am just hopelessly in love with devoted sibling relationships, really. It was my favourite thing about Fullmetal Alchemist, and it's my favourite thing about Supernatural. Give me a pair of siblings who are close, who are desperately protective of each other, who value each other above all else, and I'm happy. I think a large part of the reason I don't write incest is the fact that I love close familial relationships so much more than I do romantic ones.

I also love incurably screwed-up relationships, admittedly, and the Winchester boys are fairly disturbed as it is, but I don't think I've been converted to Sam/Dean just yet.

(And they give false names all the time! You're telling me that Dean doesn't call himself 'June Carter' once? Not once? I KNOW IT IS AN UNLIKELY PSEUDONYM, BUT I CAN DREAM.)

Other Themes: Possessed Cars. Women On Fire. The Brothers Almost Getting Killed.

I have now watched the pilot episode of Supernatural! My profound and important thoughts:

- SAM AND DEAN'S PARENTS ARE CALLED JOHN AND MARY. This obviously means that they are the children of Dr. Watson and his wife. Mary Watson certainly died young, didn't she? Yes, all right, their surname is Winchester, and they're not British, and Supernatural is set about a hundred years after Holmes and Watson were off having adventures, but these are minor incongruities. Having Sam and Dean be in some way related to John Watson would make a bizarre sort of sense. Because, you know, tracking down criminals and demon-hunting are basically the same thing.

- That scene in which the Impala is driving along with one broken headlight to loud driving music made my mind immediately leap to Withnail and I. Dean would, I suspect, be Withnail. Although I don't imagine that particular duo would be quite as good at hunting demons as the Winchester boys are.

- It was probably a mistake for me to start reading Supernatural fanfic when I was still only just getting into the show, because now I keep getting confused between what actually happened in an episode and what was just in this fic. (Incestuous overtones - wanttobeatree linked me to it as part of her apparent evil plot to get me into Wincest - but bloody good, even if you're not a particular incest fan. It asks the question 'what if only one of the two is interested in sexualising the relationship?', and the answer is just heartbreaking.)

- Sam is adorable, isn't he? Adorable. And I'm already recognising a 'BAD THINGS HAPPEN WHEN THE WINCHESTER BOYS ARE NOT TOGETHER. BAD THINGS' pattern. Of course, bad things frequently happen when the Winchester boys are together, but not quite to the same extent.