The CW Publicity team sent out an e-mail with the subject line "CW's OMG Moment of the Week". I was like, "eh, whatever Gossip Girl or 90210 or Vampire Diaries or perhaps even Melrose Place moment they are celebrating will be completely lost on me..."
But inside the e-mail was...Supernatural!:
Wow, maybe hell has frozen over and that was the reason Lucifer wanted to leave.
Too funny!
Herplexia was funnier, much, much funnier.
I agree, Herplexia was funny! But I guess with the PTC breathing down the CW’s neck, they don’t want to promote that they parodied a commercial for genital herpes.
Hell Knight Rider was also funnier. Especially as Dean is basically pulling things out of Sam’s ass.
im a HUGE fan of Supernatural altho i admit sometimes the episodes get alil weird, they can be very funny!..Jenson is hillarous!..hes grown so much as an actor since his Days of our Lives days…Thursday nights are a def ‘must watch’ for me, with Vampire Diaries (love Damon!) & Supernatural!!! Keep up the awesome work!! ~Muah~
But that probably wouldn’t go over very well either.
If I had the power to make one show gain 5 million viewers out of nowhere it would be for Supernatural. This show gets no respect and when Lost isn’t on it is easily the best show on television in my opinion. Not since Buffy/Angel and X-Files has a sci-fi show been able to blend so many different elements of humor, drama, suspense, and angst as well as Supernatural does.
I know they planned out a 5 season arc but the show has really hit its stride in S4 and S5. I really don’t see how the struggling CW doesn’t at least try to get another season out of it paired with VD next fall.
It was sweetly ironic that a show like Supernatural, which sits squarely in the fantasy realm, could poke fun at the “unreality” of a show like CSI Miami and particularly the Horatio character played by David Caruso.
But to be honest, the character is such a self-parody that it’s hard to exaggerate its ridiculousness.
The only thing more nausea-inducing than the ubiquitous cop procedurals would be reading a psychological study of why people are motivated to keep watching them. I mean, a season or two, I can understand. And the original CSI still manages a few bits of cleverness here and there and its cast is first rate. But taken as an aggregate, they give “tired” a whole new dimension and are now the poster children for TV “comfort food”.
Argh.
Well i keep watching procedural shows beacause they keep me entertained. Simple as that. But then again i ask myself: why would anyone watch SF shows over and over again? You really cannot find a more stupid TV show genre. So there you go: everyone with its own opinion. Why the need to bash people based on their TV preferences?
CW promoting Supernatural? Really? Who woulda thought? That show gets no love from its own network. If ever a show deserved more (any) promotion from its network, it’s Supernatural. But it’s always mentioned as an afterthought. The TV spoofs were funny, but the last 20 minutes of this episode were some of the best of the season so far.
@Robert
Hey, no offense intended to you. I was saying I don’t understand how people can watch these shows and how they make *me* sick. That’s just my opinion, not an absolute judgment on their worth. How the heck would *I* know what they’re worth? If total viewers is the measurement of their worth, then they’re among the best shows on TV.
What I would ask of you, though, in the spirit of truthfulness, is *why* they keep you entertained. Sure, you can sit back and just say “because they do”. Or you could deflect the question. Or you could keep mum. But those actions are answers as well.
I mean, really, what is psychologically satisfying about what happens in a typical procedural? Specifically?
Aardvark, I know you weren’t asking THIS Robert (me), but who are you to ask? Why isn’t “it entertains him” (and millions of others) a psychologically good enough reason for you?
I like to watch football on TV, and I don’t care much about soccer. But I don’t question why anyone who enjoys soccer enjoys it. I just accept that they and perhaps BILLIONS around the world DO enjoy it.
@Robert Seidman
It’s certainly a good enough answer, nothing more needed.
I was just hoping he’d elucidate, because having watched most of these on all four major networks at one time or another, I’ve developed a few theories on what buttons they push on their devotees. And I wanted to see if they matched up with his answers. Curiosity, I guess.
That doesn’t mean I’m judging you because you aren’t curious about why people like soccer. I’m willing to leave that question unanswered as well.
Cop procedurals are just mystery shows. People watch them because they like to try to guess “who did it”. After one hour the bad guys are caught and the story is resolved. You don’t have to remember what’s going on from week to week and you don’t have to invest years to find out how the story ends. It’s not that hard to understand why people like them.
@Rose
Thanks!
That was concise and informative. You gave five reasons in four sentences. Bravo!
Do you think the “bad guys are caught” part speaks to a feeling of insecurity among an older demographic?
I think the “bad guys are caught” speaks much more to our innate desire for justice than any insecurities. Mystery stories have been popular for a wide range age groups for generations, so I can’t see how one could draw the conclusion that it is related to any insecurity among older people today.
@Holly
Thanks as well!
I agree, we all have an innate desire for justice, regardless of what demo we belong to. It must be other factors that are skewing the law enforcement procedurals older.
To me, shows like the CSI’s, Criminal Minds, Cold Case, The Mentalist and the NCIS’s have established a template so recognizable that if you swapped out the actors, characters and locations you would still be able to tell it was a CBS procedural.
But back on topic, the last episode of Supernatural was really entertaining, and it’s great to see inspired creativity expressed by the show runners this many seasons in. If only this type of risk taking were rewarded monetarily as well as critically, it could well kick off a new renaissance period for television.
Jackpot!!
“I like to watch football on TV, and I don’t care much about soccer. But I don’t question why anyone who enjoys soccer enjoys it. I just accept that they and perhaps BILLIONS around the world DO enjoy it.”
Gore Vidal said that the most dangerous word in the English language is “Why”. He’s also written that reporters will cover the who, what, when, and where, and sometimes the how, but never the why.
Per your example, if we questioned why billions of people enjoy soccer, we could understand it. Maybe we could incorporate what we learned into baseball and get a “world” series that didn’t consist of America and one Canadian team. (It cracks me up that the horses running in the Breeders’ Cup races today and tomorrow have more claim to the title of “world” champions than the Yankees who were labelled such today pre-parade.) Maybe we’ll even learn that billions of people enjoy soccer only because they’ve never heard of what “hands” are and what they can do for you. Perhaps a worldwide hands-awareness campaign (lead by the CW’s PR team) will be implemented, and people will learn that basically every other sport on earth, from American football to tiddlywinks, involves the use of these “hands” things. Global consciousness will be changed, all because people asked why. Ponder your legacy, Robert: Because of a question raised on your website, people all over the world may start touching their balls for the very first time.
So, for the sake of this outcome, I support Aardvark.