I'm rewatching SPN again, starting from the pilot, and it's... interesting.

First thing I noticed: first season Jared Padalecki is TINY and YOUNG and VERY VERY YOUNG AND TINY. Jensen (the Dean one) has also matured a bit since then but not nearly as much as Jared (the Sam one).

Second thing I noticed: the misogyny really is as bad as I thought. In fact, it's worse--I was under the impression that it had gotten much much worse as the series went on, and now I don't think that's actually true, so much as that there's a cumulative effect, and by the umpty-billionth time you see some bitch slut get what she deserves, probably with no fucking pants on, you're already a hair's breadth away from flipping your shit and going on some sort of rampage. Like reading Far Side comics, but with the opposite effect.

And I had been thinking, maybe it's just me, maybe I'm too sensitive, or looking for things to get mad about, but it's not, so I feel better about that. Kinda.

Third thing I noticed: holy damn, this season starts out slow. Until we pick up the YED arc (we're not there yet), it's all MotW and blah blah saving people hunting things and I can't speak for the first-timer, but having digested four years of arc and being eager to revisit the beginning and re-contextualise it, I am BORED SILLY with all this Hunting stuff (which, ironically, used to be what the show was about).