Thank you for this! I watched Supernatural from nearly the end of S1 for the XF-like feel of it as well, but I watch shows mostly for the female characters, and, uh. Well. While I'm able to ignore a lack of them on a show like this (as it was early on), I was not able to ignore it, especially once they started bringing in heroic women as recurring characters, like Jo and Ellen. So once Women's Work came out, I was like, "Thank you, this is what I've been saying."

(But quietly, honestly, going about calling out sexism in people's fave show is hard, and Women's Work did it better than I could have. It was visceral and a beautiful vid, I loved it.)

I am not saying I'm especially more enlightened, just that sometimes people notice things earlier when they have a specific focus in one place. That is not a slam on SPN fandom as it was at the time. I mean.

I also was not a fan of the angelic stuff, I really just wanted that hunting, MotW vibe of traveling Americana and hunters-against-evil. That was the show I had tuned in for, not the angel or Biblical thing. Somewhere around the end of season two, middle of season three, I tuned out and never tuned back in. Not even for Amanda Tapping's season, because while I love AT, I knew her character was in for a terrible death - and I was right. Sadly.

I do kind of wish Wayward Sisters had gotten a pickup, though.