I agree with other comments about Supernatural! Sort of? I am only just finishing up S2, so I don't know much, but as far as I can tell it's got a format sort of similar to the X-Files (there have been at least 3 occasions at which I have said, wtf Kripke I have seen this X-Files episode before) in that there are some mytharc-heavy episodes and they are developed pretty inconsistently throughout the season and standalone monster-of-the-week episodes and OMG DEAD WOMAN IN MY LIFE angstangstangst. The race/gender issues are there pretty much from the beginning, but it's mostly the obvious stuff: a lot of fridging and women-as-the-object-of-male-desire and hyper-sexualized violence, but I think that's just a product of the horror-ish/roadtrippy genre that they're trying to emulate; it's easy enough to ignore if you just want to enjoy the silliness - and there were a couple of times I thought they were even trying to address it, but either they failed pretty spectacularly or I was giving the writers too much credit to begin with; I'm thinking of "Skin" in particular; unrelatedly, if you do watch that episode, and I really liked it: it's one of creepier episodes of season 1 and sets up the plot for "Nightshifter" which is one of the better episodes of season 2, I challenge you to look at Dean's face in, idk, one of these scenes where Sam is tied up and tell me it looks like a human face because it does not, omg, it is green, what is up with the lighting in this series and why is it so weird. Run-on sentences yay! Also, I totally think you should watch the racist truck episode just because it is so lulzy and failtastic; once or twice I though "wow, this is really unintentionally offensive" but most I just. could not. stop laughing. I am laughing just thinking about. In public. Anyway, the series itself pretty top-heavy, and I could look up the episodes that just give you an idea of the mytharc if you like, but it really depends on what interests you most. The mytharc-heavy episodes are not necessarily the creepiest/most compelling imo, but I am pretty allergic to mytharcs in general OMG THE X-FILES AND THE WAY IT ENDED THERE IS NOT ENOUGH D: IN THE WORLD. Also that show I will not talk about here. HOW MANY TIMES CAN I USE THE WORD MYTHARC IN A PARAGRAPH.
SPEAKING OF WHICH, they are selling seasons 4 and 5 of the X-Files on amazon for like $20 each and I am pretending this is within my budget, which one do I waaaaant. Season 4 was the one with the incesty Pennsylvanian farmers AND WE ALL KNOW HOW I AM ABOUT INCEST AND PENNSYLVANIA but season 5 had some pretty funny episodes and was it also the year that they were on a motherfucking boat and there was kissing? Or was that season 6? WHY HAVE YOU INSPIRED THIS NOSTALGIA IN MEEEEE. Why am I talking like this, more importantly.
I love JSTOR. How much of my life do I waste looking for articles on the appropriation of Lilith into the Judeo-Christian tradition and THINGS OF THAT NATURE and pretending it is fic research? (Lucifer fic about Lilth and bb!Maz, y/y?) So much. That disconnect is so interesting though! I always thought that LJ was pretty consistently divided and at war between squee-y types and meta-y types (not that people who squee can't meta and vice versa but.) so that is pretty crazy! P-possibly it has something to do with the fact that the canon is finished and was long before the advent of online fandom (unlike HP) so people have some more distance, but it is also like, there is undeniable ~literary merit~ (oh CS Lewis, Milton scholar) and also OUR CHILDHOODS so it makes sense that people might not want to touch that. Unlike Merlin, which everyone knows is kind of terrible - I'm pretty sure the writers know that even - so we can read anything into it that we feel like? And also bring the dinosaurs. WHATEVER, WHO KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT ANYMORE.
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SPEAKING OF WHICH, they are selling seasons 4 and 5 of the X-Files on amazon for like $20 each and I am pretending this is within my budget, which one do I waaaaant. Season 4 was the one with the incesty Pennsylvanian farmers AND WE ALL KNOW HOW I AM ABOUT INCEST AND PENNSYLVANIA but season 5 had some pretty funny episodes and was it also the year that they were on a motherfucking boat and there was kissing? Or was that season 6? WHY HAVE YOU INSPIRED THIS NOSTALGIA IN MEEEEE. Why am I talking like this, more importantly.
I love JSTOR. How much of my life do I waste looking for articles on the appropriation of Lilith into the Judeo-Christian tradition and THINGS OF THAT NATURE and pretending it is fic research? (Lucifer fic about Lilth and bb!Maz, y/y?) So much. That disconnect is so interesting though! I always thought that LJ was pretty consistently divided and at war between squee-y types and meta-y types (not that people who squee can't meta and vice versa but.) so that is pretty crazy! P-possibly it has something to do with the fact that the canon is finished and was long before the advent of online fandom (unlike HP) so people have some more distance, but it is also like, there is undeniable ~literary merit~ (oh CS Lewis, Milton scholar) and also OUR CHILDHOODS so it makes sense that people might not want to touch that. Unlike Merlin, which everyone knows is kind of terrible - I'm pretty sure the writers know that even - so we can read anything into it that we feel like? And also bring the dinosaurs. WHATEVER, WHO KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT ANYMORE.