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Day 4: 30 Days of Supernatural
Day 04 - Your least favourite season
Oh, this is hard. There really isn't a season I didn't like.

Season 3 is maybe my least favourite, although it has some of my favourite episodes of the whole series. I think it's mostly due to the writers' strike truncating the season and making the season feel unbalanced, as though it's scrambling to figure itself out. A few characters got short-shrifted (Bela, notably, whom I didn't like but whom I think would have been far more interesting if she'd had the time to be fleshed out).
I also really didn't like "Long-Distance Call" and "Time Is On My Side." They're the only two episodes I won't rewatch unless I'm running through the whole season, and often enough I'll skip through most of them.
That being said, Season 3 also has "A Very Supernatural Christmas" and "Mystery Spot," and Katie Cassidy as Ruby, whom I loved.
30 Days of Supernatural!
Day 01 - Your favourite character
Day 02 - Your least favourite character
Day 03 - Your favourite season
Day 04 - Your least favourite season
Day 05 - Your favourite episode
Day 06 - Your least favourite episode
Day 07 - Your favourite Dean crying scene
Day 08 - Your favourite Sam crying scene
Day 09 - Your favourite Dean death scene
Day 10 - Your favourite Sam/other death scene
Day 11 - Your favourite quote
Day 12 - Your favourite funny scene
Day 13 - A scene that makes you sad/cry
Day 14 - A scene that makes you happy
Day 15 - A scene that makes you angry
Day 16 - An episode that scared you
Day 17 - Your favourite SPN friendship
Day 18 - Your favourite SPN romance
Day 19 - Your favourite SPN song
Day 20 - Your favourite recap
Day 21 - Your favourite character entrance
Day 22 - Your favourite minor character
Day 23 - The character that is most like you
Day 24 - An episode you wish never happened
Day 25 - Something that you wish happened but didn’t
Day 26 - Your favourite SPN fanvid
Day 27 - Your favourite season intro episode
Day 28 - Your favourite season finale
Day 29 - Your favourite SPN fanfic
Day 30 - Anything SPN related
Oh, this is hard. There really isn't a season I didn't like.

Season 3 is maybe my least favourite, although it has some of my favourite episodes of the whole series. I think it's mostly due to the writers' strike truncating the season and making the season feel unbalanced, as though it's scrambling to figure itself out. A few characters got short-shrifted (Bela, notably, whom I didn't like but whom I think would have been far more interesting if she'd had the time to be fleshed out).
I also really didn't like "Long-Distance Call" and "Time Is On My Side." They're the only two episodes I won't rewatch unless I'm running through the whole season, and often enough I'll skip through most of them.
That being said, Season 3 also has "A Very Supernatural Christmas" and "Mystery Spot," and Katie Cassidy as Ruby, whom I loved.
30 Days of Supernatural!
Day 05 - Your favourite episode
Day 06 - Your least favourite episode
Day 07 - Your favourite Dean crying scene
Day 08 - Your favourite Sam crying scene
Day 09 - Your favourite Dean death scene
Day 10 - Your favourite Sam/other death scene
Day 11 - Your favourite quote
Day 12 - Your favourite funny scene
Day 13 - A scene that makes you sad/cry
Day 14 - A scene that makes you happy
Day 15 - A scene that makes you angry
Day 16 - An episode that scared you
Day 17 - Your favourite SPN friendship
Day 18 - Your favourite SPN romance
Day 19 - Your favourite SPN song
Day 20 - Your favourite recap
Day 21 - Your favourite character entrance
Day 22 - Your favourite minor character
Day 23 - The character that is most like you
Day 24 - An episode you wish never happened
Day 25 - Something that you wish happened but didn’t
Day 26 - Your favourite SPN fanvid
Day 27 - Your favourite season intro episode
Day 28 - Your favourite season finale
Day 29 - Your favourite SPN fanfic
Day 30 - Anything SPN related
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But as I said, maybe this is my love for season 4 coloring things. I mean, how awesome was Castiel in the beginning of season 4, and there was all that "good things do happen," even if it all later went to shit. And even there, there was Cas switching sides and (going into season 5) the hint that God himself brought Cas back and saved the boys... Perhaps I'm just an optimist, so when I don't know for sure it's all going to end badly, I tend to take a rosier view.
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I just want to let you know how hard that made me laugh. I will be quoting. "Yeah, recent SPN seasons...are hardly exercises in joy."
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(BTW, I'm enjoying reading all your answers to these questions -- it's nice to keep Supernatural alive and well and fresh in our minds while on hiatus and in such a fun, positive way) : )
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&hearts How's everything going?
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Yeah... I've never actually done that before this year, when I developed a major psychotic obsession with Supernatural.
I've rewatched Season 1 the most, probably twelve times in total. Mind you, a couple of those times was at work on a night shift, so I was doing other things while indoctrinating my willing victims. ;)
After that, I've watched the other seasons less, progressively. Season 2 I've probably watched 5-6 times, Season 3 maybe 3 or 4, same for Season 4. Season 5 I've re-watched once, but only halfway. I can't bring myself to relive the trauma just yet. :P
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Which episode is your least favourite? Inquiring minds want to know!
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It's less a matter of gaps to me, on season five, and more of a matter of . . . just weak choices, imo. Weak enough to leave me distracted from the emotional thread they were trying to tell.
I found season 3 rather less disagreeable than most, it seems. Part of that might be that that's when I started watching regularly.
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I was also really disappointed with the premiere. I mean, the Seven Deadly Sins, and that's the best they could come up with? It was cute, but the promise of the episode's beginning just didn't pan out.
I'm willing to forgive a LOT for "Mystery Spot," though. :)
I'll also go right out on a limb and agree with you about the weak choices in Season 5. Not always, but in some really vital places the show left me scratching my head and wondering why they'd pulled that particular punch.
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Season five has less individual episodes that make me go "yes, that". It has episodes that I started to say that on, and then went "wait, no", which drives me absolutely bonkers. And the finale was just so . . . lack-luster to me. They had the gun on stage, and not only did they not fire it, they threw it on the floor and kinda stomped on it for awhile, and the whole second half of the season seemed really rushed to me. More so than season three did. And they actually had a full staff and season for it.
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ETA: Yes (yes,amen,yes) to everything you just said here:
"Season five has less individual episodes that make me go "yes, that". It has episodes that I started to say that on, and then went "wait, no", which drives me absolutely bonkers. And the finale was just so . . . lack-luster to me. They had the gun on stage, and not only did they not fire it, they threw it on the floor and kinda stomped on it for awhile, and the whole second half of the season seemed really rushed to me. More so than season three did. And they actually had a full staff and season for it."
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Very, very true. Especially to the first. Definitely among my top five favorite episodes.
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Undoubtedly affected by the writers strike, it is interesting to reflect on what it could have been if they'd had their full quota of episodes, and not had to send Dean to Hell. ( I remember Kripke saying in an interview that Sam was originally going to become S4 Sam in S3 by saving his brother, but at a terrible price).
And on aminor note, I HATED the kid who played Ben - the worst kind of overcooked child acting imho. Which does not bode well for me enjoying his presence in S6..::sigh::