tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236066461375464188.post7568767066260090129..comments2023-09-24T10:39:18.551-05:00Comments on Supernatural Sisters: Tanya is a Wuss--and those Winchesters Aren't Helping!Trish Milburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08812010789617982102noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236066461375464188.post-29995245734357045472009-02-03T21:42:00.000-06:002009-02-03T21:42:00.000-06:00Tanya, I'm completely with you on this. I am almos...Tanya, I'm completely with you on this. I am almost 26 and I'm still scared of the dark. I was traumatized at age seven thanks to Chucky(I'm shivering as I type that name) and have never recovered. I will admit that I wouldn't be as scared with Dean by my side. It's amazing to think I watched Jensen in his Days of Our Lives days. It was the only reason I watched it. Sad, I know. Anyway, it's good to know that I'm not the only one with an unhealthy relationship for the show. <BR/><BR/>Beth(I used to hang out, and still occasionally do, in Catherine Mann's Bunker on EHarlequin)Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06614097457025536185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236066461375464188.post-77488787783475970582009-02-03T10:24:00.000-06:002009-02-03T10:24:00.000-06:00Wonderful post, Tanya. Real fans get it -- it IS d...Wonderful post, Tanya. Real fans get it -- it IS derivative, but in the best possible way, building on our cumulative exposures. And the result is uniquely Supernatural.<BR/><BR/>Hey, Maria, another CKR fan! I even started watching Californication for a Callum fix.Norah Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01151103954061826427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236066461375464188.post-81400088823475706982009-02-03T10:21:00.000-06:002009-02-03T10:21:00.000-06:00What I love the most outside of the scare factor b...<I>What I love the most outside of the scare factor based on creatures is that fear Dean and Sammy have of being alone.</I><BR/><BR/>Excellent point, Jorgianna! I think you've hit on one of the more subtle reasons why this show is so loved. That's a universal fear, and we'd all like to have someone like Dean (or Sam) to always count on, keep that fear at bay.Natalie J. Damschroderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07800784042353921973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236066461375464188.post-74560641833190672922009-02-02T20:15:00.000-06:002009-02-02T20:15:00.000-06:00I love the creep factor, but not the gore. This se...I love the creep factor, but not the gore. This season seems bloodier than usual. I hid during the cuisanart scene this week, the knife scene during the rabbit foot episode, the shedding scene in Skin....<BR/><BR/>But I love the creep factor, esp. Bloody Mary and the scarecrow. LOVED. Wanted more.MJFredrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06881706931355203700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236066461375464188.post-87762193343775189972009-02-02T20:14:00.000-06:002009-02-02T20:14:00.000-06:00Hahah, I too was going to avoid watching it but th...Hahah, I too was going to avoid watching it but the first episode I saw was Bloody Mary and I was creeped out but drawn in and had to go back and watch it from the beginning. Space had a marathon. <BR/><BR/>What I love the most outside of the scare factor based on creatures is that fear Dean and Sammy have of being alone. I come from a huge family and I can imagine going crazy like that if all my family members were to die and I was the last one, especially if, like Sam and Dean, I could find some way to blame myself. So the whole time I'm watching petrified of the creatures, though I agree that the first season was the scariest up until now, the whole psychological fear of losing everyone you love is what makes it that much more real. <BR/><BR/>And I used to carry my baby brother around with me everywhere when I was babysitting and it was night time. Hahah, he'd stay in my bed with me until my mom came to get him [this was a few years ago, four years and younger] because if anything came at us, I wouldn't have to waste time going into his room to get him, just hug him and runJammihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08762890797746556466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236066461375464188.post-64130669071026859072009-02-02T20:10:00.000-06:002009-02-02T20:10:00.000-06:00Oh, Tanya, I sooo hear you! That was a great post ...Oh, Tanya, I sooo hear you! That was a great post and seriously, I think you and I might be twins separated at birth or something!<BR/><BR/>After the Bloody Mary episode, I had every light in the house on and refused to look into a mirror at ALL for days. Good thing I work at home.<BR/><BR/>The Family Remains ep with the licking...EW! Brought back all those creeped out stories we used to hear. And the bug episodes always get me.<BR/><BR/>Still, i think the creepy factor is the hardest to deal with. And yet, do I own all the DVD's? Yep. Do I breathlessly await each episode? Yep...even though I've been known to watch through my fingers....Maureen Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07268514242489145876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236066461375464188.post-28219559592977189332009-02-02T19:33:00.000-06:002009-02-02T19:33:00.000-06:00Great post, Tanya! I have to admit, the only reaso...Great post, Tanya! I have to admit, the only reason I started watching the show is because of Callum Keith Rennie in episode 2 of the 1st season. I'm easily creeped out, but after the then WB replayed ep 1 and 2 together (I'm totally anal about watching from beginning), I was hooked.<BR/><BR/>Also, b/c the actors are from my home state and hometown (I think of San Antonio as hometown and lived/worked for years in Richardson)...then of course, the OMG, HAWT factor. ::g::<BR/><BR/>I now can't wait until the show is aired, and even watch at night, by myself. And like you, I ended up writing an essay for BenBella.<BR/><BR/>The show totally sucked me in...in a very good way.<BR/><BR/>Oh, and I totally remember the White Rock Lake story.Maria Limahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11100001743076902535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236066461375464188.post-87994627864273015002009-02-02T16:25:00.000-06:002009-02-02T16:25:00.000-06:00>>>This is a magnificent postWhy, thank y...