Sorry to dredge up this old thread, but I've recently been re-watching season 1 and I really needed to have a discussion about it! ;P
I had forgotten just how brilliant season 1 was. I haven't seen it since it was on TV, so that was years ago. And last week I had a random compulsion to watch Supernatural, so I got season 1, and I think the show is even better the second time around! Not many TV series can claim that. There are so many complexities and little hints that I missed out on the first time I watched it.
I sort of stopped watching the show after the angel vs demon thing, so I think I didn't realise how much
Sam and Dean's relationship with their father is a metaphor for their relationships to God.Now that I know that Sam is supposed to be like Lucifer and Dean is like Michael (or at least I think it's something like that? I missed most of the last season), some of their conversations in the first season are so much more meaningful. The way Dean talks about his dad, it really is as though he's talking about God. And the way Sam is always so disgusted by Dean's blind obedience... It makes so much sense! ;P (Sorry if everyone else realised this ages ago, but as I said, I didn't really watch much of the later seasons. :P ). Anyway, I just watched the Scarecrow episode, when Sam refuses to obey his fathers' orders and he and Dean fight about it. It's so like Lucifer, believing that he knows better, rebelling against the father-figure, not being willing to have blind faith. And the way Dean just always does whatever his father says, without question - that's so like Michael. He even describes his actions as "being a good son", and he always has faith that his father knows the best course of action. Anyway, I love the first season! Every single episode is brilliant. The episodes have suspense and tension without being too gory, and I really love all the urban legends and self-contained episodes. I think the first season is definitely my favourite. I also love Sam and Dean in this season. They're just so cute! ^_^ The way they never talk about their feelings, but they're always looking out for each other, etc. A
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Oh, and Ama - I actually really like Sam too. ;D For me, he and Dean are about equal in the first season. Maybe I even found Sam just a
little bit more attractive (I can't resist the big puppy-dog-eyes, or the oversized clothes and the cute smile ;P).
But after the first season, his hairstyle changes, and I don't really think it works for him... It makes his head look too big. :P
So anyway, I like Sam in the first season, and in all of the other seasons I think that Dean is hotter. ;P Plus, Dean's concerned-older-brother thing is just too sweet. ;P