How Big of an Idol Fan are You?

The fanfare around American Idol fascinates me.  This year is the first full season I’ve watched of Idol.

But even in its seventh year, Idol is still very popular.  But I’m curious just how far will fans go to support this show?

Who’s voting and why do they vote?

So I’m calling all Idol fans and asking you to tell me how big of an Idol fan are you?  And why do you support the show?

Which of the following have you done:

Seen the Top 10 on tour

Seen a live Idol performance

Bought a CD of a contestant

Bought singles off iTunes

Vote regularly

Vote occasionally

Watch the show faithfully

Watch the show occasionally

Never watch the show

What is American Idol?

Some combination of above (specify in the comments)

Other (specify in the comments)

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Supernatural Lives, But Will Dean?

Happy days are here – at least in my household.  CW announced Monday that it has picked up my favorite show – Supernatural.

CW has never properly supported the fan-favorite Supernatural, a show about the demon-hunting Winchester brothers that doesn’t quite fit in with the teen angst and reality shows filling the rest of the network’s schedule.

But when CW bumped Supernatural off the schedule to start showing repeats of the freshman series Reaper (who fate has not yet been determined), the small, but loyal Supernatural fan base reacted.  Blogs were written, petitions started, threats (as in ‘I’ll never watch CW again’) were made and a campaign to let CW know fans were watching, and would be missing, the Winchester brothers began.

But fans can now rest a little easy knowing the fate of its favorite series has been secured – at least for another year – and start focusing on the fate of Dean (Jensen Ackles) and the possibility of a spin off.

When we left the Winchester brothers last month, Dean was no closer to finding a way out of the deal he made with the crossroads demon last spring that left him with just one year to live. 

In fact, Dean was killed – multiple times actually – in the Groundhog Day-like episode “Mystery Spot” that was both funny (how many ways can we kill Dean) and horrifying when Dean was killed outside the loop and we got to see how his death changed Sam (Jared Padalecki).

We also learned in “Malleus Maleficarum” that when Dean does die he’ll go to hell where he’ll lose his humanity and become what he hates the most – a demon.

But now the Winchesters have another worry besides Dean’s impending death – a new enemy.  In “In Bello,” the last episode before the hiatus, the boys came under attack by the henchmen – or is it the henchdemons – of the new bad guy in town, a little girl (okay, she’s probably some badass demon who’s been around for centuries in a little girl’s body, but still) named Lilith. 

And Lilith doesn’t like the Winchesters.  I mean really doesn’t like them.  Not because they kill demons, but because she sees Sam as competition.  Apparently word hasn’t gotten to the demon world yet that Sam no longer has his powers.

Hopefully we’ll learn about a little more about Lilith later this season.  And I can only assume that the end of the season (although shortened by the writers’ strike) means the end of Dean’s year.  In which case, Eric Kripke has four episodes starting April 24^th to determine if Dean lives or dies.

I remain hopefully that together Dean and Sam will find a way out of the deal.

In the meantime, I have plenty of time to savor the idea of a potential Supernatural spin-off.  In a recent interview with Star Pulse, Kripke let it slip that he already has the premise for an off shot to the series in the works.  Unfortunately, he wasn’t very optimistic that his prequel would ever see the light of day.

In Kripke’s spinoff he’d take the modern day demon-hunting western back to the old west to follow the adventures of Sam Colt, possibly one of the original hunters, and his friends.  Might we learn more about the Colt itself, the gun that kills all demons instantly, and its origins? 

Sounds like a cool series to me.  Tell me where to tune it. 

Until April 24^th, I’ll bide my time with the Supernatural novel series and the new comic series coming out next month.