>>>This is a magnificent post<BR/><BR/>Why, thank you :-D <BR/><BR/>The writers of Supernatural are obviously well in tune with pop culture--from movie references to music and even disturbing world news--and I think they use a lot of that to amp up stuff we were probably scared of during our formative years, whether it's a vague "something's scratching at my window" to a very specific myth. Frankly, I prefer when they use those references for humor, but that's just me...<BR/><BR/>TanyaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236066461375464188.post-82374043449510693972009-02-02T15:51:00.000-06:002009-02-02T15:51:00.000-06:00OMG, Tanya! I know I shouldn't laugh, but how did...OMG, Tanya! I know I shouldn't laugh, but how did you get saddled with kids who keep poking at your fears?!<BR/><BR/>This is a magnificent post. I'd never really thought about the scary parts that way, just got defensive whenever I saw something made prior to the show that had a similarity. Very nicely done!<BR/><BR/>I admit, when I watched the first season, I often went upstairs with my back against the wall. I haven't had that since, for some reason. But they've returned a lot of that suspense and scary stuff this year.Natalie J. Damschroderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07800784042353921973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236066461375464188.post-25755666903876135832009-02-02T09:53:00.000-06:002009-02-02T09:53:00.000-06:00>>>I am the mother who will always believ...>>>I am the mother who will always believe the child who says there is something under the bed or in the closet<<<<BR/><BR/>This is the thing with my daughter. I often leave it to her dad to convince her that there aren't monsters under the bed because, while I never want her to know this, I'm half afraid there just might be! (I'm always glad when J takes a heavy mag flashlight and checks for himself to reassure her.)<BR/><BR/>When my daughter was a baby and my son was almost three, my husband had to go out of town for a funeral. I found that being alone in the house with two young kids, I felt far more vulnerable than when I lived alone in college. (The kids and I had a dog, which makes some people feel safer, but they clearly haven't seen Signs, John Carpenter's The Thing, or the SPN Family Remains episode!) Anyway, at one point, I realized I needed something downstairs and I'd neglected to leave lights on that afternoon, so it had turned dark since we went up. I told my son I had to go to the kitchen but that he didn't have to come down with me if he didn't want to. He cocked his head like he was listening to something, smiled and said (I kid you not), "The kitchen's okay, Mommy. All the ghosts are in the bathroom."<BR/><BR/>During this SAME period of time, my little boy stayed close to the cordless phone because I'd promised Daddy was going to call to tell him goodnight. Apparently, while I was changing diapers, my son attempted to call J by randomly pressing nubmers. Which I did not know until a policeman knocked at my front door that night, scaring ten years off my life, trying to explain that they'd received a 911 from my residence. I know that what he actually said was, "Ma'am, we received a 911 call.." but what I heard was, "The calls are coming from <I>inside</I> the house!" and I flashed to every high school babysitting terror I'd ever experienced. (When they remade that hokey movie a year or two ago, I had to mute the commercials for it, too.)<BR/><BR/>Tanya, whose children are trying to give her a heart attackAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236066461375464188.post-25176046868108153852009-02-02T09:41:00.000-06:002009-02-02T09:41:00.000-06:00>>>Or, if you look into a storm drain and...>>>Or, if you look into a storm drain and see one, don't take the balloon<<<<BR/><BR/>LOL, yes, M, exactly! When I'm out jogging in my neighborhood, to this day, I veer away from the storm drains and glance nervously around expecting to see Pennywise.<BR/><BR/>And don't get me started on the mirrors at night time! And I have horrible, horrible vision. If I go to bathroom at night, it's not like I put on my contacts, so everything is eerily distorted anyway. And my glasses are almost worse--looking straight through, everything's fine but my peripheral vision is a fuzzy mess. I've scared myself to near-panic downstairs writing at night, convinced that I just saw SOMETHING out of the corner of my eye. And walking through that darned mirrored hallway that connects my bathroom to my bedroom? A creepy gauntlet that I despise walking.<BR/><BR/>Even the commercials for Mirrors scared me. <BR/><BR/>Tanya, who wishes she were kidding...but noAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236066461375464188.post-5773747569293397942009-02-02T09:28:00.000-06:002009-02-02T09:28:00.000-06:00ROTFL! Loved the ending of your piece. Great read,...ROTFL! Loved the ending of your piece. Great read, Tanya.<BR/><BR/>I have always loved creepy, scary stories. One of my earliest memories is checking out ghost stories when I was in kindergarten. But I don't do gore well. A little is okay, but over the top I'll avoid. I've never seen any of the Saw movies for this reason and I've recently been traumatized by a scene in Keifer Sutherlands MIRRORS which I didn't expect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2236066461375464188.post-40470861403468934372009-02-02T07:06:00.000-06:002009-02-02T07:06:00.000-06:00I am the mother who will always believe the child ...I am the mother who will always believe the child who says there is something under the bed or in the closet. I have an escape plan firmly in place for when the ax-wielding maniac comes out of the woods around my house and starts up the stairs. I have already done the "clown" drill with my kids as in -- "Kids, if you wake up in the night and see a clown outside, DO NOT LET HIM IN. Or, if you look into a storm drain and see one, don't take the balloon!"<BR/><BR/>But I loooove scary movies, love, love, love...not torture movies, but scary paranormal movies. Love them. <BR/><BR/>However, to this day, I will not go to the bathroom in the night with my eyes open. I'm that afraid of The Green Haired Lady (she's like Bloody Mary but with green hair, same concept.) I will not look in a mirror in a dark room. <BR/><BR/>Ever.<BR/><BR/>MAuthorMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06341063492619003784noreply@blogger.com