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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9640784" data-attributes="member: 18">Because it was a rather different show, and the fans are the fans of the show that ran for fifteen years, not just the first year or three.S1 is pretty much purely an episodic edgy demon-hunting show (not exactly an uncommon genre), but with hilarious early 2000s distortion FX, very heavy colour grading, constant jump-scares, and so on. It also took itself pretty seriously.S2-4 it slooooowly transitioned from being this self-serious and edgy episodic show, into a show that was increasingly a slightly comedic/charming "buddy" show with a heavy supernatural theme, and that became much, much more character-driven, and much more into very lengthy arcs, increasingly abandoning episodic stuff.Castiel (beginning of S4) arriving really starts changing a bit more rapidly.(IIRC even by S2 they've abandoned the demented colour-grading and removed most of the jumpscares, moving away from it being horror-horror.)</blockquote>