Do you ever sit back and laugh at what the people in the entertainment promotion business think of Supernatural? I mean Misha is right, we are forever winning stuff that a 12 year old show, on the step-child network, with about a 1 share rating has no business winning.
The whole point of things like Entertainment Weekly’s contest and People’s Choice Awards is to promote what’s hot. And traditionally, that’s what they have done. Young 20-something up-and-comers usually grace magazine covers and interview shows. There are programs out there like Empire and The Walking Dead, which have 17 shares and should by all logic win every one of these polls just by sheer number of viewers (especially compared to our little show that could).
So when they keep having to give PCAs to an actor who is only in a third of the episodes and wasn’t even one of the nominees, or Teen Choice Awards to a non-canon pairing of almost middle-aged men, and magazine covers to a 12 year old show that gets almost no promotion, they’ve got to be wondering what the heck is going on with the fandom of this little genre program.
What is it about Supernatural that inspires such a passionate fan base? And how can they bottle this little bit of magic that this show has created and copy it?
It’s because, whether they meant to or not, despite all the flaws and failures and flat-out whatthefuckery, they made a show about broken adults who’ve collectively suffered the very worst traumas that can ever happen to anyone – child abuse and abandonment and the deaths of spouses and parents and kids and siblings and lovers and family, domestic violence and broken homes and PTSD, severe mental illness and imprisonment and homelessness and suicidal ideation and self-harm, survivor’s guilt and addiction and relapse and brainwashing and repression, torture and rape and sexual assault – and who are yet still capable of kindness and self-sacrifice and love and hope; who fight to live, and for each other, and for people they’ve never met. And having created that story, they lucked into telling it with a suite of actors who, whatever their human failings, collectively speak up about those issues, who understand why fans respond to those aspects of their characters, and who tell them it’s okay. Those two things combined created a community, not just of survivors, but survival, and whatever fresh hell routinely breaks open in the Supernatural fandom, even at its broken base, that loyalty to living keeps it together.
That, plus queer subtext. Lots and lots and lots and lots of subtext, and the metric shittonne of fanworks produced therefrom.
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