Ah, the wonder of buying DVDs. That beautiful, shiny shiny moment where you stand in the shop and pick up the boxed set of your favourite TV series (Supernatural, anyone?). You slide your hands over the cover, you gleefully turn it over to check out the special features, you make yourself walk v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y to the counter to purchase the twenty-five-odd hours of pure gun-flashlight-eyelash-puppyeyes-eyebrowofdoom-arms-singlelayers-Impala p0rn.
You take the box home. You watch pretty much all of it over the next few weeks.
And then it goes on your shelf. It gathers dust. It waits. It knows that, when the stars aline, when fates gel, just at the right moment, there will be cause to liberate it from its resting place and use the DVDs once again.
That moment is coming soon. We don’t need stars or fates or any of that. We just Tiny and her Very Ben Edlund Supernatural Marathon:
Bunny Time! A Very Ben Edlund Supernatural Marathon Twitter Party
Easter Monday 5th April
2pm Australian Eastern Standard Time
Hashtag #SPNRewatch
Episodes:
2×18: Hollywood Babylon
3×03: Bad Day at Black Rock
4×08: Wishful Thinking
You’ve never done a rewatch before? No problem.
Rewatching Supernatural: A Guide
1. Make sure you are online and that you are logged into your Twitter account. If you don’t have one, it takes minutes to start one. Once logged in, we favour TweetChat – cos it’s easy and simple and clean and you can keep up that way. And if we use TweetChat, it automatically puts the #SPNRewatch hashtag on the end of your messages, so they all get lumped in with the right group of replies and general chattiness.
2. Get your DVDs/downloads/copies/versions/whatevers ready beforehand. This means the other people don’t have to wait if say, oh, your copy of Monster Movie will not let go of the disc holder and you struggle to get it out of the packaging without snapping the sodding thing in half. Ahem.
3. While watching, feel free to comment on anything and everything. It’s a watch-along, peoples, we’re here to chat about what happens therein. (Words like ARMS! GBS! GCS! Eyelash p0rn! Puppy Eyes of Doooom! etc. are expected and amusing.)
4. When the first episode finishes, make another cup of tea and get ready for the next one.
FAQ:
1. I’m not in the Sydney time zone – what do I do?
Take a look at Time and Date dot com to see how far out you are. If it’s still practicable, we’ll see you there!
2. Why don’t you use AIM, MSN or a similar messenger client that has a chatroom?
We want this to be seen on the Twitter timestream, as it promotes the show and helps find like-minded fools fans that would join us later for more. Also, setting up a Twitter account can be tonnes easier than making up a new messenger account. Without any nonceing about with Windows Live Fudged-Up-Enger.
3. I can do one, but I can’t stay for all three episodes. Is that ok?
Hey, you come in and out whenever you want, dude, that’s the beauty of it. I know that at least Tiny and I will be there the whole time for a triple whammy, but no-one is under any obligation to stay the whole time. It’s supposed to be fun!
4. Can we swear?
Hell yeah! At least, I do. And we do point out all the gratuitous p0rn moments.
5. What do we talk/tweet about?
Whatever you want. It’s like chatting amongst friends whilst watching – if your friends are on a different continent and you have to type what you would normally just say.
And that’s pretty much all you need to know!
You can follow Tiny and/or me on Twitter if you really are desperate for friends. Or someone to chat about SPN with.
Till next time, peeps.
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