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Masaryk University Faculty of Arts Department of English And Masaryk University Faculty of Arts Department of English and American Studies English Language and Literature Dominika Psohlavcová A Study of Audience Reception of Supernatural through Fan Fiction Bachelor's Diploma Thesis Supervisor: Jeffrey Alan Smith, M.A., Ph.D. 2016 I declare that I have worked on this thesis independently, using only the primary and secondary sources listed in the bibliography. …………………………………………….. Dominika Psohlavcová ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to thank my supervisor Jeffrey Alan Smith, M.A., Ph.D., for continuous support, advices and guidance. Also, thanks belongs to every person who works or worked on the show and to the fan fiction writers who write in their spare time for free and with love. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................... 5 1.1 Pilot episode ............................................................................................................. 6 1.2 Show overview ......................................................................................................... 9 2. FAN FICTION ............................................................................................................. 18 2.1 Fandom ................................................................................................................... 18 2.2 Genres .................................................................................................................... 20 2.3 Channels ................................................................................................................. 25 3. ANALYSIS .................................................................................................................. 27 3.1 Twist and Shout ...................................................................................................... 27 3.2 The Winchester Way ............................................................................................... 30 3.3 The End .................................................................................................................. 34 3.4 Touch Me ................................................................................................................ 36 4. CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................ 39 5. WORKS CITED .......................................................................................................... 40 6. RESUMÉ (English) ...................................................................................................... 42 7. RESUMÉ (Czech) ........................................................................................................ 42 4 1. INTRODUCTION Supernatural is an American TV show that first aired on 13th September 2005 (“Release Info") and since then gained a huge, loyal and passionate following. Maybe thanks to it, it is currently running its eleventh season and has been renewed for the twelfth (Sokol). The creator of the show is Eric Kripke. In his original pitch for the production company he stated that he wants to create a show about “two brothers...battling the things that go bump in the night”. Its main focus should be urban legends, but it should still feel “grounded...like our world, real-life America. With darkness that bubbles and boils just beneath the surface...The humor is extremely important...but the episodes have to be scary as shit.” (“Tweet”) He accomplished all of these. His vision was embodied by Jensen Ackles, playing Dean Winchester and Jared Padalecki, playing Sam Winchester. The Supernatural fandom is very active and productive - mainly in writing fan fiction which represents a rich source of material through which the show itself can be studied. By studying fan fiction, we can see how the show influences its fans and what elements of it they enjoy, how and why. The aim of this thesis is to identify main themes that occur in Supernatural fan fiction and analyze them to draw a conclusion about the show and its fans. The thesis is divided into three parts. In the introductory part I present the pilot episode and overview of the show, because I believe it is necessary to familiarize with the studied work first. The pilot episode introduces the main characters and underlying plot and sets the tone for the show. The knowledge of the main story arc is presented for better understanding of the third part. In the second part I present facts about the fandom itself and its relationship with the creators and actors. I also name six main genres of fan fiction and three chosen websites where fan fiction can be accessed and enjoyed. Third part focuses 5 on analyzing chosen fictions representing the genres and drawing conclusions about how they display the experiences of the fans. 1.1 Pilot episode In Lawrence, Kansas, 22 years ago, a happy family says goodnight to the youngest baby, Sam. His big brother Dean kisses his cheek. Later, the mother is woken up by the baby monitor and goes to check. She sees a man’s silhouette by the bed and turns around. She hears TV from downstairs. She sees John sleeping in front of the TV and rushes back to the nursery. John is woken up by a sharp scream, but when he runs up to the nursery, everything seems fine. When he strokes Sam’s hair, something drips on his hand. It´s blood. He looks up and sees Mary pinned to the ceiling and bleeding. Suddenly, flames engulf her. Desperate John grabs Sam and gives him to Dean to carry outside, as fast as he can. He comes back to help Mary, but there is no way. He runs out of the house in the last second. At Stanford University, back in the present, Sam Winchester and his girlfriend Jessica are getting ready for a Halloween party. Sam is excited for his interview for law school on Monday and has high hopes for full scholarship. Jessica says it is a pity his family does not know about this. When they are sleeping in their apartment, Sam hears an intruder. They fight and the intruder turns out to be Dean. Sam is angry that Dean appeared so suddenly, because they do not speak to each other. He wants to speak about something personal in private, but Sam insists Dean can talk in front of Jessica. Dean is not happy, but says: “Dad’s on a hunting trip. And he hasn’t been home for few days.” Sam freezes and understands, Jessica cannot hear this. 6 Dean wants Sam to come on the hunt with him, they might find dad. Dean opens the trunk of his car, full of guns and other weapons, and shows Sam their dad’s research about this case. For last 20 years, men are going missing on the same stretch of road. Plus, on the cleaned up voice mail from John, a woman’s voice is saying: “I can never go home.” Sam lies to Jessica and goes with Dean, under the condition he will be back on Monday for the interview. He wants to continue with his normal life. In Jericho, California, a young man named Troy, drives home and picks up a woman in white dress. She wants him to take her home and for him to come with her. When they arrive, she disappears and he goes to look for her inside the old, rundown house. He is scared and runs back to the car, the woman sits in the back seat. The car starts up on its own and stops on a bridge. We can hear a scream and see a giant splat of blood on the windows. The brothers are shopping at the gas station. We get to know Dean a little better: his hunting career is funded by fake credit cards and pool hustling, he drives black Impala ’67 he affectionately calls his “Baby” and loves classic rock. When they drive up to the crime scene, Dean opens a little box with various fake badges - their way of getting information about cases. They ask around the local police and run into the real FBI, but they manage to escape in time. They run into a girl putting up “missing” fliers of Troy. Brothers lie about being Troy’s uncles and talk to the girl in a café. They encourage her to talk about anything she thinks that might have happened. She starts to talk about an urban legend: the girl was murdered at the same bridge the accident happened, she is still out there, hitch- hiking. Whoever picks her up, disappears forever. They are dealing with the vengeful spirit. 7 They search the Internet database for “Female murder hitchhiking” and “female murder centennial highway” but there are no hits. As the spirits are born of violent deaths, they try to search “suicide” and find it. A woman, Constance, committed suicide after her two kids drowned in the bathtub. Her husband is still alive and they decide to interrogate him. When they search the bridge at night and talk about their family and Jess, Baby suddenly starts up and chases them off the bridge. They get a room in a motel and the clerk says someone with the same name has been staying here for a month. They break in - the room is full of cut outs, pictures, information about victims and salt. It is definitely John’s room. He wanted to keep something out, as spirits cannot cross the salt line, and he figured out the case - it is a Woman in White. Dean sets out to eat something, but is arrested, because his room is filled with missing person’s info and “satanic mumbo jumbo”. He manages to warn Sam who flees. The police man is interrogating Dean and throws John’s diary at the table. Dean recognizes it, but keeps calm. John would never go anywhere without it, so Dean knows something is wrong. There is a message for him: Dean 35 - 111. Meanwhile, Sam pretends to be a reporter and interrogates the
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