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I'm always kind of torn between seasons 2 and 4 for my favourite, but at the moment I think my order of favourite seasons goes 2, 4, 3, 6, 5, 1

And squeee! AWESOME new promo for Nikita http://www.aoltv.com/2011/08/29/exclusive-maggie-q-previews-nikita-season-2/ I have to confess that last season, while I was impressed that they resolved the UST as early as they did, I found myself secretly missing the confontations between Mikita and not feeling that they had the same spark after getting together. They were fine and cute enough, but at the same time something was missing for me quite honestly. But they come off as super adorable and hot AND kickass in that promo :D And Alex! Amanda! :can't wait for season 2:

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Season two is definitely my favorite based just on the amount I will rewatch so many of the episodes.

I know! It has so many amazing episodes. I think that the first half of season 4 actually comes out a little ahead for me in terms of how much I loved it, but then the second half didn't really measure up, whereas season 2 stays consistently awesome all the way through. And the beginning of that year where they really take the time to explore Dean's angst over John's death, and the way it changes the brothers relationship a little bit with Sam being the one concerned about Dean's behaviour and looking out for him :loves:

Thanks so much for the Nikita link! I can't wait for season 2. I'm very excited about it cause it became one of my fav shows, it was love at first sight hee.

Yay for september!

I really really loved how plotty and kickass Nikita got somewhere around the mid-season hiatus, and season 2 looks like it has the potential to be even BETTER what with a rogue Alex going up against Nikita, and Amanda the one in charge now :so excited:

Honestly, it was so hard for me to choose my favorite season. It's pretty much a tie between 1 and 2. Season 2 is when I started watching, so I think that one has a special place in my heart. Plus there are a lot of great eps in it. :)

As for least favorite... don't hate me, but I picked 4. Mainly because I hated seeing Dean and Sam led away from each other, and also because I couldn't stand Ruby that season.

I understand where you're coming from with season 4. I'm kind of a lover of angsty storylines *g*, so I enjoyed what the show did with the brotherly rift though. I actually took more issue with season 5 funnily enough, season 4 was more about building up to epic break-up OMG, whereas a lot of their season 5 interaction just felt kind of melancholy to me and left me with a heavy feeling. Hate hate hate Swap Meat which puts so much emphasis on how irritating Dean finds Sam, and then ends on Dean looking irritated and all "yep got the real Sam back now all right" when Sam asks him to turn the music down, that episode was just really against the whole spirit of the show to me :/ I mean yeah brotherly banter sure, but Dean almost come off as depressed about having to travel with Sam, I did not care for that at all. It was interesting early on in season 5 when they seemed to be gradually building up to Sam and Dean reuniting, but then they never really did properly get close again until close to the finale :sighs:

Season 2 is for sure my fav of all time! I can't stand Season 6 :x

I really love season 2. To be totally honest I struggled a bit with season 1 when so many of the episodes felt like kind of cliched MotW ones, and a bit samey. There was some good stuff that year with John and the family feel of course, but a lot of the episodes didn't really grab me in themselves. Also the writing seemed quite clunky at times, whereas season 2 was SUCH a huge leap of quality with so many flawess epiodes. Plus that was when they started doing something different with the format in episodes like The Usual Suspects and Tall Tales, instead of season 1's more straight retelling of famous urban legends

Season 2 was the best.

Season 6 the worst, mainly because I am now ultra-sick of all the angels. They are too often used as an excuse to produce any old crack. I miss the times the show seems to be grounded in reality and the characters, not Edlund's silly ideas (don't get me wrong I love Edlund, but he needs reining in). We used to learn something new about Sam and Dean every episode, now they just seem remote.

I feel like people are a bit harsh about season 6 Idk. I'd agree that the Campbell's didn't really work for example and felt quite random, but I'd argue that they weren't treated all that differently to season 2 introducing Ellen and Jo as what seemed like fairly important characters, and then that all fizzling out. Or the way that season 3 seemed to have no clue how to use Bela after her first two episodes. Yet people (and I'm not attacking you here! Just going on a random season 6 rant :P ) seem to pick some of those aspects out as making season 6 the worst thing ever. Even Eve not really working out could be seen as similar to the writers spending a fair bit of time on setting up the mystery of the psychic kids in seasons 1 and 2, and then admitting in the season 2 companion that they ended up feeling like they weren't really working out so killed them all off in one episode. Granted that episode was the first part of the season finale, but still it seemed like they should have more importance than that after all the emphasis put on the YED's plans for them...

