Wherein ratherastory is a chicken

[ratherastory]

Season 5 has been sitting on my TV since Tuesday. Have I re-watched it? NO. I've watched the gag reel and the "Ghostfacers" webisodes, and I'm making my way through the (kinda boring) special features.

I cannot BRING myself to watch the second half of Season 5. I re-watched the first half on my computer a while back, and stopped at 5.10.

I am a giant chicken because I don't know if my heart can take being broken that hard all over again.

God, Show, what have you done to me?

Comments

[klutzy-girl.livejournal.com]

It's taken me years to stop panicking every time "Bad Moon Rising" played! It was one of my favorite CCR songs and after "Devil's Trap," it took me forever to love it again!

Oh show, please to stop traumatizing us.

[de-nugis.livejournal.com]

I've been watching White Collar, and it's bizarrely untraumatic. I'm not used to TV that doesn't chew me up and spit me out any more.

I recommend a cat on the lap and maybe some hot chocolate.

[little-tristan.livejournal.com]

I got mine on Thursday. Same thing. I'm going to watch Season 3-4 first, to work my way up to it.

Good luck, sister.

[debbiel66.livejournal.com]

I'm planning to rewatch from the 100th episode starting next week to get myself in the mood. I'm exactly the same as you though - haven't been able to bring myself to revisit that angst yet.

(Have been bingeing on Vampire Diaries though, God help me...)

[debbiel66.livejournal.com]

I can't listen to Wayward Son without bawling. Show has ruined me.

[lavinialavender.livejournal.com]

I completely sympathize. There are many S5 (and S4) eps I never want to see again.

[jesseofthenorth.livejournal.com]

I love show, and season 5, really I do. But I'm not even buying S5 until season 6 is in the bag. Too painful, even though I really loved it.

[sothcweden.livejournal.com]

I completely understand. My Season Five DVDs haven't arrived yet, but I've been watching Seasons 1-2 this summer and considered watching Season Three, but I can't handle the level of angst in the Sam and Dean relationship in Seasons Four and Five at the moment.

[lavinialavender.livejournal.com]

"Renegade" came on the radio the other day, and I laughed maniacally as I pounded the steering wheel with my hands.

[mollyamory.livejournal.com]

Awww. I know what you mean, but in a way, I have found that the latter half of S5 is actually comforting -- far more so than the first several eps of S5. I feel like the first half is where everything was breaking, where the breakage was all being played up and played out. But by the last half they were working toward a place of being on the same page again. Then, as much as I am not really a fan of how it happened or the results, I did feel like they were on the same page again at the very end.

It's all hard -- all of S4 and S5 are hard watching. And I know I may be a pollyanna about it, but I'm really hoping S6 manages to heal some of MY scars from those two!

[greeneyes-fan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the S5 finale was the first TV show that really really messed me up emotionally. Bigger punch than some really fantastic books.

Not as bad as the first reading of "Lord of the Rings." That one messed me up for months, and it was years before I could read it again. But then, I was eleven. Got a slightly thicker skin now.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

The episodes I'm worried about are 5.13 through 5.18. After that, I think I can cope. But those six? GUH.

[bellatemple]

I barely have made it to the point of watching the special features. I'm telling myself it's because I'm rewatching from season one (which I just finished -- yeah, I can still recite along with the climactic scene in "Devil's Trap"), but in reality it's because I'm terrified I'll hate it and never want to watch SPN again.

Though rewatching from season one means watching Sin City again. I don't know if I can put myself through that. . . .

[primrose-1.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! I DVR'd all of the episodes, and all summer long I have not been able to go back and watch them again! It's too sad! My youngest daughter just got old enough that we started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer with her. Once we're through those, I'm starting her on Supernatural. Maybe then I can rewatch it? I don't know!

[mimblexwimble.livejournal.com]

I never managed to re-watch season four. Ever. To this day. This show is traumatizing.

[hsifeng.livejournal.com]

I have made a pact with a SPN fangirl friend and a bottle of rum. Between the two of them, I plan to make it through S5 on a series of progressive Wednesday nights.

Is it bad that I am already a little panic stricken at the thought of this coming Wednesday…?

I think only massive doses of script-mocking will get me through. Even then, I expect to be bawling somewhere in the middle.