Does Supernatural get any better (beyond season 2)?

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So far I’ve watched the first two seasons of Supernatural. My brother had insisted that it was a great show and that I “just had to start watching them”. It had already been on my list of shows to eventually start, so I finally did about a month ago.
Good God, it’s almost like a chore, now, to watch a new episode. I practically have to force myself to watch a new episode every other day (I couldn’t bear watching one a day–I’d get so tired of the show watching it that often).

For one, it’s just boring. I don’t find it interesting at all. The plot just plods along slowly. The acting is horrible. Not only can neither of the two main stars act, but when they try to, it’s usually always over-the-top, hammy, and overdramatic…much like everyone else who stars in its acting is.

Bad, overdramatic acting on everyone’s part, storyline that fails to keep my interest, characters I just don’t care for–whether they live or die–crap, kill them all for all I care. Boring plot lines. Oh, another thing…simplistic, mindless storylines too. Nothing overly witty or clever…nothing is a surprise either, it’s all extremely predictable and written like a five year old is watching it.
“We got to do this! Or else this will happen!”
“Oh noes! It happened!”
“Crap, well…now we gotta do this!”
“Yay, we did it!”
That’s just it. There’s no overly complex story. This has to be one of the least complex shows I’ve ever seen, in fact. Nothing ever “deep” or enigmatic .

The only good thing I have to say for the show is the music, which totally kicks ass.
Anyway, I just finished the season two finale where they…

…finally kill the yellow-eyed demon, which was basically the premise for the whole show.

I’m almost cringing at how boring it may get now, with their main focal point already defeated. Just random storylines?
Tell me it gets better and I may give it another season or twos try.
Or if it’s one of those things where, if I don’t like it by now I’m never going to, let me know before I waste more time on it.

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Some individual episodes in later seasons are kick ass, but if you don’t like it yet, you probably won’t like the later seasons.

My main problem with the show is that people don’t stay dead. I realize it’s a supernatural show where things are supposed to come back from the dead, but they’ve done it too much.

Sam and Dean’s bickering can be fun, but their angst about their relationship got old fast in the early seasons. When you’re fighting to save the world, you need to be honest about stuff, trust each other.

I still like the show. I like the look, the music, the in jokes, the hotness of Ackles and Padalecki (and Misha Collins), but I wait for the DVDs.

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My wife, who is a huge fan of the show, would argue that the first five seasons are worthwhile. She really hated season six (other than the Western episode), and now seems to be equally annoyed with season seven.

That said, I agree with AuntiePam…if you’ve watched two full seasons, and don’t like it yet, it’s probably just not your cup of tea.

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Even though I’m a huge fan of the show, I’ll agree with what others have said. If you don’t like it now, you aren’t going to like it.

I don’t watch the show thinking it’s a serious drama thing though. I watch it as a comedy. I’ve gotten a lot of laughs off the show, especially the episodes that are Bobby heavy, or feature Gabriel/Loki.

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It starts to get into its stride halfway through second season, and contines to get better in season 3.

But if you didn’t like Season 2, then maybe its not for you. Its appeal is that it has a few very different episodes where they step completely outside the formula and parody a bunch of things, including themselves.

Killing the yellow eyed demon is not the point of the show.

But if you hate the actors and characters then its pretty much done.

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I don’t watch the show so can’t help, but just wanted to say that watching 30+ hours of a TV show you’re not enjoying, even with a friend’s recommendation, shows a potentially admirable level of masochism.

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Yeah, you should stop watching it. I really enjoy it, but I don’t see you liking season 3 and beyond if you didn’t like season 2.

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I think it is the best show on television, but if you did not get into it in the second half of season 2, maybe you should quit.

To be honest, killing the yellow-eyed demon was only the beginning. He had a plan, which is quite interesting.

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That’s true. The master-plot - which climaxes at the end of Season 5 - is as epic as anything I’ve seen on TV.

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I would say it does get better after season 2, but not because season 2 was bad, just it kept getting better. If you didn’t like season 2, oh well, might not be the show for you.

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Season 3 and 4 were the best, IMO, and 5 was pretty good. 6 was erratic but had some great spots. All the comedy/light-hearted eps throughout the series are gems.

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I’m like the OP, although I only managed the first 6 episodes or so, not two full seasons, before I quit watching.

I just found the show so slow-paced and dull. It seemed to me like they were half-hour scripts stretched to fit into an hour-long slot. I found myself constantly checking the time, to see how much longer I had to sit through before the episode finished. Does the pace pick up any in later seasons?

I also found the two main characters incredibly unlikeable (especially the blond one) and uninteresting, and couldn’t relate to them at all. Since they’re the focus of the show, I figured there was no point in me carrying on watching.

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Unlike the OP, maybe you should reconsider. I also gave up after 6 episodes of Season 1 - for the same reasons you gave - but I picked it up later at the beginning of Season 2 and within a a few episodes it became one of my favorite shows on TV. They really needed some time to find their footing in the beginning.

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Dude, reconsider. It gets a lot better.

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One of them is blond?

The show gets a lot better late in season two, and really gets going in 3 and 4, but a lot of the show’s patterns start in the first season. If you don’t enjoy it at all six hours in, it’s not the show for you. Seven seasons later, the Winchester boys still brood and have relationship issues. On the other hand, if, after watching 6 hours, you see some potential in the show - then yes, the actors and writers do get to know the characters better, the plots and the twists do get tighter, the story arc really starts working, and it’s worth sticking around to see what happens.

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I echo all of this.

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I assume Dean is supposed to be the blond one.

Or is it Sam?

Actually, I have no idea now. They are not blond at all, really.

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Are you sure you were watching Supernatural? Neither character is blond. One has standard issue brown hair, and the other has dark brown hair.

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Uh, perhaps it’s

Adam Winchester who of course does not appear in the first…3 or 4 seasons.

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I’m with both you and the OP (having gotten the S3 box set, but gave up on it after the first few eps + some of the recent first-runs)-the problem isn’t that the pacing is slow, per se-it’s that the pacing isn’t done in a dramatic gripping way. I think back to how the people who ran Buffy did such things, and they did it much better than the ones involved here (grabbing hold of you and never slacking off through the entire ep. typically). Or the X-Files: same thing. Supernatural’s attempts to deal with similar themes just come off as amateurish and uninspiring.

Likewise I agree on the leads-I find them both uniformly bland and unengaging. Yeah they’re both introverts of a sort, but I couldn’t fathom their motivations at all and just found myself in the end not caring about either. Mulder & Scully were introverts too, but they I almost instantly identified with them from the start. I just don’t think either are good actors.