On another note, I'm actually surprised at how many votes season 5 got as favourite season to be honest because, while it had some amazing episodes, I also find the pacing of it very inconsistent. Whereas I'm actually more excited about buying season 6 on DVD because I feel like the arc holds together a lot better. I guess it's similar to my feelings on Buffy with many fans loving the epic heights that season 2 reached, but it had so much crap mixed up in there that I find myself preferring season 3 overall by far for the consistent quality. I feel like season 6 of SPN suffered because it didn't have as many outstanding episodes as past seasons. There wasn't really a Mystery Spot or an In The Beginning to really wow us (although maybe Weekend At Bobby's could qualify as I did really love that episode?) But as a season it comes out ahead of season 5 in my ~list because I feel like the build-up to soulless Sam kept me more interested in the main arc than season 5 did which was all over the place, plus it was really making the brotherly relationship (and what was lacking in it for the first half) a focus with the nicely creepy mystery of what is wrong with Sam. Then all the awesome brotherly moments from the second half of the season which felt like a return to seasons 1-3 in terms of how close they were again

I agree about not caring for how Castiel became a useful tool for Sam and Dean in seasons 5 and 6 though. It got ridiculous how easily he could heal people, zap them back to the past etc, and really made me miss the feel of earlier seasons which had more of a sense of urgency to them, so I'm hopeful that season 7 will go back to that feel more. And no more killing off characters only for an angel to bring them back to life again!

I don't have one. I love all seasons of Supernatural pretty much equally. Although I do agree that the MotW aspect of season 1 got a little old. I still love it, though.

Show can do no wrong, IMO.

Edited 2011-09-01 18:14 (UTC)

That's a good way of looking at it! :) I've been thinking of doing a complete rewatch recently, and taking the time to appreciate what I like about each season. I am quite critical of season 1, but it would be nice to watch some of thse early Sam and Dean moments, and see John again (I so hope they get JDM back for an appearance for the final season of SPN!)

My rank of SPN's seasons would be: 4, 2, 1, 3, and 5.

I didn't bother watching season 6, because I fell off the SPN bandwagon during season 5. I just thought the show became too inconsistent in tone, and suffered because it was being pushed to continue past the original five year plan. And I'll be honest - the way female characters were often treated plus the constant Sam and Dean angst that just never seemed to change or create any character development of the brothers got old for me.

I think season 3 would have been better if not for the writer's strike.

I know what you mean about tiring of the Sam and Dean angst :/ And normally I LOVE angsty characters, but I feel like something shifted after Dean experienced the 40 years of hell, and the show almost became about watching a deeply depressed man struggling to hold it together in a life he hates. I was so hoping that season 6 would see Dean realise that the Suburban life might be a nice fantasy, but at the end of the day it's kind of dull/not for him, and he actually chooses to go back on the road with his brother as he misses that life. There was kind of a hint of that when Dean unveils the Impala, but overall it still seemed to be hammered in to us how depressed and empty Dean feels :sighs:

I find that season 3 holds together fairly well in actually keeping many of the episodes focused around the central theme of Dean going to hell, and there were some amazing episodes that year (Bad Day At Black Rock! Fresh Blood! A Very Supernatural Christmas! Mystery Spot! Jus In Bello!), so I've always had a fondness for season 3. But it was disappointing how randomly they used Ruby and (especially) Bela when they were supposed to be semi-recurring and could have been woven into a lot more episodes in a less random way. And if the writers had more time to follow through on what I believe was the original plan of turning Sam darker to save Dean from hell, that could have made season 3 the best season ever. I'm kind of bummed that the writers strike made it so that Sam started experimenting with his powers AFTER Dean went to hell, and that meant that lot of fandom turned against him and saw it as him not caring enough about Dean, which I don't feel was ever the writers intention. But if he had started using his powers as part of wanting to get Dean out of the deal, then his reasoning could have been so much more sympathetic to the general audience and the writer could have spend more time on his POV.

Season 3 does feel a bit anti-climatic in the end after all of Sam's promises of not letting Dean go to hell, and then not being able to do anything to stop it

Edited 2011-09-04 23:21 (UTC)

Best seasons for me was 2 and 5
Worse was the 4th

Season 2 is my favorite. So many great episodes and the tone was really great throughout out that year. Season 4 comes close though also, the brothers had issues and angst but their were alot of powerful episodes and season 5 even if I hated the ending.

Season 6 is a least favorite. I do think season 6 gets a bad rap, since overall it was decent but I think out of all of these I would choose season 6.

Yeah I still think that season 2 has the strongest run of episodes of the entire show, not to mention a really intense beginning and ending dealing with John's death, and then Sam's death and Dean making a deal himself. There's hardly any episodes I dislike that year compared to other seasons generally having about 4 or 5 episodes that I would happily skip *g*

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