SPN PR

[fufaraw]

I've been sort of bemused lately at all the buzz and PR for Supernatural's Season 13 premiere. Earned, I'm aware, the show having endured this long.

But I remember the first four seasons, when we never knew if we'd been picked up for the next season until the very last minute. The Impala was left ticking in a field as her metal cooled after being T-boned by a semi truck in the first season finale. If the show hadn't been picked up, the Winchester story would have ended in that field.

At the time, the CW was spending what ad budget they had on all the nighttime soaps: Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, etc, and since Dawn Ostroff had no love at all for Supernatural, we were lucky if there was a flash of Jensen and Jared included in a 30 second montage of new and returning shows on the network. I don't even think there were "tonight at 9:00 a new episode of Supernatural" ads for the first two seasons.

So all the excess now, all the comic con panels, the international SPN cons, print and talk show interviews, books on the meta of the show, magazine spreads--whole magazine issues!--devoted to Supernatural. It makes me laugh--I'm just not sure if that's triumph or ironic laughter. Maybe a bit of both.

Comments

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

I think honestly the head of the network finally realised he had a gold mine sitting in his back pocket the year before last, and he's going with it. The show was so on a knife edge for so long that the actors and actresses involved didn't know from one month to the next whether they'd be picked up or dumped, but we got to ten years and the bigwigs went, "Huh! this is popular!" we got to 200 episodes and then they were like, "WELL these fans will watch anything, but what the hell!" I don't know that the respect the show deserves for it's long running status is the motivator for the execs of the network, it's more than likely ratings and revenue, but I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth.

[madebyme-x.livejournal.com]

I say bring it on, and give me more!!! I guess our Show has always ticked by, quietly making it through each season, and like Milly says, it's like the TPTB finally realised that 'hey, we have a show that's been on a air a really long time, and this is a rarity and maybe we should celebrate a little'. It does seem unfair that Show didn't get this attention before, in it's earlier seasons, but maybe we wouldn't still be here if it did :)