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(Sam-hane!) Supernatural thoughts
I've been thinking about my positive reaction to Supernatural last night, in contrast to the middling reactions I've been seeing around. And I guess I just - this show, I don't care about the plot, I really don't. This isn't Buffy, shoot, this isn't Fullmetal Alchemist, this is not that show. I don't really want it to be. I have plenty of smart, challenging fandoms that fully engage my brain, that give me everything that I'm hungry for in the canon.
Supernatural has never been that show. Supernatural is the boy/boy melodrama. And I guess last night was the first time since, oh, Mystery Spot, that I was feeling the love. Sam and Dean have been so disconnected, and for so long - I've seen couple people mention that ITGPSW felt like a Season One ep, and that' what I've been missing. They gave Sam lines and character development, and they let him be the sweet boy that I've missed so much again, and thy let Dean stand up for his brother, and buck authority through his remaining daddy issues, and it felt right again.
The character dynamics have felt off to me for a long time now, and in ITGPSW they felt right. I don't care that the ep was dumb as a sack of rocks, it had the thing about show that makes me happy - the Winchester boys love each other way too much.
I do, as ever, really object to the skeevy race/gender issues, in the same way that I object to nearly all of western culture. But, yanno, yeah. Everything has those issues, and. I love show when it makes me happy, even though I hold it accountable for its treatment of oppression.
Supernatural has never been that show. Supernatural is the boy/boy melodrama. And I guess last night was the first time since, oh, Mystery Spot, that I was feeling the love. Sam and Dean have been so disconnected, and for so long - I've seen couple people mention that ITGPSW felt like a Season One ep, and that' what I've been missing. They gave Sam lines and character development, and they let him be the sweet boy that I've missed so much again, and thy let Dean stand up for his brother, and buck authority through his remaining daddy issues, and it felt right again.
The character dynamics have felt off to me for a long time now, and in ITGPSW they felt right. I don't care that the ep was dumb as a sack of rocks, it had the thing about show that makes me happy - the Winchester boys love each other way too much.
I do, as ever, really object to the skeevy race/gender issues, in the same way that I object to nearly all of western culture. But, yanno, yeah. Everything has those issues, and. I love show when it makes me happy, even though I hold it accountable for its treatment of oppression.