I have finally managed to
convince my mom to watch SUPERNATURAL with me. I desperately needed an excuse
for another re-watch and I felt that showing it to someone else would make my
obsession with it look less alarming. But it wasn’t easy as she was very resistant
for a long time and I’m afraid that at the conclusion of the first season,
which we finished watching yesterday, she confirmed to herself that she was
right to be so.
I hoped against hope that
she would love it and get invested into the characters by the end of the first
season, but she had grown bored with the whole thing instead. However, I have
to admit that it is refreshing to watch this particular show with someone who
doesn’t have an agenda, a favourite or a ship-any-two-people-who-breathe-the-same-air-for-five-seconds
disease.
Unfortunately, I have to say
that watching it dubbed (my mom doesn’t know English) takes away a great deal
of authenticity and what sounds extremely tragic in the original, sounds
downright comical when dubbed. Of course, my mom’s lack of sentimentality also
plays a part. Any hint of romantic element annoys her, because it doesn’t lead
anywhere and she finds it unnecessary and irksome. She prefers Dean to Sam (as
I knew she would for he is much more her type) and finds John tiresome and
untidy, saying that he looks like a petty, provincial criminal.
All in all, her attitude is
very disheartening for she obviously gets no pleasure from watching it and it
doesn’t excite her in any way. I’m afraid that we won’t be watching it together
much longer, because she is fed up with Sam and Dean’s constant saving each
other/dying for each other thing and seeing as how this is pretty much the core
of the show, there is very little hope that she will want to continue watching
it for another 13 seasons.
But the thing that gets me
down the most is that both my mom and aunt think that watching something like
SUPERNATURAL is somehow below me. They find it extremely surprising that I love
it so much. A fan of Jane Austen, an intellectual, refined and exalted, what do
I have in common with supernatural monsters and gore? So far I haven’t managed
to convince either that this is not what SUPERNATURAL is truly about.
